A friend recently spoke of the shift from “hanging on” to “hanging out.” This really struck me. Hanging on feels a bit scary, desperate, tense. The phrase “hanging on for dear life” comes to mind. "Hanging out" has such a…
Clinical Somatics was the way out of chronic pain for me and my passion for sharing this modality led to me training in it. Much later, in the sometimes irritating, sometimes illuminating way that the algorithms work, I was led…
How could I say no to a ceramics invitational curated by Eugene Hön who was head of department at Wits Technikon where I completed my ceramic design diploma in 1995? I've been in a bit of a reclusive space while…
What a fantastic article from the Daily Maverick archives about recent research into the somatosensory cortex of the brain! (click here to read) "Activating the somatosensory cortex may help us connect to our bodies, develop our sensitivity, sensuality and capacity…
...not how we wish it to be! This is the profound lesson of an ongoing mindfulness and self-enquiry practice: to slow down, pay attention and to learn to meet what arises without resistance. Follow an impulse, explore and try…
Thomas Hanna, founder of Clinical Somatic Movement, coined the term Somatics in the 70s. Although from the original Greek, Soma means “of the body”, he used the word to denote more than our bodily selves. He referred to the Soma…
As most of you know, lisa firer design production studio closed down due to covid and took I took a break from making ceramics. I’m beginning to explore how I might be in relationship to clay again, and took up…
I am offering mindfulness-based Somatics sessions. As a trained facilitator of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme (MBSR) developed by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, I soon realised there is such a natural resonance between somatics and mindfulness. People who are drawn to…
At the heart of Clinical Somatics are gentle movements called pandiculations. When you look this word up in the dictionary, it is defined as stretching but this description loses its nuance. Next time you wake up and "stretch" see if…
A client of mine recently commented that if a few years ago she had been a fly against the wall and witnessed a somatics session, she would have wondered what she was seeing, if much at all! If you are…