Thomas Hanna gave the discipline the name Somatics. A more broad term would be body work.
Apart from that both buybuydandavis have years of experience with partner dancing and how most dancing instructors are’t that great.
Unfortunately somatics never really succeeded in establishing itself as a socially respected field. Thomas Hanna died early in a car crash. Dying in a car crash is quite ironic for a guy who thought he solved half of the problem of aging.
Nuclear physics has the advantage that it can have formal definition and if you don’t understand something at least you know where the terms is defined and how you could make up for your lack of understanding if you put in enough effort.
Somatics at the moment doesn’t have that property. Words like “move in the upwards direction” might seem familiar on first glance but the point to a deeper concept.
You also have a different people who try to make up their own vocabulary and no unified field.
Related fields are fascia and kinesiology. Both of them have textbooks published by academic publishers.
The field of fascia is interesting because it seems to be making progress.
Anatomy Trains with is a Fascia book for example tells me that oxytocin makes fascia contract. Fascia contraction does have an effect on posture. When it comes to the permanent bad body posture of depressives that’s locked into fascia.
At present those are isolated facts, but I think there hope that research will connect them together.
Thomas Hanna gave the discipline the name Somatics. A more broad term would be body work.
Apart from that both buybuydandavis have years of experience with partner dancing and how most dancing instructors are’t that great.
Unfortunately somatics never really succeeded in establishing itself as a socially respected field. Thomas Hanna died early in a car crash. Dying in a car crash is quite ironic for a guy who thought he solved half of the problem of aging.
Nuclear physics has the advantage that it can have formal definition and if you don’t understand something at least you know where the terms is defined and how you could make up for your lack of understanding if you put in enough effort.
Somatics at the moment doesn’t have that property. Words like “move in the upwards direction” might seem familiar on first glance but the point to a deeper concept. You also have a different people who try to make up their own vocabulary and no unified field.
Related fields are fascia and kinesiology. Both of them have textbooks published by academic publishers. The field of fascia is interesting because it seems to be making progress.
Anatomy Trains with is a Fascia book for example tells me that oxytocin makes fascia contract. Fascia contraction does have an effect on posture. When it comes to the permanent bad body posture of depressives that’s locked into fascia. At present those are isolated facts, but I think there hope that research will connect them together.