What do you need to change or adjust to move better?
We have to start by individually taking responsibility for our own well-being.
Often people find a renewed sense of awareness from their first introduction to clinical somatic movement. Where they have tension and where they have easy movement. This knowledge has been hidden due to pain, psychological or emotional limiting factors.
Commitment to daily somatic movement practice begins to awaken the senses. Using patience, persistence and curiosity to guide your movement. Stop trying to over achieve or force a change – instead become present to what is there right now and adjust that.
Modern life creates a judgement in what we experience from the outside in. We ignore or don’t value the internal signals and push on through them. If we sense what is happening from the inside out, we can influence our choice how we move and how we can change.
Current neuroscience supports that what we pay attention to influences the greater part of our life and movement habits.
The sensory motor nervous system sends messages up and down the spinal column to the motor nerves in the brain. Choosing to become conscious of how we move is a learned skill determined by:
How much we are aware of. How we can consciously let go or tighten voluntarily.
This is based on the range of voluntary or intentional functions we have acquired or learned through our living habits.
Somatic movement practice allows us to notice or sense what is new or missing that we hadn’t noticed before. A Somatic Practitioner will guide you through this learning process (that’s why we call it Somatic Education).
Constant repetition of stressful situations or habits causes loss of awareness of your muscles. Something hurts but you have no clue why or how to change it. And now you are stuck and can’t move it at all.
How do we release the chronically contracted muscles? We focus our awareness on an area which seems to be forgotten. You can just faintly perceive a minimal movement or sensation, just enough to wake up the nerves in that area.
How do you work with a Somatic Practitioner. You don’t focus on manipulation as with other forms of therapy. You are encouraged to contract /tighten the muscle, waking it up, providing information on how tight it actually feels inside the muscle, the nerves in the muscle then slightly relax. On repetition of this “Pandiculation” you teach the stressed nerve to let go.
An Introductory Package consists of 3 x sessions helping you to investigate your movement habits, where you are held in tension and teaching you some foundational movements. #wellbeing #clinical #musclepain #learntomove #somatic