Convention
Audio Recordings
Panel Discussion on Bessel van der Kolk’s Book “The Body Keeps the Score”
Education Committee
April 24th, 2016
Van der Kolk doesn’t know about HSE or have our understanding of SMA. But we do! And we’ve planned a special interactive panel discussion to bring this important topic to the surface for all of us, including plenty of audience participation.
Forefoot Strike Workshop
Dr. Jim Kao
April 23rd, 2016
Research has found that runners and walkers who utilize a forefoot-striking pattern of motion significantly reduce lower extremity joint loading when compared to runners and walkers who utilize a heel-striking pattern of locomotion…
Somatic Solutions for Lower Spine, Groin and Pelvis
Laura M. Gates
April 23rd, 2016
This workshop offers hands-on and self-care techniques for the lower torso, hip joint area…
The Efficacy of Sensing Bone
Suresha Hill
April 22nd, 2016
This workshop will include the fundamental principles that apply to locating and releasing inter- and intra-osseous forces that lead a path up the system creating restriction, torque, congestion, and other symptoms of sensory-motor amnesia…
Core to the Floor
Laura M. Gates
April 21st, 2016
“Core to the Floor” addresses the torso, legs and feet, and offers somatic solutions to pain, stiffness, and improved mobility, balance…
Catch the “New Wave” of Popular Body Movement Classes
James Knight
April 21st, 2016
Experience the unique brain-to-muscle re-education that combines traditional yoga postures, Hanna Somatic Education, Core Energetic exercises, breathing techniques, and healing visualizations…
Creative Cat Routine Incorporating Walking
Susan Koenig
April 26th, 2015
Don’t let your Daily Cat Routine get stale. Bring new curiosity and creativity to your daily movements by combining Red Light, Green Light, and Trauma movements together…
Making the Most of Hip Replacement Surgery and Rehab
Ken Bridgeman
April 26th, 2015
This kind of pre-surgical preparation will certainly empower your client and help them to make a much more rapid and successful recovery…
Coaching the Arch/Release and Arch/Curl with Hands-on Feedback
Richard Eshelman
April 26th, 2015
We will coach the client to learn how to differentiate the Arch and Release from the Arch and Curl, especially differentiating the release of the back muscles before curling…
25th Anniversary of Historic Wave 1 Training Program
Wave 1 Graduates
April 26th, 2015
This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the legendary Wave 1 HSE Training and we are planning a grand celebration of Thomas’ spirit and his tremendous offering to the world and to overall human health!
The Dynamics of Tension
Erik Peper
April 25th, 2015
This three-hour program will offer a wealth of research, ideas and demos to help you come to a new understanding of muscle tension and how to help your clients…
Qigong - Breathwork Session
Sifu John Loupos
April 25th, 2015
In this presentation, John will teach a simple, but effective, method that can be practiced sitting, standing or lying down. The method covered will offer direct health and wellness benefits to convention attendees and link seamlessly with our HSE theory and practice…
Reichian Therapy
Kelli Peacock
April 25th, 2015
When memories and feelings are suppressed, they lie dormant but intact in the form of “frozen impulses to action” in the muscles; and the totality of these chronic muscle spasms constitutes a system of muscular armoring…
Experience the Power of Mind Body Studies
Leora Gaster
April 24th, 2015
In developing knowledge of how to know yourself and how your thoughts and actions are connected, improvement in widespread walks of life and in self-fulfillment are optimized…
Somatic Walking With a Focus on the Practitioner
Susan Koenig & Bill Keele
April 23rd, 2015
This workshop is geared toward the practitioner and/or student of a movement-oriented discipline who wants to advance personally, as well as help clients and students understand and achieve optimal patterns of dynamic walking…
Moving Around and Beyond Pain
Gabriel Posner
April 27th, 2014
When we are guiding a person through a movement, one of the inhibiting factors is their conscious or often unconscious memory of certain movements being once painful…
SPIFFER: THE Secret Decoder Ring
Larry Goldfarb
April 26th, 2014
The model Larry created, SPIFFER, has proven to be so useful for unlocking the mysteries of the Feldenkrais Method and making its magic learnable, that it has become the foundation for Larry's teacher trainings and post-graduate programs…
Neurological Updates and Review
Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 25th, 2014
Neurological updates and review of important issues and concepts relating to Hanna Somatic Education…
Proprioceptive Releases
Jim Berns
April 24th, 2014
By bringing awareness through the proprioceptors, we learn to listen, observe, and palpate the body to give it an experience of what it is doing…