Day 1 Soma Scan lesson

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28 Somatic Steps to Freedom from Chronic Stress, Discomfort & Pain

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  • Moving Safely, Comfortably, and Effectively for YOU3

DAY 1: Soma Scan - for Self-Sensing & Self-Knowing

  • Day 1 Soma Scan: Self-Sensing & Self-Knowing
  • Day 1 Soma Scan lesson

DAY 2: Stress Makes Us Forget How To Move With Ease

  • Day 2: Stress Makes Us Forget How To Move With Ease
  • Day 2: Learn how to Pandiculate

DAY 3: Sensing Your Four Corners

  • Day 3: Change Takes Time
  • Day 3 Class: Sensing Your 4 Corners

DAY 4: The Stress–Trauma Continuum

  • Day 4: What is the Stress-Trauma Continuum?
  • Day 4 Class: Breathing and Moving...

DAY 5: Full-Body Patterns of Stress

  • Day 5: Stress in Your Whole Body
  • Day 5 Class 1: Sensing the 3 Main Stress Reflex Patterns
  • Day 5 Class 2: Audio Intro to Short Front & Tight Back Patterns

DAY 6: The Joy of a Supple Centre

  • Day 6: Releasing Stress from Your Centre (can be life-changing!)
  • Day 6 Class: Sink & Release / Arch & Release

DAY 7: Nervous System Basics 1

  • Day 7: Nervous System Basics 1: Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Branches
  • Day 7 Nervous System Basics: Fight & Flight, and Collapse ("Freeze")

DAY 8: Your Head & Neck Move Too!

  • Day 8: Full-Body Movements Include Your Head & Neck!
  • Day 8 Class: Encouraging Head & Neck Movement along with Arch & Sink

DAY 9: Movement Exploration

  • DAY 9: Movement Exploration: Moving Like A Child
  • Day 9 Class: Exploring crawling, baby back lift, plus Arch & Sink

DAY 10: Noticing Your Relationship to Gravity

  • Day 10: Sensing “The Same” Movements In Different Relationships To Gravity
  • Day 10 Class: Arch & Sink in Different Relationships to Gravity

DAY 11: Exploring Balance

  • Day 11: Explorations in Standing & Balance
  • Day 11 Class: (1) Standing Scan
  • Day 11 Class: (2) Exploring Balance

DAY 12: Let's Twist Again!

  • Day 12: Focus on the Tilt/Twist Reflex Pattern
  • Day 12 Class: Reaching to the Top Shelf

DAY 13: Are You Sitting Comfortably...?

  • Day 13: Sitting Comfortably
  • Day 13 Class: Sitting With the Reflexes

DAY 14: Releasing Embodied Stress: What’s Working For YOU?

  • Day 14: Visualising What Works for YOU
  • Day 14, Part 2: Re-imagining Your Container

DAY 15: Nervous System Basics 2

  • DAY 15: How Do Fight, Flight & "Freeze" FEEL?

DAY 16: Movement Meditation

  • Day 16: Movement Meditation: Your Soma in Gravity (& Levity)
  • Day 16 Class: Meditating on Your Soma in Gravity

DAY 17: Less Is (Often) More

  • Day 17: Less is (Often) More
  • Day 17 Class: Less Is More

DAY 18: Why Stretching Won't Help

  • Day 18: Why Stretching Won't Release Embodied Stress
  • Day 18 Class (1): Seated sensing centre to periphery
  • Day 18 Class (2): Lying down, sensing centre/periphery

DAY 19: Leaning Into Pain (to let it go)

  • Day 19: Why Lean IN to Pain?
  • Day 19 Class: Leaning Gently Into Discomfort (so that you can ease out of it)

DAY 20: The Flower

  • Day 20: The Flower - a movement for soothing your system
  • Day 20 Class: The Flower

DAY 21: Nervous System Basics 3: The Brain in Your Gut!

  • Day 21: Nervous System Basics 3: The Brain in Your Gut!
  • Day 21 Class 1: Movements to Address Stress & Soothe Your Vagus Nerve
  • Day 21 Class 2: Short Session on Vagus Nerve 'exercises'

DAY 22: Re/Balancing Your Soma

  • Day 22: Re/Balancing Your Soma (& Your 'Patterns')
  • Day 22 Class: Re/Balancing in Arch & Sink

DAY 23: Arch & Curl: Really Letting Go of a Tight, Short Front

  • Day 23: Arch & Curl to get into and ease out of tightness
  • Day 23 Short Class: Arch & Curl to Release Your Front

DAY 24: The Myth of Ageing

  • Day 24: The Myth of Ageing
  • Day 24 Class: Sensing into the Myth of Ageing

DAY 25: Finding Your Diagonals

  • Day 25: Diagonals, Cross-lateral movement, oh my!
  • Day 25 Class: Finding YOUR Diagonals

DAY 26: Making Friends with Your WHOLE Self

  • Day 26: How & Why?
  • Day 26 Class: Resourcing & Feeling Into Stress to Move Away from Stress

DAY 27: Review & Rebalance

  • Day 27: Review & Rebalance
  • Day 27 Class 1: Scan, Sense, Review
  • Day 27 Short Class 2: Rebalancing Pelvis in Prone

DAY 28: Somatics, Ethics, & What's Next?

  • Day 28: Now What?!
  • Day 28 Class 1: Ease into Your Diagonals
  • Day 28 Class 2: Focus inwards and give yourself a hug!

GLOSSARY: Making Sense of the Words & Ideas in Somatics

  • What IS a Soma?
  • The Stress Reflex Patterns: A Short Overview
  • SMA (Sensory Motor Amnesia) in a Nutshell
  • Is a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator a Hanna Somatic Educator?! (And doe it matter?!)

Resource To Let Go

  • Resource to Let Go (audio)

BONUS class

  • Bonus class: rebalancing from side to side