Required Semester 1 Textbooks & Materials
You will need the following materials for the first semester of your training. You may bring them with you, or purchase them once you arrive at our textbook shop. Each item below can be clicked to take you to our order page for the item (most training items are available at a 25% discount for training students).
t1. Hanna, Thomas. Somatics: Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health. (1988).
t2. Biel, Andrew. Trail Guide to the Body, Fourth Edition. (2010).
t3. Kapit & Elson. Anatomy Coloring Book, Third Edition. (2002). (Please bring a copy that has not already been colored.) Colored pencils (for use with the Anatomy Coloring Book) — minimum 12 colors (we suggest 12-24 colors).
t4. You may be required to purchase an electronic textbook reader, for the digital student notebook we provide to you, if you do not already have one. We will contact you with further details as the semester approaches.
Recommended Semester 1 Textbooks & Resources
The following textbooks are not absolutely required, but are highly recommended. “t4” is a classic reference (required historically, and now replaced by Trail Guide to the Body) that we may reference and use throughout your training. “t5” is a rich resource (for those new to anatomy and for experienced health care practitioners alike) which facilitates a clear sense of the muscular anatomy and functionality obscured beneath the skin and other tissue.
t4. Sieg & Adams. Illustrated Essentials of Musculoskeletal Anatomy, Fourth Edition.
t5. Clay & Pounds. Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy and Treatment, Second Edition. (2003)
A NOTE ON OBTAINING MATERIALS:
If you have your own copies of these materials, you may bring them. While some of these items are available in regular stores, the Somatic Exercises recordings are not. You may also purchase these online at http://somatics.org/training/enrollment/2014/s1 or contact us for assistance.
Additional Materials
For the training, students will be provided with a book of additional literature. It will not be possible to take notes in this book, so students should bring an additional means of taking their own hand-written notes, such as a loose-leaf binder or spiral bound pad. Remember to also bring your own pens and/or pencils, as we will not be able to provide them for you.
Audio or video recording of the training sessions by students is not permitted, and laptop computers are generally not permitted. Bear these variables in mind when deciding what academic tools you will bring to facilitate your own learning style, process, and needs.
Some of the classes taught each day will require your required textbooks. Thus, you should be prepared to bring your textbooks to class each day and then bring some of them back home each evening to do homework or in case you need them to support your practice and studies. There will be some evenings you will be assigned reading or written homework assignments.
Training Preparation Homework
Before arriving for the first semester, you are expected to complete item “p3” below. Before the second weekend module of the first semester, you are expected to complete the rest of following material. This will help prepare you for a successful training. These are your first homework assignments for Semester 1 of your training, due on the fifth day of class (i.e., day 1 of weekend 2).
If you have already completed any of these items in the past 2 years, you do not need to do them again.
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READ... p1. Hanna, Thomas. Somatics: Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health. (1988). p2. Biel, Andrew. Trail Guide to the Body, Fourth Edition. (2010) — pp. 11-51. p3. Thomas Hanna. “What is Somatics?” Parts I-IV. (1986-87). |
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MOVE... Complete all of the sessions of the following series of Somatic Exercises audio recordings. p4. Somatic Exercises: The Myth of Aging, by Thomas Hanna. (Due on the fifth day of class — i.e., day 1 of weekend 2.) p5. Somatic Kinesiology, by Thomas Hanna. (Due on the thirteenth day of class — i.e., day 1 of weekend 4.) |
Note: Even if you have completed the set The Myth of Aging by following the instructions in the back of the book Somatics, you should do them again using the audio CDs. Much of the value of the recorded series for the developing practitioner is the information and philosophy presented by Hanna in between movement instruction. We consider that extemporaneous banter to be a valuable contribution to the training curriculum, as well as a palpable way to experience a bit of the “culture” and “personality” that envisioned, founded, and developed this field.
Furthermore, The Myth of Aging exercises are the most fundamental series of movements in Somatics. They are involved in much of what you’ll be learning to work with as a practitioner; in fact, they are both an experiential study in much of the clinical strategies you will learn in the first semester, and the first series of exercises you will be asked to teach to the public and your classmates. It is highly valuable to experience this series of exercises presented by an expert in (and the founder of) the field, in a real setting with layperson participants.
