Where Comfort Hides
“The ultimate benefit of the Somatic Exercises may likely be found in their application to the physical education of young people. I am convinced that a program of early training in personal sensory awareness and motor control would cause, within the span of one generation, a reversal of the major public health problems – cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mental illness.”
-Thomas Hanna
Somatics: Reawakening the Mind’s Control
of Movement, Flexibility, and Health
Where Comfort Hides will guide you to the important understanding that while stress is blamed for many conditions and diseases, it is our loss of sensory awareness that makes us so vulnerable to stress. Our bodies are naturally self-sensing, self-regulating, and self-correcting, yet our involuntary reactions to stress, anxiety, and injury cause muscular tension to accumulate and obstruct our innate ability to self-correct.
The practical movements described and clearly illustrated within this book will reawaken sensory awareness and release deep-seated muscular tension in the core of the body. Three in-depth lessons specifically target the muscular patterns of stress, anxiety, and injury. A simple 5 – 10 minute daily movement routine will reinforce the lessons to increase your and your child’s innate ability to release muscular tension and reduce the harm of stress. For adults, this book offers the means to restore comfort and flexibility to the spine and joints. For children, this book offers the means to prevent the loss of sensory motor awareness and control needed to lead a pain-free healthy life.
To order Where Comfort Hides:
Hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-4363-8082-9),
$29.99
Softcover (ISBN: 978-1-4363-8081-2), $19.99
Additional Tools for learning or teaching movements described in the book, Where Comfort Hides:
CD After the Workshops
The Daily Somatic Practice narrated by Noreen Owens. This CD reinforces the lessons in Where Comfort Hides, and includes three additional somatic movements for further exploration. The Daily Somatic Practice releases and prevents the accumulation of muscular tension in the spine and joints, and reinforces healthy breathing
CD After the Workshops, $25.00
Daily Somatic Practice Poster 24” x 36” high-quality glossy poster for the classroom, workplace, health club, or senior center. Poster provides a practical reminder of six simple movements that target the muscles of the core that are most vulnerable to stress, anxiety, and injury. This 5 - 10 minute routine, performed in accordance with the guidelines, is designed to reinforce sensory motor awareness, comfort, and control over the spine. These movements will help prevent and release muscular tension in the back, neck, and joints
Daily Somatic Practice Poster, $20.00
