Sustainable Body
After teaching yoga for a little over a decade I had started to notice that there were these common injuries that people would come to me with. Often they were just the common “aches and pains” that then turned into a cortisone injections, then arthritis, then on and on and on… quite often thwarting their progress in yoga as well as in other areas of their lives. I read Thomas Hanna’s book Somatics: Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health where he explained the habituated patterns of movement that I had observed in the yoga students I’d worked with.
So I applied to the training program that would teach me how to be a Hanna Somatic Educator. I am a year and a half into a three year training program. I am teaching the Hanna work through group classes called “The Myth of Aging” and also in one on one clinical sessions. This work seems to be VERY good for people who have been dealing with chronic pain and who have a feeling that it is within their power to change it. I am also working with my teachers David Garrigues and Eleanor Criswell Hanna to develop a therapeutic approach of somatic theory for Hatha Yoga students.
I will be putting a little more information up here about this work, but for now you can check out www.integratedsoma.com or www.hannasomatics.com.
