Somatic Movement was developed to make inner alignment, a meditative mind, health and bodily freedom easily accessible to everyone.
Somatic Movement encourages people to listen to the messages from within the body and to discover their idiosyncratic movement vocabulary.
Somatic Movement emphasises on the heedful and caring perception of bodily processes and movements. The somatic dialogue, the sensing as question and answer enhances self-organisation and development of a person.
By the means of Somatic Movement we encounter the wisdom of the lively experience, which results from an "attention to" instead of "control" or "mastering" of processes of life. The somatic movement is a discovery by nature.
The practice of Somatic Movement:
Easy Positions
Effortless Movements
Mindful Attention
Joyful Breathing
Feel mindfully the qualities of your body
Feel your weight
Feel your breath
Listen to yourself mindfully and from within yourself to find your own wisdom and to develop your own health.
Learn the form
Forget the form
Listen to the answer of your body
Find your personal movement
The quality of your feeling is more important than the form of your body’s position.
Move freely
No Pain – No Risk of Injury – No Over-Ambition – No Guru
Benefits:
• Harmonises body and mind
• Improves alignment and micro-coordination of the body
• Releases tensions and pain
• Leads to ease and beauty in movement
• Improves alignment and coordination through improvisation and exploration on gravity and touch
• Improves health
• Changes movement and the whole life
• Opens emotional channels for the creative process
Somatic Movement is the ideal supplement and preparation for other movement and dance techniques (such as Contact Improvisation). Somatic Movement simplifies the principles of the Physio-Mental Development method. www.pme.or.at
Dieter Rehberg
