Live your healing, heal your living


“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to move and feel without inhibition, to live a life in which the stress of the world no longer looms over each waking moment? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to feel yourself in such a living way that no force in the world could deny you your own power? Have you wondered what it would take to truly feel like you belong in your body? I have certainly wondered all of these things, and if you search in yourself you will know that you,too, wonder this each day.

Since Eric Cooper has brought to me the world of Somatic Education, I have felt the resolution to these questions.

I work with Eric Cooper and practice Somatics because I can relieve muscle pain and stiffness in my body whenever the stress of the world weighs heavily into me.

I work with Eric Cooper and practice Somatics because I discovered a scoliosis in my spine I never had the tools to notice ​before.

I practice Somatics because I have felt like a stranger in my own body for the entirety of my life. I practice Somatics because I can slowly release the trauma stored in my body.

I practice Somatics so I can move in my body without fear, so I can love and validate every feeling that arises in me, so that I can live a life inspired by love, not driven by fear.

I practice Somatics not because Eric Cooper makes change in my being, but because, with Eric’s unrelenting, unshakeable devotion to the latent capacity to heal in each person, I can at last feel the power to make change in my own body.

Just one session with Eric brought me, and can bring every person, relief from pain, enhanced sensorimotor awareness and emotional release, but do not be mistaken- this is ​not a​ miracle cure that will work like an instant elixir- you may feel instant relief with pandiculation, but the trauma stored in our bodies is deep, and no true miracle is bound to time such that it will happen instantaneously. When Eric gives you movements to practice daily at home, he does so because we can no longer compartmentalize our health and healing to a place (the doctor’s office or hospital), or to the time of an appointment, or to a state of mind. We must live our healing in every moment if we truly desire to heal our living. He does so because you can pandiculate as much as your cat does, because you could pandiculate every day because you could love yourself ​that much.”

-O., Pre-med College Student