Somatics: Reawakening The Mind’s Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health
Somatics: Reawakening The Mind’s Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health Books
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A gentle program that reverses or avoids many of the effects associated with aging. Once mastered, the benefit of Somatics–Sensory Motor Awareness–can be maintained by a simple, five-minute routine once a day.
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I returned this book within two days of its buy. A large part of this book deals with the author’s discussion of success tales. It is then followed by a substantive discussion and then a chapter on exercises. The exercises are impossible to know as the author has employed the use of a wooden art class figurine to illustrate poses. The photographs of this wooden develop do not have enough contrast to serve as illustrations and are thus really useless. Buy Yoga, Mind Body Sprit by Donna Fahri for a much better explanation of body mehanics and with higher production values.
Rating: 1 / 5
The principles of Somatics absolutely address all your aches and pains whereby you take control to place yourself back in place by training your muscles. Best if you can locate an instructor for class instruction to enhance the illustrations as well as add new exercises. It is most unfortunate that Thomas Hanna did not continue on earth to realize his contribution for so many.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had severe chronic abdominal pain for the best part of a year. I had to quit my sport (rowing) and it really affected my studies. Truth is I was already beginning to realise that my problem was somatic and had begun to release the abdominal tension just by thought about it. I exposed somatics after that. Personally I have found it an effective approach to releasing tension. It has worked for me but what I want to know is whether it has worked for others?
The thing about this sort of book is that it is likely to attract positive reviews. We only see the successes and the failures are forgotten about thus distorting the reviews. Indeed this is a failure of the book itself. As a practitioner of somatics Hanna must have had people he may possibly not help. What was their situation? How long did he work with them? As such the first part of the book which discusses case studies and its philosophical basis cannot be regarded as scientific. We can learn as much from failure as from success.
The only critical review at the time of writing is aptly to criticise the poor visibility of the skeleton diagrams. Others have criticised its lack of mention of the fact that there are people trained in somatic education. If you choose to take on the program then I advise you to go to someone trained in the movements otherwise you risk doing it incorrect and wasting your time or at most terrible making your problem worse.
Somatics is not an alternative to Pilates or Yoga rather it takes certain aspects of those disciplines and refines them as well as adding some additional thoughts not found in either. Pilates is about core stability, yoga is about… well yoga and somatics is about muscle tension. The book also fails to adequately place itself within context of other correlated disciplines.
Anyway, Somatics is a fantastic discipline. I hope that the next edition works out these criticisms.
Rating: 4 / 5
Small spin-off on the Feldenkrais method. I particularly loved the explanation on the red and green light reflexes. And how traumas cause stored, compensatory tensions in the body.
The lessons were absolutely doable and not too trying to follow. I urge “The Busy Person’s Guide to Simpler Movement” for much more comprehensive Feldenkrais exercises.
The problem is that the author has it out for modern medicine. And seems to go too far fetched with the thought that aging doesn’t have to happen. He should’ve emphasized that with better use of self, aging potentially can be only a fraction of how limiting it is. It’s not that a person doesn’t age and weaken at all.
Rating: 4 / 5
The methods used in this book have been very helpful for me to relieve a lot of the pain and discomfort I have in my legs. What I found out is that many of us have muscles that we have given over to automation by our bodies, much like the way your heart beats without you controlling it. The heart is calculated to work this way, but most of the muscles in our bodies are meant to be directly controlled by us. The problem is that when we, for example, sit in a chair for many hours, some of our muscles will flex for so long in that position that they do not fully relax when we stand up. This can cause many problems, such as sore muscles, terrible posture, aches and pains, etc.
This book has a run of exercises calculated to help us regain conscious control over our muscles. I have had fantastic consequences so far. It does require some quantity of focus to become aware of which muscles you may be flexing unconsciously, but the consequences are really impressive:)
I reckon nearly anyone may possibly benefit to some degree from this book. Even if you don’t have pain or discomfort, these exercises may possibly preclude these problems from arising in the future.
Rating: 5 / 5