What Is Somatic Movement Education?

Somatic movement education (somatics) is a multi-layered approach to healing and personal transformation through movement re-education and hands-on repatterning. BodyMindMovement somatic awareness attends to the multiple layers of human experience--physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual--and helps to chart how change in one of level of experience will affect the others.

 
 
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What Are the Benefits?

  • Easier movement and better alignment

  • Improved physical function and health

  • Reduction in musculoskeletal pain

  • Healing psychophysical wounds that are held in the body

  • Stimulation of creativity

  • Deepening connection to oneself, the environment, and others

Who Benefits?

  • Infants and children with developmental challenges and disabilities

  • Movement specialists in dance, yoga, martial arts, and athletics

  • Adults with chronic health conditions

  • People with physical disabilities

  • People seeking to deepen their spiritual journeys

  • Artists

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Who Trains as Somatic Movement Educators?

  • Teachers and practitioners of dance, yoga, martial arts

  • People in the caring professions: PT, OT, massage therapists, and bodyworkers

  • Artists and educators

  • Psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, coaches