The Somatics Center is a service of the Somatic Systems Institute. Somatic Systems Institute was founded in 1993 in Amherst, Massachusetts to bring awareness of the field of Somatics to fellow health care professionals, clients, and educators all over the world.
Since its founding, the Somatic Systems Institute has been an international resource and educational center for the general realms of somatic education, healthcare, science, and philosophy, and for many of the specific fields and modalities somatic in nature or orientation. SSI launched the first web site about somatics, The Somatics Center, in 1995, and then opened the first online somatics store, enabling people from all over the world access to somatics books and important hard-to-find self-help tools, when Amazon was not even a glimmer in most people's eyes. Even before those early days of the World Wide Web, SSI was a leader in providing information and resources for somatics, offering the first and only toll-free Somatics hotline.
SSI was the first clinic for the all-too-rare Clinical Somatic Education™ in all of New England. After SSI had established satellite clinics in Manhattan (1995) and Providence, Rhode Island (1999), Dr. Thomas Hanna's original facility conferred the honor of making the Somatic Systems Institute the first and only practitioner training program after Hanna's.
In addition to the services it provides through professional training and expanding clinical work and research, SSI continues its efforts to provide much needed information and resources about Somatics free to public throughout the world.
- To learn more about Somatic Systems Institute, visit Somatic Systems Institute's home page section of this web suite.
