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‘Movement’
is the key to being alive and we all know that our movements are impaired
when physically or emotionally injured. It is the somatically trained
health care provider that will enable his or her clients to perform at
a higher movement potential, instantly changing the client’s experience
over their own body. It is the somatically trained teacher that will be
able to understand and connect better with his or her students, creating
more joy and better results for all. When your client will have become
able to ‘somatically’ control their specific somatic reflexes
of stress, you will find that approximately 90% of ailments will have
been resolved as well. Somatic Education and Somatic Rehabilitation recognizes
the damaging effects of these reflexes and reverses its pattern in
only a few sessions.
Somatic Rehabilitation or Somatic Education is based on:
- core
fundamental movement patterns of the human being
- basic
philosophies about human existence
- sound
neuro-physiological principles
- a
holistic approach towards health and wellness
- activating
a dimension of human existence that we are only now starting to explore
('somatic awareness')
- the
desire and enthusiasm to explore your own body
- an
organic process of retraining your own movement patterns
- existing
knowledge in the health care and educational system
 It
will soon become essential for anybody in the field of health care and
for anybody in the educational system to understand the basic somatic
concepts of human existence. Somatics can be seen as the missing link
that has not yet been taught in medical schools and universities. The
missing link that not only makes us understand what is going on with our
client or student, but also provides us with the tools to change the situation
rapidly. This is accomplished without machines, medication or surgery,
just by organic movement. It is you as a Somatic Educator who will teach
and help your client to recognize, reverse, release and resolve
their specific patterns of tightness. When truly understanding the somatic
concepts, many of the mysteries and complications about health and our
health care system will become not only explainable and predictable
to you, but more importantly, they become resolvable.
Being
a ‘Somatic Educator’ by profession is a very new development
in our society. The Somatic Health Center of St. Helena is specialized
in teaching the somatic concepts throughout North America to interested
parties. Feel free to contact The
Somatic Health Center for further details.
‘Mobilizing
Awareness™’ – Workshops are organized to offer a closer
look into the kitchen of the Somatic Educator. Workshops are specialized
to the level of knowledge and experience of all participants. All introductory
somatic workshops will contain the teachings and experience of the ‘Daily
Cat Stretch – Series’. Fundamental to all somatic training programs
will be the performance of this ‘Daily Cat Stretch – Series’
on an independent and individual basis by every workshop participant.
Somatic Training Programs to grow and evolve from ‘self-experience’
into teaching and leading movement classes & workshops are available.
As well, Somatic Training Programs to learn to become a ‘Clinical
Somatic Educator’ who is able to perform hands-on individual sessions
in an office situation are available. Somatic Training Programs will soon
become integrated and invaluable within the schooling programs for everyone
participating in the field of health care and education.
Active
physical movement in combination with your own (first person)internal
awareness instantly creates better pathways between your brain and your
muscles. This is taught through a treatment technique or process called
Somatic Education. To be able to understand your own body and learning
to sense your own movements is a necessity before starting to understand
other people’s issues or injuries. From a client’s perspective,
the somatic concepts and movements can be taught in a group session or
can be taught individually in a one-on-one private session. The advantage
of a private session is the direct integration of reversing your personal
Sensory Motor Amnesia into Sensory Motor Learning. This is done by a somatically
trained health care professional who uses the unique hands-on approach
called ‘Pandiculation’ which teaches the client instantly to
connect with his own muscles or movements. When the client’s pattern
of tightness has been disengaged, there will not only be relief for many
symptoms, but there will also be an instant improvement in the client’s
physical appearance (posture & movement patterns), the client’s
mental/behavioral appearance, the client’s emotional appearance and
the client’s energetic appearance.
Following
is a schedule of workshops that will help you to become sufficiently trained
to integrate the somatic concepts in your practice. You will be able to
integrate the somatic concepts and movements from the moment you will
have finished your first workshop (‘Mobilizing Awareness: Introductory
Somatics – The Daily Cat Stretch Series’). The following workshops
will have to be taken in the following order to maintain a process of
growth within your own understandings. No matter what your background
is, you will also learn to integrate the somatic concepts within your
previous learnings. Please contact The
Somatic Health Center for training opportunities in your area.
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A 2-day (weekend) workshop that provides a beautiful introduction to
the fundamentals of human movement. The ‘Daily Cat Stretch Series’
is a routine of movements that can be done in 10-20 minutes which maintains
and increases control over your own body. The movement patterns are
core patterns for successful human existence. Learn how to control the
stress response (physical/emotional) that we are exposed to over and
over again. Increasing your somatic awareness is fundamental and complimentary
for your personal health and wellness, as well as for recreational activities
like yoga, dancing, Pilates, sports and meditation. At the end of the
workshop, you will have created a more complete vision about health
and health care that is directly applicable within your own practice.
- A
5-day (or 2 weekend) workshop that will introduce you not only to the
different patterns of tightness that we are all exposed to, but that
will also teach you how to release and reverse the damaging effects
of these reflexes. After you have mastered the skill of the ‘pandicular
response’ or the ‘pandiculation’ (the unique hands-on
technique used in somatic rehabilitation), you will have learned how
to instantly release tight muscle groups that might have been contracted
for many years. You will learn how to recognize the characteristic patterns
of withdrawal (the ‘somatic reflexes of stress’) that we are
all exposed to when injured. Models to release the damaging effects
of these patterns of tightness will be presented. A review of the Cat
Stretch Series is included in a manner that you will also learn how
to teach your own clients how to do the ‘Cat Stretch Series’
independently.
- A
2-day (weekend) workshop that will expose you to more somatic self-explorations.
You will learn how human function can be successfully integrated from
horizontal (lying down) to a more functional vertical position. When
injured, it is easier to start your process of rehabilitation in a horizontal
plane without gravity. However, one of the characteristics of the human
being is to be able to stand upright. Your process of rehabilitation
only finishes when you can incorporate organic human movement patterns
effortlessly in an upright position.
- A
one-day workshop that builds on the above mentioned concepts. You will
learn more hands-on pandiculations that are directly related to spinal
movement (from the lower back to the neck). You will learn to recognize,
release, reverse and resolve many specific spinal problems like whiplash,
back pain, headaches etc..
- In
this one-day workshop, you will learn how to integrate the somatic concepts
into a hands-on approach for movements of the lower extremities. Specific
movements of the muscles and joints of the hip, the knee, the ankle
and the foot will be covered. The acquired skill and experience will
instantly be beneficial within your own working environment, preventing
and treating many health issues and injuries.
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Hands-on movements that are related to the muscles and joints of the
shoulderblade, the elbow, the wrist and the hand are covered in this
one-day workshop. Injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome or tennis elbow
will become more understandable and much better treatable. The acquired
skill and experience will instantly be beneficial within your own working
environment, preventing and treating many health issues and injuries.
Having
a medical background is definitely an asset. Understanding more about
human existence and more importantly, the lack of human existence
(health complaints, pathology) is essential to provide a satisfactory
service to your clients. Incorporating the somatic understanding within
your practice enables you to recognize and treat health problems that
are easily explainable as well as health problems that are harder to explain.
You will be able to stimulate your clients to become active and responsible
within their own process of rehabilitation, health and wellness.
‘Somatic
Rehabilitation’ – Workshops can be organized in your area. Please
contact The Somatic Health
Center for further information.
Having existing knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology and exercise
therapy is essential for proper rehabilitation. Combining the somatic
skills and understandings with your current knowledge will definitely
enhance your practice. Assessment Techniques, Exercise Therapy (any method),
Manual Therapy and many other modalities related to rehabilitation will
benefit tremendously from your new skill to teach your clients to become
self-sensing and self-correcting.
‘Somatic
Rehabilitation’ – Workshops can be organized in your area. Please
contact The Somatic Health
Center for further information.
Having existing knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology and exercise
therapy is essential for proper rehabilitation. Combining the somatic
skills and understandings with your current knowledge will definitely
enhance your practice. Assessment Techniques, Exercise Therapy (any method),
Manual Therapy and many other modalities related to rehabilitation will
benefit tremendously from your new skill to teach your clients to become
self-sensing and self-correcting.
‘Somatic
Rehabilitation’ – Workshops can be organized in your area. Please
contact The Somatic Health
Center for further information.
Having existing knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology and exercise
therapy is essential for proper rehabilitation or when providing stress
relief. Combining the somatic skills and understandings with your current
knowledge will definitely enhance your practice. Assessment Techniques,
Exercise Therapy (any method), and many other modalities related to rehabilitation
will benefit tremendously from your new skill to teach your clients to
become self-sensing and self-correcting.
‘Somatic
Rehabilitation’ – Workshops can be organized in your area. Please
contact The Somatic Health
Center for further information.
Having existing knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology and exercise
therapy is essential for proper rehabilitation or when providing stress
relief. Combining the somatic skills and understandings with your current
knowledge will definitely enhance your practice. Assessment Techniques,
Exercise Therapy (any modality) and other somatic modalities related to
rehabilitation, health and wellness will benefit tremendously from your
new skill to teach your clients to become self-sensing and self-correcting.
‘Somatic Rehabilitation’ – Workshops can be organized in
your area. Please contact The
Somatic Health Center for further information.
Before understanding more about ‘learning’, ‘growth’
and ‘evolvement’ of any human being, it is fundamental to understand
& experience the concept of ‘first person awareness’. To
be able to embody the somatic concepts of human existence will result
in a teacher or educator that will be able to recognize and reverse patterns
of physical, behavioral and emotional tightness within themselves as well
as within their students. To be able to transfer this somatic knowledge
and behavior onto their students will be the ultimate goal of the program.
‘Somatic Rehabilitation’ – Workshops can be organized in
your area. Please contact The
Somatic Health Center for further information.
Highly motivated people without a medical background can also become a
Somatic Educator. A program that will teach the candidate the appropriate
anatomy, physiology, pathology and other courses will have to be in place.
It is a great skill to be able to help people become more active
and independent in their process of rehabilitation, health &
wellness.
‘Somatic
Rehabilitation’ – Workshops can be organized in your area. Please
contact The Somatic Health
Center for further information.
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