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WEekly Somatic Movement Classes
Weekly series led by Erin Girzone, Somatic Movement Teacher
Mondays @ 9:30am (Virtual) & Wednesdays @ 10:30am (In-person)
Series: $12.00/class or drop-in for $15.00
For current series details (dates/cost) click here.
Accountability and Support
These on-going classes offer guidance as you explore the habits in your body. Our ability to notice is layered. We start superficially and each time we practice we are deepening our connection to ourselves and what we can notice. This weekly class helps you be accountable to yourself as well. Most of us would agree that attending a class is easier to make time for than our own practice. Each week, learn something new in class that can direct your exploration in your own practice.
A prior somatic movement consultation or participation in the introductory series is recommended.
Somatic Movement is all about...
Awareness
Awareness
Awareness
“Awareness has the capacity to heal.”
~ Deepak Chopra, author of Perfect Health
Choice
Awareness
Awareness
“Each one of us is the custodian of an inner world that we carry around with us.”
~ John O’Donohue, quoted in Walking in Wonder
Ease
Awareness
Ease
“Your body is a site of liberation. It doesn't belong to capitalism. Love your body. Rest your body. Move your body. Hold your body.”
~ Tricia Hersey, author of Rest is Resistance
Addressing Chronic Muscle Tension
What does a somatic movement practice entail?
Erin is a certified somatic movement teacher. In both private and small group settings, she guides clients through movement patterns that re-educate the nervous system. Done in a conscious way, this self-awareness building experience helps restore ease in the body.
These gentle and subtle movements can be explored laying down, seated in a chair and/or standing making them accessible to anyone.
Somatic movement is so effective because it involves re-educating the nervous system - both on how to control muscle function and in how to let your guard down again. From a muscular point of view, when chronic tension is released, proper coordination of the muscles is restored and ease of movement is re-established.
When present moment awareness is practiced through your attention on your body, the part of your nervous system responsible for fight/flight can quiet down and the part responsible for rest/digest can rise up. You can experience inner peace.
Whether you have chronic low back pain, are perpetually tired or burnt out, your own somatic movement practice can help your soma (being) reset. When you address your being in this kind and gentle way, you will find more ease and joy in all aspects of your life.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is somatic movement?
As an Essential Somatics® Movement Teacher, Erin helps clients create and maintain a daily movement practice to reduce/eliminate chronic pain and movement restrictions.
The practice involves releasing muscular tension by re-education the nervous system with safe and gentle movements lying down, seated and or standing.
What does a daily practice address?
It focuses on restoring proper muscle function to alleviate pain, including functional disorders that result from chronic tension such as: chronic low back pain, neck pain, frozen shoulder, SI joint pain, sciatica, jaw pain, thoracic outlet syndrome, carpal tunnel, leg length discrepancy, shallow breathing.
It helps individuals find more ease in any and all daily movements: walking, running, reaching up, bending down, twisting, lifting etc.
How is it different from fitness, yoga, pilates, and physical therapy?
In general, the intention is different from any other type of movement practice. When practicing somatic movements, we are taking subconscious, habitual muscle tension and making it conscious to regain control of the muscle function.
Because it involves re-educating our nervous system, the movements are done slowly so there is time for feedback to be processed by the brain.
Muscular strength is found in connection and control of the muscles rather than in working harder.
Muscle weakness results from a lack of connection and control of the muscles and/or fatigue of the muscles due to being chronically contracted.
How does it compliment other movement practices and self-care modalities?
It can be an effective warm-up and cool-down for fitness workouts, running, sports games, etc. It helps individuals move their bodies with precision, reduce soreness, fatigue and injury.
It increases self-awareness and improves the benefits of any rehabilitation program including physical therapy exercises, fitness exercises, and yoga, for individuals that are post-injury, post-surgery or postpartum.
Can a somatic movement practice benefit individuals in other ways?
Somatic movement practice works at the level of the nervous system which controls how we move, think and feel. It can have a much greater impact on an individual beyond just improving movement.
It can also reduce anxiety and the impact of stress, improve breath capacity and quality of sleep to name a few.