When Larry retired 4 years ago, he developed tightness and stiffness… actually it was going on before that in his lower back.

Watch what Larry had to say about doing the simple, easy somatics exercises which are movements designed to get your brain to release held tension levels so you can move with ease while stimulating your nervous system back to feelings of pleasure.

Somatics is Life Changing

Larry said, “It’s changed my life. It really has..”

He went through a year and a half of chiropractic care where he was “twisted, poked and yanked” and was still the same. He had “no significant change”.

A friend recommended him to see me for Somatics, something which he had never heard of. Larry learned some basic moves in 3-4 sessions and “not only did it begin to make a difference right away… not only did it make sense intuitively to me because I always felt somehow the body could be more limber but stretching, forcing it wasn’t going to do it.”

Tightness, Stiffness and Pain Gone

Within 3 months he noticed a very noticeable change in his lower back stiffness & pain. Within 6 months, “basically I was fine, it was cured, I’d even say it was quicker than that”.

He was stunned at the difference.

Then he reflected on our physical education experience in school where he learned to play volleyball and he said “but you never learn anything about your body”.

Somatics, A Physical Education He Never Knew Existed

Somatics taught him more about his body, how his muscles work, how his body works together or doesn’t more than anything in his life before.

“That’s physical education”, according to Larry.

Somatics exercises are designed as simple movement patterns which progressively build upon creating a better foundation for movement.

It’s like going back to the fundamentals or building blocks of movement while taking out compensations which can be the root cause of stiffness and the pains and aches we live with or not!