In Pain? Feeling Tired and Depressed? 

Look no further because we have the solution that provides lasting relief. Somatics is here to eliminate your pain and make movement easy again. 

Say goodbye to your suffering 

with a faster way out of pain 

and experience relief that lasts.

1. "Muscle/movement-memory" runs the show. It's the basis of muscular control. Stretching temporarily disrupts muscle/movement memory but doesn't correct it. Stretching doesn't put you together; it takes you apart. To put yourself together, develop the muscle memory of good movement; it's more direct -- and it lasts. There are faster and slower, easier and more difficult ways to retrain muscle/movement memory.  This is the faster, easier way.

2.  Tension causes pain. Stretching is different from relaxation;  soon after stretching, tension returns. With natural relaxation we stay relaxed until we decide to move.  Retrain muscle/movement memory and relaxation lasts. Pain stays gone.

~ A Faster Way Out of Pain ~

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a L.E.A.R.N. Advantage Approach

Our approach to pain relief goes beyond traditional therapies. While other methods focus on muscles, joints, and tendons, we understand that the key lies in changing the brain conditioning that keeps muscles tight, restricts movement, compresses joints, and traps nerves. To experience complete relief, you need a different approach.

Welcome to Clinical Somatic Education (Hanna Somatic Education®),  a completely different form of relief that surpasses all others in speed and effectiveness. This method guarantees long-lasting results, and I stand by it with a money-back guarantee. You'll be amazed at how quickly and comfortably you can return to your normal activities.

For now, let me clarify:  This approach addresses pain related to movement  -- usually from injuries, repetitive movements, sometimes from stress, alone -- not from cancer, an autoimmune or genetic disorder, or a disease entity.

CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION

Prepare yourself for the unique somatic education experience.   

Clinical Somatic Education involves learning through movement — the type of learning similar to when you first walked, rode a bicycle, or played a sport -- only much faster. This accelerated movement learning, combined with the ability to sense and control movement, position, and muscular tension accurately, yields faster and more complete results compared to therapy.

Our approach to pain relief goes beyond traditional therapies. While other methods focus on muscles, joints, and tendons, we understand that the key lies in changing the brain conditioning that keeps muscles tight, restricts movement, compresses joints, and traps nerves. To experience complete relief, you need a different approach.

Welcome to Clinical Somatic Education (Hanna Somatic Education ^® ), a completely different form of relief that surpasses all others in speed and effectiveness. This method guarantees long-lasting results, and I stand by it with a money-back guarantee. You'll be amazed at how quickly and comfortably you can return to your normal activities.

For now, let me clarify:  This approach addresses pain related to movement  -- usually from injuries, repetitive movements, sometimes from stress, alone -- not from cancer, an autoimmune or genetic disorder, or a disease entity. 

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CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION

Prepare yourself for the unique somatic education experience.  

While the term "education" may evoke thoughts of slow progress, our approach is the opposite -- rapid progress.

Clinical Somatic Education involves learning through movement — like learning to walk, ride a bicycle, or play a sport -- only much faster and easier learning.  This accelerated movement learning yields faster, more thorough, and more durable results than therapy.

Adhesive Capsulitis

Arthritis: see Osteoarthritis

Back Pain

Balance problems

Bursitis - See Pain, Chronic

Constipation, chronic

Dislocations, frequent: 

  see Hypermobility, below

Displaced Patella

Dizziness

Foot Pain/Tired Feet

Frozen Shoulder

Groin Pain

Hamstrings, tight

Headaches

• migraines
• tension headaches
• sinus headaches

Hip Pain

Hypermobility

Insomnia

Joint Pain

Knee Pain

Muscle Pain

Neck Pain

Osteoarthritis

Overweight and In Pain

Pain, Chronic

Pain, Migrating

Psoas Muscle Pain

Plantar Fascitis (Foot Pain)

Sacro-iliac pain

Sciatica

Scoliosis

Shoulders, tight/painful

Tendinitis/Tendonitis

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS)

TMD/TMJ Syndrome

Uneven Leg Length

Whiplash-related Neck Pain

Therapy generally involves external manipulation of joints and soft tissues (e.g., muscles) by strengthening, stretching, drugs, "energy work", electrical stimulation, ultrasound, or surgery. That approach is akin to looking for the problem in your computer's hardware, when it's a software problem.

Unlike traditional therapies that rely on external manipulation, drugs, or surgery, Clinical Somatic Education addresses the root cause of pain—the brain's movement memory or "muscle memory." Injuries and stress alter this movement memory, leading to tightened muscles, compressed joints, pinched nerves, and associated pain or numbness.  Clinical Somatic Education reverses these effects. 

 We will provide detailed explanations to ensure you have a clear understanding.

More, below.

Let's delve into the history and applications of our research.

For over a century, pioneers like F.M. Alexander, M. Feldenkrais, H. Selye, A.F. Frazier, T. Hanna, and others have made significant advancements in mind-brain-body development, focusing on recovering from stress and trauma. 

Through harnessing the brain's neuro-plasticity and capacity for learning, somatics has achieved breakthroughs in pain relief, movement rehabilitation, athletic training, and countering the effects of aging.

HOW MOVEMENT MEMORY GETS ALTERED

Wondering how movement memory gets altered -- and corrected? When we experience pain from an injury, our instinctive response is to cringe and protect the injured area.  Persistent pain leads to persistent guarding and cringing -- which becomes an involuntary habit. Tension habits  are like bugs in your brain's movement software and are the root cause of your pain; they cause symptoms that can last for decades -- or that may mysteriously appear decades after the injury. 

That's how people's movement changes and chronic pain appears.

HOW MOVEMENT MEMORY GETS CORRECTED

Thankfully, there is a solution.  Hanna Somatic Education has modified the yawning instinct into a clinical technique called "Assisted Pandiculation." (VIDEO, BELOW).  

Assisted Pandiculation transforms painful tension habits into free and easy movement. Muscles relax without stretching; joints decompress without manipulation; trapped nerves are released without surgery.  Guarding over, the relief lasts.

What to Expect

Now, let's discuss what you should rightfully expect from clinical somatic education.  This approach: 

• fast-tracks your journey to pain relief that lasts 
• guides you step-by-step through healing chronic injuries that have persisted despite therapy
• reduces or eliminates the need for pain medications
• restores energy drained due to pain 
• improves balance, mobility and physical comfort (even in the aged)
• enables you to confidently resume your daily activities without the fear of injury

The Basic Difference Between Pain Management and Clinical Somatic Education

It's essential to understand the fundamental difference between pain management and clinical somatic education. Pain management focuses on suppressing pain without correcting the underlying cause.  By contrast, clinical somatic education eliminates the underlying cause of pain at the brain level, providing an enduring solution that lets you live your life as you did before injury.

SOMATICS covers a wide range of conditions, including ...

Clinical somatic education is a high-touch, low-tech advancement in pain relief that guarantees comfort during sessions and rapid improvements in your well-being.  

It involves assisted relearning of muscular control that frees you from the grip of pain. As muscles relax, comfort and freedom of movement return. These are reliable results.  I guarantee them.

WHO CAN BENEFIT?

Our method is preferred by individuals who are ready to actively engage in their healing process and are seeking an alternative to conventional medical approaches. If you've lost faith or patience with the medical system or if you're a healthcare practitioner searching for more effective modalities, clinical somatic education is for you.

The process is well-defined and tailored to your needs. Our approach is particularly beneficial for chronic injuries and stress-related conditions, such as headaches.

By actively participating in the somatic education process, you'll relearn muscular control that liberates you from the grip of pain -- with  tangible improvements at every step. 

Typically, five-to-ten clinical sessions, spaced about once a week, are sufficient. If you prefer a self-relief program, progress may be more gradual but still distinct. 

Muscles will relax, and comfort will be restored, often surpassing your pre-injury state.

If you've been struggling with pain and have tried numerous treatments without satisfactory results, clinical somatic education holds the potential to transform your life. Our results are reliable, and we back them up with our guarantee.

Don't resign yourself to a lifetime of suffering—take control of your healing journey with our proven approach.

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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it,

nor in traditions because they are old and have been handed down from generation to generation and in many locations,

nor in rumor because it has been spoken by many,

nor in ones own fancies, thinking that it is such an extraordinary thought, it must have been inspired by God or a higher power,

nor in inferences drawn from some haphazard assumption made by us,

nor in what seems to be of necessity by analogy,

nor in anything merely because it is based on the authority of our teachers, masters, and elders.

However, after thorough investigation, observation, analysis and reflection, when you find that anything agrees with reason and your experience, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, and of the world at large; accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it; and live up to it.

~~ Gautama Siddhartha Shakyamuni

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Injuries and Pain Reflexes | to articles

Injuries, shocks, and pain trigger changes to postural reflexes that rob us of muscular control and cause pain and stiffness to linger long after the injury has healed; we tighten up; we lose the ability to relax tight muscles and to move freely in certain ways.

People commonly confuse the resulting pain with the pain of the original injury, but it's from the aftermath of injury: changes of muscular activity (habituated cringe response).

Without retraining, people commonly stay that way indefinitely.  You know: "He was never the same, after that." Many people have had that experience; just watch how people move in public places and notice how many people stand and move in ungainly ways often mistaken for the effects of ageing.

What's been lacking in most therapeutic approaches is a way to handle the habituated cringe response and the muscle tension and pain they cause. Their best offering is stretching.

A Promise | to conditions helped

Rapid, reliable, and enduring pain relief with full recovery of function is the promise made good, here.

Many people who have unsuccessfully undergone physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy and various forms of bodywork, osteopathy, neurosurgery, et al., have found clinical somatic education to be a successful last resort with relief of pain and recovery of free movement for more than nine out of ten people.

Even if you've had a problem for a long time, time is not a factor. You can have your life back -- in recreation and athletics, at work, at home and in the bedroom -- in short, in any situation where you need free and easy movement to exercise, lift and carry a heavy box, get into a car, sleep comfortably, or move comfortably from position to position.

The Result | to more description of results

The key to recovery is your recapturing control of muscles tightened by reflexes triggered by injury or nervous tension. The tension eases, pain fades, and you feel immediate changes in your ease of movement. You feel different -- and more like yourself -- or (more often) end up better than you were, before injury. You gain your independence from therapy, therapists -- and from the clinical somatic educator you've worked with!

The Proof of The Pudding 

CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION

"Somatic" (from the ancient Greek word, "soma": "the whole living, aware, bodily person") means, "pertaining to the body experienced and controlled from within." "Education" means "the developing of your natural faculties." The improvements come from the inside, out.

• An Easy "Read" -- How Somatic Education Simplifies Complicated Conditions
• Click for "YOUR STORY, MY STORY, EVERYONE'S STORY" -- HOW and WHY people in pain get stuck in therapy -- it's commonly the same error of therapeutic approach.

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Since you're searching for pain relief, I'm assuming that, if you've had therapy, you need more relief -- and if you haven't had therapy, you need more information.

You may believe that if the pain is intense or persistent, that your case is especially difficult. Not necessarily.

INJURY and STRESS-RELATED CONDITIONS HELPED

Therapy generally involves external manipulation of joints and soft tissues (e.g., muscles) by strengthening, stretching, drugs, "energy work", electrical stimulation, ultrasound, or surgery. That approach is akin to looking for the problem in your computer's hardware, when it's a software problem.

Unlike traditional therapies that rely on external manipulation, drugs, or surgery, Clinical Somatic Education addresses the root cause of pain—the brain's movement memory or "muscle memory." Injuries and stress alter this movement memory, leading to tightened muscles, compressed joints, pinched nerves, and associated pain or numbness.  Clinical Somatic Education reverses these effects. 

Now, let's clarify the kind of pain we address. Clinical Somatic Education focuses on pain associated with movement and position, typically stemming from injuries or stress.  We will provide detailed explanations to ensure you have a clear understanding.

More, below.

HOW MOVEMENT MEMORY GETS ALTERED

In the pain of injury, we cringe automatically to pull the injured place out of danger. A memory automatically forms of the injury and of the cringe reaction. A tension habit develops suddenly and symptoms develop that may persist for decades and commonly do -- or they may emerge years later. Tension habits are "bugs" in your movement and sensing brain-software. They cause the symptoms.

That's how people's movement changes and chronic pain appears.

HOW MOVEMENT MEMORY GETS CORRECTED

Every one of us does a movement action that makes us feel more comfortable: yawn and stretch. Clinical Somatic Education has developed the yawning action into a technique that rapidly stops the cringe-reaction of injury, causes muscles to relax, joints to decompress, nerves to come free. In place of stretching, we use an action called, "pandiculation".

WHO CAN BENEFIT?

The Result | to more description of results

The key to recovery is your recapturing control of muscles tightened by reflexes triggered by injury or nervous tension. The tension eases, pain fades, and you feel immediate changes in your ease of movement. You feel different -- and more like yourself -- or (more often) end up better than you were, before injury. You gain your independence from therapy, therapists -- and from the clinical somatic educator you've worked with!

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