Somatic Experiencing is a trademarked name owned by Peter Levine. It is an approach to talk therapy that recognizes the experience of the body is independent to what we may think. Somatic movement recognizes the body has its own wisdom and people do use somatic movement as a help or adjunct to therapy, spiritual life and self-discovery. It can also be used to neuro-muscular-skeletal re-training, athletic performance, help for anxiety, pain or lack of bodily comfort, creativity expression and help with learning. Some pioneers of somatic movement express it this way: "Somatics is the study of the self from the perspective of one’s lived experience, encompassing the dimensions of body, psyche, and spirit." Thomas Hanna "We learn to ‘listen’ to our inner bodily knowing and ‘speak’ with our bodies from the truth of who we are." Peggy Hackney "Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself" Moshe Feldenkrais "The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing, you can look at the sand." Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen