Mobilize your body + take away chronic pain in a gentle & easy way via Private Sessions, Group classes, Home Practice Therapeutic Self Care techniques.
Hanna (Clinical) Somatic Education is a movement practice, a hands on work and an effective system for changing chronic pain and posture. It goes to the root of the issue, changing the brain's signal to the muscles, restoring mobility, sensation, control and benefitting all systems.
It is easy and pleasurable to learn, and calms the nervous system. It works for all ages and fitness levels.
I offer group classes and private sessions
Each class focusing on a different issue.
Private sessions feature the hands on techniques, the most potent aspect of our work, and address your individual needs.
Both the Somatic movement classes and private sessions send you home with illustrated materials to support your home practice and self care techniques.
Come learn powerful yet gentle self care techniques that you will never stop using to de-stress, take pain away, improve performance, restore mobility, and move you towards doing what you want to do!
Private sessions are at my West 11th St office near Union Square
Classes are at Balance Arts Center 34 West 28th St NYC and other locations if you visit my website you will find in depth information and videos of the work and more. www.FullmovementPotential.com
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Laura M Gates, CHSE, CCSE
Laura Gates is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator (CHSE) and Clinical Somatic Educator (CCSE) and practitioner living in New York City. As a former professional dancer, she toured internationally with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Co in the 70s and 80s and earned an MFA degree in dance from Bennington College. She brings 30 years experience as a movement educator to her work and has training in deep tissue body work with Tyr Throne, anatomy and arthro-kinematics with Irene Dowd, and Clinical Somatic Education at Somatic Systems Institute, Northampton, MA. She is also certified by Novato Institute, CA.
Ms. Gates has worked with people from all walks of life, including dancers, athletes, musicians, and actors. She was movement coach for Harvey Keitel on the set of “A Crime,” filmed in 2006.
Contact Laura at 718 350 0637 [email protected] with questions or to schedule a session.
about Thomas Hanna, PhD
The late Thomas Hanna, PhD, was founder of the field of Somatics, director of the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in Novato, CA, and editor of “Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences.” He authored seven books, perhaps best know for “Bodies in Revolt: A Primer in Somatic Thinking” (1970) and “Somatics: Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health” (1989).
Hanna often referred to F.M. Alexander and Moshe Feldenkrais as important teachers who influenced him. Many aspects of the Feldenkrais technique can be found inside Hanna Somatics but Hanna continued on to develop some innovative methods for brain/body recalibration that are unique to HSE. Feldenkrais had said, and Hanna reiterated, that there is no limit to human learning potential.
Testimonials
“The Hanna Somatics work has been revolutionary for me, re-educating my body so that I am now pain-free from a debilitating case of sciatica…After several months of Hanna Somatics, I am pain free and no lon
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