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

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.

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.