Hanna Somatic Sessions

What Can You Expect?

The quickest and most effective way for you to experience Hanna Somatic Education is through individual one-to-one sessions with a Hanna Somatic Educator.

Sessions typically last between 60-75 minutes depending on your particular needs. We suggest you wear loose, comfortable non-restrictive clothing for ease of movement.

During the session, your (HSE) practitioner will observe your posture as well as monitor different movement patterns in an initial assessment procedure.

During the hands-on part of the session, your practitioner will be guiding you through slow, safe and gentle movements tailored for your specific needs. Each movement is designed to release and reverse chronically contracted muscle groups, thereby increasing your range of movement and comfort.

Your practitioner will also help to highlight your awareness by using just the right amount of touch or pressure to support or guide you, or by verbally coaching you as you move freely and slowly on your own.

During the session, Hanna Somatic Educators use a special form of neuromuscular (mind-body) education known as “assisted pandiculation”. Pandiculation involves a technique of slowly performed full-body muscular contractions and elongations. This truly unique method helps to quickly reduce pain, relieve tension, relax and lengthen muscles and give you a new found sense of control and freedom of movement.

Our goals for your self-care program

At Somatic Living, our goal is to move you to your own self-care program. You will be given specific Somatic movement exercises that not only continue your improvement, but also help to prevent the recurrence of any problems.

These simple but very powerful exercises also known as the “cat stretch” require very little time for you to perform once or twice daily.

The subtle movements remind your brain how to efficiently use your muscles with the minimum of effort. Only a few repetitions are required using the special first person awareness you explored with your practitioner..

Committing to your program

You will have the option of purchasing a CD designed to meet your specific needs for continuation of your self-care program.

We ask you to commit to three sessions during which you can usually expect to notice a significant improvement in comfort, management of stress levels and freedom of movement if you perform your Somatic exercises daily.