Author of Move Without Pain
Martha Peterson, CCSE
Experience a powerful 3-step somatic-movement technique to release chronic pain and physical and emotional limitations due to trauma.
Transform your body’s default response of fight/flight/freeze to one of joy, freedom, and heightened potential.
What if you could transform your relationship with your body, release stress and tension with ease, and learn to move with a renewed feeling of safety, freedom, and bliss?
Throughout our lives, most of us experience some kind of trauma that can leave us with stress, chronic pain, and habitual movements that keep us stuck in uncomfortable and unhelpful patterns — both physically and emotionally.
Do you feel like you’ve tried many things to relieve your pain and nothing seems to work? Have you been told time and again that, despite your symptoms, there’s nothing wrong with you?
Martha Peterson, founder of Essential Somatics® and author of Move Without Pain, teaches us that no matter how much pain and discomfort we may experience, we all have the capacity to learn skills for self-regulating the levels of stress we hold in our body.
Each of us was born with a love of moving our body. Over time, however, as we experience injuries and difficult emotional challenges, we start to operate in a sustained state of high alert, and our joy and curiosity can give way to fear and trepidation...
... causing continued and even worsening limitations in our movement and in our ability to recognize and live into our highest potential.
Pandiculation — nature’s reset reflex — is a simple solution that can help you release chronic pain as well as physical and emotional limitations. It improves 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.
Pandiculation happens in three stages, beginning with contraction of the muscles, which sends strong feedback to the brain. You’ll then move into a smooth, slow, controlled release, where the cortex “remembers” the movement. Finally, you’ll experience complete release so the brain can integrate the sensations and changes to feel loose and relaxed.
Martha is a former professional dancer who discovered, after years of pain and injury, that much of her ongoing suffering was the result of poor movement patterns and unconscious habituation to stress.
Her expertise comes from over 30 years of experience working in the fields of dance and bodywork, and from practicing and teaching the groundbreaking work of Hanna Somatic Education (aka Clinical Somatic Education) to help people recognize how the reflex patterns they’ve created in their bodies contribute to pain, stiffness, and restricted movement.
Join Martha for this FREE hour-long event, in which she’ll demystify the causes and impact of chronic pain and illustrate how you can reconnect your mind with your body to reverse pain and postural imbalances, release stress and tension, regain physical control, and create a life of joyful movement.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how conscious pandiculation can help you move slowly and deliberately so your brain and nervous system can sense and integrate the biofeedback the movement provides, creating healthier and more sustainable muscle memory.
In this restorative event, you’ll:
- Experience the simple yet effective technique of pandiculation to release chronic pain and tension anytime, anywhere — and reclaim your sense of self
- Understand how sensory motor amnesia is showing up in your body as chronically contracted muscles, causing unhelpful patterns of posture, movement, and thoughts
- Begin to demystify the conditions of chronic pain
- Learn how to use the miraculous workings of your brain to sense and regulate tension, so you can experience greater freedom of movement, self-actualization, self-agency, and emotional wellbeing
- Learn how to address the root cause of pain in your body — rather than just treating symptoms — and how to reset your whole body to function more optimally
Martha will guide you through an experiential process in which you’ll explore the current level of tension in your body, then learn how to use pandiculation to decrease tension and self-regulate your nervous system — restoring your joy of movement and sense of bodily autonomy.
Martha’s teaching methodology is grounded in the science of the nervous system, yet is also playful, safe, and accessible. Her approach to somatic education has transformed the lives of people around the world, enabling them to restore freedom of movement and postural imbalances to reverse chronic muscle and joint pain — and it can transform your life too!
During this empowering event, you’ll also be among the first to hear about Martha’s new 7-week live video course, where you’ll take a deeper dive into pandiculation, delving into the science and self-actualization it takes for the brain and nervous system to control muscles. You’ll discover how to reset muscle function to enjoy pain-free movement and enhanced mobility.
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Join this FREE video event with Martha Peterson, CCSE and experience a powerful somatic-movement technique to transform your body’s default response of fight/flight/freeze to one of joy, freedom, and heightened potential.
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What People Are Saying About Martha Peterson, CCSE...
“The back pain I was experiencing every day is now just an occasional background noise.”
I had been struggling with acute back and hip pain for months, and other therapies were not helping. Now I have the tools to address whatever my soma presents on a given day. Any discomfort I feel is a way for me to learn and explore what my body needs, physically and emotionally. The back pain I was experiencing every day is now just an occasional background noise.
— Sue M., yoga teacher, United Kingdom
“Since learning Essential Somatics, I have a new lease on life as everything is becoming easier and more enjoyable.”
If you want to live life to the fullest, you have to recognize and eliminate all your non-productive habits. This can be achieved through Essential Somatics. Since learning Essential Somatics, I have a new lease on life as everything is becoming easier and more enjoyable. Essential Somatics seriously improves your sense of wellbeing in ways I could only have dreamt.
— Ewan S., martial arts teacher, ESMTT graduate, United Kingdom
“I am completely out of pain for the first time in my adult life.”
After practicing somatic movements for eight weeks, my shoulder that has been “frozen” for six months is almost completely back to normal. My gait is more balanced and efficient and I am completely out of pain for the first time in my adult life. I have been exploring self-care modalities for 20 years and nothing has given me the benefits that I have experienced from a consistent somatic movement practice.
— Jan B., Pilates teacher, MELT method instructor
About Martha Peterson, CCSE
Martha Peterson is a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator and leader in the field of Somatic Education. She is the founder and CEO of Essential Somatics® and author of Move Without Pain. Martha heads a growing faculty of Clinical Somatic Educators who present Essential Somatics teacher trainings, retreats, workshops, and seminars around the world. She maintains a private clinical practice in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
Martha’s expertise comes from more than 30 years of working in the field of dance, bodywork, and Somatic Education. As a former professional dancer who suffered chronic hip and knee pain due to injuries, Martha understands the frustration and struggle many people experience when trying to discern between the myriad methods that claim to relieve or “fix” chronic pain. She eventually discovered Clinical Somatic Education, the only method that taught her how to reverse her pain and postural imbalances, regain physical control, and create a life of movement, choice, and joy.
Martha is an experienced hiker, inspired by her mother with whom she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and trekked in Sikkim, Northern India. She has learned that the key to remaining healthy and mobile is daily, vigorous, fun movement, a regular somatic movement routine, a sense of humor, and learning the fine art of relaxation and self-regulation.
