Daily movement improves overall health. I’ve written before about the importance of daily, vigorous movement for everyone. One doctor cites studies in a compelling video (seen in this blog post) that shows that daily movement is the best prescription doctors could possibly give to us to help us improve our overall health. You don’t need [...]
Archive for January, 2012
How Movement Education Can Prevent Obesity and Improve Learning
Posted in Movement, Play, tagged movement, play on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why It’s Important to Vary Your Movement
Posted in Back pain, Movement, Muscle pain conditions, Sitting, Somatic Exercises on January 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In Somatics class last night I taught the “seated twist,” a wonderful exercise that never ceases to astound the students doing it. In this exercise you learn to increase your range of motion and ability to twist around yourself by doing seemingly random things like moving your head while keeping the body still, or shifting [...]
How Stress Affects Necks, Shoulders and Breathing
Posted in Breathing, Hanna Somatic Education, Shoulder pain on January 17, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The holidays are over, the New Year has begun, and my clients are complaining of neck and shoulder pain. Most of them work 10 hours a day at the computer, commute, care for their families and get in a workout whenever possible. And most of them don’t realize that they don’t know how to breathe [...]
New Pain-Free DVD Series Available Jan. 13!
Posted in Hanna Somatic Education, Muscle pain conditions, sports/fitness training, tagged Hanna Somatic Education, pain relief, Somatic Exercises on January 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Pain Relief DVDs available now! My new “Pain-Free” DVD series is available. For those of you who have pre-paid for the 3 DVD set, I will be shipping those sets out on Friday, January 13. Thanks to all of you for your patience. My website has been updated to reflect the new DVDs as part [...]
Is Yoga Dangerous?
Posted in Back pain, Hanna Somatic Education, Movement, Stretching, yoga, tagged back pain, Hanna Somatic Education, movement, pandiculation on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s New York Times article about “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” by William J. Broad. Broads covers yoga injuries and how yoga teachers themselves suffer from muscle and joint pain. I’ve worked with quite a few yoga students and teachers after they “over did it” in class. Yoga can be a very “somatic” discipline [...]
Compression Fractures, Back Pain and How to Get Pain Relief
Posted in Back pain, Hanna Somatic Education, Muscle pain conditions, tagged back pain, Hanna Somatic Education, pain relief on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I just received this testimonial from a client who came to see me from upstate New York. He learned how compensation to a severe injury had caused muscular pain, and how to begin to reverse it. He is now doing a daily routine of Somatic Exercises to keep the muscles of his back, waist and [...]
