Somatic Patterning: How to Improve Posture and Movement and Ease Pain - Softcover

Foster, Mary Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971370001 ISBN 13: 9780971370005

Publisher: EMS Press, 2004

Synopsis

A comprehensive sourcebook for massage, bodywork, and somatic practitioners and their clients. Also, a great resource for dance, exercise, or yoga teachers and their students. With numerous illustrations, photos, special features, and somatic exercises, this text is user-friendly. Practitioners are even encouraged to photocopy exercises to give to their clients.

Somatic Patterning covers a broad spectrum of topics, including early motor development, body-mind awareness, pain relief, breathing, postural muscles, organic movement, and basic kinesiological patterns. And, it is well-documented with comprehensive glossary, endnotes, bibliography, and index.

Any practitioner teaching his or her clients how to change body-mind patterns is already practicing somatic patterning, and will find this book a valuable tool.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Somatic Patterning can help you

• Boost Professional Skills
• Improve Body Mechanics
• Learn Simple Exercises to Improve Posture and Alleviate Pain

FEATURES

• 414 pages
• 500 illustrations and photos
• 129 illustrated exercises
• 300 endnotes, a glossary and an index. 

Save your back with Somatic Patterning! You'll be glad you did.

 

Somatic Patterning is the first book of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of the somatic field. It will save you time and money because it consolidates diverse information about somatics from the groundbreaking body-mind therapies, as well as traditional information about patterning based on biomechanics.

 

  Somatic Patterning covers a broad array of topics, including working with reflexes and developmental patterning to change deep-seated patterns, patterning joint and muscles function to improve efficiency and performance, and exploring organic and fluid movement approaches to release deep levels of stress. SP also presents exercises based on the latest research for training postural muscles to achieve joint stability.

 

Somatic Patterning is well documented with a comprehensive history, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, and index. It has excellent special features plus numerous photos and illustrations that make it a user-friendly sourcebook. Special features include a bridge to practice box for massage therapists and bodyworkers, links to practical application, and body stories (case studies).

 

Somatic Patterning is popular with self-starters who want practical exercises and research-based information to help them help themselves!

About the Author

Mary Ann Foster, B.A., C.M.T., has specialized in teaching movement classes to massage therapists and bodyworkers for 18 years. Somatic Patterning developed out of diverse studies in numerous healing modalities, including massage, Rolfing Movement, Body-Mind Centering, Hakomi Somatics, and masters studies in Body Psychology. In her private practice and ongoing classes in the Denver/Boulder area, Mary Ann specializes in working with patterns of posture and movement associated with pain and discomfort.

Edition details

• Publisher: EMS Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0971370001
• ISBN 13: 9780971370005
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 415