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Field of Somatics

Writings about the general field of Somatics and Somatic philosophy.

A Conversation with Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. by Helmut Milz, M.D.

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Milz: Intellectual knowledge is knowledge for its own sake, but somatic knowledge is knowledge for oneself that allows us to have control and self-responsibility. Your own development and your learning process are examples of overcoming the traditional Western body-mind split. Could you briefly tell us about some stages in your own journey?

A Conversation with Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. by Helmut Milz, M.D., Hanna, Thomas , Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, Spr/Sum 1991, Volume VIII, Issue 2, p.50-56, (1991)

The Somatic Healers and The Somatic Educators

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Nowadays, there are so many different kinds of “body work” that even the body workers are confused about what each other is doing. Here, finally, is a way of making sense of a complex field.

The Somatic Healers and The Somatic Educators, Hanna, Thomas , Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, Autumn 1977, Volume I, Issue 3, (1977)

The Field Of Somatics

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Since 1970 the words “soma” and “somatic” have taken on a larger meaning and the archaic word “somatology” has re-entered the English language with renewed vigor. The innovator of these terms describes the emerging conception of the life sciences that has given birth to the somatic domain: “The house that Darwin built.”

The Field Of Somatics, Hanna, Thomas , Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, Autumn 1976, Volume I, Issue 1, p.30-34, (1976)

Selections from... Somatology: Somatic Philosophy and Psychology

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My Position in the Field of Philosophy

FROM THE PERSPECTIVE of the philosopher, I feel myself most closely connected to the American Pragmatist philosophers. I am most conversant, philosophically, with the dauntlessly broad outlook and the adventurous but-practical exploratory ways of such thinkers as John Dewey and William James.

Selections from... Somatology: Somatic Philosophy and Psychology, Hanna, Thomas , Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, Spr/Sum 1991, Volume VIII, Issue 2, p.14-19, (1991)

Beyond Bodies in Revolt

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What is Somatics? Part IV

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Awareness

When we stop and focus upon one feature of our experience while inhibiting any notice of the rest of experience, we are making voluntary use of the function of awareness.

What is Somatics? Part IV, Hanna, Thomas , Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, No. 1, Aut/Win 1987-88, Volume VI, Issue 3, (1987)

What is Somatics? Part III

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Synopsis

In Part One of this essay, somatics was defined as the study of the soma: namely, the body as perceived from within by first-person perception. Somas were seen to be self–sensing, self–moving, and in possession of conscious volition — the latter being acquired through the process of somatic learning which focuses awareness upon what is unconscious in order to make it conscious.

What is Somatics? Part III, Hanna, Thomas , SOMATICS: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, No. 1, Spr/Sum 1987, Volume VI, Issue 2, (1987)

What is Somatics? Part II

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The Cyclonic Image

WHEN THE TEMPERATURE, velocity, and moisture of the air are just right, a startling event occurs: a tornado. A twisting, surging cone appears from out of nowhere and commences to move about unpredictably, seizing everything within its powerful grasp, drawing the environs into its center, incorporating some things within its whirling system, and spewing other things out.

What is Somatics? Part II, Hanna, Thomas , Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, Aut/Win 1986-7, Volume VI, Issue 1, (1986)

What is Somatics?

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Somatics?

by Thomas Hanna, Ph.D.

What is Somatics?, Hanna, Thomas , Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences, Spr-Sum 1986, Volume V, Issue 4, p.5 (pp.4-8), (1986)
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