Imagine moving freely and without fear of injury.
Cultivate coordination, balance and alignment.
Rediscover your innate ability for self-awareness and self-healing.
Somatic movement is safe and beneficial for all fitness levels (loafer to athlete and everything in between). The focus is on gentle, pain-free movement to balance your hips, spine and shoulders so you feel better in your whole body and whole self.
One-on-One Somatic Education
Private sessions at the Be Fluid Bodywork.
After 3 Bowen sessions, returning clients may schedule a 60-minute private movement session or a 90-minute half-and-half session with both hands-on bodywork and somatic movement.
Group Classes
Sign up for a class series at North Seattle College, or contact Be Fluid Bodywork to schedule your own semi-private classes at your home, office, or community gathering space.
Register now for the next class series starting February 22, 2024.
Patricia Hopper earned her Essential Somatics Movement Teacher certification in 2019. Patricia uses the terms somatic education, somatics and somatic movement interchangeably to describe the movement practice. Essential Somatics is based on the teachings of Thomas Hanna.
“…if you cannot sense it, you cannot move it, and the more you move it, the more you will sense it.” Thomas Hanna/Somatics: Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health
“We are creatures of adaptation: we adapt to life and all that it brings us. Every day brings change in some area of life, and so every day we change. Our bodies change. We need to know how to adapt to change in a healthy way. Somatics trains your brain to adapt to life’s daily changes.”
Martha Peterson/Move without Pain
MORE ABOUT SOMATIC MOVEMENT
Our bodies learn habits of muscle contraction from repetitive movement, injury and the daily pressures of keeping up and making due. Adaptive changes that were once helpful can later result in pain, stiffness and limited mobility in athletics and daily activities. Through Somatic movement, you can learn to feel when your parts are working together and when they’re not. Gentle, full-body movements re-train your brain to notice and release muscle contractions when they are no longer needed. Somatic movement improves posture and frees up muscle tension in a way that stretching can’t.
Somatic movement might be a good fit for you, if you…
- notice increasing stiffness in your joints,
- end up injured or hurting whenever you try doing favorite physical activities that you once did regularly without pain,
- never quite recovered from that last injury,
- notice it takes more and more effort to hold your body in an alignment that you associate with good posture.
- can feel when your body is “off” and want a way to try resolving it on your own,
- want a more effective warm up or cool down routine for running, climbing, hiking or crossfit to achieve better form during your workout and after,
- have muscle soreness or chronic pain,
- are a person who sometimes says you can’t feel your body, but you’d like to build that awareness.
To learn more about Essential Somatics and sign up for a free online mini course, click here.
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