{"id":1101,"date":"2017-01-13T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/a-vignette-in-the-spirit-of-thomas-hanna\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:38:00","slug":"a-vignette-in-the-spirit-of-thomas-hanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/a-vignette-in-the-spirit-of-thomas-hanna\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vignette in the Spirit of Thomas Hanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

A V<\/span>ignette in the S<\/b>pirit of T<\/span>homas H<\/span>anna
\nfor those who recognize his voice in writing
\nand a point of interest to those who don’t …<\/p>\n

The Wave 1 training was held in a large, carpeted lounge room on the
\ncampus of Dominican College, in San Rafael, California. The walls of
\n the room were lined on three sides with lounge chairs. A low, padded
\n“Feldenkrais” table stood at the center, a low, four-legged stool, next
\n to it. The stool had a circular cushion on it that always made the sound of escaping gas as one sat down on it. That was Dr. Hanna’s stool.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nInto that room, at the far end from the door, near the wall, to the
\nleft of the rolling blackboard, Dr. Hanna (everyone else called him,
\nTom) had placed a stand from which dangled, suspended by a short chain, a
\n human skeleton, who, he told us, was named, Darwin.<\/p>\n

It happened
\nthat on the fourth of July, that summer, as we filed into the room for
\nthe beginning of the days training, we noticed something different about
\n Darwin. There, at the far end of the room, next to the rolling
\nblackboard, Darwin wore about his shoulders, an American flag.<\/p>\n

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\nThomas Hanna was the first developer of the form of clinical somatic education known as, Hanna Somatic Education — and, a total rascal. He was known for once having had dinner guests wait for dinner until midnight, while he played the guitar and sang — only for the chili con carne to be too hot to eat.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nMore written about Thomas Hanna in, A Paean to Thomas Hanna<\/i><\/span>
\nby the same author.<\/span> <\/i><\/div>\n

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A Vignette in the Spirit of Thomas Hanna for those who recognize his voice in writing and a point of interest to those who don’t … The Wave 1 training was held in a large, carpeted lounge room on the campus of Dominican College, in San Rafael, California. The walls of the room were lined … <\/p>\n

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