NEW ✨Somatics - Move with Ease with Kath

Service Description

Somatics – Move with Ease 6 week course with Kath Revell / Ninja Granny Thursdays 11:15am -12:15pm 5th February -26th March 2026 Somatics is natural movement, which is movement that is co-ordinated through the centre of the body. The aim is to release tension, which brings relief. Tension can be physical, mental and emotional and is held in the body. It builds up over time, becoming habitual. Habitual tension often can’t be felt, and if it can’t be felt it can’t be released. The slow, focussed movements of Somatics help you to discover that tension, then release it. The technique is to tighten your muscles, increasing the tension, so you can feel it. Once you feel it you can slowly relax the muscles. The slowness of the release is key. It gives your nervous system time to reset the tension in the muscles. This creates lasting change. It’s the experience of slowly contracting and releasing the muscles that is “somatic” - it’s an experience of yourself moving, an experience of letting go. Over time you get more and more in tune with your body, become more and more co-ordinated, and it’s a virtuous circle – the more you can sense the better you can move, and the better you can move the more you can sense, and so you keep improving. This course is for everyone and especially for people who have pain issues. The exercises are done lying on the floor, so you need to be able to get up and down, but only once in the session and you can use a chair if needed. By the end of the course, you will be able to create a daily practise. Course content: 1. Exploring pandiculation: Movements include sitting shoulder releases and “arch and flatten”. 2. Moving from your centre: Movements include “the flower” 3. The red and green light reflexes. Movements include “the backlift,” “arch and curl” 4. The trauma reflex: – Movements include “the sidebend” 5. The trauma reflex: Movements include “the washrag” 6. Creating short somatic sequences 7. Variations on some of the movements 8. Exploring walking Kath Revell follows Thomas Hanna’s Somatics teaching and trained with Martha Peterson of www.essentialsomatics.com For further information please visit www.ninjagranny.org/somatics . Kath also offers one-to-one Clinical Somatic Education sessions. Please email or phone for more details – ninjagranny20@gmail.com 07729 907056.