Convention
Audio Recordings
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!
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…
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”.
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…
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?..
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…