The Neurophysiology of Somatics and Trauma

Somatic Yoga, Equine and Canine Hanna Somatics

Eleanor Criswell Hanna 4-21-2018

This presentation will feature trends and research in neurophysiology, including somatics and trauma. Much gratitude and appreciation goes to the research of such people as Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, and others for the current explosion of media coverage both to the general public and health care practitioners. We, as Hanna Somatic Educators, can play a very important role in helping our clients mend and recover from traumatic experiences in their lives.

Due to questions and inquiries from Hanna Somatic Educators, I will also present some experiential activities and explanations of “Somatic Yoga” which I conceived and developed, along with a greater understanding of how I apply the principles of HSE in my original work with horses and dogs.

Eleanor Criswell Hanna, Ed.D., is emeritus professor of psychology and former chair of the psychology department, Sonoma State University. Founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute (now Saybrook University, San Francisco), she is editor of Somatics Magazine, the magazine-journal of the mind-body arts and sciences, and director of the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training. Her books include Biofeedback and Somatics: Toward Personal Evolution, How Yoga Works: An Introduction to Somatic Yoga, and she is editor of Cram’s Introduction to Surface Electromyography. She is past president and board member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is also on the board of the Association for Hanna Somatic Education. She is the originator of Somatic Yoga and Equine Hanna Somatics.