Key points

Instead of the looks of the body, somatics develops individual body/mind unity.

Somatics emphasizes the ability to sense movement.

Improved body awareness reduces limiting habitual movement patterns and pain.

Focusing on subjective movement experience can make use feel better about our bodies.

Trying to fit into the narrow beauty ideal of thin, toned, and youthful continues to be the reality for many women. We enroll in exercise classes or join the gym to lose weight and tone up, but even all that exercise does not make a perfect body. Can such alternative movement forms as somatics help us accept our bodies?

What Is Somatics?

Somatics is a form of body work that began to evolve in the turn of the 20th century through the foundational teachings of F. M. Alexander and Mosh

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