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Moving Safely, Comfortably, and Effectively for YOU
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
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DAY 18: Why Stretching Won't Help
DAY 18: Why Stretching Won't Help
28 Somatic Steps to Embodied Freedom from Chronic Stress, Discomfort & Pain
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Discussions
WELCOME!
WELCOME video
READ ME before you start!
Moving Safely, Comfortably, and Effectively for YOU
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
3 Lessons
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