A paradigm is a set of criteria that we use to define what s important and to determine how to do things. A paradigm is a viewpoint and a set of rules. For some people, calories are important, for others, nutritional balance, and for others, life-force. Those differences define different food paradigms .
Somatic education improves natural control of our own body.
A soma, then, is a body perceived from within. Somatic Education is the improvement of bodily awareness to gain greater voluntary control of ones bodily processes. It is somatic in the sense that learning occurs within the individual as an internalized process. The operating paradigm of modern medicine is that the human body is a marvelous machine that occasionally malfunctions and needs fixing. This is its basic viewpoint.