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AN ENTIRELY NEW CLASS OF THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES
to RELIEVE PAINFUL CHRONIC INJURIES
and IMPROVE OVERALL MOVEMENT HEALTH

End your pain. Somatics shows the way.
You'll feel, "Wow! Look what I can do now!"

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SOME WORDS FROM LAWRENCE GOLD:
I am a teacher of teachers in our field and I put a great deal of care into the development of programs. Two come from a colleague of mine, Carol Welch. They all guide you into inhabiting your own body with greater ease and comfort. With them, you can recapture, preserve and improve your ability to move with the flexibility, comfort, and effortless ease that are the hallmarks of everyday fitness.

If one of these programs arouses your interest, you'll probably follow through with it -- which means, get the results. If you need help choosing, contact me and I will be pleased to advise you.

Turn what may be a hidden concern -- that you'll never get better -- into an asset: the motivation to improve your quality of life.


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ALL BOOKS AND PROGRAMS COME WITH FIFTEEN MINUTES FREE CONSULTATION, BY TELEPHONE.

Call (505) 699-8284 to schedule. I recommend you call after you have worked with the program, so your questions are based on experience. Please have your transaction confirmation number and be prepared with three appointment times for your consultation. I will confirm your appointment.

How far do you want to go?
Stage 1: Eliminate pain and recover function.

Stage 2: Preclude a repeat injury.

Stage 3: Enhance function to superior levels.

All programs can take you through all three stages, depending on how long you work with them. Click for help to choose the right program for your requirements or special interest.


Quick Help
for Back Pain - DVD

BACK EXERCISES FOR
LOWER BACK PAIN

$29.95 - $49.98


Free Your Psoas
All Most People Need

PAIN RELIEF
CORE TRAINING FITNESS

$66.18 - $107.99

Free Your Psoas
Enhanced Agility for
Elite Athletes

CORE TRAINING FITNESS
ADVANCED CORE EXERCISES

$54.40 - $122.50
BioKinetics Program
BioKinetics
/Hanna Somatics
Reflexes 101

BioSomatics
Reflexes 102

$54.40 - $64.00


A U D I O - SPECIAL PURPOSE INSTRUCTION



Free Yourself from
Back Pain

$32.67 - $101.97

Calmly Energizing:

Somatic Breathing Training
to Reduce Stress

CORE EXERCISES
$12.65 - $18.65

Special Program to Free Breathing

$12.65 - $18.65

SuperWalking

(Improves GAIT TRAINING | SPEED WALKING | RUNNING.)
$18.65

A U D I O - GENERAL MOVEMENT HEALTH



The Cat Stretch

(GENERAL PREPARATORY PROGRAM)
$40.67 - $65.25

The SuperCat Stretch

(ADVANCED GENERAL PROGRAM)
$80.37 - $107.20

The Five-Pointed Star
(KEYSTONE PROGRAM)
FOR CORE PERFORMANCE ENDURANCE

$21.60 - $35.82
New Seated Exercises CD
The New Seated Refreshment Exercises

$10.00 - $12.70
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Deeper Lovemaking companion audio set

CORE WORKOUT
$47.95

Pre-Natal/Post-Partum Somatic Exercises

GENTLY INTENSIVE CORE TRAINING
FOR WOMEN

$35.82

Get to Sleep

$12.65 - $18.65

Somatic Exercise Sampler:
$.01 + shipping

G U I D E B O O K S - SOMATIC EXERCISE INSTRUCTION


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Body Meditations

$18.60

Free Yourself from
Back Pain

$32.67 - $52.80

The Magic
of Somatics

$18.60 - $30.90

The Guidebook of Somatic
Transformational Exercises

(FOR PROFESSIONALS)
$68.00 - $97.95
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Deeper Lovemaking

CORE WORKOUT
$30.96

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Programmed Instruction

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V I D E O - SOMATIC EXERCISE INSTRUCTION

Programmatic Keys to Free and Easy Movement
Recorded, Step-by-Step Instruction for Self-Development and Self-Healing

Quick Help for Back Pain DVD Quick Help for Back Pain
Back Exercises for Lower Back Pain
a gently intensive program for fast improvement

Hanna Somatics Gold

by Lawrence Gold

Immediate improvement in 30 minutes; substantial improvement in 72 hours

This program frees you from the grip of back spasms and pain. As you move your hips after your first pass through the program, you find have more mobility before you encounter pain, and less pain. Each repetition brings further improvement until you "plateau" or improve completely.

This is a "quick help" program. If you plateau (cease to progress further to complete resolution), you may take the next step for more complete resolution, such as Free Yourself from Back Pain or The Cat Stretch (Overcoming the Myth of Aging), or a session or so with a certified Hanna somatic educator. (NOTE: The Cat Stretch consists of different exercises than the "cat and cow" exercise taught elsewhere.)

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$29.95 (Item #307e)

Buy during this visit and get this FREE bonus download:
Spine Waves, a somatic exercise from Free Yourself from Back Pain



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image of Free Your Psoas package Free Your Psoas
Hanna Somatics Gold
by Lawrence Gold

A GENTLY INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR LASTING IMPROVEMENT

NOTE:
If you have low back pain or unequal leg length you need to prepare with The Cat Stretch program.

ALL MOST PEOPLE NEED:
You've found a more comfortable, more lasting way to free your own psoas muscles.

This program is for you if you've been told that you have tight psoas muscles, they're painful to touch, and if therapy has been partially and temporarily effective; if you've found that doing stretches to free psoas muscles reaches the more surface muscles, but not the psoas muscles, or again, that stretched muscles revert to their tight state.

There is an easier and more effective way: do it yourself with somatic exercises. You can bring ease to yourself and improve your core integration.

This program guides you through gentle, well-organized somatic exercises that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. The awaken control of your psoas muscles and better coordinate their movements with the movements of the rest of your muscular system for better balance, better core fitness, and more freedom of movement. They free and coordinate your psoas muscles, legs, pelvis and trunk for movement. See the right side of the page for a link to a full video preview of the program.

OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click and send for international postage cost.

DVD set

  • Two DVDs = 147 minutes
      organized into bite-size lessons
    Buy during this visit and get this FREE bonus:
      The Five-Pointed Star
      (2 audio CD download - description)
    $107.99 (Item #306)


    Electronic Download
    "ISO" format to burn your own DVDs and "MPG" format to play on your computer

    See ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.

    $66.18 (Item #306e)

  • FULL PREVIEW. Click to see a video overview of the somatic exercises for
    psoas muscle pain and to get started for FREE.

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    ENHANCED AGILITY FOR
    ELITE ATHLETES

    Hanna Somatics GoldTM
    by Lawrence Gold

    AN INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR HIGH-LEVEL IMPROVEMENT

    This integrated system of somatically organized movement patterns trains your mind-brain-muscle connection |=|: for better control of movements: timing, positioning, speed, force and coordination |=|: for freedom to move with equal control in a myriad of directions (one at a time of course) |=|: or to relax. Enhance your control over your muscular system for immediate movement (and immediate rest). Develop movements in ways that coordinate your psoas muscles in a more equalized and better-balanced way with your other core movers and stabilizers. Free your pelvis for a better resting position. Improve your capacity to move from your core (understand from experience what that means).

    To begin, I first tell you about how to get the most change in the least possible time from doing these somatic exercises. Then, I introduce each somatic exercise with a video preview and a statement of its purpose. Then, I pace you, position by position, movement through movement, sensation by sensation, connection through connection, release by release, through each exercise. You can already get a sense of the direction this takes you.

    This program, for Elite Athletes, is more challenging than the one All Most People Need. The challenge takes the form of more intricate and complex patterns of coordination. You should be proficient and free in the movements developed in All Most People Need before you do this program because All Most People Need reaches places in you that this program does not reach, or reach in the same way |=|: "preparatory places".

    Both programs begin and end with Locating the Center of Breathing and The Athletes' Prayer for Loose Calves (the center and the peripheries) -- but because your starting conditions are different between last time and this time, these exercises produce new effects -- further and more highly integrated developments of the effects achieved by doing these exercises previously. So, although they are the same, their effects go further.

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    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

    DVD SET

    • 3 DVDs = 228 minutes audio CD training program,
      with electronic download.

      Buy during this visit and get this FREE bonus audio CD: Somatic Transformational Exercises for Easy Walking

    ECONOMIC HARD TIMES SPECIAL $143.99 $122.50 (Item #305)
    (79 minutes)


    Electronic Video Download:

    .ISO format (burn DVDs)
    $88.95 (Item #305e)


    AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD SET (4 CDs): $54.40 + shipping (Item #220)


    Preview:
    Click here and send the blank email message.

    FULL DISCLOSURE

    Bill Arcand wrote:

    Hi

    Please send me more information on how to obtain the introductory material and first lesson on video CD and any other info describing the contents of the full psoas DVD program as well as the Free Preview, Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises. I completed two years of somatic training in the Northampton MA somatics systems institute so i have some background on somatics.

    thanks,
    Bill Arcand

    (follow-up message from Bill, exactly as written:)

    Hi Lawrence,

    Just wanted to say that your DVD, CD, and Manual are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- giving me a whole new perspective on exploring- thanks for sincerity, for sharing your knowledge and for taking me deeper into discovery.

    Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
    Bill

      Hi, Bill,

      Thanks for the note.

      May I use your words on the website, to encourage others?


      Lawrence

    Hi Lawrence,

    I would be honored if it will help inspire others to investigate these wonderful tools.

    Bill


    BioKinetics Program

    Biokinetics/Hanna Somatics


    Developmental Movement Education with Carol Welch
    Certified Hanna Somatic Educator

    A GENTLY INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR GENERAL MOVEMENT HEALTH

    Reflexes 101w
    a basic introduction to somatic developmental exercises

    Do you learn more easily from seeing than from hearing? People get this program to augment learning of The Cat Stretch Program (Somatic Exercises for Neuromuscular Stress) found in Thomas Hanna's book, Somatics: ReAwakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health in summary form. This video shows the exercises and presents the theoretical foundation of somatic education.

    76 minutes running time

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

    DVD: $64.00: (Item #303)


    I liked this video very much. It was well organized and aesthetically pleasing. Clear and simple to follow, the video had an excellent pace which allowed the viewer to participate simultaneously with the producers.

    Consequently, I would recommend this video . . . It is accessible, applicable and appropriate for any audience: practitioners, students, or novices.

    ~ Judith Aston
    (developer, Aston Patterning)

    BioSomatics
    Spine and Joints 102w
    This program consists of movement patterns for the well-being of the spine, the long muscles of the back, and the small muscles joining the vertebrae. Included are cyclic motions that serve to integrate the sense of weight, balance, intention, and direction of movement.
  • VHS/PAL/SECAM: $54.40: (Item #302)


  • DVD: $64.00: (Item #304)
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    A U D I O - SPECIAL PURPOSE INSTRUCTION

    Programmatic Keys to Free and Easy Movement
    Recorded, Step-by-Step Instruction for Self-Development and Self-Healing

    Free Yourself from Back Pain

    For easing your aching back.

    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    A GENTLY INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR LASTING RELIEF

    Recondition Your Back
    UPGRADED from Version 2.2

    FOLLOW-UP PROGRAM FOR "12-MINUTE EMERGENCY BACK SELF-CARE" and "17-MINUTE FIRST AID FOR BACK PAIN"

    This program is for you if you get incomplete or temporary results from physical therapy or chiropractic or if you want to have control over your own recover, independent of therapists.

    People buy this program because it effectively addresses lower-back pain, mid-back and upper back pain, bulging discs, sciatica, and facet joint irritation. You follow evenly paced step-by-step instructions to loosen back muscles with coordinated muscle balancing techniques that work from the inside, out. Pain fades and mobility effortlessly increases with each session. You start softly and gently come free of muscle spasms and pain; you recover comfort and flexibility; as you get better, you progress to exercises that develop strength and prove your back trustworthy. Soon, you're so naturally free that all you have left is gratitude for the relief, and then your ordinary life.

    Audio-CD set
    easiest learning for people who learn best through hearing

    -- and/or --

    Fully Illustrated Guidebook
    In addition to (1) step-by-step instructions, the Guidebook contains (2) tips for larger improvements from each practice session, (3) a sophisticated lesson sequence that weaves the exercises together for higher integrity, and (4) "workarounds" (what to do), to adjust the lesson sequence to your unique needs. Large print for easy reading; illustrated in color. Includes reprints of articles by the author that appeared in The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Somatics -- magazine/journal of the mind-body arts and sciences.

    WORKBOOK: 274 pages, large illustrations, large print, open book lies flat; nine illustrated movement sequences develop freedom of movement.

    AUDIO CD set: 5 DISCS
    nine movement sequences

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

  • PHYSICAL BOOK/INSTRUCTIONAL CD SET (5)
    plus e-book download:
    $101.97 (Item #217)


  • AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD SET (5)
    with e-BOOK download: $63.81 (Item #218)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.


  • PHYSICAL GUIDEBOOK (only): with e-book download $52.80 (Item #110)


    -- BEST VALUES --

  • DOWNLOAD AUDIO-INSTRUCTION (only) -- SPECIAL BONUS --
    This electronic download contains an extra instructional track, a higher-integration form of the first lesson, Spine Waves.
      ECONOMIC HARD TIMES SPECIAL $63.81 $52.80 (Item #209)

      See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.


  • e-BOOK (only):
      ECONOMIC HARD TIMES SPECIAL $32.67 $23.76 (Item #111)

      See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.


  • For preview, click here.

    FULL DISCLOSURE

    SUBJECT: Re: Good Stuff -- Somatics!
    FROM:
    Marelin Thornton
    DATE: 12/14/2007 2:52 PM
    TO: Lawrence Gold

    Hi Lawrence,

    I typed in "relief for back spasms" yesterday and read your article. Then I ordered the ebook, and did some exercises this morning. I can already feel some relief. And I know over time my "back problems" will return to normal, my natural state.

    Thank you so MUCH for making Somatics available!

    I love alternative therapies. I listed your article/site at What Love Does in alternative therapies.

    Marelin Thornton
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Hi, Marelin.

    Thanks for the note and for the listing at What Love Does.

    May I quote you on the website, somatics.com?

    Lawrence Gold
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Sure! I'd be honored. I did them again this morning and I feel even more improved. I plan to keep this up for the sake of my healthy back.

    Marelin

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    Calmly Energizing: Somatic Breathing Training
    to Reduce Stress

    A GENTLE PROGRAM FOR RESTORING EASE

    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    People get this most excellent program because they want to dispel the accumulated effects of stress and recover energy trapped in stress. You can feel better, even with no change of circumstances. Breath more relaxed, easier, fuller.

    Contains an embedded sound signal to entrain the "waking dream" alpha brainwave rhythm to help dissipate sensations of stress, help you activate the somatic exercises in yourself, and make mental room for creative problem-solving ideas to surface in the rest period afterwards.

    Read a review.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1)
    plus INSTANT DOWNLOAD:
    $18.65 (Item #214)
    seven different lessons


    MP3 DOWNLOAD: $12.65 (Item #214e)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.


    Audio Preview: CLICK HERE and send - will return an email message with clickable, download links)

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    Special Program
    to Free Breathing

    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    People buy this program because it increases ease of breathing and breathing capacity, immediately and progressively. Athletes find this program improves endurance.

    Low energy, inability to stay warm, and chronic anxiety are common problems related to breathing. They improve with free breathing -- both free inhalation and free exhalation.

    Breathing exercises and momentary efforts to "breathe well" attempt to free breathing from habituated restrictions, but because they don't change automatic breathing patterns, they are mostly fruitless. To change automatic breathing movements, a training process is necessary that frees habitual restrictions to breathing.

    This program provides just such training addressing your front, back and sides, so that you don't need to put special attention on breathing; you just breathe well.

    If you find full inhalation painful, you probably have tight back muscles, in which case you need Free Yourself from Back Pain. If you have a "stitch" in your ribs, this breathing program may be of some help, but you may need private sessions (one or two) with a Hanna somatic educator for complete resolution of the problem.

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1): $18.65
    65 minutes


    MP3 DOWNLOAD: $12.65

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for
    download instructions.

    65 minutes

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    SuperWalking
    Somatic Exercises That Make It Easy

    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    A GENTLY INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR MOVEMENT HEALTH

    People buy this program because there's no better program around for improving efficiency of walking -- balance, grace, endurance, and speed -- and because what improves walking also improves running. If you're working to rehabilitate yourself after injury this program can help you get you where you want to go more faster and more easily. Recover the pleasure of walking freely at your preferred speed.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1): $18.65 (Item #213)
    10 sessions, 79 minutes

    ELECTRONIC DOWNLOAD: $11.53 (Item #213e)

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    A U D I O - GENERAL MOVEMENT HEALTH INSTRUCTION

    Programmatic Keys to Free and Easy Movement
    Recorded, Step-by-Step Instruction for Self-Development and Self-Healing

    The Cat Stretch

    Overcoming the Myth of Aging
    (also titled, Somatic Exercises for Neuromuscular Stress)

    A GENTLE, INTENSIVE, WHOLE-BODY PROGRAM for MOVEMENT HEALTH
    (different from the "cat and cow" exercise taught elsewhere.)

    guided by Lawrence Gold, certified Hanna somatic educator

    Eight Preparatory Lessons and 10-minute daily regimen

    This program is for you if you have generalized stiffness, aches associated with aging, scoliosis, sciatica, or nagging low back pain.

    You'll feel much more flexible, more energetic, and more comfortable.

    People buy this program because they've found that somatic exercises very effectively do what stretching is supposed to do: improve flexibility and reduce injuries.

    Lawrence Gold paces you step-by-step through the exercises for movement health found in Somatics: Re-awakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health. Recorded with introductory explanations separate from instructional material, so you can use your time efficiently.

    • 1: The Back of the Body
    • 2: The Front of the Body
    • 3: The Sides of Your Trunk
    • 4: Twisting Your Hips and Trunk
    • 5: Freeing Your Neck and Shoulders
    • 6: Twisting Your Hips and Trunk
    • 7: Improving Breathing
    • 8: Improving Walking
    • The Daily "Cat Stretch" (brief routine)

    Sold alone or with The SuperCat Stretch Exercises (see immediately below).

    Audio Preview: CLICK HERE and send - will return an email message with clickable, download links)

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (4)
    plus INSTANT DOWNLOAD:

    $65.25 + shipping (Item #211)

    eight lessons plus the daily Cat Stretch regimen


    MP3 DOWNOAD:
    (Content of all four discs "ZIP" compressed for quicker download -- double-click to open):

    $40.67 TOTAL (Item #211e)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.

    From: Christine Davies
    Date: 17 February 2009 22:28
    To: Lawrence Gold
    Subject: Re: Notification of payment received

    Christine Davies wrote:

    Hi Lawrence

    Many thanks for your email. I ordered (and received) the downloadable version. After just one session with Lesson 1, I am seeing benefits and look forward to completing the lessons and getting on to maintenance with The Cat Stretch each day.

    Please feel free to reference the blog as this has literally been life changing for me.

    My blog is here: http://divecat.multiply.com/tag/health

    Kind regards - Christine

    The SuperCat Exercises - higher integration
    Hanna Somatics Gold
    Beyond Overcoming the Myth of Aging

    developed and guided by Lawrence Gold
    certified Hanna somatic educator

      Better integration, better function. In this program, you feel places release where you didn't even know you had places, and when you move, you feel even better put together and looser. Athletes may get this program to move to a higher level of performance. Evolved forms of Dr. Hanna's original exercises, found in his book Somatics: Re-awakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health, the SuperCat Stretch has sophisticated integration techniques, additional movement elements and mind-body integration built onto the framework of the regular Cat Stretch.

      Forge a better and better-organized mind-body connection that integrates intuition, intention and physical expression -- in other words, better consistency between intentions and tangible results.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (10)
    plus INSTANT DOWNLOAD:
    $128.61 (Item #212)
    Includes the Cat Stretch Program (above, 4 CDs) and the SuperCat Program (6 CDs)


    MP3 DOWNOAD:
    Content of all TEN discs:

    $80.37 TOTAL (Item #212e)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.

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    image of The Five-Pointed Star program The Five-Pointed Star
    - or - The Four Universal Human Movements

    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    A GENTLE, INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR HIGH-LEVEL INTEGRATION

    This program is a "keystone" -- meaning that it integrates movements from the core (or "hara" or "dan tien" or "center of gravity") to the periphery (or extremities). As such, it enhances all somatic exercises done immediately beforehand or all physical activities done afterward.

    This is one of the shorter and more potent programs available. It immediately increases strength, flexibility, and fluidity of movement to a surprising degree. Get it to magnify the effects of any other somatic exercises (or any other exercises you do, for that matter).

    additional effect: emotionally calming and centering. Those who meditate after a session of The Five-Pointed Star notice an enhanced capacity to witness mind, emotions, and body from a neutral, centered space.

    To do this sequence, you need to be fairly supple, already. The Cat Stretch program is good preparation.

    audio compact disc set (2) $35.82 (Item #221)


    MP3 download $21.60 (Item #221e)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.


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    New Seated Exercises CD New Seated Refreshment Exercises
    Hanna Somatics Gold

    by Lawrence Gold

    A GENTLE PROGRAM FOR MOVEMENT HEALTH WHEN YOU CAN'T MOVE AROUND, MUCH

    People buy this program because they get stiff and tired sitting for long periods and hope that this program can make their long hours of sitting easier.

    If you want to know the formula for stiffness and stagnation at the desk, ask any office-worker: relative immobility at a high level of concentration for a prolonged time. Muscles get set and tired at holding a fixed postures. Add coffee to the mix and you get toxic stagnation. No wonder people get stiff and tired at work.

    You can counteract these effects with a systematic sequence of conscious movements in three basic directions: forward/back, twisting and expansion/contraction (breathing). Here's a system of movements that does just that, sitting in your chair in about five minutes. Follow with two or three minutes of walking, and you're refreshed. This sequence of movements was designed for people with limited freedom to move or who must stay seated for long periods -- air travelers, drivers, desk jockeys, the elderly, customer service and tech support team members.

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click and send for international postage cost.

    AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD (1 CD): $12.70 (Item #219)


    MP3 DOWNLOAD: $10.00 (Item #219e)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.

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    image withheld Deeper Lovemaking companion CD set
    by Lorenzo Gold

    Move Freely, Enhance Your Sensuality, and Prolong Your Intimate Occasions

    People who want to explore the connection between sensuality, love and desire purchase this program to enhance their suppleness and control of movement. Contains the complete instructional movement sequences found in the illustrated book (electronic PDF download or bound manual), but without the deeper, psycho-physical practices found in the book Deeper Lovemaking.

    SECTIONS:

    • The Cadenced Breathing
    • Wriggling
    • Twisting
    • Spine Waves
    • The 'Grind' of Bump and Grind
    • Freedom to Spread ...
    • Freeing Your Groin
    • Presenting Your Chest and Pelvis
    • The Pelvic Power Thrust
    • A Few Final Suggestions
    Can be used independently of the book.

    BOOK DESCRIPTION, CLICK HERE.

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (4): $47.95 (Item #215)

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    Pre-Natal and Post-Partum / Post-Abdominal Surgery Somatic Exercises
    Hanna Somatics Gold

    by Lawrence Gold

    A GENTLE, SPECIAL-PURPOSE PROGRAM

    FOR DURING AND AFTER PREGNANCY or ABDOMINAL SURGERY of ANY TYPE

    This program is for you if you've experienced loss of abdominal muscle tone and developed back pain or poor posture. These exercises develop healthy core integration.

    People buy this program because pregnancy (and abdominal surgery) change abdominal muscle tone and weight bearing habits, and somatic exercises retrain muscles, movement and postural organization to a healthy, well-integrated pattern for well-balanced movement and well-coordinated musculature.

    Before delivery, maintain your comfort. After delivery, recover your strength and get back your shape.

    After abdominal surgery, all surgical wounds should have healed before doing these exercises.

    The exercises develop better integration of all four abdominal muscle layers:

      front-to-back movement: rectus abdominus
    • twisting movements: internal and external obliques
    • expansion and contraction movements: transversus abdominus
    and free the back muscles from excessive tension, so they return to a healthy length.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (2): $35.82 (Item #216)

    ELECTRONIC DOWNOAD: $22.13 (Item #216e)

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    Get to Sleep
    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    QUIT INSOMNIACS ANONYMOUS.
    Be lulled to sleep. People buy this program because medicinal sleep aids have undesirable side-effects and this program has desirable side-effects: mental clarity and better daytime physical stamina. The very sounds in this program, apart from the instructional content, "get under the radar" of your mind to guide you into relaxation conducive to sleep. No need to "try" to go to sleep. Preparatory somatic movement exercises relax tensions associated with the waking state. "Waking dream" alpha brainwave rhythms embedded in the sound ease you into the deeper brainwave states of sleep. A Dream Zone soundtrack (additional soundtracks here) draws you into the Blissful Deep.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1): $18.65 (Item #210)

  • preparatory lesson
  • sleep program
  • Dream Zone soundtrack

    Audio Preview: CLICK HERE and send - will return an email message with clickable download links)


    MP3 DOWNLOAD: $12.65 (Item #210e)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.

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    Somatic Exercise Sampler
    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    SELECTIONS FROM THE CAT STRETCH, THE SUPERCAT STRETCH, and THE MAGIC OF SOMATICS
    Explore somatic exercises that free and integrate the muscles of (1) your back and (2) your sides for a lasting change you feel, immediately. Starts you off on The Cat Stretch program.

    You get the CD for one cent; postage/handling = $5.00 (USA, only).

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

    AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1): $5.01

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.
    3 sessions, 68 minutes


    MP3 DOWNLOAD: FREE
    2 sessions, 46 minutes

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    image of Body Meditations cover Body Meditations
    Mindful Movement Meditations
    that Rapidly Improve Mind-Body Integration
    for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Development

    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lawrence Gold

    The path of meditation is a path of increasing freedom. People buy this program because body and mind are interrelated and this program can illuminate the deep unconsciousness of held stress patterns in the body, and thereby aid the transcendence and release of those stress patterns. Aids the disposition of higher mind, the mind of Witnessing.

    As you enter more fully into incarnation as the feeling, moving body, you put yourself together better and relax more deeply and completely. Your mind becomes still. When you become active, again, you find that your mind functions at a higher level of organization -- new clarity of thought, new kinds of thoughts, and creativity. People in psychotherapy may buy this program to speed their progress.

    See these articles for discussions of the mind-body connection:

  • Psychotherapy and Integral Somatic Education
  • Is the Body 'Self' or 'Other'?

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  • ATTENTION: Get this book or The Magic of Somatics, but not both.

    e-BOOK: ECONOMIC HARD TIMES SPECIAL $28.00 $18.60 (Item #113)

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    The Magic of Somatics
    Hanna Somatics Gold

    by Lawrence Gold

    A GENTLE, INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO SOMATICS FOR GENERAL MOVEMENT HEALTH

    Take Back Your Body, Develop Free and Easy Movement and Look Better Than You Have in Years

    A COMPANION TO THE ORIGINAL BOOK ON CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION, Somatics, by THOMAS HANNA

    NOTE: Purchase this program or Body Meditations, but not both.

    People get this very economical introduction to somatics because the somatic exercises found herein ease pain and muscular tension and restore the pleasure of moving well.

    The Magic of Somatics is three "books" in one. The first book consists of step-by-step instructions for eleven somatic exercise sequences; the second and third books come from the transformation of those same eleven sequences by using two advanced techniques described at the end of the book.

    The introductory section of this richly illustrated, introductory, step-by-step instructional book explains the difference between somatic exercises and other kinds of exercise and how to get the best results with the least effort.

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click and send.

  • BOUND AND PRINTED BOOK
    8 1/2" x 11" full-page, coil-bound handbook format that opens flat for easy use. $30.90 (Item #106)

    Buy during this visit and get this FREE bonus:
    The New Seated Refreshment Exercises:


  • e-BOOK (only): ECONOMIC HARD TIMES SPECIAL $23.76 $18.60 (Item #107)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.
    Adobe Acrobat/PDF format with full color illustrations


  • For preview, click here.

    Buy during this visit and get this FREE bonus:
    instructional AUDIO-COMPACT DISC: The New Seated Refreshment Exercises
    A system of conscious movements to refresh flexibility, comfort and vitality in five minutes -- for office workers, drivers, travellers and others chair-bound for long periods.

    Guided audio instruction teaches you the pace to do somatic exercises to get the best results.

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    The Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises

    Hanna Somatics Gold

    by Lawrence Gold

    FOR PROFESSIONALS: Improving Body Awareness, Body Image, Physical Comfort and Mind-Body Integration

    INSTRUCTIONS TO DECREASE OR END CHRONIC PAIN, IMPROVE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND COORDINATION

    This book is for you if you're a movement instructor looking for more instructional material for classes, or if you're a student with a thirst for the kind of improvements somatic exercises provide.

    This step-by-step, text-only exercise guide gives the most comprehensive collection of somatic exercises available in one place for improving physical comfort, flexibility, agility, and physical prowess. Suitable as guided instruction to be read aloud for therapeutic movement classes, individual clients, and student instructors (best if the instructor has learned them thorougly through experience, first).

    I begin each section of somatic exercise instruction with INTRODUCTORY IDEAS, in which I briefly discuss of functional limitations overcome by the somatic exercises to follow and what good function looks and feels like. I begin each exercise with THE ESSENCE OF THE MOVEMENT, a key to getting best results; and EXPECTED RESULTS, the intended outcome for the action patterns used in the exercise to follow.

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  • BOUND AND PRINTED BOOK $97.95 (Item #103)

    Buy during this visit and get these FREE bonuses: SPECIAL AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS ON COMPACT DISCS (set of 2):

    • Calmly Energizing: Somatic Breathing Training to Reduce Stress (1 CD)
    • Get to Sleep (1 CD)


  • e-BOOK (only): $68.00 (Item #104)

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    FULL DISCLOSURE

    message from a young purchaser
    (reprinted with permission)

    Hi Lawrence, I got the download. Right away, I got a lot from your knowledge today. I was able to eliminate my pain pretty fast. Very cool. Looking forward to more studying/practicing.

    Thanks,

    steev dinkins
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Also, an update - I was dreading 12 hours worth of flying round trip from San Francisco to Boston for the fourth of July this past weekend. I knew ordinarily I'd be in massive pain by then end of these flights. By using your techniques, I was amazed to find myself able to limit and control the pain unlike I'd known before. Essentially I was in a lot of motion for the duration of the flight, as opposed to sitting "perfectly still" and hoping not to cramp. Now I know to stay in motion and listen to what is out of balance or needing stimulation / relaxing.

    I know I have a ways to go to eliminate the quadratus lumborum pain, but I now feel I can actually make better progress than I have in the last 2 months of yoga, weight training, acupuncture and chiropractic work.

    Thanks much again,

    steev

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    Deeper Lovemaking
    instructional playbook with optional
    CD set
    Hanna Somatics Gold
    by Lorenzo Gold

    Move Freely, Enhance Your Sensuality, and Prolong Your Intimate Occasions

    People who want to explore the connection between sensuality, love and desire buy this program because it offers new directions for exploring intimacy and confers added flexibility and sensitivity to lovemaking. This program is a path into deeper, more complete union at physical and emotional levels -- and helps show places where we are stuck and can grow more deeply. It enhances other practices, such as those found in The Kama Sutra, Masterful Lover programs, or the teachings of Mantak Chia, guiding you to awaken feeling intensity -- both physical and emotional.

    INTERLUDES

    • The Whole-Body Orgasm
    • Pacing Yourself
    • The Advantage of Waiting
    • Attention
    • The Subtle Touch
    • The Transcendent Kiss
    • Boundaries
    • The Enticement of Teasing
    • The Art of Rhythm

    PLAYBOOK: 198 pages, large print for easy reading, color illustrations of exercises to improve sensation, movement and flexibility
    AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD SET: four CDs to guide you to suppleness.

    OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.

  • e-PLAYBOOK/AUDIO CD SET: $69.96 (Item #222) -- BEST VALUE

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.


  • AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD SET (only): $47.69 (Item #215)


  • e-PLAYBOOK (only): $30.96 (Item #112)

    See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for download instructions.


    For preview, click here.

  • Eros Soma

    Beyond the first seeing and captivation
    when allure becomes a fleeting touch
    and then away with a backward glance
    and this teasing leads to anticipation
    and soon, to movement against,
    and movement against to the swelling of passion
    enwrapped with arms and legs around
    and all interpenetrated and clasped
    in a yearning that seeks only more and closer and deeper
    my attention is filled by you, all you
    and time becomes now, all now.

    When the pressure of your gaze
    invades my being
    and the force of my being
    pushes against you
    I feel you and feel into you
    and you and I are suddenly small
    in the mystery beyond all life,
    connected and one in mystery at the core of our being.

    I feel to the mystery of your core
    and discover that it contains us both.
    We feel the mystery and passion
    until the mystery and passion of it all
    dissolves us
    in fierce light.

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    Consultation by Telephone and Customized Program Assembled for Your Needs

    A SATISFACTION-GUARANTEED SERVICE

    Consultation by telephone with Lawrence Gold, Certified Hanna Somatic Educator #3 (third person conferred certification), can be arranged by pointing and clicking on (i.e., "following") the button at the end of this description -- $50.00/30-minute increment.

    Lawrence Gold was one of the thirty-eight people trained by the developer of Hanna Somatic Education, Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. From 1996 to 1998, he practiced at The Wellness and Rehabilitation Center of Watsonville Community Hospital; his writings have appeared in The American Journal of Pain Management, The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, The Massage and Bodywork Quarterly, and elsewhere .

    A partial list of conditions with which he may help you can be found by following this link. This page will remain behind the window that opens.

    In your consultation by telephone, ask or tell Lawrence Gold about your problem. He will ask about your history of injuries, surgeries, and your general condition.

    If somatic education is likely to help, he will recommend and prepare a customized program for your unique need -- or you may apply the fee to four clinical sessions with Lawrence Gold, personally, in Santa Fe, NM. If, in his opinion, somatic education cannot help you, or if you elect to purchase only the program(s) you wish (rather than a customized program), he will refund all but a $50.00 consultation fee.


    (Item 211C)
    The fee for satisfaction-guaranteed consultation-by-telephone and a customized program assembled from the various instructional media available is $500.00.


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    The fee for a consultation-by-telephone is $50.00/thirty-minute increment.


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