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Essential Somatics Essential Somatics is a revolutionary approach to eliminating muscle pain. It's safe, easy, and common sense. Learn to move without pain!

It goes to the root of most chronic muscular pain: the brain and its control of muscles and movement. Since 2010, Essential Somatics® has grown from a small solo practice to a team of highly skilled and devoted Clinical Somatic Educators who teach multi-day introductory courses, clinical certification trainings, and embodied movement for corporate leadership. The trainings we provide are offered in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe. The teachings of Somatic Education have helped thousands of people worldwide to return to a more vibrant life of movement, self-agency, and awareness.

We’ve recently wrapped an incredible week at Hollyhock with 25 participants, and we’re still holding onto everything tha...
10/06/2026

We’ve recently wrapped an incredible week at Hollyhock with 25 participants, and we’re still holding onto everything that unfolded there.

A few themes kept surfacing throughout the week.

➡️ Less is more

So many of us come to this work believing we have to push harder and force our way toward feeling better, but that isn’t how the nervous system changes. The participants discovered that the smallest, slowest movements often created the biggest shifts.

➡️ Learn to trust yourself

This work asks you to pay attention to your own sensations rather than looking outside for the answer. Over the week, participants moved from second-guessing what they felt to genuinely trusting what their bodies were telling them.

➡️ Trust the process

Change through Clinical Somatic Education doesn’t always happen on the timeline we expect. Learning to stay with it, without rushing or forcing an outcome, was a lesson that reached far beyond the movement itself.

So many people arrive at this work having tried everything to feel better in their bodies, and having slowly lost hope that anything ever would. Watching people rediscover that hope over the week, watching them realise that change really is possible, is exactly why we do this.

Thank you to everyone who joined us!

That familiar ache creeps back in.You book the massage. Or the chiropractor. Again.You feel better... temporarily.But th...
09/30/2026

That familiar ache creeps back in.

You book the massage. Or the chiropractor. Again.

You feel better... temporarily.

But the tension returns, and the cycle continues.

Because while hands-on treatments can offer short-term relief, they often don’t get to the root of the problem:

👉 Unconscious, habituated muscle tension stored in your nervous system.

This is what Clinical Somatic Education helps you change.

Not just temporarily manage, but unlearn what’s causing the pain in the first place.

With Somatic Movement, you can:

• Release chronic tension gently and effectively

• Reconnect to your body’s natural patterns of movement

• Build lasting relief

You don’t have to keep outsourcing your wellbeing.

You can learn to move differently, feel differently, and live differently.

Sound like something you’re ready for?

If you’ve been thinking about joining Move With Ease, this is your final call! 🚨The cart closes tonight at midnight MT a...
09/27/2026

If you’ve been thinking about joining Move With Ease, this is your final call! 🚨
The cart closes tonight at midnight MT and after that, registration will be officially closed.
If you’re ready to:
✨ Release chronic tension
✨ Feel more comfortable and confident in your body
✨ Move without pain holding you back
✨ Reconnect with yourself on a deeper level
Now is the time to take that first step.
This course is self-paced, accessible, and designed to help you create lasting change from the inside out.
Don’t miss the opportunity to start moving through life with more ease, energy, and freedom.
Register before midnight MT - comment MOVE below for the link👇

What if the pain wasn’t permanent?What if the stiffness, the tension, the fatigue... weren’t just things you had to live...
09/10/2026

What if the pain wasn’t permanent?

What if the stiffness, the tension, the fatigue... weren’t just things you had to live with?

What if your body could feel different: Lighter, stronger, more responsive, and that change opened the door to other parts of your life feeling different too?

When you start to unlearn the patterns of tension that have kept you stuck, you don’t just move better. You become someone who embraces change. Someone who feels confident, in control, and free to live the way they want to.

That version of you that feels impossible right now?

They’re not so far away.

✨ Move With Ease is your starting point.

A self-paced course to help you reconnect with your body, release chronic tension, and build lasting change, from the inside out.

You might be wondering, what is Clinical Somatic Education anyway?

Clinical Somatic Education, also known as Hanna Somatic Education, was developed by Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. a philosopher and pioneer in the field of somatics.

His methods, which became known as Clinical Somatic Education, teach us to recognize how everyday stressors can manifest as muscle tension in our bodies and impact the way that we function physically, emotionally and psychologically.

It prepares you to do everything you love to do, only better.

Our comprehensive online course, Move with Ease, will be starting soon.

Comment EASE to join the waitlist for our next Move With Ease - starting soon!

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
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