Practicing Somatics Class
A movement class for your mind-body connection
A 60 minute virtual class via Zoom, $25 per class
Class recordings are available if you can’t attend live.
Life is filled with things that pull us away from being in connection with ourselves.
Somatic work invites you back to the basics; back into relationship with your whole mind-body-self.
These classes include somatic teachings, a series of progressing movements, and practical activities that help you weave the class experience directly into your life.
Dates & Topics
Classes meet Saturdays 10am-11am EST on Zoom, $25
Class recordings are available for those who cannot attend live.
Upcoming Class Themes:
March 29th - Establishing Your Relationship to the Ground
April 12th - Balancing Your Body
April 26th - Breathing as a Full Body Activity
May 10th - Building the Muscle of Mindfulness
May 31st - Finding Your Back and How it Supports Your Movement
No prior movement or somatic experience required, newcomers and those curious about what this class entails are all welcome.
Benefits of the Practicing Somatics Class:
Deepen the connection to yourself
Increase self awareness and your ability to sense information from your body
Understand how somatic principles, mindfulness, basic anatomy and physiology apply to your body and life (see schedule for class topics)
More access to rest, regulation, and unwinding of stress in the body
Move your body through a range of movements that increase flow and connectivity
Build the muscle of mindfulness and practice shifting your attention to support being present
Reduce stress and calm an overthinking or over-intellectualizing mind
Broaden your sense of space and time to think, feel, and respond
Classes Include:
Short somatic teachings based on a unique theme (see schedule for topics)
40 minutes of guided movement designed to support deepening and integration of the theme (no movement experience necessary)
Experiential awareness exercises
Practical integration of class information into your daily life
This class may be a good fit for you if…
You’re not sure how you feel or what’s happening in your body throughout the day
You struggle with slowing down or find it hard to make time to connect to yourself
You spend most of your time in “doing" mode and need support to shift to “being” mode
You already enjoy learning about the body and somatics and want to deepen your experiential understanding of it
You’re a helping professional or body practitioner that needs your own space to center back on yourself
What this class is not…
This class is not a fitness or exercise class though some movements may challenge you or be new to your body
This class is not therapy or a substitute to advice you might seek from a mental health or physical health professional
This class is not didactic, this is a movement-based experiential class
What is somatics?
Somatics is a field made up of many modalities all of which support a person’s experience and connection to their body. Soma means body. Somatics is inherent; it’s our innate sense of our experiences. We experience the world through our senses and our movements in relationship to the world around us. Somatic work helps to connect us back to the awareness of our internal experiences. These perceptions impact the way we feel, carry our bodies, respond to stimuli, and interact with the world.
Accessibility Information:
Class is provided with audio guidance (Alice’s voice, in English) along with visual examples of the movements throughout class. Class may also include visual images or language to read and look at in the somatic teachings. If you have any accessibility requests please contact me.
What if I can’t attend live?
Recordings of each week’s class will be available! Just register for class and check the box that says you can’t come to class but would like to receive the recording :-)
“This class has given me a different understanding of what it feels like to be grounded and aligned. Alice has helped me learn to give my nervous system much needed support, and find practical ways to pause and reset my mind and body.”
— EJH
“Because the classes are geared towards building our individual ability to notice, sense, and understand ourselves as a whole, her approach has helped me bring awareness into my every day experiences. I can now connect the awareness I have when participating in class to where I need it most in my day.”
— JM
About Alice
Alice is a somatic educator and therapist working in New York, Maine, and virtually. These classes are a synthesis of her experience as an Alexander Technique teacher as well as decades long study in the field of somatics that includes training in: The Hakomi Method, Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Neuroplastic Pain, Mental Health Counseling, MindBody Coaching, Yoga, dance and improvisation. She brings curiosity and an empathic, non-judgmental approach to her teaching and respects the innate wisdom of each unique person and the embodied history they bring to the work.