Somatics
Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health

In his book Somatics, Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. tackles the medical assumption that pain and degeneration are the inevitable result of the aging process. Not only that, he offers a simple plan to recover lost flexibility, balance, and posture. His exercises, he assures us, will bring us back into connecti......more

Complete honesty: Somatics and Hanna Somatics in particular is one of the most important discoveries of my adult life. I'm 28 now and had incured a series of small muscle pulls in my lower body and then a groin pull (combined with horrible posture and alignment) that eventually threw my whole body i......more

Though I liked his ideas and explanations the book could have done with a little bit less medicine bashing (that got boring quickly). The third of the book that actually deals with the exercises that one can do to improve body awareness was not a clear as it could have been. The exercises were demon......more

The one where it's all in your head. No, not like that. The theme of this book is that over time your nervous system/muscular systems literally forget to do certain things. You keep a set of muscles habitually tightened for so long that your body forgets how to relax them. You sit so much that muscl......more

Ambitious and important, but the message needs to be distilled further. Somatics is all about how to identify and resolve disfunction in your body using breath control, mobility techniques, and an understanding of the central nervous system. This is a critical area of human health that is largely ove......more