In this 5 week series we will explore somatic movements and strategies for improving issues that come with Scoliosis and Uneven posture, including chronic pain, compressed vertebrae, tight immobile ribs, and more. For people with uneven posture, such as a low shoulder, hiked hip, or twisted posture, somatic techniques can serve as a prevention for scoliosis.

Description: 90 min includes 1 hr movement class + theory, Q and A, discussion. Recordings will be available following each class, so if you miss a class, you will still have the recording to follow.

Where: online, zoom platform. If you are new to zoom, please download the app prior to attending the class.

When: Thursdays, June 25-July 23.

Two time options:

1. 10am BST (London), 11am CET (Norway, central Europe), 7pm UTC+10 (Melbourne, Aus)

2. 9am PCT (Vancouver, BC), 12pm ET (NYC), 5pm BST (London), 6pm CET (Norway, central Europe)

This is a 5 week course for: 

1. those with scoliosis or uneven posture interested in learning somatic movement specific to these issues.  Potential results: improve symptoms, and bring more ease to the spine, ribs, body, and health benefits to all systems. 

2. Somatic movement teachers, practitioners, and students in training interested in somatic strategies, ideas for your own teaching and clients. 

Note: this online course is not a substitute for my in person workshop on the subject, as there are so many aspects that simply cannot be re-created online. However, it makes a nice prelude to it! I hope to offer in person workshops later in 2020, and 2021 in various locations in UK, Canada, US, Australia and more.

Requirements for this course: 

1. For students enrolled with issues of uneven posture and scoliosis, please send posture photos at least 1 week in advance, that include full length view from front, back, both sides, with close fitting clothing. If you have scoliosis, include a close up of your head and torso from the back with either bare back, sports bra, or low back bathing suit. If you have an X-ray image to email, that would be very helpful. If you have severe Scoliosis, acute pain, use a walker, or are not ambulatory, please correspond with me prior to registering. email Lmgates51@gmail.com or through contact on this site.

2. For participants with scoliosis or uneven posture, fill out evaluation form here and send at your earliest convenience or least 5 days in advance.

What you will need:

1. Wear flexible comfortable clothing (any color except black of white for better video viewing), and have a mat of firm padded surface ready, and 5 folded large towels or 3 yoga blankets as props. 

2. Practice ahead of time setting up your device so I can see your whole mat from side or diagonal and a little above. 

Participants may schedule a 1 on 1 session with me at my covid discount price of $75. For those with scoliosis and uneven posture, I highly recommend some 1 on 1 sessions, and eventually some hands on sessions with a trained clinical somatic educator. We will discuss this option more during the course. 

Are you new to this work? I recommend you take my somatics Basics course simultaneously to this one, beginning June 15 on Mondays.

What is Somatics? Learn these gentle but powerful self-care techniques to bring new mobility, intelligence, sensation, control to the muscles, and recalibrate brain to muscles creating optimum resting length. We will avoid deep stretch and pain, and approach the nervous system in an entirely different way. This movement technique, based on the work of the late neuromuscular pioneer, Thomas Hanna PhD, reverses and releases the contractive patterns present in your nervous system, the imprint of your history, and emotional and physical trauma. You can teach your nervous system a calmer setting, excellent for stress reduction. If your nervous system is more calm, your intelligence is more available to you, perfect for what we need right now, which is to be more resilient, adaptable, and better creative problem solvers!

Policy for Late Arrivals: Kindly arrive no later than 5 min prior to the start of class. Late arrivals after the start of class may not be admitted. It is distracting to the class, teacher, and recording process. If you are late and not admitted, but have paid for the class, you will have access to the recording.

Option 1 - June 25 - July 23: 10am BST (London), 11am CET (Norway, central Europe), 7pm UTC+10 (Melbourne, Aus)

Option 2 - June 25 - July 23: 9am PCT (Vancouver, BC), 12pm ET (NYC), 5pm BST (London), 6pm CET (Norway, central Europe)

Select which 5 Week Course you wish to join from the menu below