Hanna Somatic Education, HSE, uses a system of slow and gentle movements to help release habitual postural patterns that are often created from stress, repetitive motion, injury and trauma. HSE is relaxing and involves gaining an understanding of how the muscles and nervous system works together. In order to reprogram habitual patterns, the client is requested to participate in the movements during a private session. This generates the awareness in our neuromuscular system and the muscles can then remember a more relaxed and lengthened state of being. The client will also be taught exercises to take home as a way of healing themselves. Everything is done with a conscious intention of contracting and releasing, without force and focusing on internal sensations of the movement. Our muscles have a sense of forgetting, like amnesia, when not used properly or held in chronic tension over long periods of time. When the brain invites the awareness through movement in the body, the amnesia tends to dissipate and the use of the muscle becomes more readily available. HSE works with the sensory-motor system of unlocking the poor postural patterns for more freedom in movement. In a traumatic event in someone’s life, there is an involuntary spastic response to pain guarding an injured site. When an injury happens, the balance in the body will be compensated and it will adjust by tightening. In relationship with gravity, this compensation can organize itself in all different ways. The body will look twisted or curved in response to the trauma and the body will save that in the muscle memory. HSE is helpful for many common ailments such as low back pain, sciatica, carpal tunnel, frozen shoulder and arthritis.