To begin, let's say that an essential understanding of the psoas muscles means a basic understanding of their function. Basic, in this sense, means easy to understand, and function, in this sense, means more than what they do; it means what they enable you to do. So, this piece presents a ... Views: 7260
4.333335
Your rating: NoneAverage: 4.3(3 votes)
Words on Fitness Walking - by Lawrence Gold, certified Hanna somatic educator | somatics.com/gold.htm
Fitness walking is the most accessible exercise for people of all ages. However, as people age, general physical problems tend to crop up - pain, stiffness, joint degeneration and loss of balance. This article undertakes to address those issues and to suggest how people might deal with (correct, ... Views: 3544
This article explains how somatic exercises make back pain vanish and why they are probably the fastest, most lasting way to end most back pain. They work not by suppressing symptoms, but by clearing up their underlying cause and the cause underlying that, so that no further damage occurs to ... Views: 2644
What happens in nearly everybody that leads to chronic pain and stiffness as they age? It's not what you think.
People experience the chronic pains, stiffness and loss of freedom of movement attributed to aging as early as their thirties. According to popular opinion and medical science, that ... Views: 2284
In contemporary medical practice and in the public mind, there exists a kind of "looseness" between the correctness of a diagnosis and the efficacy of treatment. A diagnosis is sometimes held (by the patient) to be correct or understood by medical science even in the absence of results from ... Views: 1982
Popular beliefs about aging confuse the effects of genes with those of stress and injury. As a result, people associate pains and stiffness directly with aging, and so believe them to be inevitable.
“The thousand natural shocks flesh is heir to” leave their mark in memory. Memory ... Views: 1545
If you've been doing somatic education for any period of time - or any form of education for that matter -- you've observed periods when your clients (or students) appear to have lost comprehension of your instructions. In fact, there have probably been periods either during sessions or during ... Views: 1434
Most therapeutic exercises used to treat lingering pain from postural stress fall into one of two classes.
* strengthening exercises
* stretching exercises
Another, new class exists, however:
* somatic exercises
Somatic exercises improve awareness of movement, control of ... Views: 1426