Clinical Somatics
In his groundbreaking book, Thomas Hanna defined soma as: “the body experienced from within, emphasizing the mind-body connection and the body as a living, self-aware process.” In other words, somatics is the study of how humans experience their bodies from within. This is a more nuanced take than I understood a few years ago, when I thought, like most people do, that our bodies are external objects moving through space, and that somatic simply meant “of the body.”
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Clinical Somatics Q&A
When I find something that works, I am not shy about it. That’s why I’ve been shouting from the rooftops about Sarah Warren and her work bringing Thomas Hanna’s clinical somatics to the wider world via through her book and online courses. In this Q&AI get the chance to ask Sarah the questions I’ve had since first starting my clinical somatics practice.
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Somatic Meditation
In both traditional and somatic mediation, you are building your awareness of the present moment, creating space between you and your thoughts, and grounding your body in the present moment (e.g. “Notice the ground underneath your feet, the cushion underneath you”). In somatic meditation, however, you are also…