Somatics - Move with Ease - 1

Service Description

Somatics – Move with Ease. 3 Sessions - DATES: Saturday 11-12pm 5th Oct, 2nd Nov, 7th Dec Somatics is natural movement. Natural movement is movement that is co-ordinated through the centre of the body. Your body is a system, a living organism that innately knows how to self-regulate and self-heal. All the movements are gentle, slow, and pleasurable and are mainly done lying on a mat on the floor. Somatics is a very simple and yet very effective way to address, or prevent, long term pain. Each of these three Somatics sessions stands alone, but different movements are covered in each one. If you come to all three you will have a full “Somatics toolkit”. Kath Revell studied Somatics and Clinical Somatic Education with Martha Peterson from Essential Somatics. She also teaches Tai chi and Qigong. Please visit www.ninjagranny.org/somatics for further information. Session 1: Introduction to Somatics In this session you will learn how to “pandiculate” instead of stretching in order to release tension and return your muscles to their resting length. Pandiculation is gently contracting a muscle or group of muscles and then releasing slowly, connecting the movement to the centre of the body. The slowness is key. It gives your brain time to reset your nervous system, which is what controls your muscles. This is how you can make lasting changes. Pain is the result of tension that is retained in the muscles through habitual movement. The tension builds up over time and becomes unconscious. We call this “sensory motor amnesia” (SMA). It results in what we interpret as “bad posture” - rounded shoulders, sway back, or protruding belly. The effect is often pain: back ache, shoulder pain, neck ache, pelvic pain, tight hips, knee problems…. These are not really postural problems but manifestations of withheld tension from habitual movement patterns that get stuck. Somatics helps you to recognise those patterns and gently release them by pandiculating.

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Contact Details

• 2 Charles Darwin Road, Plymouth, UK

  + 44 7846 794567 or +44 79199 20345

  info@spacetomove.co