Free Workshop: Somatic Movement for Nervous System Regulation

Thursday, 1/30/2025

 
FREE Virtual Workshop:
Somatic Movement Support for Nervous System Regulation

with Donna Brooks
Master of Somatic Movement Therapy & Education •
Certified Yoga Therapist at Original Body Wisdom


POSTPONED – NEW DATE COMING SOON!

FREE

 

Calm your nervous system with somatics. Somatics is calming and centering for your nervous system because it lets your body lead you into ease and recovery from the inside out.

Many of us do good things for our bodies – we eat well, we exercise and think good thoughts – but we miss out on the calm that our nervous system can feel by simply moving with somatics. Somatic Movement is about deepening the Body- Brain connection and improving our brain plasticity. 

Calming your nervous system with somatics is a breath practice, a movement practice, and a kind practice.

Somatic movement can help you:

  • Create more time and space
  • Feel a pause between event and reaction
  • Stop working so hard at understanding and fixing
  • Increase rest and regeneration
  • Soothe an overly active mind
  • Reduce anxiety and agitation
  • Help with trauma recovery

 


Helpful blog post and video links for pain relief assistance through somatic movement:

Somatic Practices for Healthy Posture -
- 8 Somatic Breathing Practices to Do Today -
Using Somatics for Better Posture -


 
MEET YOUR HOST: DONNA BROOKS, BS, RSMT, C-IAYT

Donna is a certified Yoga Therapist and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator with a bachelor's degree from SUNY Stony Brook. She has been teaching yoga since 1981 and somatics since 1993. She is trained in Iyengar yoga and has studied with Somatics pioneers like Thomas Hanna, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Emilie Conrad. She's also learned about the geometry and physics of movement and momentum with tennis pro Art Carrington as well as through Contact Improvisation, and she is even trained in the healing groundwork of Judith Blackstone.

In the 1980s, Donna worked with Karin Stephen to teach yoga to AIDS patients. She has also presented her approach to using tensegrity and fascia for Parkinson's patients at Dartmouth—Hitchcock Parkinson's conferences, and offered movement labs at Northfield Mount Hermon School, the University of Massachusetts, Norwich University and Greenfield Community College. She has instructed courses for the Pioneer Valley TBI support group, as well as Cancer Connection, and ran an ongoing pain clinic at Valley Medical Group in Greenfield for 6 years.

Ready to meet Donna? Watch her introduction video here.

To get in touch, you can visit her website at www.originalbodywisdom.com or e-mail donnabrooks@gmail.com


 

Location: Online - Follow the Registration Link!

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