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Thomas Hanna, a philosopher and teacher, coined the term somatics back in the 1970s to speak about how we sense our experiences and ourselves. He described somatics as “the study of the self from the perspective of one’s lived experience, encompassing the dimensions of body, psyche, and spirit.” All somatic practices work to help us bring unexamined or unknown parts of ourselves and our experience into conscious awareness through proprioception (knowing where we are in space and time), interoception (knowledge of how we feel inside our bodies), and other forms of inner-directed awareness.

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Resmaa Menakem on Why Healing Racism Begins with the Body

Trauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it.

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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Trauma & the Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness

Before I began my spiritual practice, I lived in a world of vibration and imagination. As a dancer and choreographer from my childhood through my early twenties, I regarded life almost entirely as a dance.

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Judith Blackstone
2020
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Structural Integration: Origins and Development

Structural Integration (SI) is a system of manual therapy and sensorimotor education that purports to improve human biomechanical functioning as a whole rather than to treat particular symptoms.

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Eric Jacobson
2011
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Rosen Method Bodywork: Practice and Science

Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB) practitioners use a unique form of touch and talk to expand a client’s awareness of their present moment felt experience. This article describes the method, its indications and contraindications, and its effects.

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The Rosen Method
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Feldenkrais Method

The Feldenkrais Method is a somatic, or body-oriented, intervention designed to help people reconnect with their bodies and learn ways to move with greater efficiency. It may help a person increase vitality, coordination, and achieve overall improved well-being.

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Good Therapy Content Team
2016
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Rosen Method: Hands That ‘Listen’

Rosen believes there are some experiences and emotions that could not be properly handled at the time a person is confronted with them.

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The Rosen Method
2002
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What Is Rosen?

Rosen Method Bodywork is an original form of somatic approach which addresses physical tension. Its unique form of sensitive touch and verbal communication helps people to become aware of what they are holding – physically and emotionally – in their body.

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The Rosen Method
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Françoise Bourzat: Consciousness Guide, Author, and Entheogenic Explorer

For those psychedelic users who experience post-use “spiritual comedowns”, psychedelic withdrawals, or a general sense of dopamine depletion, what can be done to alleviate these symptoms?

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Niki Perlberg
2020
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Body-Work and Being. The Deeper Significance of Somatics

I suddenly knew that the mechanical reactions of my muscles and guts were my personality; that my soul, in fact, lay there writhing to break out of those rigid bonds. - Don Hanlon Johnson

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Don Hanlon Johnson
1987
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Healing Racialized Trauma Begins with Your Body

Resmaaa connects the healing of your body, mind, and soul with the healing of our country and our world.

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Resmaa Menakem
2020
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