Somatic Movement Education (SME)
A path back to your centre.
Embodiment.
noun /ɪmˈbɒdim(ə)nt/
Inhabiting one’s physical body and experiencing the world through the senses. Recognition that human thoughts, emotions, and consciousness are heavily rooted in our physical biology rather than just happening in the brain.
The method: Hanna Somatics
Somatic Education is defined as a field of knowledge based on the philosopher Dr. Thomas Hanna’s use of the term “Somatics” in 1970 to describe body-based practices grounded in the individual’s self-perception and that bring about changes in the person through that conscious awareness of oneself.
It is a process of learning through lived experience. It invites attention to the body as a source of perception, intelligence, and discovery. Through movement, sensation, and awareness, it offers ways to refine how we inhabit ourselves and engage with the world.
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Somatics offers a way to reconnect with your body's capacity for sensing, adapting, and self-regulating. By exploring slow, conscious movement, you can rediscover options where there once seemed to be limitation, bringing more freedom, efficiency, and awareness to everyday actions as well as to the physical practice.
I like to see it as a discovery of a different way to inhabit your body, of perceiving yourself, and of perceiving your environment. In a way, it is an awakening to how we perceive our bodies and the world around us.
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A session is a guided process of re-educating how you move and perceive your own body. It is typically slow, attentive, and exploratory.
You will be guided into simple, slow movements—often lying on a mat—while attention is directed toward specific areas of muscular tension and coordination. You will dive in your body through gentle, controlled contractions and releases that help interrupt habitual patterns of holding.
Over the course of a session, many people experience increased mobility, a reduction in tension, and a clearer perception of how their body. The work is subtle, and its effects often continue unfolding after the session, as new patterns are integrated into everyday movement.
Working with awareness rather than force:
This is an approach that invites us to look at the same point through another angle.
As we work through force, it might reinforce the patterns that create tension in our body. When effort is increased, the nervous system tends to recruit more muscular contraction, especially in already overactive areas. This can temporarily produce change, but it rarely addresses the underlying coordination that generates the pattern.
Through awareness and slowness, we can dive in a different pathway. By bringing attention to sensation and movement, the nervous system becomes more responsive and adaptable. This makes it possible to notice habitual holding, and to reorganize movement from within.
In Hanna Somatics, we learn to refine perception. We learn to reduce unnecessary tension that takes space from breathing. The result is often more efficient movement, greater ease, a more grounded and present living, and changes that are here to stay.
It’s an education method. We teach the body to stay present.
“Through our movements and the actions we undertake in our environment, we endow the world we inhabit with a personal point of view.
The world we inhabit, the meaning we assign to it, and the way it shapes us all depend on how we navigate it.”
— M. A. Gálvez
Info & Fees
Private Session
An individual Hanna Somatics session tailored to your specific needs, movement patterns, and current experience.
Together, we identify what is most relevant for you and shape the session accordingly, supporting greater awareness, ease, and choice in movement.
75 mins | €85 excl. VAT
Group Session
Group Hanna Somatics sessions offer a shared space to explore movement, awareness, and embodied learning. While working together as a group, each participant is invited to approach the practice according to their own needs and experience.
For information about my schedule, please contact me.
Pricing: upon consultation
Corporate Events
Give your team a moment to pause and reset. Hanna Somatics will support the release of tension in the neck and shoulders, ease lower-back stiffness, and bring greater awareness and ease to the body.
Sessions are tailored to the group and the needs of your team.
Pricing: upon consultation
“The prime requisite for being free is to have the internal power and the internal skills, judgment, perception, and intelligence in order to be autonomous, because freedom is essentially self-responsibility and independence.”
— Thomas Hanna
Hanna Somatics: a practice of Embodied Inquiry
By bringing attention to sensation and movement, it creates space to notice patterns that have become automatic and to explore alternatives with curiosity rather than force. Rather than striving for an ideal posture or fixing the body, the practice invites you to refine your capacity to perceive, adapt, and respond.
Every body carries its own history, shaped by experience, habits, and the demands of daily life. For this reason, there is no single way of moving or learning. Sessions are guided with care and respect for individual pace, supporting a process in which awareness becomes the foundation for change. Through this exploration, many people experience not only greater ease and coordination, but also a deeper sense of connection, presence, and trust in their own embodied experience.