Classes and Workshops

Free Somatics clinic available to the public, one day only, Saturday, January 31, 2009. If you have wanted to try Clinical Somatics or have any chronic pain, postural issues, or discomfort that you would like to try to approach from a different way, now is a good chance! This is also very helpful for dancers, athletes, or those engaged in other wellness practices to enhance those experiences.

A Special Series of Somatic Exercise Workshops in Boulder, CO at The Shambhala Center The Somatics teachings of Thomas Hanna PhD with guest teachers Jon Aronstein from Somatic Systems Institute and Mary Ann Voorhies These classes are appropriate for beginners to advanced practitioners, dancers as well as those who can barely move. The challenge of the movements is internal, so a simple movement can be approached in different ways by different people. Somatic exercises are slow, gentle and pain-free. They bring about great improvements in flexibility, coordination, bodily awareness, athletic performance, posture, chronic pain, injury, stress-management, and embodiment.

Learn to free up your whole body for more efficient and graceful movement.  Learn to find and use your body's natural shock absorbing systems in order to prevent knee, foot, hip, and back injury.  Get a whole new way to approach warm-up and stretching that is safer and more effective than treaditional stretching.  Improve natural breathing and muscular coordination.

This series is comprised of 8 individual lessons, teaching you to release unconsciously held muscles beginning at the core of the body out to the periphery.  You will also learn the "Daily Somatic Essentials", a sequence of exercises that can be done anytime, anywhere, in as little as 5 minutes, in order to maintain better flexibility, coordination, and balance, resulting in a decrease of the aches and pains commonly attributed to injury and aging.

In this class we will learn and practice movements that target the shoulders, upper back, chest, abdomen, and neck.  As always the movements are designed to give greater relaxation, intelligence, coordination, flexibility and awareness of muscles and movement.

Are you tired, achy, & inflexible even though you exercise? Do you have pesky or lingering body issues even though you do good things for your body? Learn the exercises that will help you exercise. Undo the effects of Sensory-Motor Amnesia (SMA) by restoring voluntary control to your body's neuromuscular system. This series of simple exercise patterns will change the way you live. You'll learn how to enjoy freedom from pain & enjoy more comfortable movement for the rest of your life. If you suffer from headaches, neck or shoulder pain, low back pain or sciatica, insomnia, or from discomforts often (mis)associated with the aging process Clinical Somatics can help. Don't live your life according to the Myth of Aging. Resume control of your life with Somatics.

Come see why Physical Therapists, Massage Therapists, Chiropractors, Meditators, Dancers, Doctors, Athletes, Alexander Practitioners, Yoga Teachers and laypeople alike often call Somatics the most effective, efficient, and enjoyable way to take care of themselves!!

Somatic Systems Institute today released their full Somatic Exercises classes and workshops schedule for the Fall season, 2007.