If you've been getting treatment for a long time and aren't getting better, aren't getting better fast enough, or if your condition has evaded a decisive diagnosis, you may despair that you'll have to live that way for the rest of your life. If you've been slowed down by pain and stiffness, you may have forgotten what it feels like to feel good and move well and now hope only to reduce or manage your pain.
Somatics (Hanna Somatic Education) offers more than support or explanations of disorders or resources for managing pain: it offers information and resources for ending pain pain definitively, for recovering your preferred way of life in a reasonably short period of time and at your preferred standard of movement health (or better). There is a specific process involved in which you actively participate, with obvious, lasting improvements at each step and a well-defined series of steps.
Injuries and Pain Reflexes
Injuries trigger postural reflexes that rob us of control of our own muscles and cause pain and stiffness; we tighten up; we lose the ability to relax reflexively tight muscles and to move freely in certain ways. Without retraining, people often stay that way indefinitely:
What's been lacking in most therapeutic approaches is the ability to deal directly with these reflexes and to enable people to keep themselves independently well.
The ability to deal with these reflexes is the breakthrough offered here.
Many people who have unsuccessfully undergone physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy and various forms of bodywork, osteopathy, neurosurgery, et al., have found clinical somatic education to be a successful last resort with success rates in excess of 90%.
Even if you've had a problem for a long time, time is not a factor. You can have your life back -- in recreation and athletics, at work, at home and in the bedroom -- in short, in any situation where you need free and easy movement to exercise, lift and carry a heavy box, get into a car or move gracefully from position to position.
How it Happens
The key to recovery is your recapturing control of muscles trapped by reflexes triggered by injury or nervous tension; you can relax and move, again. Pain fades out, starting immmediately. You come back to the way you were -- or (more often) finish better than you were, before -- and you can keep yourself well without outside help.
"Somatic" (from the Greek word, "soma": "living, aware bodily person") means, "pertaining to the body experienced and controlled from within." Somatics brings definitive relief from injuries through a new brain-body retraining process done by clients with the help of practitioner-
