Martha Peterson – The Somatic Freedom With the Pandiculation Technique 2024

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• Martha Peterson – The Somatic Freedom With the Pandiculation Technique 2024Learn how to free yourself from the root cause of pain in your body — rather than just treating symptoms — and reset your whole body to function more optimally.Receive simple but powerful techniques to reverse chronic pain… calm your nervous system… transform unhealthy habitual movements… and reduce physical and emotional limitations you may have due to trauma held in your body.Imagine how different your quality of life might be if you could easily reduce and even eliminate chronic pain, and move with a renewed feeling of safety, freedom… and even joy!The truth is that limitations in our body have a big impact on our sense of happiness and freedom.

• If our body is stuck in pain, constriction, and deterioration, little else that we’re doing will give us the fulfilling life we truly desire.Too often, we assume that pain and bodily challenges are something we “just have to deal with,” not understanding that they’re due to residual patterns that can be cleared, healed, and released.What’s become increasingly clear from leading-edge somatic practices is that our whole body is far more malleable than we give it credit for — and we can, often quite rapidly, heal many of the things we believe we’re stuck with.The root of much of our pain is trauma.

• Throughout our lives, most of us experience some kind of trauma, which can result in continuous stress, chronic pain, and habitual movements that keep us stuck in uncomfortable and unhelpful patterns — both physically and emotionally.Trauma (even low-grade traumas) tends to “freeze” certain habits and patterns in the body, which eventually result in breaking down of tissues and structures.But they don’t have to stay that way.According to Martha Peterson, founder of Essential Somatics® and author of Move Without Pain, we all have a tendency to unconsciously adapt to the unresolved traumas in our lives.Martha teaches us, however, that no matter how much pain and discomfort we may experience, we all have the capacity to learn simple skills to release the old patterns and then begin to self-regulate our nervous system.Join Martha in a highly experiential and profoundly healing 7-module journey to discover how to sense where you have tension in your body, identify its root cause…… and free yourself from the traumas of a lifetime through powerful yet gentle somatic movement techniques that are designed to maintain the health and functional integrity of your myofascial system — to relax your muscles and release the chronic discomfort that may be holding you back from living your most self-actualized life.Martha will show you how to transform your body’s default response of fight/flight/freeze to one of joy, freedom, bliss, and heightened potential.

• She’ll show you how you can easily release yourself from even very old traumas.At the heart of her work is the powerful somatic movement technique of pandiculation (what Martha calls “nature’s reset reflex” because it’s used so much in the animal kingdom) — an easy-to-learn set of practices that enables you to improve your brain’s ability to sense and move your muscles with ease as it calms your nervous system and allows deep relaxation.Pandiculation is a complex sounding word but it involves a series of simple, yet highly effective ways to stretch the soft tissues involuntarily — which is thought to be more effective and natural than stretching — as a way to release muscle tension, reduce pain, improve posture, and increase mobility.As the seven modules of this course progress, Martha will take you through a perfectly designed, systematic process of relearning how to move, much like babies discover themselves and progressively develop the capacity to control their muscles.She’ll lead you in somatic practices to restore freedom from head to toe — so you canregain balance, improve breathing, have better posture, and enjoy comfort in everything you do.During this highly experiential course filled with somatic movement practices, you’ll:Discover how to heal the underlying causes of your pain — not just your symptoms — and learn easy practices that will reset your whole body to function at optimal healthBe guided in simple and safe somatic movement techniques in every session that “unstick” your body from harmful repetitive movements and restore your freedom of movement from head to toe… by reconnecting your mind with your bodyExperience the powerful technique of pandiculation, a stretching of soft tissues much like cats and dogs intuitively do, to reduce overall tension in your nervous system and release chronic pain and tension — and reclaim your sense of selfUnderstand how Sensory Motor Amnesia is showing up in your body as chronically contracted muscles… causing unhelpful patterns of posture, movement, and thoughtsLearn how to use the miraculous workings of your brain to sense and regulate tension, so you can experience greater freedom of movement, self-actualization, self-agency, and emotional wellbeingCreate a daily somatic practice with small movements you can do anytime, anywhereUncover what’s possible as you continue on your path to achieve your highest potential once you can move with more easeAnd much more…Martha’s positive energy is contagious and her background in dance and massage therapy provides her with a unique skillset to mentor you in this work…… as she reveals how pain and restriction of movement are functional, rather than structural disorders of the nervous system.Through the work of Thomas Hanna — a professor, philosopher, pioneer in the field of somatics, and founder of Hanna Somatic Education — Martha learned the skill of self-sensing as the key to regaining freedom of movement and achieving long-term pain relief.Hanna taught that when our bodies become habitually contracted due to emotional stress and physical injury, muscles lose their ability to fully relax… and we develop a condition known as Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) — which results in ongoing tightness, stiff joints, and persistent pain.Yet, we have the choice to respond to stressors in healthier ways.Because you created these habitual responses in your body, you do have the power to reverse them — allowing your skeleton to return to a healthier state by teaching your muscles how to release.In every session, Martha will guide you in somatic movement techniques and offer specific skills for each area of your body, to unlearn those stress response reflex patterns and restore fluid, effortless, joyful movement — with practices you can easily do on your own.

• Even if you feel you’ve tried everything to relieve your chronic pain, these practices offer you the ability to finally experience long-term relief.And, as you learn more about SMA and the impact it has on your body, you’ll be better equipped to prevent injuries and other medical issues, as well as diminish depression and anxiety.By the end of the program, you’ll have a full toolbox of practical, easy-to-use techniques that will transform how you feel in your body and your life — to go from pain to possibility.