How to Practice Yoga Somatically Get the maximum benefit from the exercises by following these simple steps: 1.Keep your attention on the sensations of movement. Practice with your eyes close to gain internal awareness of your bodies patterns and to begin to change the body on a neurological level. 2.Do your exercises on a firm…
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Our stress affects posture. During the course of our lives our sensory motor systems respond to daily stress and trauma through specific muscular reflexes. These are reflexes which we can’t voluntarily relax. These contractions become unconscious to a point most of us don’t even recognize, nor remember, how to move about freely. Resulting in poor…
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Soma means living body. Somatic yoga therapy changes your body by teaching your brain. The objective of somatic yoga is to release your body from habitually and unconsciously contracted muscles. Somatic yoga is a blend of Hatha and Raja yoga developed by Eleanor Criswell Hanna. Her late husband, Thomas Hanna founded Hanna Somatics in 1990…
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