Convention
Audio Recordings
Rolling Through the Lights—Movement with Nikki
Nikki Semeniuk
April 27th, 2025
This exercise incorporates layers of movement into the arch and curl. Guiding your soma as we roll through the Green Light Reflex, smoothly transitioning into the Red Light Reflex. With an enriched arch and curl, this delightful exercise features multiple layers of movement for an enhanced experience.
Everything but the Larynx: Hanna Somatics-Informed Voice Therapy
Dan Sherwood
April 27th, 2025
Discover a holistic approach to voice therapy that goes beyond traditional methods. This presentation explores how integrating Hanna Somatics principles can transform how we treat voice disorders and enhance vocal performance. Voice problems affect millions, from professional singers to schoolteachers to everyday communicators, impacting quality of life, social interactions, and career prospects.
Unlock Your Body's Natural Stress Release: TRE® Introductory Workshop
Maria Alfaro
April 27th, 2025
Experience the transformative power of Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) in this engaging and informative workshop. Discover how to tap into your body's innate ability to release stress, tension, and trauma through a simple yet profound technique that is gentle and very effective.
The Key to Unlocking Client Transformation
Maya Gayatri Andersson
April 27th, 2025
Uncover how to actively transfer the understanding of somatic principles into everyday life in order to better navigate stress, trauma, and to ultimately optimize self-healing.
Thawing Frozen Shoulders and Learning to Better Navigate the Shoulder of Life’s Road
John Loupos & Gabriel Posner
April 26th, 2025
In this workshop, Gabriel Posner and John Loupos will unravel the complexity of these structures, the movements they facilitate, and the issues that can arise due to Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA).
How You Can Help Horses and Riders with Hanna Somatic Education
Alissa Mayer & Ryan Moschell
April 26th, 2025
In this presentation, we will explore four key segments of the horse industry that can benefit from Hanna Somatics and Equine Hanna Somatics. We’ll share insightful case studies that highlight our work in the field…
Playing with the Forces on the Earth
Judith Aston
April 26th, 2025 & April 27th, 2025
This two-part presentation offers an experiential introduction to Judith Aston’s approach to observing and understanding patterns in the body. Across both sections, participants will learn new concepts while having opportunities to experience and explore them firsthand, including assessment of whole-body patterns, finding your best available neutral, understanding the role of tone and support, and exploring how movement sequencing and the way we move can influence our experience and outcomes.
Unlocking Embodied Wisdom: Exploring Fascial Unwinding for Somatic Self-Discovery
Yasmin Lambet
April 26th, 2025
Dive deep into the realm of embodied wisdom and discover the untapped potential of your body's largest sensory organ—fascia. This transformative session introduces a novel approach to somatic practice through fascial unwinding...
Reimagining the Cat Stretch
Wendell Hanna
April 21st, 2024
In this session, Wendell reimagines the classic Cat Stretch, translating it from a floor-based practice to a standing exploration in gravity, set to music..
Somatic Stability—Building Core Muscle Strength and Bone Density
James Knight
April 21st, 2024
In this session, James will guide us through safe weight-bearing somatic movement sequences that will not only strengthen muscles and increase bone density, but also repattern muscle groups to their optimal length in a resting position..…
Clinical Session with a Woman with Post Brainstem Stroke
Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 21st, 2024
In this session, Eleanor will be working with a woman who had a brainstem stroke. You’ll see a video of Eleanor working in person with this client from her office. This demonstration offers us an incredible educational opportunity to increase our Hanna Somatic clinical skills.…
How a Knowledge of Fascia and Biotensegrity Deepens Our Healership
Elizabeth Dare Andes
April 21st, 2024
This session will include a brief overview of the new science of biotensegrity and fascia as your quantum anatomy. We will then somatically explore movement…
Integrating Spinal Reflex Patterns with Hanna Somatic Movement
Melissa Fray
April 20th, 2024
In this session, Melissa will be introducing the inner workings and organizing principles of the Spinal Galant and asymmetric tonic neck reflexes. Cases studies, practical applications, and assessment will be presented...
The Brain in Action—Growth, Development, and Healing Through Somatic Inquiry
Martha Eddy
April 20th, 2024
This experiential session will provide insights into how different somatic movement systems investigate neurodevelopmental processes. ...
Move Your Pubic Bones!
Susan Koenig
April 20th, 2024
During this session, we’ll experience our pubic bones moving forward and backward (sagittal plane), up and down (coronal plane), and rotating right and left (transverse plane)...
Somatic Strategies for Asymmetrical Posture
Laura Gates
April 20th, 2024
In this session, we will explore and re-educate the habits of contraction that create a low shoulder, hiked hip, or lateral curves, twists of the spine (scoliosis) specific to your individual patterns. ...
AHSE Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting
April 19th, 2024
At our AHSE Annual Meeting you’ll be invited to sit in and also participate as Board members share a lively review of the past year’s activities..
Movement Collage
Movement Collage Session 2
April 23rd, 2023
Session 2: A truly unique class guided by multiple teachers
Case Studies—Hanna Somatics during Pregnancy
Danny Burke
April 23rd, 2023
In this session, we will look at several cases of women referred to Danny by Birth Teachers/Doulas. We will discuss how Somatics is helping women from early, mid, and late stages of pregnancy.…
Hip and Shoulder Rolls with Enhancements
John Loupos
April 23rd, 2023
This presentation focuses on enhancements to certain hip and shoulder patterns that many Hanna Somatics enthusiasts are already familiar with…