While I’m a big fan of a gluten free diet, we’ll be talking about living pain free, getting rid of our aches, and losing stress & stiffness as we successfully age using an approach noted as far back as 1680.

Blog Talk Radio – Women 4 Women Network

As the guy who lived with the so-called women’s disease (fibromyalgia), I’m grateful to be asked to be appear on the Women 4 Women Network. They are empowering women both in business and life.

3 Steps to Getting Out of Pain on Blog Talk Radio

I’ll share the 3 simple steps it takes to change those painful signals to ones of pleasure so you can get back to doing what you want again with your body.

You’ll learn some moves you can do. All you have to do is listen and follow along and feel yourself in the 3 step process of what is known as somatics exercises.

Blog Talk Radio and the Divorce Counselor for Stretching

When I was told to stretch to keep myself limber, little did I know I was actually taking myself backwards – even though I spent as much as 2 hours per day doing it, thinking this would help limber me up.

Whew, I had to come through the looking glass with regards to stretching and helping people find their way to aging gracefully. See you on Susan Rich’s blog talk radio show.

Are you still doing the things you were doing with your neck 10 – 15 years ago? Or are you guarding or immobilizing yourself in order to protect yourself?

Relief for neck pain won’t be achieved through immobilization yet we can use discomfort as our guide to actually have a chance to relax tight, stiff neck muscles which might feel like a brace or vise we’re trapped in.

As we get older, does age prevent us from doing what we want physically in our body or is our accumulation of stress throughout our life taking its toll?

Do we have the capacity to discover a natural way of relief for neck pain by applying a novel approach which has been reported to relax muscles for over 300 years?

Hands-on approach to relief for neck pain

Pandiculations, which the founder of clinical medicine reported in 1680, relaxes our muscles has been systematically used by Hanna Somatic Educators where we teach people how to use the un-exercises of pandiculations systematized as somatics exercises.

Relief for neck pain comes when we un-do tightness, stiffness and regain lost mobility and return to natural flexibility which is comfortable without strain. As we move with greater ease, we can appreciate a greater sense of internal muscular connections.

In the video below, you can find out for yourself if the hip bone is connected to the neck bone. Afterwards you can try the hands-on approach as a means for relief for neck pain.

Simple movement can facilitate our understanding of how we are connected throughout our body. When we lose these connections, we lose a certain sense of ourself. Our internal guide to reset naturally avails itself so that relief for neck pain is felt as natural – as if we knew this all along.

In the many years of exercises I attempted, I had to come through a looking glass to both feel and understand how our brain can rewire the nervous system as we did as children. The conscious act of a pandiculation we did in our mother’s womb has the potential as relief for neck pain when we become reacquainted with a former ability.

Relief for neck pain and more

Please join me in this week’s online un-exercises (or get the replay) on a delightful class for the muscles of the neck and spine – which will include the back and belly as well as a movement for the ribs and hips which will tie everything together.

You’ll also learn to release some muscles in the chest and shoulders too which will help free up the arms.

And you’ll also learn a few more specific hands on techniques like you did in the video above.

Relief for neck pain can be accessed from within without any special equipment, just a little applied know how that you already possess within your nervous system.

Head movements don’t have to be difficult

In fact, our neck, shoulders and head oughta move freely and easily.

If your head has been stuck by either tight neck muscles or tensed up shoulders, there is a natural way to release the built up muscular tension.

You can try the head movements below just for fun.

Fun head movements to try

See, that wasn’t so hard. Or was it difficult to keep your head facing forwards or not tweaking yourself.

When we’ve endured enough head and neck pain, that movement among others can prove to be difficult. I remember when my neck pain felt like a hard sore block that wouldn’t budge or let me move freely. Turning my neck seemed like it was one of the hardest things to do.

Yet when we consciously remind our body of the available movements that we can do, our brain can release neurochemicals of relaxation while we are regaining function so we can enjoy the mobility we richly deserve.

Not moving in a variety of directions begins to limit our body and perhaps our thinking too.

The head movements connection to the rest of our body is evident when we have to feel or sense our self not only at the movement of the head sliding along the surface… but how it relates with the rest of our body.

We are one piece, last I checked and the more we check-in, the far easier it is to self-correct naturally.

A somatics exercise class on head movements

When we move somatically, we can experience the freeing up of pain, stiffness and aches when we tune further and deeper into ourselves. This most natural act is what we did as babies, as a child and if we’re lucky… remember to do for a comfortable life.

Re-learning to move easily and effortlessly requires a quiet internal observance done in a specific slow manner. If you’re game to be more comfortable, you can learn some head movements to free up the neck, shoulders and more.

Please join me for an online class on head movements where all you’ll have to do is… listen, easily follow along… and notice whatever happens… usually the muscles, aches and pains let go. Isn’t it about time to live with easy head movements?

Some people keep on stretching and are wedded to the concept.

Look at this poor guy stretching

By attempting to stretch his hip flexor, he’s actually tightening his hamstrings, the muscles behind the leg.

He might be even contracting his back muscles to be able to get that foot to the buttocks.

Maybe he can still sit on his heels, but the point is… a stretch such as this is still done at professional levels and worse, high schools and even middle schools kids are being led down this lazy and counter-productive route.

Lazy on account of research moving on. Athletes do not need this to warm-up.

Divorce Counselor for Stretching

As a divorce counselor for stretching… you can rest easy, there are other ways to lengthen muscles and warm them up.



For instance, healthy vertebrate animals aren’t stretching either. It’s not what you think.

They consciously contract and then release themselves.

By refocusing your attention on what muscles are designed to do, that is to contract, we can reset them and ready them at the same time.

Stretching is Over

Leave it to the folks who’ll continue to argue about it saying it makes them feel good rather than understanding it’s a waste of time and we can use our intelligence to reset things rather than pulling us apart.

Even for us 50 year olds, stretching is over.

Letting go of tight, restricted, stiff, tense muscles is easier said than done.

While the advice to just let go sounds like a good idea, our muscles may have
forgotten how to relieve the tension and remain tight as a drum.

It’s possible our muscles have forgotten the art of letting go.

Letting go of muscular tension

When we were young we could easily bound down a hill. Today, as an adult so many of us brace our way down the hill or stairs instead of easily letting go.

When we begin an activity from a place of already being contracted, we accumulate more contractions and move further away from letting go of the muscular tension we’ve added.

When we are in pain, we are often wary. If we happen to stretch a contracted area, then the brain will send a message to re-contract afterwards. Things tighten up once again and letting go doesn’t happen.

Even in a traction device, our muscles will re-contract afterwards so hanging upside down to lengthen muscles may feel temporarily good, yet the brain will do what it does to reset the muscular tension levels back to its set points.

Instead, if we consider our self as a self-adjusting organism, we don’t need any contraptions or devices, just our self and gravity since this is the field we happened to have things go awry in.

In the practice of somatics, we aren’t necessarily focusing on the muscles, we are working with the lines of communication from the brain to the muscles. The pathways or information from brain to muscle is where we play and change both the brain and body.

When we experience a painful signal – this can be our greatest teacher since we can locate a movement above, below, to the right or left or forwards/back of it – which we can release by being careful.

Regaining the ability of letting go

If you believe you can improve yourself, we know today from neural plasticity, the brain and thus the body can change itself.

With a little know-how we can relearn the lost art of letting go.

By easing our way into greater range of motion rather than force, we’ll end up being stronger simply by letting go. If we push it, our brain will naturally re-contract the muscles.

To go easy is like untying a knot gently. If you tug too tightly, the knot will tighten.

Please join me in an online class which offers you the simple art of letting go with easy, fun, simple moves done in a different way of focusing on movement and using the brain to reset our self naturally.

In these hectic and busy holiday times, we may accumulate tension and stress in our muscles. Ouch!

Why not let it all go in 7 minutes or less with somatics exercises?

Somatics exercises are usually the reverse of most approaches

While many exercises are geared towards strengthening, these easy, simple movements target the brain’s cortex so it can lower muscular tension levels.

With lower muscular tension levels, our muscles can remain more relaxed.

When our muscles are relaxed, we’re no longer fighting our self. Movement becomes easy. Stress just flies off of us quickly.

Somatics exercises are so too simple

In 7 minutes or less, our brain can rewire our nervous system so our muscles lose the tension we accumulate in our busy, hectic lives. This is why I’ve just created 7 somatics exercises videos with each one around 7 minutes long.

Watch and follow along with easy, simple movements that change the brain which change how our muscles get back to comfort.

With a little practice, we can be more mobile, have natural flexibility and if pain comes up, we can learn to lose that too, effortlessly with somatics exercises.

Feeling well in our body is satisfying when have useful tools which allows us to move more freely and easily.

A daily exercise workout plan

Before we think about exercising, we ought to consider what sets us up for exercise in the first place.

When we get up, we are naturally stiffer since our muscles shorten overnight.

Oh what to do? Start with an exercise workout plan.

Instead of traditional stretching, which we know harms us, we can move ourself simply.

Simple, easy movements to articulate our joints primes the muscles for our larger movements throughout the day. After all, you won’t see Fido stretching nor hitting the weights in his exercise workout plan.

Instead, Fido reprograms the muscles first.

The most important exercise workout plan

According to Mel Siff, who wrote the book, “Facts and Fallacies of Fitness”… the most important exercise is reprogramming the central nervous system. He considered this to be more important than strength training and aerobics.

This makes obvious sense. The brain, which can reset our muscles, needs a continual updating of its movement software.

We’ve got to take out any stiffness and tension we accrue.

This is why healthy vertebrate animals naturally reset themselves periodically throughout the day.

When we naturally reprogram our muscles, they are left more functional and ready to be used since they’ve been given the cue to let go of any residual holding tension.

Muscles which are less tense, move far easier than the ones which keep us bound up, throwing our parts around like we’re a hobbling zombie.

Our brain’s cortex can do the job to reset the muscles. This is why we can use the un-exercise approach of somatics exercises anytime to feel better.

Exercise workout plan class

There exists a delightful set of somatics exercises which are known as either the cat stretch or daily maintenance routine.

This exercise workout plan sets the body up for movement for the day.

This week, I’ll be teaching a version of that particular exercise workout plan.

By modifying certain elements, the very exercise routine we accustom our self to, becomes enhanced.

Join our somatics exercise online class. This set of movements can be quite the useful exercise workout plan.

Groin stretch no more

In spite of what we know about stretching, many people and especially athletes lamely attend to the muscles which pull the leg inwards or keep the thighs rotated inwards.

Groin stretch, the other side of the coin

Our attempts are most often futile since pushing on a tight area actually causes the brain to send a message to re-contract and tighten the tissues.

This violation of the stretch reflex happens everyday and prevents the groin muscles from truly being reset back to comfortable levels with minimal tension.

The pains we feel are often reflected in higher than normal resting tension levels.

Some people will even lie down and attempt to do a groin stretch passively… afterwards the brain has to re-contract to get back to its set point.

While the set points serve us, they can be held in shortened positions. By pushing a shortened position, the brain sends messages to re-contract and pull back to the set point thus not effectively lengthening the muscles we are targeting.

Muscles respond to messages from the brain and even the spinal cord when we quickly and reflexively pull away. When we shift to using the brain’s cortex, our muscles can be reset through a cortical process which re-regulates tension in the muscles.

Instead of the groin stretch, we can use those groin muscles to gain not only length, we also remind our muscles of their function.

This way the muscles are ready to be used and have been reminded how to relax. A relaxed groin area is far more ready to be used than the tight, screaming groins that many people endure.

The not groin stretch class

So instead of a groin stretch, we can learn how to artfully move the inner leg muscles in a variety of ways which will allow us to feel better at any time.

Tight inner legs may cause us to feel a tight band feeling around our back and even assist turning “on” the burning sensations of sciatica.

However, muscles don’t move in isolation so we can play with coordination sequences which engage both the legs and upper body.

When we’ve been pulled out of alignment through high tension levels, we can reset other areas in our body to bring us back towards balance.

A groin stretch itself is not enough to regain lost function and improve how well we can move without discomfort. We need integrated patterns which takes us to the next level of using the brain’s cortex to reset our global movements.

By making little changes, we affect how we move as a whole, healthy being.

Please join our not groin stretch online class and learn how the brain improves brawn.

Simply paying attention to our breathing doesn’t seem like it could be of any significance or help.

Better Breathing Helps Us Relax Easy

Belly breathing or diaphragmatic breathing is quite often beneficial. Taking a few moments to breathe deeply and easily gives us a respite from life’s busy activities.

Not paying attention to how we breath is a sure-fire way to limit our self unconsciously. Why bother when we have so much else to do?

Conscious Better Breathing

Many conscious methods focus on breath work with a variety of ways to play with our breath. These pursuits are enjoyable activities to explore adding to a chest of useful tools for healthy living.

On the other hand, somatics exercises are quite often the reverse of most approaches as we engage the brain and it’s bodily connections.

Through patterns of movement which are similar and slightly different, our brain thrives with new and distinct learning. Small differences gives us the ability to free our self where we would otherwise not consider and remain restricted.

Better Breathing Class

For instance, instead of focusing on better breathing, we can be better breathers by doing a simple movement which involves our diaphragm.

When we couple this pattern to the actions in our spine, ribs, shoulders and even our hips, we can actually “not breathe” and discover if better breathing results.

Join me in this week’s online class for better breathing by not breathing.

Why live with back pain when we can do something by our self to get the back pain relief we need, when we need it.

Simple, easy gentle movements change the brain. By changing the brain, we can directly change the comfort levels of our back muscles which many of us have experienced with great displeasure.

The constant, gnawing, seizing signals I lived with in my 20′s and 30′s didn’t give me any moments of significant back pain relief, it was just grief.

“Learn to live it” was the motto I heard and bought into.

Whadya gonna do about back pain relief?

Like many people I tried a number of approaches… the hot tub “was” one of my favorites. The heating pad, those ice packets and tens units didn’t get the job done. Nor did the pain meds either.

Well, what did I know. I had no idea I could use the brain to change those discomforting signals to finally feel the back pain relief I thought I deserved while having fibromyalgia to contend with.

Those recalcitrant and tight back muscles didn’t wanna seem to budge other than remaining taught with tension.

All the lathering of tiger balm, icy hot and other gels while soothing couldn’t shake the beast of living with chronic tightness.

Heck, even the stretching routines I had learned… would not solve the riddle. But what did I know. I had no idea that stretching was compounding the problem as today’s research points the fallacy of this method. Who knew the back pain relief I truly wanted was not to come by stretching.

Back Pain Relief Class

Shifting our internal state of discomfort can be remedied when use the brain’s ability to reset the resting levels of our muscles so we can truly feel the back pain relief we think is possible.

This is well within our natural ability. It’s a matter of getting back on track through a learning process which somatics exercises are the avenue for.

A systematic approach of un-doing muscular tension and un-locking tigthness, inflexibility and the rigiidty our back muscles have accumulated shifts with simple, easy movement done with a particular kind of awareness.

To experience this simplicity, you can join us for our online back pain relief class where you’ll learn 35 movements to free up both the lower back and the upper back.

Your brain is better and more effective than a hot tub. These natural sets of tools are available 24/7 for back pain relief.

Each day our muscles respond to the demands or lack of demand we impose upon the muscles, even if we aren’t exercising.

Stress Relief, Use it or Stress

If your walking and crossing a street, you body will react to the hurtling speeding objects of a car by raising your shoulders up. Next time you go on a walk, feel if this happens. It may be a slight or imperceptible sense, yet this is how stress in our muscles add up.

Little by little, day by day, our muscles respond and add up frequent stress user points. Now if only we had a credit card which would take these stressful moments into account, we could all fly around the world many times over.

Yet with all the stress we accumulate, how often do we give ourself stress relief measures?

Stress Relief Made Easy

Instead of waiting till later, we can use a simple brain process the way healthy animals naturally take care of stress. After all, they have to deal with being eaten or work very hard to eat. Imagine how stressful that is.

Well animals use a stress relief method called a pandiculation. When our muscles tighten up and accumulate stress, we feel the associated stiffness and other noxious signals that comes with the territory of modern day living.

Vertebrate animals know how to bring muscles back to length, not by stretching as we once thought, they go about it by pandiculating their way to health.

They make stress relief look easy since they have to keep their muscles ready to be used in case they need to instantly flee.

We can use our brain and do the very act animals do to keep our muscles and feelings of tension and tightness at bay.

Stress relief is like a lost art. Did you know that most of us actually did this very animal act in our mother’s womb? Somewhere on the way to becoming an adult, we lost this healthy sense and process yet we can get it back on track with a little practice.

Stress Relief Online Class

Somatics exercises are used successfully to give us the ability to stress relief ourself at will.

When we feel the accumulation of stress, all we need to do is apply our lost sense and use our muscles in a way which will instantly create chemicals of relaxation.

This kind of stress relief is our natural way to self-adjust the overworked, stressed out muscles.

To remember how easy this is to do, please join us for an online stress relief class.

Stress relief is natural using the brain’s cortex so we can rest easy, rev up and relieve our ourself, again and again.

Fit Over 50

You can join our Fit Over 50 live phone call for free and find out:

• How to be confidently active
• Specific techniques successful athletes use
• Ways to be injury-free

Don interviewed and wrote, “50 Athletes Over 50″ and will share what he gained from that experience. He’s also the creator of the “21 Day, 7 Habits Program” which gives us the body and energy we need.

Getting out of physical pain and recovering quickly from injury is what I do as a seasoned Hanna Somatic Educator and recent gold medal winner at the Washington State Senior games. I’ll share with you specific things to do to remain agile, limber, pain-free and have the ability to move like a healthy animal any time you want.

Being Fit Over 50 is easy

To be fit, you have to have the know-how and use the tools we’re gonna share with you on this call.

We’ll give you the specific techniques that you can use to move well beyond 50 too.

Register for the Free Call for Fit Over 50

We’re going to rock the house, like 50 year olds still can.

We’ll even throw in a surprise when you sign up for the Fit Over 50 call, so sign up here.

Did you laugh at this coordination exercise?

Coordination exercise for natural flexibility

Things which look easy take a lot of coordinating actions and natural flexibility.

Developing this kind of flexibility can be achieved via a learning process using the brain’s intent to create movement patterns and experience them in novel ways which releases any holding or compensatory patterns we carry.

When we’re stiff and too contracted or not as mobile as we’d like, a movement like that coordination exercise may seem to take a lot of effort.

Coordination exercise to build strength

We can naturally and quickly develop the requisite strength by setting up the building blocks of movement so a coordination exercise such as the one in the video… becomes effortless.

Strength can be achieved in many ways. Somatics exercises lead us down this path as we need the requisite freedom in movement of our smaller muscles to move the larger ones.

Coordination Exercise Class

We’ll do more than just that particular movement you saw in the video in this week’s online class, though not on a table like you saw. We’ll give it a whirl on the ground instead.

You’ll get the chance to see and feel how your hamstrings and back will lengthen
by doing a simple test at the beginning and end of class.

What sets up our ability to do a coordination exercise easily and naturally is accomplished using the pandicular process which is at the heart of somatics exercises.

Please join me in this week’s online coordination exercise class for the hamstrings, back, knees and more.

Have you been hamstrung and tried all sorts of hamstring exercises lately?

Hamstring Exercises

Those muscles behind the back of the legs can be tight and stiff in spite of our attempts to loosen them by stretching.

Is it possible to release other muscles associated in a causal chain of movement which will allow the hamstrings to be more comfortable?

Somatics hamstring exercises focus on the brain’s ability to release chemicals of relaxation so the hammies are free to move about without all the stiffness or tightness we carry around with us.

Hamstring exercises and a tight back

Many times, a stiff back is what prevents hamstring exercises from being effective. You can actually tighten things without realizing it, if you push contracted muscles beyond their set limits.

Freeing up the back is often necessary for the hamstrings to function more effectively.

Not only that, we may need to free up the shoulders, which if left too contracted, can have adverse effects all the way down to those screaming hammies. Ouch!

Somatics hamstring exercises class

Instead of the usual hamstring exercises and approaches, somatics exercises work with the brain’s cortex to release held muscular contraction levels which frees up the hamstrings.

Having a more flexible back, looser shoulders and a freer neck allows the hamstring to work in concert with certain patterns of movements.

Hamstring exercises while all well and good, may not provide the necessary connection towards freer movement overall.

Join us this Friday for some online hamstrings exercises and more.

Somatics is often the reverse of most approaches out there since we use the brain to focus on freeing up movement rather than the brawn of exercise.

Hamstring exercises can be fun when we coordinate entire movement sequences which will ultimately free the hamstrings and undo being hamstrung.

Easing hip and knee pain

Was that an easy move for your hips, knees and your back? To ease hip and knee pain, the back needs to be supple and flexible.

While some people will argue the case for strengthening the core, we can find ways to ensure the middle of our self is loose enough to have the requisite mobility to move easily.

Hip and knee pain can often be alleviated when our middle, the spine, begins to unwind itself from holding patterns which prevents us from moving our hips and knees comfortably.

Better mobility lessens hip and knee pain

Hip and knee pain sometimes go hand in hand when the hips have lost their mobility as well as the spine. Our knees may continue to get pounded in the same manner day in, day out when our mobility is less than optimal.

To move the knee around comfortably is to regain the ability and mobility we once had. Since movement is a memory, we can refoster those memories by going back to the well – of youthful movement in the artful ways in which somatics exercises remind us to move easily and with the least effort.

Natural flexibility allows hip and knee pain to abate

Instead of hard work or over zealous exercising, somatics exercises offers us a reverse way into the brain by slowing things downs so our hip and knee pain gives as we regain our natural flexibility once our mobility returns.

This week, you can join me for an online somatics exercise class where you’ve already seen the last movement. Now all we have to do is do the steps before that so the hip and knee pain abates when our movement software is updated.

We can learn to our way back to getting out of hip and knee pain by regaining the mobility we had and rediscovering our natural flexibility…otherwise you can kiss your knees hello!

I lived with strange nerve and chronic pain while enduring sciatica, inflammation, tenderness, soreness and stiffness which all attributed to an ongoing state of unhappy muscles, nerves and limited painful movement. It even felt as if I couldn’t get enough breath into the muscles to move easily.

Chronic pain is a thing of the past

When I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, it was a relief to learn that the uncomfortable feelings I had been having in my 20′s and 30′s had a name to it.

As a kid, I remember looking at the muscle magazines learning what I needed to do to make this skinny kid into a muscular powerhouse. Even while living in chronic pain, I went to the gyms, stretched, lifted weights, thinking this would be a way out since exercise is usually considered a good thing.

Muscles and Chronic Pain Need Not Co-exist

Unfortunately, lifting weights and stretching didn’t solve the pains. Eventually, movement provided the key to getting the muscles and chronic pain to no longer co-exist in order to comfortably move.

There are many approaches to helping people naturally overcome chronic pain. You can find out about some of those in this month’s Max Sports & Fitness where yours truly has finally made it in a muscle magazine.

Living with Chronic Pain

Our brain and body can serve us naturally to ward off the stiffness, aches, and pains we feel in our muscles and elsewhere. Through a long series of trials and errors, I stumbled onto how animals naturally self-correct and move so well.

While I believe in a natural aproach of pandiculating, the process animals use. This has been systematized as somatics exercises which offers a key to un-lock muscular stiffness, improve mobility and take us to a place of natural flexibility.

There are other complimentary approaches which can take us a step closer to a life not full of chronic pain. Being free in our body and moving well is our birthright.

Sometimes we need a little help and a plan to get out of chronic pain with the desire we can return to all the fun activities life has to offer.

Knee problems are sometimes not always where we think.

We often think of knee problems happening, well obviously at the knee, yet in some cases, where the pain is, the problem ain’t.

The knee is designed primarily to bend like a hinge. It can twist a little too.

The muscles below and above the knee impinge upon it when we compensate or substitute with other muscles for instance, when we hobble around after an injury.

The muscles below the knee can be overly contracted or not functioning as well as they could be. Tight calves or restrictions in the front of the lower leg may not only rob us of energy, we may have to work that much more in order to walk and our knee problems can compound.

Knee Problems at the waist?

Often times, knee problems can occur much higher in our body than we think. You can do all the knee bends you want or turn your foot in or out to help with torsion issues.

Yet other parts of ourself can cause us to bear our weight differently. In times of injury, we can compensate by holding our side tight or cringing to the side using our waist muscles.

If left unchecked, contracted waist muscles can have some bearing on the function of the knee and the knee problems persist.

Free the waist, free the knee problems

The practice of somatics exercises, which is usually quite the opposite of other approaches, uses the brain to release contracted areas and improves the function of the muscles so we move more effortlessly and easily.

In this week’s online somatics class, you can learn how to release some muscles below the knee as well as those at the waist.

Rather than doing standing exercises or using weights, we’ll focus on different relationships with gravity and noticing how our entire body moves, not just the knee.

Many knee problems can be solved by addressing our body as a whole moving unit instead of just the part where we experience our pains and discomforts.

3 Hour Somatics Workshop

Somatics is defined as the body experience from within. In this workshop, we’ll explore the mind, body and talk of the spirit.

Somatics Presenters

Pamela Ziemann,international book winner and author of “Giving Voice to Your Cause” will teach us how to use your voice passionately to draw people to your cause.

Daniel Webster, “The Science of Yourself”, will teach us how you work, more specifically how you think, how you feel and where you put your focus and how these parts of you interact with the world around you.

Ed Barrera, Hanna Somatic Educator, will teach us how to use the power of pandiculation so we can move like an animal again and restore our health and well-being naturally.

Look here.

Ready to register, look no further.

When: Saturday October 15th
Where: Bellevue, WA or live on the web.
Why: Somatics is fun.

Can exercises for feet bring back the love?

Don’t you love your feet? As a soccer player, I’ve got no choice but to love the feet since I rely on them to create all the magical moments I get to experience.

While exercises for feet can have positive effects on the knees and hips…differentiating the movements leads to a more comfortable sense of walking… free of aches, stiffness and pain.

Do exercises for feet create lighter legs?

When we free up the feet, our knees tend to be more comfortable. When we use the brain which is what we do with somatics exercises, we are delving deep into our sensory-motor system to find out “if” we do indeed experience our self differently.

Describing our internal experiences is unique. At times, we don’t have the words to rightly describe the feelings and sensations we are aware of. Just as moving gracefully is art in motion, we can use mindful specific exercises for feet to get closer at noticing how we experience what the brain can do for us in a matter of minutes.

Using the brain for exercises for feet

Instead of the usual ways we exercise the feet, we can change how muscles respond using cortical pathways using our awareness to facilitate changes. We can feel those changes which will guide us towards more comfortable movement.

We can also self-correct using simple exercises for feet so the knees and hips don’t have to feel so heavy or restricted or leaden in some cases.

You can try a couple of somatics exercises in the video above… and you can spend a little more time exploring how quickly your brain can change the feelings of the feet, knees and legs, by getting this class on somatics exercises for feet.

Just as we did as children, if we can still reach the feet… we can love those feet with simple somatics exercises for feet.

A looser jaw helps if you’re a runner and exercises for face muscles may be something you haven’t considered.

Did you know that in some countries they actually target future runners by seeing who has the loosest jaw? If they only had some exercises for face muscles, maybe there would be a surge in competitors or at least, we could have freer jaws.

Somatics exercises, a different set of exercises for face muscles

Somatics exercises are usually the reverse of most approaches since we work with changing the brain’s output to the muscles.

By decreasing high levels of muscular tension, these special exercises for the face muscles work with 1/3 of the brain’s sensory-motor cortex.

Using the brain to change how muscles respond is naturally what we did as children through the process of what is known as a pandiculation.

Exercises for face muscles and then some more…

In this week’s online class, you also learn how to have a more mobile spine to go along with those exercises for face muscles.

Besides, you’ll learn 2 simple movements which will also help you sit more comfortably crossed-legged or in the lotus posture.

So please join us on Friday and find out if somatics exercises for face muscles can set you free.