Teaching Spontaneous Somatics Classes

Around Student Interests

Bill Keele 4-20-2018

In this session, I will demonstrate how I teach Somatics classes using information gathered from students at the beginning of the class. For example, students might be experiencing specific pains or tightness in certain regions of the body and wish to loosen the area and learn how to work more consciously and intelligently in that area. Other students may have questions about movements, anatomy, principles guiding Somatics movements, and so on. I often solicit this kind of information from students and then organize my class around their expressed interests. After the example class, there will be a short discussion time to address any questions about this very interesting way to organize a class.

Bill Keele, CHSE, studied therapeutic movement in the tradition of Viniyoga in 1999, and gained his certification as a Viniyoga teacher. In 1999, Cynthia Lindway, an early Somatics graduate, introduced him to Hanna Somatics. Bill completed the Hanna Somatics Training Program at the Novato Institute, graduating in 2003 in Wave 6. Subsequently, Bill taught Biomechanics and Postural Analysis, studied Ortho-Bionomy and Muscle Energy Technique, and gained certification in Mat Pilates. In 2006, he attended Makawao School of Therapeutic Massage and was licensed in the State of Hawaii. In 2010, Bill completed a six-month study in the field of Structural Applied Kinesiology taught by another past Hanna Somatics graduate, Lorne Fedderson.