Thawing Frozen Shoulders and Learning to Better Navigate the Shoulder of Life’s Road
John Loupos and Grabriel Posner 4-26-2025
The shoulder joint is a shallow ball and socket joint that provides incredible movement in conjunction with the scapula. The joint is positioned at the outer corner of a bone that floats atop the rib cage. The muscles that mobilize and freeze this joint reach deep into the somatic center. This combination makes the glenohumeral/scapular thoracic junction completely fascinating and challenging to work with. How do you know if someone has an issue with the shoulder joint, with the scapula it attaches to, or to the somatic center where the shoulder begins?
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). They will then guide you through practical somatic movement practices that have been proven to reverse the effects of SMA. These practices will help you develop a deeper connection with, and liberation of, your arm, shoulder, scapula, and center, leading to improved shoulder health and a better you.
John Loupos, MS, CHSE owns the Jade Forest Kung Fu/ Tai Chi training facility and the Pain and Mobility Clinic for Hanna Somatic education in Cohasset, Ma. His martial arts background since 1966 has included; Okinawan Karate and several styles of Chinese Kung Fu, Yang style Tai Chi, Ba Gua, and Liu He Ba Fa, and assorted meditation and qigong practices. John holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and spent several years studying at the N.E. School of Homeopathy. He is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator and, for the last decade, has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Hanna Somatic Education. John has written several books on Tai Chi Chuan and Somatics, plus other learning media, and has been widely published in magazines and trade journals. His most recent book was The Sustainable You—Somatics & the Myth of Aging. He is working on a next book exploring the relationship between Somatics, Neurophysiology, and Tai Chi Chuan.
jadeforest@comcast.net
Gabriel Posner, PhD, CHSE is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator with a PhD in Mind-Body Medicine. Gabriel operates a private practice in Denver and is a member of an integrative clinic in Arvada. He offers one-on-one sessions as well as group classes and workshops primarily for people suffering from chronic musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. Gabriel is also a trainer with Essential Somatics, assisting with movement teacher and clinical practitioner trainings. Gabriel currently serves as the president of the Association for Hanna Somatic Education board of directors and is their research director.Gabriel also offers CE courses for massage therapists focused on employing somatic techniques within therapeutic massage sessions. Gabriel enjoys raising his three young children with his wife in Colorado in his spare time. He relies on his daily somatic movement practice to keep up with his kids skiing, mountain biking, and paddling all over this beautiful state. He also enjoys playing his saxophones whenever he can.
gabriel@elevatedsomatics.com