Chris Ruane
April 24th, 2021
In the first part of this presentation, we’ll look at the movements of the shoulder joint and explore five somatic shoulder exercises and hands-on pandiculations…

John Loupos
April 23rd, 2021
The Somatic movements that make up this presentation will leave your upper extremities with a sense of relief, renewal, and enhanced sensitivity…

Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 23rd, 2021
This presentation will combine a number of elements including updating you on current research and clarifying answers to your questions…

Ryan Moschell
April 23rd, 2021
In this group movement class, I will offer the concept of String Theory to inspire you to a new level of awareness with your traditional Somatic movements…

Farzaneh Jafari
April 28th, 2019
In this session, I am excited to present a unique movement class that combines both Hanna Somatics and Somatic Yoga as taught by Eleanor Criswell…

Susan Koenig
April 28th, 2019
Pelvic floor pain is just one of the reasons people can benefit from this pelvic floor movement. Other issues it can help with are incontinence, a drooping pelvic floor due to childbirth, dropping down (prolapsing) of the bladder and other organs, lack of support from injury, aging, and more…

Joan Kauffman
April 28th, 2019
As we age, we begin to have decreased balance responses from vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive systems, creating an increased potential for loss of balance and falling…

Linda Smith, Mary Poxon & Ken Bridgeman
April 28th, 2019
At last year’s convention, our Sunday morning movement class was a collage of movements led by several people. The feedback about this “round-robin” style of class was so positive that we decided to do it again…

Bogusia Badon & Andrew Schaefer
April 27th, 2019
This interactive lecture/demonstration will present invaluable practices to increase your knowledge base and skill in working with clients with impairments in alignment, movement patterns, and musculoskeletal dysfunction…

John Loupos
April 27th, 2019
How can we practitioners encapsulate the totality of our special gift to humanity into a catchy one- or two-sentence phrase without compromising our ethics or overall message?

John Loupos & Gabriel Posner
April 27th, 2019
Pandiculation is one of the most basic tools we use to help clients recover from sensory motor amnesia, so it’s very important that we use this tool with great understanding and skill…

Kelli Peacock & John Loupos
April 26th, 2019
This workshop will start with a detailed walking self-assessment to increase awareness of the many component parts of walking. Then we will be guided in sensing for a whole body continuity, using variations of our most basic Arch and Flatten movement pattern…

Eleanor Criswell Hanna & Peter Behel
April 26th, 2019
This workshop will focus on facilitating positive interactions with clients, keeping pain-related communication complexities in mind, and furthering the recovery process through effective practitioner communication…

Tammie Lyn Martin
April 26th, 2019
GLOW mindset—A frame of reference to examine what brings shine to your being through nurturing self-care and the quality of your thoughts through mindfulness…

Ken Bridgeman
April 22nd, 2018
In this presentation, I will share some of those simple movements that I found to be effective for enhancing ease of movement and a greater inner awareness throughout my soma…

Susan Koenig
April 22nd, 2018
In my experience, helping people to release their psoas and iliacus, brings pain and tension relief, not only to the low back, but also to the pelvis, hips, and adductors of the hip…

Ryan Moschell, Gabriel Posner, Farzaneh Jafari, Joan Kauffman, & John Loupos
April 22nd, 2018
The theme for the 2018 Convention’s panel discussion will be “How to Teach Effective Group Classes.”..

Susan Koenig
April 22nd, 2018
Guided Movements…

Andy Schaefer
April 21st, 2018
We will see that the “new” physics of life validates Thomas Hanna’s concept of Somas as self-moving, self-experiencing, and self-regulating Active-matter systems…

Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 21st, 2018
This presentation will feature trends and research in neurophysiology, including somatics and trauma…