Convention
Audio Recordings
Language, Pain, & Neurophysiology
Eleanor Criswell Hanna & Peter Behel
April 26th, 2019
This workshop will focus on facilitating positive interactions with clients, keeping pain-related communication complexities in mind, and furthering the recovery process through effective practitioner communication…
Discover Your GLOW
Tammie Lyn Martin
April 26th, 2019
GLOW mindset—A frame of reference to examine what brings shine to your being through nurturing self-care and the quality of your thoughts through mindfulness…
Less Can Be So Much More
Ken Bridgeman
April 22nd, 2018
In this presentation, I will share some of those simple movements that I found to be effective for enhancing ease of movement and a greater inner awareness throughout my soma…
Pandiculating the Psoas and Iliacus
Susan Koenig
April 22nd, 2018
In my experience, helping people to release their psoas and iliacus, brings pain and tension relief, not only to the low back, but also to the pelvis, hips, and adductors of the hip…
How to Teach Effective Hanna Somatics Classes
Ryan Moschell, Gabriel Posner, Farzaneh Jafari, Joan Kauffman, & John Loupos
April 22nd, 2018
The theme for the 2018 Convention’s panel discussion will be “How to Teach Effective Group Classes.”..
Somas and the New Physics of Life
Andy Schaefer
April 21st, 2018
We will see that the “new” physics of life validates Thomas Hanna’s concept of Somas as self-moving, self-experiencing, and self-regulating Active-matter systems…
The Neurophysiology of Somatics and Trauma
Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 21st, 2018
This presentation will feature trends and research in neurophysiology, including somatics and trauma…
Core and Hip/Pelvis Muscle Relationships
Bill Keele
April 20th, 2018
The muscles of the core and hips/pelvis are part of a complex area of the body and can play multiple roles with respect to functionality, posture, and walking…
Teaching Spontaneous Somatics Classes
Bill Keele
April 20th, 2018
In this session, I will demonstrate how I teach Somatics classes using information gathered from students at the beginning of the class. ..
Demystify Your Core
Kelli Peacock
April 23rd, 2017
This session is about discovering our true core strength, as well as gentleness in core and full body somatic movement…
Realize a Deeper, more Subtle Experience of Pandiculation
Phil Shenk
April 23rd, 2017
During these somatic exercises you will be guided to experience pandiculation—especially—from a fresh, nuanced perspective that will enable you and those you work with to derive additional benefit and insight with less effort and a deeper understanding…
Maximizing Social Media
Panel Discussion
April 23rd, 2017
In this interactive panel discussion, we will hear from four of our practitioners as they discuss their philosophies, approaches, successes and challenges in promoting their Hanna Somatic Education practices…
A Neurophysiology Update
Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 23rd, 2017
This presentation will feature trends in neuro hacking, consciousness hacking, brain hacking, wearables, and the role of HSE in brain hacking…
The Effectiveness of Communicating with Bone!
Suresha Hill
April 21st, 2017
Suresha will demonstrate how palpating, monitoring, consciously connecting, decompressing, and mobilizing bones can assist in the overall enhanced fl ow of information and integration of the soma…
My Top 3 Client Complaints
Bogusia Badon
April 22nd, 2017
Bogusia will be discussing the three most challenging, common complaints that her clients come to her physical therapy practice with—gait and balance issues, shoulder conditions including impingement and capsulitis, and temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction with associated pathologic postural patterns…
A New Look at The Dark Vise
Gabriel Posner
April 21st, 2017
We have specific protocols for unwinding the effects of the Green Light, Red Light, and Trauma Reflex. The Dark Vise, however, presents in ways that defy the protocols…
The Zillion Points of Contact
John Loupos
April 24th, 2016
The Zillion Points of Contact utilizes thirty, more or less, of the body’s natural boney prominences, along with their associated muscular attachments, to help you stand straighter and taller and move more intelligently with enhanced somatic awareness…
Pandiculating all Muscles of the Back
Susan Koenig
April 24th, 2016
She’s going to be demonstrating how to work with a client supine and release muscles of the back…