What is Somatic Learning, and What Does It Offer?
What is Somatic Learning, and What Does It Offer?
Are you aware of Somatic Therapy? There is research that highlights the benefits and the growth of this industry. A firm called Coherent Marketing Insights created data, estimating the Somatic Therapy market is worth over $4 billion globally as of 2025.
The practices that this report outlines include specific types of bodywork, breath work, movement therapy, and sensorimotor psychotherapy. All of these learning approaches address mental & physical health concerns, PTSD, trauma recovery as well as those dealing with chronic pain. All applications, whether received through clinics, hospitals, rehab & wellness centers, and private practices, are covered in this research.
The Feldenkrais Method® is one of these somatic approaches, where we support you through gentle hands-on as well as guided approaches through movement. Dr Feldenkrais began through movement and curiosity as we all did as infants, speaking to the lower brain, the Cerebellum that is how we learned how to progress.
Going with movement was found to be the easiest pathway to awaken the brain to create other options that facilitate global improvements. When you support and help one person improve even a little bit, everything improves exponentially. There are three key things to remember in this process: curiosity, creativity, and kindness. We’re creating a nonjudgmental environment for learning to expand and make comparisons in movement.
“The lessons are designed to improve ability, that is, to expand the boundaries of the possible, to turn the impossible into the possible, the difficult into the easy, and the easy into the pleasant. For only those activities that are easy and pleasant will become part of a person’s habitual life and will serve them at all times.” – Moshe Feldenkrais
Now is the time to begin exploring these newer, more optimal ways of being gently, enabling them to become a part of your nervous system and continue moving forward.
Moving without effort is great, and there is a difference in how the ATM lessons were created as they started with developmental processes, so it is congruent with how we grew and learned from the start.
Did you know that all of your perceptions and sensations take place in the background of muscular activity, it affects how you organize in gravity. When something feels difficult or heavy, it is. This is the effect that gravity has on us when we do not feel skeletal support.
When we can become more attuned to ourselves, we can begin to find other ways to adapt and modify how we do what we need and want to do instead of pushing into resistance with the older, habitual patterns that activate.
Time to slow things down when there is difficulty, to notice how you’re breathing, where are your head and eyes, and all the subtle things we forgot to pay attention to as we progressed through life. How to listen internally seems to have been overlooked with all the doing, so it’s a wonderful practice to tap back into how we began.
I invite you to join me in these approaches, which enable us to continue learning and improving, so that at any age, we can move with astonishing lightness and ease. Learn how to modify and adapt and keep finding easier pathways to move forward.
I hope I have earned the privilege of your time and attention, and look forward to connecting when the timing is right.
With curiosity, interest and kindness,
Peggi
