Convention
Audio Recordings
Closing -Thomas Hanna Recording
John Loupos & Thomas Hanna
April 25th, 2021
Closing of the 2021 Online Convention with a brief recording on Freedom by Thomas Hanna…
Movement Collage
Mary Poxon, Harris Ferris, Nikki Semeniuk, Lee Brewster, and Samantha Legassie.
April 25th, 2021
Back by popular demand, this movement class will be a collage of movements led by several people…
Upper and Lower Extremity Work
Phil Shenk & Susan Koenig
April 25th, 2021
In this session, we’ll be guiding self pandiculations for the major muscles and joints of both the upper and lower limbs as time permits…
Horizontal and Vertical Explorations
Susan Koenig & John Loupos
April 25th, 2021
In this joint presentation, we will focus on improving posture and carriage—how you stand and how you walk…
Intergenerational Trauma and Somatics
Gabriel Posner
April 24th, 2021
While we know that Hanna Somatics can be great for helping people fully resolve injuries they’ve suffered over the course of their life, how effective is it for injuries suffered by their parents and even grandparents?
Improvising Pandiculations
Bill Kelle
April 24th, 2021
We will assess and palpate, use old reliable pandiculations, and improvise new pandiculations to solve the riddles of this complicated area…
Using Somatic Movements to Unwind Tensions and Contractions from Daily Life Stressors
Farzaneh Jafari
April 28th, 2019
In this session, I am excited to present a unique movement class that combines both Hanna Somatics and Somatic Yoga as taught by Eleanor Criswell…
Making Friends with Your Pelvic Floor
Lori Seymour
April 24th, 2021
This session will use pandiculation and other skills to identify and enliven the specific deep support musculature of the pelvic floor…
Five Simple Shoulder Movements and Working With Spirals of the Legs
Chris Ruane
April 24th, 2021
In the first part of this presentation, we’ll look at the movements of the shoulder joint and explore five somatic shoulder exercises and hands-on pandiculations…
Fingers, Hands, Wrists, Arms, and Shoulders
John Loupos
April 23rd, 2021
The Somatic movements that make up this presentation will leave your upper extremities with a sense of relief, renewal, and enhanced sensitivity…
Neurophysiology
Eleanor Criswell Hanna
April 23rd, 2021
This presentation will combine a number of elements including updating you on current research and clarifying answers to your questions…
Somatic String Theory
Ryan Moschell
April 23rd, 2021
In this group movement class, I will offer the concept of String Theory to inspire you to a new level of awareness with your traditional Somatic movements…
Hanna Somatic Movement and Somatic Yoga
Farzaneh Jafari
April 28th, 2019
In this session, I am excited to present a unique movement class that combines both Hanna Somatics and Somatic Yoga as taught by Eleanor Criswell…
Challenges of Aging
Susan Koenig
April 28th, 2019
Pelvic floor pain is just one of the reasons people can benefit from this pelvic floor movement. Other issues it can help with are incontinence, a drooping pelvic floor due to childbirth, dropping down (prolapsing) of the bladder and other organs, lack of support from injury, aging, and more…
Challenges of Aging
Joan Kauffman
April 28th, 2019
As we age, we begin to have decreased balance responses from vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive systems, creating an increased potential for loss of balance and falling…
Movement Collage
Linda Smith, Mary Poxon & Ken Bridgeman
April 28th, 2019
At last year’s convention, our Sunday morning movement class was a collage of movements led by several people. The feedback about this “round-robin” style of class was so positive that we decided to do it again…
Enhancement Techniques for Hanna Somatics Protocols
Bogusia Badon & Andrew Schaefer
April 27th, 2019
This interactive lecture/demonstration will present invaluable practices to increase your knowledge base and skill in working with clients with impairments in alignment, movement patterns, and musculoskeletal dysfunction…
“Going UP”
John Loupos
April 27th, 2019
How can we practitioners encapsulate the totality of our special gift to humanity into a catchy one- or two-sentence phrase without compromising our ethics or overall message?
Refining Your Pandiculation Skills
John Loupos & Gabriel Posner
April 27th, 2019
Pandiculation is one of the most basic tools we use to help clients recover from sensory motor amnesia, so it’s very important that we use this tool with great understanding and skill…
Walk better so you’ll never need a walker!
Kelli Peacock & John Loupos
April 26th, 2019
This workshop will start with a detailed walking self-assessment to increase awareness of the many component parts of walking. Then we will be guided in sensing for a whole body continuity, using variations of our most basic Arch and Flatten movement pattern…