Have you ever noticed how even the simplest movement — like reaching for your keys or standing up from a chair — can sometimes feel like more effort than it should?
You might chalk it up to aging, stress, or overuse. But deep down, there may be a quiet grief brewing — for the loss of fluidity and freedom that once felt natural — and a longing to regain that sense of joyous embodiment, and the delight that comes from feeling powerful in your own skin.
If this struggle sounds familiar and you’ve tried a variety of methods to feel better in your body, Martha Peterson, founder of Essential Somatics® and author of Move Without Pain, can help you find the missing link: understanding that your brain — not just your muscles — orchestrates movement, tension, and perception as one deeply interconnected system.
Join Martha in this free online event, where she’ll gently guide you into the world of somatic movement and the transformative power of pandiculation — a natural nervous-system reset that animals do instinctively... that’s pleasurable, intelligent, and profoundly restorative.
Pandiculation is a simple solution that can help you release chronic pain as well as physical and emotional limitations, by improving your brain’s ability to sense and move your muscles with ease, as it calms your nervous system and reduces full-body tension for deep relaxation.
This workshop will give you a tangible, embodied taste of pandiculation and how to reconnect with your body’s innate intelligence — and begin releasing the tension, pain, and limited range of motion that have quietly built up over time.
Martha is a master of Hanna SomaticsTM — a potent method of neuromuscular re-education that restores ease through the brain-body connection. With decades of teaching experience, she brings a rare depth of insight, offering sequences from the Hanna Somatics tradition that are rarely taught yet profoundly effective (and a lot of fun!).
You’ll learn about Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) — a neurological “blind spot” that occurs when stress, injury, or repetition leads your brain to lose voluntary control over certain muscles...
This can leave you stuck in chronic contraction, with stiff joints and and persistent pain... while draining your energy, suppressing your immune system, and clouding your sense of clarity and confidence. It can impact how you move, express yourself, and imagine the kind of future you want to create.
With Martha’s guidance, you’ll begin to experience relief!
You’ll start recognizing your body as a single sensing system — where tension in one area reverberates throughout your whole being... and where natural, somatic movement can unwind stress at its source, restoring flow, coherence, and wholeness — bringing you back to your most relaxed and alive self.
