Essential Somatics
Education, not magic
Clinical Somatic Education is not magic. It is education, which requires your participation and engagement in order to eliminate chronic muscle pain that has developed due to your unique responses to stress. We don’t fix people; we teach you to fix yourself! Creating new habits requires practice, just like any other skill. The slow, gentle, safe Somatic Movements we teach are movement patterns that reprogram your brain to muscle connection, create efficient movement and improve your self-awareness. These Somatic Movements are basic to all human movement – running, walking, reaching, bending. When you remember how to move without overly contracted muscles, your movement is more efficient and effortless and your pain disappears!
Many conditions that are commonly thought to be structural in nature, are actually functional, neuromuscular problems that can be prevented and improved with Clinical Somatic Education. When the brain forgets how to sense and control muscles properly, coordination, balance, and proprioception are impaired and pain develops. Chronically tight muscles are the result of Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) – an habituated response to stress (such as accidents, injuries, surgeries, improper biomechanics, repetitive stress).
These conditions cannot be stretched away or alleviated for the long term through passive manipulation. Stretching often causes muscles to become tighter, in effect, worsening your muscle pain. Medication blocks the pain but does not address the root cause. Passive methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy only confer temporary relief.
Many conditions that are commonly thought to be structural in nature, are actually functional, neuromuscular problems that can be prevented and improved with Clinical Somatic Education. When the brain forgets how to sense and control muscles properly, coordination, balance, and proprioception are impaired and pain develops. Chronically tight muscles are the result of Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) – an habituated response to stress (such as accidents, injuries, surgeries, improper biomechanics, repetitive stress).
These conditions cannot be stretched away or alleviated for the long term through passive manipulation. Stretching often causes muscles to become tighter, in effect, worsening your muscle pain. Medication blocks the pain but does not address the root cause. Passive methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy only confer temporary relief.
Examples of Sensory Motor Amnesia
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Who Needs Pain Relief?Anyone whose daily movement habits cause stress and muscle pain can benefit from Somatic Education. Many people sit for extended periods of time at a desk or in a vehicle, stand for long hours or do repetitive movements at their jobs and in their daily lives; every day our brain responds to stressful events, good or bad, mental, physical, or emotional – all of which contribute to muscle pain and Sensory Motor Amnesia. Through Somatic Education, you can learn to reduce and prevent muscle pain that comes with poor posture, long term sitting and a high stress lifestyle regardless of your age.
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