What is the benefit of Somatics?

Somatics as a term, refers to the first person experience of self; how the world feels from within your body. It's an old Greek term brought back into the English lexicon by Thomas Hanna Ph.D. because there wasn't an adequate word at the time to describe this concept. It is not about the mind, body and soul but rather the idea that we are just one completely integrated entity; a Soma. In that way, anything happening to you is simultaneous and equally physical, spiritual and psychological. Also in that way, anything happening in your environment is happening to you and as you shift, the environment shifts. After resurrecting this term, Dr. Hanna went on to develop a study of Somatics largely based upon existential philosophy and the works of Moshe Feldenkrais and F.M. Alexander. He developed a clinical practice of Somatic Education, a way for an educator to help someone make dramatic shifts in the way they are living to overcome pain, imbalance, injury, trauma and any type of chronic, functional problem.

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