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Movement Collage
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Movement Collage

Per Erez, Harris Ferris, Samantha Holland, Samantha Legassie, Renee Lindquist, Jacqui Neurauter & Mary Poxon
April 24th, 2022
Our tradition of the Sunday afternoon movement collage continues by popular request!

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The Face of the Soma
Christine Curran Christine Curran

The Face of the Soma

Carol Kerner
April 24th, 2022
In this presentation, we’ll look in more detail at the functions of the facial muscles and how to release habitual contractions in this area…

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EmbodyVisionTM
Christine Curran Christine Curran

EmbodyVisionTM

Elisa Haransky-Beck
April 24, 2022
Most of the session will be gentle somatic experiencing of whole body patterns that underlie human development and visual development, integrating some of Thomas Hanna’s techniques from the book “Somatics”.

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Teaching Terminology
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Teaching Terminology

Gabriel Posner & Ryan Moschell
April 23rd, 2022
This presentation will explore the relevance of using specific anatomical directions for movements versus using more image-centered movements…

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Exploring Somatics and Meditation
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Exploring Somatics and Meditation

Lee Brewster
April 23rd, 2022
What is the connection, if any, between movement and meditation? Can movement and meditation support and enhance each other? How and why does it matter?..

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Moving through Primitive Origins
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Moving through Primitive Origins

Suresha Hill
April 23rd, 2022
This sensory-awareness/movement session will tap into embryological relationships between the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm…

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Collegiate Powerlifting and HSE
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Collegiate Powerlifting and HSE

Danny Burke
April 23rd, 2022
In this presentation, I will share what I have learned in my four years of experience working with The Louisiana Tech Powerlifting team…

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Polyvagal Theory
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Polyvagal Theory

Brian Siddhartha Ingle
April 23rd, 2022
This presentation focuses on understanding the nervous system according to Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory, its application as a Hanna Somatics educator and in our daily life…

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Annual Meeting
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Annual Meeting

Gabriel Posner
April 28th, 2022
Board members share a lively review of the past year’s activities – decisions and discussions that have served to shape our organization for the coming years…

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Comfort Within My Own Skin
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Comfort Within My Own Skin

Sharon Loveseth
April 22nd, 2022
Many HSE practitioners at one time or another will be working with clients who have experienced Substance Abuse Disorder (SUD). In this presentation, I’ll present some highlights of my experience with these clients, including teaching them HSE within a group setting…

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Neurophysiology
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Neurophysiology

Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 22nd, 2022
This year her presentation will combine several topics, including updating us on the current research and understanding of the brain and nervous system as it responds with coping mechanisms, healing, and recovery from trauma (including Covid), and addictions…

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Clinical Somatics for the Cervical Spine
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Clinical Somatics for the Cervical Spine

Gayatri Schriefer and Brian Siddhartha Ingle
April 22nd, 2022
This workshop will focus on passive clinical Somatics for the neck and cervical spine. The main teaching and strategy will be passive techniques—means-whereby and kinetic mirroring, or to use a term by Yochanan Rywerant, effort substitution…

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Closing -Thomas Hanna Recording
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Closing -Thomas Hanna Recording

John Loupos & Thomas Hanna
April 25th, 2021
Closing of the 2021 Online Convention with a brief recording on Freedom by Thomas Hanna…

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Movement Collage
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Movement Collage

Mary Poxon, Harris Ferris, Nikki Semeniuk, Lee Brewster, and Samantha Legassie.
April 25th, 2021
Back by popular demand, this movement class will be a collage of movements led by several people…

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Upper and Lower Extremity Work
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Upper and Lower Extremity Work

Phil Shenk & Susan Koenig
April 25th, 2021
In this session, we’ll be guiding self pandiculations for the major muscles and joints of both the upper and lower limbs as time permits…

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Horizontal and Vertical Explorations
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Horizontal and Vertical Explorations

Susan Koenig & John Loupos
April 25th, 2021
In this joint presentation, we will focus on improving posture and carriage—how you stand and how you walk…

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Intergenerational Trauma and Somatics
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Intergenerational Trauma and Somatics

Gabriel Posner
April 24th, 2021
While we know that Hanna Somatics can be great for helping people fully resolve injuries they’ve suffered over the course of their life, how effective is it for injuries suffered by their parents and even grandparents?

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Improvising Pandiculations
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Improvising Pandiculations

Bill Kelle
April 24th, 2021
We will assess and palpate, use old reliable pandiculations, and improvise new pandiculations to solve the riddles of this complicated area…

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Making Friends with Your Pelvic Floor
Christine Curran Christine Curran

Making Friends with Your Pelvic Floor

Lori Seymour
April 24th, 2021
This session will use pandiculation and other skills to identify and enliven the specific deep support musculature of the pelvic floor…

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