Pain Free Back, Legs & Hips Workshop

Are you starting to feel the effects of the demands in life? Always on the go and taking action? Do you struggle to lean forward to tie your shoe laces? Suffer conditions like lower back pain, sciatica, jaw pain, *herniated discs?

Everything that occurs in the centre of the body, starts to affect the periphery. The brain learns through repetition. So when you repeatedly hold our body in particular way, this is what the brain senses as the 'new' normal.

This course will teach you the basics on how to reverse habituated holding patterns in the body by 'reminding' the brain how to let go of tight muscles.

With continued practice, you can diminish or eliminate your chronic muscle pain

*consult with your doctor before registering for this course

Hanna Somatics is one form of movement re-education. It improves the sensory motor system so your brain changes the way it senses and moves your body.

The word Somatic means what it feels like to be in your body. Soma, which is a word that founder Thomas Hanna refers to frequently, is the body as experienced from within.

All that we experience in life, whether it’s mental, emotional, physical, is experienced as feedback. That feedback travels to the brain which responds with a motor message, or instinctive ‘reflex’ pattern by contracting muscles in a specific way. When repeated long enough, days, months or a lifetime - it becomes habituated and we get stuck in that contractive pattern that causes pain.

Whether it be the result of accidents, injuries and surgeries, holding babies on hips, or even because of the demands of 21st century life (constantly on the go, extended periods slumped at a computer) we get stuck. Your brain has changed the way it senses and moves your body. You actually lose your ability to move freely.

Somatics gets your brain back in 'voluntary' control of those muscles, and with repeated practice, learns a new way of moving - without pain!

Only you know what it feels like to be you. Only you can fix your problem at the level of the brain.

You will learn:

• Why tension and pain develop in your body
• How to get your brain back in control of the muscles
• 3 easy steps to release muscle tension
• Slow & gentle movements you can access anytime - for the rest of your life!

Jo Bentley is a Registered Hatha Yoga Teacher and has studied L1 & L2 Somatic Exercise Coach under the tutelage of Martha Peterson, Essential Somatics. Jo draws on a wealth of life experience and intuition to influence her teachings. She continues to study with her teacher and mentor from U.S.A. and looks forward to sharing more courses and workshops throughout Australia.

Due to the nature of this work, places in the course are strictly limited.

*It is a requirement of this course, that students have the ability to get up and down from the floor to practice on a mat.

**Admittance into the workshop is for the person named on the ticket only. Multiple workshop ticket sharing is not available, and tickets are not transferrable. Any refund requests are to be emailed directly to the organiser for consideration before 72 hours of course commencement. Booking fees are not refundable
No exchange or refunds if cancelling less than 72hrs of event..

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