Somatic Systems Inc (SMAS)

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Text-only excerpt from e-mail sent by Somatic Systems on 9/1/15




Somatic Exercise Teacher
Training — Level I

New class September 19-21, 2015


LAST WEEK FOR HUGE DISCOUNT:
~ up to $300 off! ~

~Exciting opportunity…
Convenient & comprehensive 3-day course~

Dear xxxxxxx,

For years movement teachers have sought a way to give their movement students a way to obtain the revolutionary benefits of Somatics, but either didn't wish to operate a hands-on practice, or were not ready or available for full professional training in Somatics. Now, you can undergo complete training as a Somatic Exercise Teacher in a significantly shortened format.


Benefits to your students & clients

Even if your students do not need (or are not interested in) receiving Clinical Somatics sessions, the Clinical Somatic Exercise method you will learn is critical for...
•any movement student or any person as support for successfully doing other movement work such as yoga or martial arts;
•warmup, performance enhancement, and injury prevention for anyone who does any exercise, from walking or jogging to aggressive strength training;
•serious and professional athletes for warmup, performance enhancement, and injury prevention;
•sport coaches and dance teachers who want to optimize or expand warm-up and rehab work as well as learn to teach movement better;
•rehabilitation and recovery from injury;
•daily practice to reverse and prevent chronic pain, musculoskeletal disorders, and repetitive stress relief;
•easy, effective stress relief;
•daily practice for meditation, relaxation, or internal arts;
•life-long fitness, youthful movement, vitality, wellness, and avoidance of much of the pain and decline of aging — for everyone;
•D.I.Y. reversal of and recovery from the daily and life-long aches and pains and injuries of everyday life — for everyone.


Benefits to you

While this training does not qualify you to work hands-on to utilize all of the techniques and produce all of the benefits described in Thomas Hanna's book Somatics, this program will provide you with the next highest level of expertise in this field. You will be thoroughly and authoritatively trained in the science and methods of Somatics as applied to the exercise & movement protocols, and will learn a series of exercises, sequences, and classes to teach and coach students. No matter what your previous movement or bodywork background, there is no way to properly deliver these sophisticated exercises and therapeutic interventions and provide their powerful benefits without this professional training or the complete Clinician professional training.

While this work can be a stand-alone system of movement training, this course will also greatly enhance any forms of movement, sports, dance, exercise, training, or rehabilitation that you may already be versed in.

This Somatic Exercise Teacher training program is perfect for...
•Existing movement teachers who wish to properly and fully deliver the benefits of Somatics to their students;
•Aspiring movement teachers (even if you are not already trained or certified in another movement teaching field) who wish to provide the ground-breaking flexibility, fitness, pain relief, athletic training, injury prevention, and injury rehabilitation benefits of Somatics;
•Individuals who can't yet afford full certification as a Clinician, but wish to work (and earn) in the field of Somatics right away;
•Employees of movement or fitness centers, chiropractic or physical therapy offices, or orthopedic and rehab facilities.

Training Credentials

Somatic Systems Institute first developed this program in 2008, as a response to the growing demand and need for greater access to the profound and powerful benefits of Clinical Somatics by the public and existing movement, fitness, and healthcare professionals — as well as by aspiring movement teachers. We have continued to fine-tune and innovate the course to make it more accessible and convenient to wider audiences and needs — while, most importantly, still maintaining and enhancing its integrity and fidelity to the principles, science, methods, and efficacy of the larger authentic field of Clinical Somatic Education we have pioneered, taught, and certified for two decades.

This course may be brief, but it is academically, clinically, and methodically substantive. We have employed our time-tested teaching approaches to not only produce teachers who are competent and "smart" about the work, but also well-grounded in the field and profession. The course's focus is not on simply teaching a few blindly executed routines (although trainees will in fact be provided with routines and turn-key protocols as well) — but on underlying skills, teaching strategies, and best practices, as well as on mastering the essential underlying principles of the work. This means becoming authoritative, thoughtful teachers who can apply these principles broadly to their larger personal and professional practices and methods, to other movement theories, and to the Somatic Exercise teaching itself — so even without additional training, you can start to construct your own solutions and lessons for your clients individually and in exercise, movement, and fitness classes you offer.

The same teaching approaches that provide depth also make advanced concepts accessible and meaningful to a wide array of audiences, backgrounds, credentials, and skill levels. Therefore, people outside of or new to the movement, fitness, or healthcare fields are encourage to apply. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Test-drive the Somatic Exercise Teacher Training

We have another, convenient and informative opportunity coming up as well: We are offering our one- or two-day seminars, The Fundamentals of Clinical Somatic Education, September 17 & 18. If you are considering Somatics training but want more experience, are looking for a much shorter or more preliminary immersion in Clinical Somatics, simply want to benefit from Somatics in-depth regardless of further professional training, or have any questions about the program and want to connect or clarify in person... Then we can't recommend this class enough! We strongly encourage to join us, and we hope to see you there.

Plus, as an added bonus, these seminar satisfies your main prerequisite for the Somatic Exercise Teacher Training program.

Click here for more information about The Fundamentals of Clinical Somatic Education or to register for it. Or scroll down further in this email message for complete information about it.


Click here for more information, email us, contact us online, or call us at [phone] and we'll be happy to assist you with the training program or the Fundamentals of Clinical Somatic Education seminar.


We hope to see you soon,

Your friends at Somatic Systems Institute






The Fundamentals of Clinical Somatic Education is a comprehensive introduction to the essential science, principles, methods, and philosophy of Clinical Somatics. The material in this course is comprised of some of the most valuable and exciting portions of the Clinical Somatic Education Professional training curriculum, presented in a short, manageable time-frame. The principles and practices of Somatics taught in this course will provide immediate and practical benefit to laypeople and professionals alike by providing professionals a solid foundation in somatic theory and practice that will augment their work, while also enhancing one's personal health practices, sports, activities, and wellness.

Whether or not you plan to continue on to full professional Somatic Clinical or Exercise training, this seminar provides must-have essentials for healthcare, movement, sports, dance, and education professionals of all kinds and will support work in the fields of psychology, development, stress relief, trauma recovery, wellness, education, and coaching.

Prospective attendees include...
•bodyworkers and movement
•professionals
•massage therapists
•physical therapists
•fitness & personal trainers
•medical professionals and others who work with patients experiencing injury or chronic pain
•people interested in or considering the Clinical Somatic Education Professional Training Program or the Somatic Exercise Teacher training program
•or anyone interested in Somatic health or using Somatic principles and methods to help others or themselves


We have been teaching this material to our professional training students for decades, and we never cease to be amazed by how much they benefit from just a few hours of information. The material is accessible and useful to wide and diverse audiences and needs: Our curriculum uses best educational practices so that bodyworkers or laypeople who have limited knowledge of medical physiology and neuroscience can learn these critical concepts easily. Massage therapists, body workers, yoga and movement teachers, and others have told us that the information quickly enhances their practices (and their own personal practices). In turn, those with advanced medical knowledge find that this framework is a newer and more efficacious approach for understanding the physiology and remedy for their patients' pain and chronic, intractable functional disorders. No matter how much people have read about Somatics, it takes time in a professional educational environment with the correct material to really clarify this critical knowledgeable to understand and apply it.

Either one or both of these days also serve as the ideal "test-drive" of our Somatic Exercise Teacher training program. If you are considering further course of study in Somatics, this should help you make a final decision. Additionally, the material in this course is a prerequisite for the Somatic Exercise Teacher training (and for the Clinican training), so if you ultimately decide to enroll, you have already completed the majority of your preparatory requirements!

While rich with advanced neuromuscular topics, this course features material that is accessible for all audiences from experienced healthcare professionals to aspiring practitioners without a medical background, so you can understand this for yoursel f and clients. We'll focus on immediately usable information for both healthcare professionals working with patients in pain or injury or chronic illnesses of the musculoskeletal system; movement and training professionals working with athletes, movers, and dancers; or bodyworkers, massage therapists, physical therapists, and assistants working with the vast majority of their patients.


Here's some
of what you'll learn
in this course:



Fundamentals, Part 1


•The neurophyisiology of motor control, learning, stress & trauma responses, chronic pain and musculoskeletal issues.
•The physiological mechanisms and process of Sensory Motor Amnesia — how it occurs in the body, how it directly or indirectly causes and maintains up to 90% of chronic pain & musculoskeletal disfunction, and how it impacts or contributes to other medical conditions.
•How Somatic disfunction such as sensory motor amnesia directly and indirectly causes many of the conditions and problems associated with aging, degenerative diseases, atrophy and decline of movement performance
•Variables and contributing factors to limitations and decline in athletic performance
•The most common stress reflexes in the body and detailed explanations of how each contributes to major musculoskeletal and medical disorders. The response of the body to trauma, emotional states, anxiety, depression fear, danger, abuse, and other and stress
•The "big 3 reflexes" of "green-light", "red-light", and trauma reflex — the most common and damaging responses in the body to daily living and stress. Detailed and practical examination of the associated conditions and damage, and the methods of reversing, repairing and preventing these issues.
? •Identifying, understanding, and addressing these reflexes, posture and postural issues, and somatic distortions.





Fundamentals, Part 2


•The science and techniques of Clinical Somatic Education's proprietary treatment methods
? •Clinical Somatics applications for aging and other public health crises
? •Foundations of Somatic philosophy
? •The differences between Clinical Somatic Education and other healthcare and movement education methods.
? •The science and practice of pandiculation
? •The techniques to comprehensively replace traditional stretching, eliminating injuries and rapidly improving flexibility, functional fitness, and injury prevention and recovery
? •Foundational discussions of proprioception, proprioceptive disorders, and how these are addressed with Somatics
? •Applications of Somatics to daily use of self, including the most common and most potentially damaging motor routines such as sitting, standing, walking, bearing weight, sleeping, etc.
? •An overview of routines and approaches for life-long Somatic health.


Special Savings Offer

The discounted pricing for this seminar — $150 each day, or $250 for both days — is already a special value, but there's more:

If you also register for the Somatic Exercise Teacher Training course when you register for the Fundamentals course, the price of the course goes down from $250 to $200. That's 50% off the full price of $400!!


Special
Early Bird
pricing:



$100 savings!

normally, $750...this week $650


Just apply by
September 6th

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Complete our express application online, and receive a decision this week


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$200 additional savings

~ 50% off!! ~


on Fundamentals of Clinical Somatic Education seminar, when registering
for this training.
Only $200
…normally $400!


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about this seminar…


This Professional Training Program
is NCBTMB approved,
and provides over 20
hours of CEU's
(nationally recognized)
in addition to the certifications and other benefits of the training itself.

contact us for more information

Special~
Early Bird Pricing

Normally $400

until Sept 6:
$150/day
or…
$250 for both days


or…
only $200 for both days!
(50% off!)

when you register
for the Somatic Exercise Teacher Training


Friday
September 17 & 18
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM


Somatic Systems Institute
Northampton, MA


questions?
need help?

877-586-2555
[e-mail]
or contact us online


Extra Credit...
Massage therapists & bodyworkers
can receive 8 CEUs
(nationally recognized)
for this course
from national
accrediting board
NCBTMB.

contact us for more information


taught by Steven Aronstein

Steven Aronstein is founding Director and President of Somatic Systems Institute and the Somatics Professional Training Program. A leader and founding developer of modern Clinical Somatics, and in practice for three decades, Steven is one of the most most senior and longest practicing in the field, as well as the first person to develop and operate a Somatics training after Thomas Hanna's original class.

Steven discovered Somatics while disabled and suffering from debilitating fibromyalgia in his early twenties -- using Somatics to recover completely and resume a normal life and full functionality, healthier than before. (Read more about this…)

Steven has worked in K-6 education; and works with the High/Scope Foundation's Education Through Movement program. Steven has studied Aikido, Tai Chi, and Qigong, and pursued a professionally tutored study of holistic Japanese medicine. He takes a special interest in chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, nutrition, and related matters.



Somatic Systems Institute
Pleasant Street • Northampton, MA 01060

http://somatics.org/training/schedule/csmt