How to Give Yourself the Maximum Benefit of Somatic Exercises
1. Learn to pay attention
2. Build Better Habits
3. Progress Responsibly
- Nourish self awareness through the breath and sensing
- Pay attention to the process and internal sensations
- Break movements into smaller parts and get truthful
- Move slowly--the slower you go the more you will perceive
- Keep movements novel/new (be curious)
2. Build Better Habits
- Build awareness and then learn to self correct
- Move gently, with the least possible effort and without force
- Support from your center out to limbs
- Radiate from your central axis (the spine)
3. Progress Responsibly
- Stay pain free, patient, and positive
- Align through gravity and the body's brilliance rather than fall into habit and patterns
- Use self sensing with all movement patterns
- Build competency responsibly (simple to complex; low load to high load; slow to spontaneous)