Flexing the Lens of Awareness
Gabriel Posner
Presentation:
This presentation will focus on how we, as practitioners, guide people through the looking glass not just through movement but also by deliberately flexing the lens of their awareness. Hanna described our aperture of awareness as a telescopic lens that can fix its view at different depths. When someone becomes rigid with SMA, not only does their posture get stuck, but the lens of their awareness is also fixed at a certain depth. If we consider green light and red light patterns to not just indicate extension and flexion, but also openness and closure, then someone who is green light will have their lens fixed externally and someone's red light will be fixed internally. HSE is a movement-first practice. While we are changing levels of contraction through movement, we are also creating more flexibility in the very lens or aperture of awareness. As a person regains full control over themselves, they will be able to more fluidly shift attention to different depths and different places in their external and internal experiences. This presentation will explore how we, as practitioners, help a client direct their adaptational capabilities generated from their cortex to specific areas to reverse SMA. By learning to flex their lens of attention, they will more quickly access and reverse their pattern(s) of SMA.
Gabriel Posner CHSE
was elected to the office of Vice President in 2019. He previously was elected to the office of Director at Large #1 in 2015 to serve until 2017. He also previously served as Vice President of the association from 2012 to 2015 after serving a year as Director-at-Large. With the association, Gabriel has enjoyed serving as the chair for the SomaTimes as well as Education Coordinator for the convention. He was certified in 2009 as a Hanna Somatic Educator, lives and practices in San Francisco and in his free time can be found exploring trail-running in a somatic way.
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Discussion
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The After Effect
HSE Learning Community
Presenters and Attendees Wanted
The Hanna Somatic Education Learning Community is a monthly group that will be hosted by Ryan Moschell and the AHSE Education Committee. This group’s mission is to cultivate our members’ continued learning and deepen our community’s connection. All AHSE members would be most welcome to attend. Together, we’d benefit Hanna Somatics as a discipline, while supporting the common growth of our clients, the general public, and ourselves as Hanna Somatic Educators.
In this online group, AHSE members are invited to volunteer to teach a topic of their choice focused on Hanna Somatic Education. Each presentation would be 15 to 30 minutes in length. You’d have the valuable opportunity to practice your presentation skills and your HSE colleagues could process your chosen topic together. You certainly don’t need to be an expert on the topic. You’d inspire the group to learn from each other through their questions and discussion.
The presenter can get a recording of their own presentation that they can present to their clients, post on social media, upload to YouTube, or use to write an article. If the content is cleared by the AHSE Education Committee, your recording can be archived in the Members section of the AHSE website.
Suggested presentation topics:
o Anatomy
o Kinesiology
o Neuroscience
o Somatic movements / Techniques
o Diagnosis - somatic interpretations and possible solutions
o A case study (With permission to share)- problems and solutions
o Translating and incorporating HSE into other disciplines.
o Other HSE-related topics…
The group meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at 9:30 am PDT/PST, 12:30 pm EDT/EST, 5:30 pm BST/GMT, for 60-90 minutes. The first meeting of the Hanna Somatic Education Learning Community is _______________-and we already have a great presentation lined up.
We’ll need monthly presenters, so if you’d be interested in being a future presenter, Please submit a paragraph describing your topic to Ryan Moschell and the AHSE Education Committee. Let Ryan know if you have any questions about being a presenter.
