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Thomas Louis Hanna (November 21, 1928 – July 29, 1990) was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He called his work Hanna Somatic Education. He proposed that most negative health effects are due to what he called Sensory Motor Amnesia. [6] .
Aug 26, 2021 · Thomas Hanna (1928-1990) was a philosopher who, through years of research, developed Clinical Somatic Education, also known as Hanna Somatic Education. Hanna spent his life searching for ways for human beings to become free- physically and intellectually.
Jul 10, 2015 · Learn about Thomas Hanna's method of Clinical Somatic Education. Somatics releases chronic, subconsciously held muscle contraction and retrains learned posture and movement patterns, allowing...
Mar 8, 2021 · Wendell Hanna shares his memories and insights on his father, Thomas Hanna, the founder of the field of Somatics. He describes Tom's philosophical journey, his artistic and spiritual nature, and his influence on his son's life and work.
Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. (1928-1990), was a philosopher who became a Functional Integration practitioner, and later developed Hanna Somatic Education® or Hanna Somatics.
May 23, 2022 · Abstract. This article questions how the historically revisionist history of “the West,” as initiated by Thomas Hanna, informs systems of inclusion, exclusion, and power within the field of “somatics.”
In the 1970s, American philosopher and movement therapist Thomas Hanna introduced the term "somatics" to describe these related experiential practices collectively. Towards the end of the century, a trend of "cross-fertilization" emerged, with practitioners combining different "lineages" to form idiosyncratic styles.
