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Somatic Conditioning™ as Work Conditioning Rehab Program

To learn ‘how to move’ is the primary focus of Somatic Conditioning™. Using the right muscles at the right time at the right moment. People get injured or experience pain because their movement patterns have unfortunately become inefficient. The main focus of their rehab-program needs to be a retraining of their original efficient neurophysiology.

After having experienced and learned the proper movement patterns, you will find that most clients will succeed with ease in their Work Conditioning tasks.

Muscular strength and length (stretching) are definitely not the primary focus in this rehabilitation program. Why lift weights if your body doesn’t know how to react and move well ? How can you be strong or flexible if your co-ordinating reflexes have forgotten how to move your body properly ?

In Somatic Conditioning™, muscles and joints are taken through gentle, pain free and functional movement patterns only. Muscles mainly learn while moving and muscles crave learning at the end of their range. The intensity of the program and the complexity of the moves are easily modified to the client’s ability to move. Common sense will do the rest !

The Somatic Health Center of St. Helena, California is specialized in Somatic Rehabilitation Movement Programs that stimulate human health and fitness:

• the early recognition and ‘becoming aware’ of movement patterns essential for successful human motion (e.g. Mobilizing Awareness™: ‘The Daily Cat Stretch Series’)
• the skill to observe the specific ‘pathological’ patterns that are characteristic for injuries or health issues in combination with the very powerful hands-on process to create instant freedom of movement within the client (‘Mobilizing Awareness™: Somatic Rehabilitiation).
• Putting it all into practice like a very active ‘fitness-class’: a gentle and pain-free exercise program that mainly strengthens the organic movement patterns ‘the way we are designed to move’. Strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination are fully integrated into this new and exciting method of getting in shape ! (Mobilizing Awareness™: Somatic Conditioning™).