We’re on the hunt for something subtle. We’re on the hunt for something subtle. A place that is hard to find. A place that’s hard to feel. There is a time for effort on this path. I caution you, in this moment, effort muddies the water. Effort is a false lure. It won’t help […]
Shields up! Sheilds Down! The Red Light Reflex pattern of withdrawal.
Is the outside world controlling you? Or, are you controlling you? The Red-Light Reflex is the activation of the pattern of withdrawal, grief, fear and apprehension. It is the somatic reflexive contraction of the front that makes us hard to the world, who’s in control of it? We loose control of the “red-light” patterns […]
A simple rib-cage pandiculation to easily regain movement you didn’t know you lost
The silent stiffness caused by the endless piling on of stress, injury, trauma, and repetitive motion takes hold in the torso.
Find your twist. Easier running with freedom in rotation.
Easier Running Somatic pandiculation to free limits of torso rotation in gait.
The Neuromuscular Feedback Techniques of Clinical Somatic Education
The Neuromuscular Feedback Techniques of Clinical Somatic Education By Eric Cooper, CCSE Many clients have difficulty understanding themselves spatially, in their somatic experience of internal space. Because of the effects of sensory-motor amnesia, they have a distorted somatic perception, a distorted self-perception, that has gaps, voids and distortions. The Clinical Somatic Education, CSE, technique of […]
Stay Supple for Life
Stay Supple for Life Article for a local health oriented monthly magazine. Nine years ago, Eric Cooper, CCSE, LMT, HSEC, CNMT, CMFT, COTT, owner of InSpire Somatics for Pain Relief, needed a cane to walk at age 45. As muscle pains and spasms became unbearable, Cooper became determined to solve his own pain problem. After […]
Stuck in the posture of Depression.
We get trapped in depression. What if we could change the state of the mind by changing the hidden stuckness of the body? “Through my somatics practice I am able to experience my being more thoroughly. I released the tensions of my deepest sorrows. I have experienced deep sadness in my life and I was […]
Hidden tensions revealed.
Posture is the manifestation of the automatic, underlying tensions. Photo by Trudi Cooper The bones go where the muscles hold them. The muscles have no will of their own. The nervous system (your brain and spinal cord) control the muscles. Your spine is flexible, like a snake. Your brain uses the muscles to hold your […]
The Recipe for Sciatic Pain
Recipe for Sciatic Pain 2016 1) Take tight back, with a tendency to twist to one side. 2) Add muscular contraction causing a shift to one side. Baste in stress. Intense enough to bring some unconscious muscle tension. I have been studying the original teachings of Thomas Hanna, over and over. He explains a viable […]
The Past in the Present
When we get injured the body contracts in a certain way. It will/can hold that contraction for a long, long time. Look in the mirror. Look carefully. Is one shoulder lower than the other? In my last trip to Calgary for 56 hours of advanced Clinical Somatics classes, I got a deeper understanding of how to show the […]