Somatics Nexus 2010 Featured Events

Friday November 5 through Sunday November 7, 2010.

Here's a partial list of the other exciting and educational events at Somatics Nexus 2010.

Morning and Evening Reception

Welcome to the conference with hors d'oeuvres or continental breakfast and conversation with your colleagues, like-minded attendees, and Somatics professionals.

Featured Speaker: Dr. Jacob Sattelmair — The Science of Movement and the Brain

Principal Partner at the Ratey Institute, the official support organization for vision and research in Spark: The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain, Dr. Sattelmair is D.Sc. in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, with research focus on physical activity and cardiovascular health (Harvard School of Public Health), and Master of Science, University of Oxford, in the Science and Medicine of Athletic Performance, with research focus on the relation between exercise and the brain. In addition to co-authoring with Spark lead author John Ratey "Physically Active Play and Cognition: An Academic Matter?" and "The Mandate for Movement: Schools as Agents of Change", Dr. Sattelmair is passionate about promoting movement as part of a healthy lifestyle in order to optimize human health and prevent disease, and works with the Ratey Institute in their mission to promote optimal physical and mental health by advancing the science of the mind-body connection.

Somatic Exercises Classes for Everyone and Every Problem

Enjoy the benefits of Somatic Exercise classes for all kinds of conditions, like postural problems, back pain, shoulder problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, and for general health and flexibility and pain relief.

Somatics for Healthcare Professionals

A Somatic Approach to Scoliosis

This workshop addresses the imbalances, chronic tension and pain of scoliosis, as well as related issues of the back and torso. With gentle, slow Somatics exercises, students can gain increased range of motion as well as greater control of the posture, range of motion, and related physiological problems of scoliosis. The workshop includes a short presentation on the underlying causes of Scoliosis, and the reasons treatment methods may not always be effective or provide sufficient improvement.

A Somatic Approach to Yoga

How to use Somatics to improve, support, and further your yoga practice. You will learn physiology and movement essential and integral to both advanced and basic yoga practice. Advanced practitioners will learn how they can take yoga further, and those new to yoga (or even just considering taking it up) will learn how to avoid injury and jump forward towards mastery more easily and comfortably.

Somatics For Athletes

Learn about the core physiology of movement and Somatics as it effects athletic performance and fitness. Learn how Somatics can be used to improve performance and prevent or recover from injury, and how to achieve unparalleled flexibility — even if you're one of of those people who is chronically inflexible — with none of the pain or tedium of conventional stretching. The information and exercises presented here will be critically useful for the performance athlete to improve efficiency and training results, as well as for the casual exerciser or weekend jock — anyone who does any exercise even occasionally can benefit. Not only will participants learn routines for applying right away to their own fitness activities, but they will also learn the fundamental approaches that will return fitness, flexibility, and injury protection benefits for a lifetime.

Hooping: A Somatic Celebration

Hooping has been making a comeback in the fitness and dance world in the past ten years. No longer the hula hoops of the fifties - these heavier, bigger hoops are all grown up. While many adults feel they could never use a hula hoop, the larger hoops move more slowly around the waist, allowing more awareness to succeed quickly. Hooping -- like the functional fitness and play movements, and like the buzz created by Spark -- has become a part of the social movement towards creating a passionate, holistic movement culture. Just as Thomas Hanna said Yoga was a way to enjoy our bodies once we've done Somatics, hooping is another (fun) way to celebrate our Somatic freedom -- and remember that part of how we keep and expand Somatic freedom is to use it. Somatically, the hoop gives us something tangible to sense around us while bringing proprioceptive awareness. Our brains are given the task of "keeping up the hoop" while we move the rest of our body. This contact with the hoop provides constant feedback by which the voluntary nervous system can respond and adapt. That challenge increases brain plasticity, allowing us to stay flexible and healthy, and gain even greater Somatic awareness.

Morning Somatic Exercises

Get your day started right, to shake away the night-time soreness, to get your day started right, and maintain advanced flexibility without stretching or conventional exercise.

Somatics Public Demo

Watch Somatics used in a clinical setting to help address chronic pain, injury, and musculoskeletal disorders. Beneficial & informative for all audiences.

Introduction to Somatics

Presentation for all audiences of how Somatics works, how it can help your movement and chronic pain issues, and how you can quickly and easily obtain the its benefits.

Marketing That Matters

Discussion of the modern art of developing and marketing your practice and the profession. For Somatics practitioners and students only.

Recalibration

Continuing education for Somatics practitioners and students only, including demonstration and hands-on practice.

Profesional Practice

Hands-on collaboration and spirited discourse on technical practice of Somatics. For Somatics practitioners and students only.