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
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