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Introduction

Introductory information and articles about somatics.

Somatics Exercise Classes

More about how classes can be like yoga. Can get the benefits of a group and teacher instruction. Can do weekly or long-weekend ones to do a whole series at once. Or can do a short focused one like one on the hips for 2 hours. can do them in gyms or bring someone into a workplace or other setting.

More Information about Somatics

There has been a popularization of the words “somatics” and “somatic” these days, but not many people know where the word really originated. Below, you'll find a brief history of the terms “somatics” and “somatic”, as well as information about Clinical Somatic Education and where it comes from. Read more about More Information about Somatics

Somatics Exercises

How to do them, learn them as part of sessions 5 minutes a day dropped in place of stretching, pilates, yoga most of the same benefits sought by yoga can be from regular somatics practice if do instead of stretching you stay flexible and avoid exercises. get them on cd (links), read from a book (link), or take classes sometimes called self-guided, or self-help, but can be guided by a teacher of course uses means-whereby, and self-pandicualtion (also called gravity assisted pandiculation), not practitioner-assisted pandiculation

The Myth of Aging

One of the most ancient and famous of riddles is that of the Sphinx: "What is it that has one voice and yet becomes four- footed and two-footed and three-footed?" In Greek mythology, Oedipus provided the correct answer: the human being, who crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two legs in adulthood, and leans on a cane in old age. This answers the riddle of the sphinx. But it does not answer a second riddle that lurks within the first: Why is it that humans, having learned to walk upright, may lose this ability and often end up walking with a cane? Read more about The Myth of Aging

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