Somatic Movement for Beginners

# Somatic Movement for Beginners

Location: San Diego, Balboa Park at Balboa Dr. & Juniper [MAP]
Date: Saturday, August 9th
Time: 9:45 AM – 11:45 AM (we begin at 10:00 AM)

## Free Class in Balboa Park

Changing your posture, learning new ways to move, thinking about yourself differently – these all affect how you feel in your body. And you want to feel good in your body. So what affects your posture, your movement, and your thoughts?
In this Somatic Movement for Beginners class you will explore what happens when you bring focused, curious attention to the internal sensations of your body along with mindful movement. You will first-hand experience a somatic method that supports listening to the sensory receptors inside of your body and then enables you to use that information as potent feedback to effortlessly learn new ways to hold posture, to move, and to conceptualize what you are.
The aim is that you feel good or even better and that you understand how you did it.
In addition to learning how to study yourself in the somatic way, that is first-person research of your own body by inward sensing, you will also see anatomical models of internal structures to support your own research. It is also common in these classes for us to include theoretical and embodied lessons in physiology, Buddhist psychology, and evolutionary biology: all as ways to support you having a more knowledgeable, open, and constructive view of yourself and others.

### We Will Do Some

Playful easy skill games to ease into sensing and movement
Simple embodied anatomy lessons you can see and sense within yourself
Somatic movement and perception training practices from the Physio-Mentale Entwicklung somatic method
Verbal reflection and playful movement to integrate your discoveries
Practical somatic tools you can use anywhere, anytime
Community connection with other curious people interested in self-learning and moving

### This is For You If You..

• Want to practice sensing yourself within mental qualities like trust, openness, compassion, and curiosity
• … you want a way to measure the effects of doing this.
• … and you want to begin to establish this as an automatic way of being for yourself.
• Are curious to learn about your own anatomy, physiology, and evolutionary history in a way that is straightforward, scientific, and tangible.
• Know there is an abundance of valuable information inside of your body and want support accessing it.
• Want to learn how to use movement, touch, and perception to activate your natural state of self-learning, self-healing, and self-development.
• And you want to do this in community :-)

No experience necessary. All bodies and minds willing to focus and support themselves and each other in sensing are welcome, including people with more limited mobility.

### Bring

• Comfortable clothes you can move and sit in
• Optional mat or towel
• Water bottle
• Friends

### Your Teachers

Kelly Lazzara is a Certified Somatic Movement Educator and registered member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association as well as the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. Kelly supports clients in their processes through chronic pain, injury recovery limiting perspectives of self, anxiety, grief and athletic skill development. His services include 1:1 coaching, partner coaching, intensive training, and group training.

Brannon Batchelor is a Certified End-of-Life Doula, massage therapist, and is also experienced in a variety of somatic movement methods. Brannon supports individuals and families navigating their end of life care and any individuals experiencing grief (past, acute or anticipatory) in any form, not just death related. He has taught people to identify their living legacy work and focuses on the embodiment of trauma and grief in a healing and helpful way.