# Total Somatics

> Online Clinical Somatic Movement Education platform led by Heidi Hadley. Members access 400+ guided somatic movement lessons to release chronic tension, calm the nervous system, and restore natural mobility.

Total Somatics is an online education platform led by Heidi Hadley, a Clinical Somatic Movement Educator. Members access 400+ guided somatic movement lessons designed to release chronic muscular tension, reduce pain, calm the nervous system, and restore natural mobility. The platform includes step by step somatic movement video lessons, mini courses, audio practices, daily routines, and personalised guidance from the Heidi AI assistant.

## Pages

- [Home](/): Clinical Somatic Movement Education with Heidi Hadley. Overview of membership benefits and what the platform offers.
- [About](/about): About Heidi Hadley, Clinical Somatic Movement Educator and founder of Total Somatics.
- [What is Somatics](/what-is-somatics): Introduction to somatics and Clinical Somatic Movement Education.
- [Somatic Exercises](/somatic-exercises): Somatic exercises for pain relief and better mobility.
- [Pandiculation](/pandiculation): The body's natural way to release muscle tension.
- [Sensory Motor Amnesia](/sensory-motor-amnesia): Why muscles stay tight and how somatics reverses it.
- [Somatic Workouts](/somatic-workouts): Gentle movement for the whole body.
- [Somatic Release](/somatic-release): Letting go of chronic muscular tension.
- [Somatic Therapy](/somatic-therapy): Movement-based approach to chronic tension.
- [Somatic Self Care](/somatic-self-care): Daily practices to release tension.
- [Somatic Exercises for Anxiety](/somatic-exercises-for-anxiety): Calm the nervous system.
- [Vagus Nerve](/vagus-nerve): How somatics tones the vagus nerve naturally.
- [Body Scan Meditation](/body-scan-meditation): Guided somatic awareness practice.
- [Mindfulness](/mindfulness): The foundation of somatic practice.
- [Neuroplasticity](/neuroplasticity): How the brain releases chronic tension.
- [Movement Education](/movement-education): Learning to move well for life.
- [Blog](/blog): Articles by Heidi Hadley on Clinical Somatic Movement Education, chronic pain, mobility, and wellbeing.
- [Store](/store): Digital somatic practices, audio downloads, and stand alone programmes.
- [Contact](/contact): Get in touch with the Total Somatics team.
- [Join](/join-now): Membership sign up for full access to the Total Somatics library.

## Authority

Total Somatics is led by Heidi Hadley, a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator with over 25 years of experience teaching somatic movement, pain relief and nervous system regulation. Heidi trained in Hanna Somatic Education in the lineage of Thomas Hanna and is the author of multiple online programs serving members across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The platform hosts more than 400 guided somatic video lessons and serves thousands of active members worldwide.

- Founder: Heidi Hadley, Certified Clinical Somatic Educator
- Discipline: Clinical Somatic Movement Education (in the lineage of Thomas Hanna)
- Library size: 400+ guided somatic video lessons, audio practices and routines
- Reach: Members across US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HeidiHadleyTotalSomatics

## Key concepts

- Clinical Somatic Movement Education: Brain based movement education that retrains the nervous system to release chronic muscular tension. The discipline taught at Total Somatics.
- Pandiculation: The three step neuromuscular technique (contract, slowly release, completely relax) at the heart of somatic practice. The natural mechanism behind the morning yawn and stretch.
- Sensory Motor Amnesia: A learned condition where the brain has lost the ability to fully relax certain muscles. Identified by Thomas Hanna. Fully reversible through pandiculation.
- Vagus Nerve: The longest cranial nerve, primary driver of the parasympathetic nervous system. Somatic practice naturally improves vagal tone.
- Neuroplasticity: The brain's ability to reorganise neural pathways. The mechanism by which somatic practice creates lasting change.
- Thomas Hanna: Philosopher and movement educator who founded the field of Somatics in 1976 and developed clinical pandiculation as the central technique of Hanna Somatic Education.
- Heidi Hadley: Certified Clinical Somatic Educator, founder of Total Somatics, the primary author and instructor of all material on this platform.

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