What is Clinical Somatic Education?
Clinical Somatics is an effective form of neuromuscular re-education that goes directly to the root cause of most chronic muscular pain: the brain and the way in which it senses and organizes the muscles and movement.
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By learning to regain both awareness, sensation, and motor control of muscles – an educational process that can only be achieved through movement – the brain can remember how to relax and move the muscles properly. This process of sensory motor training creates improved muscle function and enhanced sensory awareness.
Thomas Hanna, PhD inspired the development of Clinical Somatic Education with over two decades of work in the field of Somatic Education. He began as a Feldenkrais practitioner, and developed his own method of Somatic Education after studying neurology at the University of Miami Medical School. It was there that he did research into the muscular ways in which all humans respond to stress reflexes and how these full body reflexes can habituate at the level of the central nervous system, causing muscular pain that contributes to many common conditions. |
Clinical Somatic Education is a safe, gentle and common sense approach to reversing chronic pain. It is the only method of pain relief and sensory motor training that targets the condition of Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA).
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Benefits include - non-pharmaceutical (chronic and acute) pain relief, improve mobility, strength and coordination, improved posture, freedom of movement, ease of breath, stress relief, balance and proprioception.
Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA)
Sensory Motor Amnesia is the condition of chronically-tight muscles that have learned to stay contracted due to repeated and reflexive response to stress such as accidents, injuries, surgeries, repetitive tasks, and on-going emotional stress. The resulting patterns of muscular contraction that develop, result in such common conditions as chronic back pain, neck, shoulder and hip pain, limited mobility, joint pain, poor posture, shallow breathing, and uneven leg length.
Hanna Somatic Education particularly helps relieve pain and disability associated with common health complaints such as: headaches, stiff or painful joints and muscles, fatigue, poor posture, breathing problems, impaired movement, accident trauma and whiplash effects, back pain, repetitive use/stress injuries.
Hanna Somatic Education particularly helps relieve pain and disability associated with common health complaints such as: headaches, stiff or painful joints and muscles, fatigue, poor posture, breathing problems, impaired movement, accident trauma and whiplash effects, back pain, repetitive use/stress injuries.
Private Clinical Somatics
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In your Initial Private Somatic Movement Session with Alaria you will discuss your history, physical concerns and where you would like to improve. We will do a postural and movement exploration to discover the way your body is currently organized.
Alaria will then develop your personal movement plan, giving you strategies to improve your range and quality of movement within the Somatic repertoire. In these movement sessions Alaria will verbally guide as well as with gentle hands-on guidance assist you in better sensing yourself as you are in movement. How Long Will It Take?
Your first session will take up to 90 minutes. Then you can expect your subsequent sessions to be 60 minutes each. |
How many sessions will I need?
We recommend you do a minimum of 3-5 sessions to support your learning and application of somatic movement exercises. Initial 90 min session is completed first. Our packages are then sold in 3, 5, or 10 sessions. Our hope is that you will learn and continue to use these techniques for as long as you need them. |
Other Services
Somatic Movement ClassesIn a Somatic Movement group class you will be guided through specific, slow movements while laying on a mat, blanket or towel. Using the process of biofeedback, the movements result in body-mind awareness through one's central nervous system to re-pattern and reset the resting level of muscle. Enroll in a session of classes, or buy a class package, you may use any class packages to attend Somatics classes.
Click here to review group class pricing. |
Somatic Movement WorkshopsSomatic Movement Workshops are run several times throughout the year, see our events page to find out what's coming up, or join our mailing list!
release & unwind Workshop - Next dates TBA |
You are a soma," soma is a Greek word meaning living body.
To do Somatics is to experience the living body from within.