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What is Somatic Movement Education?

What is Somatic Movement Education?
Movement and sensation are inseparably the language of the body.  Somatic movement education develops the body-mind intelligence through learning and listening to the language of the body. Through presence, communication, touch and movement repatterning Somatic Movement Education aims to support the integration necessary to be resiliently alive right now.   

Read more about the scope of practice of somatic movement education, as defined by ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.

Touch: Manual Therapy & Education (also classically known as bodywork) involves the hands on techniques to bring awareness to places of holding, as well as places of resilient intelligence and to restore balance and integrity to the system.  

Movement Education & Patterning: Through verbal cues, imagery, anatomical education and guided awareness practices, movement patterning invites one to reeducate your body to move with more ease.  This could be as clear as learning to move from the floor to standing with less pain, to re-patterning nervous system responses through releasing holding patterns.
“A movement therapist uses a system of awareness instruction and/or a fitness therapy system to reeducate your ability to accurately propriocept and understand how you operate in space so that you can function better via getting in tune with how you initiate and carry out your movements, know what proper biomechanics are, and come to see with more clarity(and resolve) your own body blind spots.” Brooke Thomas- Why Fascia Matters

What areas of study do we bring into a session?

Body Mind Centering(BMC), Developmental Movement, Somatic Body, Contact Improvisation,  Authentic Movement, Axis Syllabus, The Work that Reconnects, Collab


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    • Amanda Franz, RSME/T >
      • Re-Embodiment Training
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    • Abbi Jaffe RSME/T
    • Somatic Movement Education Sessions >
      • SME- what to expect
      • Cost Structure
    • More Embodiment Services
  • Classes/events
    • Somatics for the People!
    • queering contact
    • Growing Resilience Being Trauma Informed Course
    • Finding each other again: CI 9 weeks
    • My Grandmothers Hands Study Group
    • Re-Embodiment Training
  • Garden
    • Positionality Statement
    • Our Values >
      • Equitably Inclusive
      • Justice work - Food, Environmental, Social, Bodily
      • Practicing Community
      • Everything is Alive! Everything is Connected!
      • Active Practice of Learning
      • Deep/Somatic/Embodied Listening and Awareness
      • Centering Ancestors
      • Healthy Accountability to Commitments and Responsibilities
      • Emergent Education
    • Garden Vision
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    • Garden Support
    • Gratitudes >
      • 2019
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