Essential Somatics

Essential Somatics Essential Somatics is a revolutionary approach to eliminating muscle pain. It's safe, easy, and common sense. Learn to move without pain!

It goes to the root of most chronic muscular pain: the brain and its control of muscles and movement. Since 2010, Essential Somatics® has grown from a small solo practice to a team of highly skilled and devoted Clinical Somatic Educators who teach multi-day introductory courses, clinical certification trainings, and embodied movement for corporate leadership. The trainings we provide are offered in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe. The teachings of Somatic Education have helped thousands of people worldwide to return to a more vibrant life of movement, self-agency, and awareness.

The Essential Somatics Mexico Retreat is coming soon!If your body’s been asking for rest, awareness, and renewal, this i...
10/19/2025

The Essential Somatics Mexico Retreat is coming soon!

If your body’s been asking for rest, awareness, and renewal, this is your chance to listen.

Join us in beautiful Mexico for a retreat designed to help you reconnect with yourself, release long-held tension, and rediscover what it means to move with ease.

Over the course of the week, you’ll:

• Learn powerful Somatic Movement lessons to restore comfort and freedom in your body

• Explore how stress, habits, and unconscious tension shape the way you move, and how to let them go

• Experience the joy of slowing down, tuning in, and truly resting

• Enjoy the beauty of Mexico’s coastline, nourishing food, and meaningful connections with others

Whether you’re new to Clinical Somatics or already practice regularly, this retreat offers the time and space to deepen your awareness and return home with a sense of calm and balance that lasts.

Sound like exactly the start to 2026 you’ve been dreaming of? Register using the link in our bio👆

A phenomenal group of students - most of them somatic movement teachers, yet coming from a variety of backgrounds.We had...
10/19/2025

A phenomenal group of students - most of them somatic movement teachers, yet coming from a variety of backgrounds.

We had an MD, 2 physios, a dentist, a yoga teacher, former professional athletes, a Feldenkrais teacher and several fitness trainers.

Plus, we’ve already been invited back to Croatia to teach again! Our hosts were so generous and kind. Somatics has taken hold in Croatia.

Congratulations to our newest UK Clinical Somatic Educators (CSET graduates)!My goodness, these clinicians are skilled, ...
10/16/2025

Congratulations to our newest UK Clinical Somatic Educators (CSET graduates)!

My goodness, these clinicians are skilled, and their dedication to helping others move with ease is truly inspiring.

This cohort came together from across the globe - from Finland, England, New York City, Nantucket (MA), the Netherlands, and Scotland - united by a shared passion for empowering others to find freedom from pain.

We couldn’t be prouder of the work they’ve done, and the work they’ll continue to do as they bring this practice into their communities.

Here’s to the next generation of Clinical Somatic Educators, making lasting change one movement at a time.

It's World Mental Health Day!Today, we raise awareness about mental health and how we can support those around us who ar...
10/10/2025

It's World Mental Health Day!

Today, we raise awareness about mental health and how we can support those around us who are struggling.

Somatic Movement can be a great way to reduce anxiety, depression and many other forms of mental health conditions by bringing individuals back to the present and focus on the here and now.

Learning how to release tension in your muscles can reduce stress and support a clearer mind and thought process.

With so many benefits, Somatic Movement is a great solution to mental health conditions.

Get in touch if you're struggling and would like to learn more about Somatic Movement.

What conditions can Clinical Somatic Education (CSE) help me with?CSE is the only scientifically-based sensory motor tra...
10/08/2025

What conditions can Clinical Somatic Education (CSE) help me with?

CSE is the only scientifically-based sensory motor training that teaches you how and why muscle tension develops and what you can do about it.

CSE teaches you life-long skills that improve your ability to self-sense, self-monitor, and self-correct.

You will be empowered to take care of yourself instead of relying on others.

Here are some of the conditions if Clinical Somatic Education can help with👇🏼

10/06/2025

What is stored trauma?

Stored trauma is the way traumatic experiences are recorded and stored within the brain and body.

Traumatic memories can often trigger flashbacks or cause damage to our health by reducing the brain’s natural recovery process.

Individuals suffering from stored trauma are continually getting ready for the next attack or life-altering event.

How does this link to Somatic movement?

Somatic Movement can be used to access and release these stored sensations allowing the resolution of the trauma.

Focusing on your breathing and mental health can reduce stored trauma and give an individual a step in the direction of recovery.

10/04/2025

Why do we do this work?

Because we’ve seen what happens when someone reconnects with their body after years, sometimes decades, of pain.

We’ve watched people move freely for the first time in ages.

We’ve heard the relief in their voices when they realize: this isn’t just aging.

This can change.

Essential Somatics exists because Thomas Hanna believed the body could learn its way out of pain through Clinical Somatic Education.

And for over 30 years, we’ve proven him right - one person, one movement, one moment of awareness at a time.

We’re here to guide you back to comfort, ease, and joyful movement through gentle, mindful movements that address Sensory Motor Amnesia, no matter where you’re starting from or what you’ve been told is “just part of getting older.”

Every Thursday, we share movement tips, insights into Clinical Somatic Education, and stories from our community.

We’d love to have you join us.

Sign up for our Thursday Tips newsletter and get our free mini-course on reclaiming your mobility.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!We're focusing on raising awareness and supporting those who have experienced B...
09/30/2025

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

We're focusing on raising awareness and supporting those who have experienced Breast Cancer this month but sharing our knowledge of how Somatic Movement can help.

Somatic Movement can provide relief and ease pain for individuals who have been impacted by Breast Cancer and experience tension caused by surgery and changes to their body. Mastectomies, biopsies, and life-saving cancer treatments tension not just in the chest and surrounding muscles, but in the whole body.

Our conscious brain responds to our immediate needs, our unconscious brain may be holding tension that can accumulate over the course of treatments, examinations, and waiting.

Simple Somatic Movements and pandiculation can release the tight muscles that may be affected by life-saving surgery or treatments while reducing tension that may build up.

Reducing tension in your whole body supports immune function, lymphatic flow, and vagus nerve function. It's easy and pleasant and you can do Somatic Movement anywhere, at any time.

Send us a message if you'd like to find out more about how Somatic Movement can help recovery following Breast Cancer.

When pain steals your sense of control, it doesn’t just live in your body, it seeps into your whole life.Not knowing why...
09/26/2025

When pain steals your sense of control, it doesn’t just live in your body, it seeps into your whole life.

Not knowing why you hurt can feel disorienting.

You second-guess every move, wondering if you’ll make things worse.

You avoid activities you used to love.

Over time, that lack of understanding can feel like powerlessness.

But here’s the truth: your body isn’t broken.

Those patterns of tension and pain were learned by your nervous system, and with the right tools, they can be unlearned.

We help you restore awareness, release unconscious tension, and reclaim control of your movement and your life.

Where does pain leave you feeling most out of control?

09/24/2025

Here’s a short clip from our recent session where we explored how Somatic Movement helps you release tension and move with greater ease.

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Manitou Springs, CO
80829

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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Essential Somatics is grounded in the revolutionary approaches of Hanna Somatics, Moshe Feldenkrais and other modern day somatic pioneers. We teach people to eliminate their own muscle pain and create more freedom and ease in their bodies and their lives. Essential Somatics gets to the root of most physical discomfort and restriction: the brain and the way it communicates with the muscles through movement. Come learn safely and gently to move through life with mastery and joy.