How Does Somatics Compare to...?

Most of the benefits of attending Yoga classes are also available through our group movement classes, where students will expand their flexibility, breath, peace of mind, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. We also believe that our classes are a more efficient and direct way to gain these benefits. Our teachers are extensively trained to truly understand the way the muscular system and the brain and other systems interact, and can give students the most hands-on and effective methods for overcoming their challenges and moving forward. Once the principles of Somatic movements are learned, Yoga can be much more effective and fulfilling.

Most of the benefits of mainstream meditation are available through Somatics practice. In fact, many meditation practices inadvertantly exclude “body” at the cost of “mind”, while intending to integrate the two. The practice of Somatics is a truly integrated practice that nurtures quiet of mind and the ability to be present to experience life more openly. Somatics actually builds and tunes the Nervous System to be more adaptable, present, and able to sense and respond properly to the environment. Somatics can be an excellent and necessary compliment to meditation, as many meditators are limited by musculoskeletal discomfort.

Somatics and Pilates are similar in their goal of a more controlled and intelligent mind/body. The most profound problem that we have seen in Pilates students is often the building of strength on top of a foundation that needs more freedom, flexibility, and intelligence as its base. Pilates can be a great practice, but we encourage people to also learn the muscular coordination, balance, and freedom of Somatics before or during such a practice.