Somatics - Move with Ease - 3

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 3: Trauma Reflex This session explores the third stress reflex identified by Thomas Hanna, the trauma reflex. Trauma reflex affects the sides of the body and shows up as asymmetry, a tilt to one side, a twist in the pelvis, a raised shoulder, one-sided pain, a limp. It results from habitual one-sided movement, such as carrying a bag on one shoulder. It is often the result of injury, which can be physical or emotional and can be from a long time ago. The brain adjusts the nervous system to hold the muscles to protect the injured site, and this compensatory tension affects the whole body. Even when the injury has healed the tension can remain because it is set in the nervous system and held in the centre of the body, where it is difficult to feel. To address the trauma reflex we look to the centre of the body, because the pain is not always where the problem is. Most pain comes from unconscious tension, held in the muscles. To release the tension, we pandiculate, tightening and then slowly releasing the muscles. The slowness gives your brain time to reset your nervous system and this is what makes lasting change.

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Contact Details

• 2 Charles Darwin Road, Plymouth, UK

  + 44 7846 794567 or +44 79199 20345

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