Thomas Hanna Somatics is an approach to renewed control of the muscles through use of the voluntary motor system. By structurally balancing the body and by working with the nervous system to allow more freedom, spontaneity and creativity in our response to the world is achieved. When we lose our ability to move, change our bodies, and think, it diminishes our ability to experience life. Somatic Education is the use of sensory-motor learning to gain greater voluntary control of ones physiological process. This is closely related to biofeedback in that it produces substantially more rapid improvements than previous methods without need for electrical instrumentation or mechanical devices, with lasting improvements in movement, relaxation level, and physical comfort.
Tight muscles produce chronic misalignment, stiffness, and often, pain.
Somatic Education improves your muscular control resulting in you gaining more natural control of your muscles. Some even find that involuntary muscular tensions end or decrease in severity. Improvements consistent with age-reversals of ten to twenty years are common, with athletes perform better and reduce the chance of future injury. I am as I decide to be. Movements that involve the affected muscles ar the key to unlocking muscular tensions with somatic learning exercises.