Somatics Workshop
Seattle March Workshop: Saturday, March 20, 2010 Download Flyer Here
Somatics Workshop to Transform the Root Cause of Your Physical Pains … and have some fun in your body!
Standing Stone Healing Arts
10am – 1pm
Seattle
Using simple, natural movements which you create through your own cortical pathways… You can instantly release brain chemicals which soothe, relax and make your pains seemingly and magically disappear.
There’s no trick to it… using your awareness and learning how to use a process which most people have never heard about… You can safely change the signals your brain sends via the process of pandiculation.
You’re going to learn how to move so simply and gently, that it could boggle your mind. BUT… your mind is very powerful and you just have to tap into this natural resource which all healthy vertebrate animals use.
• Improve mobility, strength and coordination
• Release and reverse neuromuscular pain (chronic and acute)
• Improve posture and appearance
• Eliminate the need to guard to protect injured areas
• Create a new freedom of movement
• Provide a new sense of awareness and control in your life
• Improve Physical Fitness & Athletic Skills
• Ease Breathing
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Below is a recording of an introduction to Somatics from the most recent workshop.
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Hanna Somatics is used to treat many musculoskeletal conditions such as back, neck, hip, knee and shoulder pain, as well as more generalized conditions such as stress. This is accomplished by creating a conscious somatic awareness within your body as it naturally moves with the use of specific sequences of gentle movement patterns.
A central feature of Somatics is to cortically reset the brain through deliberate, conscious movements of the body.
These somatic exercises are specifically designed to enhance your awareness within your body thereby allowing better control and an easier sense of your self.
As a result, you’ll learn how to move with greater ease, balance, comfort… and have the tools to remain comfortable for the rest of your life.
Here’s a comment from a recent workshop:
“I woke up at 2:30 a.m. this morning, and after staring at the ceiling for a few minutes I decided to do somatics rather than just lie there. I went throug the ones I remembered from class Saturday (I’ve been doing them daily) then just started noodling around.
Opening up my throat cleared my ears, and also relaxed my jaw. My back teeth are in a different relationship now. (much better!) The difference in the effort required to breathe is indescribable.
Next I tried my fingers because they are chronically stiff, sore, and the finger joints are getting swollen and knobby. I asked my healthcare practitioner about it, and she said it was just age, the beginnings of arthritis, and it would only get worse. I knew that was baloney, but still hadn’t found something to help.
Well, after moving my fingers for a while and observing all the little muscles moving each joint, I tried pandiculating each one. Bit by bit the soreness just vanished and my fingers warmed up. Well DUH!! All day long I am gripping and squeezing hard, especially with my left hand (the work that I do.) All I have to do is tell the muscles that they can relax again, and the pain is gone.
Woweeeee!!!!
I feel like a kid with a new toy. People don’t believe how simple this is. I was telling a friend yesterday about Saturday’s workshop and explaining how I discovered that my “sore knee” mysteriously vanished after pandiculating my quadriceps. It’s not a knee problem at all. She then told a story about her hip, and how her acupuncturist is “working on it” and finally what released it was a movement he did, that she described to me.
Well, what she described was a pandiculation. The acupuncturist obviously didn’t know what it was, or he would have done that first. End of problem. Even after this, she didn’t get what I was telling her, and that she could just do it for herself. Weird, isn’t it, how you just disregard things that don’t fit with your view of reality.
I kinda feel like I’ve discovered a personal fountain of youth. There’s no excuse any more for getting old, stiff, and cranky!!”.”
-Constance, Whidbey Island WA
