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Somatics 1: Tune in to your Body & enjoy Freedom of Movement
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Somatics 1: Tune in to your Body & enjoy Freedom of Movement

An introduction to Somatic exercises to help improve your emotional, mental and physical health
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Created byJosie McKenlay
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • A set of exercises to reset and connect the body and mind
  • Improve mobility, flexibility and strength in a gentle but effective way
  • Improve balance, co-ordination and posture; reduce pain
  • Strengthen the mind/body connection, improving focus
  • Release chonically tight muscles and tension in the body
  • Improve body awareness and truly sense how your body feels
  • Improve your emotional, mental and physical health
  • Slow down your stress response so you can start to repair and heal

Course content

4 sections • 44 lectures • 8h 26m total length

  • Welcome1:39
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  • An Introduction to Somatic Movement3:56
  • Are you Breathing?!10:09
  • A Tour of the Nervous System14:52
  • Seated Proprioception Exercise13:08
  • Neuromuscular Activation9:35
  • Tense Release Exercise12:19

Requirements

  • No experience is necessary. Somatic movement is helpful for everyone. All you need is a mat and comfortable clothing

Description

Somatic movement is a neuromuscular re-education technique which teaches you to release and relax your muscles so that you can regain proper muscle function again.  The movements are slow and gentle and promote sensory awareness to increase brain-muscle coordination.  The exercises are performed consciously with the intention of focusing on the internal experience of the movement rather than the external appearance and are very helpful in improving body awareness.

Through a method of slowly contracting, releasing, lengthening and relaxing a muscle or group of muscles, you will re-educate your body to move in an efficient and pain-free way.  Many of us struggle with various sports injuries and niggling health issues due to adaptive muscle shortening.   Muscles will change their functional resting length to adapt to the length at which they are habitually used or positioned which leads to muscle imbalances, injuries, joint degeneration and pain.

Based on the original teachings of Thomas Hanna, these exercises can change unhelpful learned muscular patterns.  Some benefits of  somatic movement methods are:


  • A reduction of chronic pain

  • Improvement in bodily function

  • Recovery from common musculoskeletal conditions

  • Increased flexibility and range of motion

  • Reduction in muscular tension and awareness of unhealthy postural habits

  • Heightened body awareness and reduction in stress and anxiety

Somatic movement is enormously beneficial for anyone:


  • A perfect way to introduce yourself to exercise if you are new to fitness

  • A useful tool to help improve the mind/body connection - beneficial for those who are already exercising in some way and want to improve their performance and focus

  • The ideal way to aid recovery from injury or illness, including providing a bridge back to regular fitness levels

  • Effective in helping clients prepare for class or cooldown

  • The best choice for the aging client who is either finding regular exercise to be too aggressive/ineffective or the older client who is new to exercise

So what will you get on this course?


  1. Manuals with information to introduce you to Somatic movement

  2. 15 exercises to address every part of the body

  3. A warm up "sensing" routine and a deep relaxation routine

  4. The entire 1 hour class

  5. Shorter class lesson plans

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone wishing to improve their body awareness and quality of movement will benefit from learning these exercises.
  • This form of movement therapy is attractive to anyone looking to achieve all the benefits of floor bases exercise in a non-aggressive way
  • Useful to help recover from injury or illness, ensuring a safe and smooth transition from rest and recovery to regaining their fitness levels.
  • For those who are older and new to exercise, this is the ideal choice. Also, for the older practitioner who want to remain healthy and active but needs something more gentle as the years pass.
  • Very useful exercises for Pilates, yoga and other health/fitness/wellbeing specialists to include in their regular programs. These make excellent warmup/cooldown routines as well as workshops.
  • For those specialising in 50+ seniors - especially useful for those taking my 50+ course - this is a very useful program to offer

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