by Dyana Wells | Sep 12, 2019 | Anatomy & Physiology, Integration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Somatics
Somatics and somatic movement classes grew out of Feldenkrais, and developed alongside new research into neuromuscular reprogramming. Somatics is based on the principle of neuroplasticity – the understanding that the brain is continually remodelling itself in response...
by Dyana Wells | Jun 5, 2019 | Anatomy & Physiology, Integration, Mindfulness, Somatics
Reflections arising from a Somatics Practice Part 3 – The Symphonic Body The skeletal structure of the body is an intriguing confusion of so many curves and angles and knobbly bits. In particular I find the pelvic bone almost impossible to visualise internally – it...
by Dyana Wells | May 11, 2019 | Anatomy & Physiology, Integration, Mindfulness, Somatics
Reflections arising from a Somatics Practice Part 2 – How much of my body is my friend? When I started somatics I was stunned to realise that I couldn’t directly sense much of my physical body. I didn’t have any direct feeling for it at all. This was after a lifetime...
by Dyana Wells | Apr 18, 2019 | Anatomy & Physiology, Integration, Mindfulness, Somatics
Reflections arising from a Somatics Practice Part 1 – My relationship to my Body Do I see it simply as a body-vehicle I can use to do what my mind wants? Is it something to manipulate according to my will and ideas and desires. Is this body a source of pain or...
by Dyana Wells | Jan 26, 2017 | Anatomy & Physiology, Mindfulness, Somatics
Finally, after almost a lifetime of yoga practice and study, I came to Somatics. I had struggled with a broad variety of different ideas about how yoga should be practised. A lot of the instruction seemed contradictory and hard to clearly embody. I kept forgetting...