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Aiming "Precision Positioning for Miraculous Results"
Back Pain "The Psoas Muscles and Abdominal Exercises for Back Pain"
Breathing Protocol and Salient Points "Breathing: Overview and Freeing the Diaphragm"
from The Handbook of Assisted Pandiculation

Troubleshooting Difficult Clients
  • "Why Won't Those Shoulders Come Down?"
  • "Why Somatic Education is a Body-Mind Thing"
  • "A Critique of the Strategy of Ineffectuality"
  • Principles and Practices
  • Somatic Exercises: To Demonstrate or Not?
      It has come to my attention that the current training in the practice of teaching somatic exercises eschews demonstrations of the exercises in favor of strictly verbal instruction. I don’t know how prevalent this view is, but I think that this development of teaching methodology is an inefficient teaching strategy based on an outdated premise or even a gap in understanding of how people learn. This paper is an opinion piece in which I tell you why I think so.
  • Attention is a Catalyst
      Attention is a catalyst for change; how somatic educators give clients a boost in their process of change
  • "Kinesthetic Memory, Kinesthetic Imagination -- A Quantum Jump in the Benefits of Somatic Exercises"
  • My Work is Not an 'Interpretation' of Thomas Hanna's, but the Application and Development of It
  • The Evolution of Somatic Education Techniques
  • "How Soon to Work with an Injury"
      knowing the difference between pain and injury; when to start somatic education to bring relief
  • Pandiculation Light
      Your client tells you that he felt tighter after pandiculation than before. Do you use Pandiculation Light -- or something else?
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