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This new exclusive material is part of the Feldenkrais & Thomas Hanna SOMATICS Integration group buy.This group buy is still open & the forum is listed at: Yoga with Eleanor Criswell, from “Thinking Allowed” with Dr. Jeffrey MishloveAuthor: Eleanor Criswell-Hanna with Jeffrey MishloveDescription: 1 DVD ripped to 2 .AVI files.                     Somatic Yoga with Eleanor Criswell, from “Thinking Allowed” with Dr. Jeffrey MishloveThis two-part program presents an in-depth discussion of Somatic Yoga and its benefits for personal health and well-being, followed by a guided demonstration that leads you through a series of highly effective Somatic Exercises (The Cat Stretch) and somatic yoga postures. (90-min.)Use with the Somatic Exercise Yoga CDs.Posted at: Somatic Education (also known as Hanna Somatics) is a rapidly effective form of neuromuscular (mind-body training) movement re-education that goes directly to the root cause of most chronic muscular pain: the brain and the way in which it senses and organizes the muscles and movement. By learning to regain both awareness, sensation, and motor control of muscles – an educational process that can only be achieved through movement – the brain can remember how to relax and move the muscles properly. This process of sensory motor training creates improved muscle function and enhanced sensory awareness.Hanna Somatic Education is a safe, gentle and common sense approach to reverse chronic pain. It is the only method of pain relief and sensory motor training that targets the condition of SENSORY MOTOR AMNESIA (SMA).Sensory Motor Amnesia is the condition of chronically-tight muscles that have learned to stay contracted due to repeated and reflexive response to stress such as accidents, injuries, surgeries, repetitive tasks, and on-going emotional stress. The resulting patterns of muscular contraction that develop result in such common conditions as chronic back pain, neck, shoulder and hip pain, limited mobility, joint pain, poor posture, shallow breathing, and uneven leg length.Hanna Somatic Education particularly helps relieve pain and disability associated with common health complaints such as: headaches, stiff or painful joints and muscles, fatigue, poor posture, breathing problems, impaired movement, accident trauma and whiplash effects, back pain, repetitive use/stress injuries.Yoga is a way of life involving attitudinal shifts, postures for flexibility and strength, sensory awareness, breathing exercises and meditation. In part one of this two part program Dr. Eleanor Criswell presents a perspective combining the classical yoga of Patanjali with modern somatic psychology. She demonstrates a basic pranayama breathing exercise, and discusses experiences that occur in yoga meditation, particularly sensations of light and sound.Dr. Criswell discusses the somatic principles of conscious body awareness. Then she demonstrates the “somatic cat stretch” exercise developed by Thomas Hanna. This is followed by a series of yoga postures or asanas including the corpse, the shoulderstand, the plough, the fish, the bow, and the tree. She concludes with the pratyahara relaxation exercise.Eleanor Criswell, Ed.D., is a professor of psychology at Sonoma State University in California. She is past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and is a founding director of the Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. She is director of the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training and is editor of Somatics: A Magazine/Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences. This program is based on Dr. Criswell’s book How Yoga Works: An Introduction to Somatic Yoga. The late Thomas Hanna, Ph.D., was the founder of the discipline of somatics, author of the book Somatics, editor of the magazine Somatics and director of the Institute for Somatic Training and Research in Novato, California.The web site for this material is at:http://www.somaticsed.comPlease keep this a elib exclusive, thanks.The group buy is open and at:: Ratio FreeElite/VIP: 3 weeksPower Users (PU): 8 weeksUsers: Upgrade to PU or contribute at:, Mazen