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Therapists, Imagine how easy your jobs would be if your clients released their own muscles.
Somatic Foundations of Therapeutic Touch and Movement
For Massage Therapists
Duration // 2- Days
Saturday, June 20th/21st, 2026
Hosted by the Potomac Massage Training Institute in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Registration is being handled through PMTI
https://www.pmti.org/somatic-foundations-posner
Saturday, August 8th/9th, 2026
Hosted by the Therapeutic Massage and Training Center
Westfield, NJ
Registration below
Overview
An introduction to clinical somatic techniques that will transform your practice and enhance your self-care.
Stop "Leaning In" and Start Getting Results. Do you ever find yourself physically exhausted, waiting—and hoping—for a client's muscle to finally release? You know that massage can be incredibly valuable, but it's hard to predict when it will work and when it won't because so much of your results rely on something shifting within your client. This course will help you understand why it is that sometimes your clients can't let go and how to more consistently and reliebly get them to melt on your table; without force, strain, over unnecessary effort.
In this 2-day intensive, you’ll move beyond "chasing pain" and learn a repeatable, neuro-based framework to unlock chronic tension from the inside out.
Predictable Results: Stop guessing. Use clinical somatics to address the root cause of tension.
Save Your Career: Reduce the physical toll on your hands and back by letting the client’s nervous system do the heavy lifting.
Deepen Your Practice: Bridge the gap between traditional massage and neurophysiology.
What's covered in the course
70% will be learning and practicing somatic techiques, both how to modify your current massage techniques and how clinical somatic techniques out of the Hanna Somatic Education Lineage
15% will be lecture and information on Somatic Philosophy and the neurophysiology of touch and movement. We will discuss how to flip your perspective from working on bodies to working with somas. We will explore the duality of structures and functions rather than mind and body to understand how somatic practices create physiological, emotional, and cognitive transformations.
15% will be somatic practices for your self-care. You will learn simple practices to resotre your own myofascial integrity that you can also teach to your clients.
This continuing education course is approved for 16 CEs by the NCBTMB.
Participants will learn to:
Work smarter, not harder
Invite clients to actively participate in their healing process
Engage clients' motor and sensory centers to unwind from the inside out
Apply clinical somatic techniques within massage session
Use traditional massage therapy techniques to help clients develop greater awareness of and control over their bodies.
Use simple, somatic self-care practices to help maintain and improve their own musculoskeletal health.
*DISCLAIMERS* : This workshop is designed for licensed massage therapists. Are you a wellness professional who uses touch therapeutically but not a massage therapist who still wants to attend? Physical Therapists, Personal Trainers, Yoga Therapists and others are also welcome. Message me first to discuss.
While the location of the course will vary, this is an independent CE course.
Meet Your Facilitator:
Your instructor, Gabriel Posner, Ph.D., is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator and Licensed Massage Therapist with 2 decades of experience working with people suffering from musculoskeletal pain and movement dysfunction. By bringing somatic concepts and techniques into massage therapy sessions, he have discovered that clients can unwind much more quickly, deeply, and lastingly. Instead of leaning in and waiting for someone's muscle to relax, these techniques will help you activate your clients' own powers of self-regulation to unwind from the inside out.
Group Movement
Private, Corporate, Community
Duration // 30 - 90 Min.
Bring Gabriel to your house, office, yoga study, church or conference. Group classes can be led lying down or seated in chairs. Either way, classes will be tailored to the needs of the individuals attending and will be based around different combinations of Hanna Somatic movements.
Benefits / what to expect
Group movement encourages greater collective healing and alignment.
Each participant is able to move freely within their own limits and abilities.
We will meet you where you are.
Movement Workshop
Private, Corporate, Community
Duration // 3 HR
Want to take your somatics to a higher level? Longer form movement workshops allow for a deep dive into Hanna Somatics. A myth of aging workshop provides an overview of Thoma's Hanna's Cat Stretch and will leave you with a thorough and well rounded, full body experience connecting and unwinding. Want something more specific? Let's talk about developing a workshop specifically around gait improvement, straightening scoliotic spines, freeing hips and legs or opening rounded shoulders.
Benefits / what to expect
Longer time frame allows for deeper exploration and integration.
Pick a topic and we will develop something for your needs and interest.
Or schedule a Myth of Aging series and learn to flip the script on aging.
