In-person sessions are great and I encourage you to come to my office for a one-on-one session when you can. However, since this work is educational, I can teach you quite effectively using video streaming technology or through recordings. Check out these online somatic education resources that you can access from the comfort of anywhere, anytime!

See below for educational resources ELEVATED ONLINE has to offer you!

Virtual Group Classes

Weekly Class

Experience Somatic Education in the comfort of your own home and at your own convenience. Sign up for a single class or buy a class pass for great savings. If you can’t attend the class at the scheduled time, and even if you can, I will send out a recording of my instruction that will be available for one week. Attendees will not be recorded.

Special CLASS SERIES- Co-produced with the International Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists Association

Hanna Somatic Education and the Myth of Aging
with Gabriel Posner, PhD, RSME

Six weekly sessions on Thursdays • May 7-June 18, 2026 • 12-1:30pm Eastern U.S. time; No class on June 4.
Find your local time here. 

The registration deadline is Friday, May 1, 2026. 

Live participation is strongly encouraged. However, if you are unable to attend a session, recordings will be available to all who have registered for the course. 

Watch the Free Introductory video here.

Thomas Hanna, a philosopher and scientist, is widely recognized for popularizing the term Somatic as an umbrella for mind-body practices focused on embodiment, expression, and self-healing. Beyond this, he developed Hanna Somatic Education (HSE), a clinical practice that draws on the Feldenkrais Method and the Alexander Technique. HSE is designed to resolve Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA), which occurs when chronic stress and injury cause habitual muscle tightening and bracing, leading to a steady loss of conscious control and sensory perception over movement and muscles—a state often misattributed to aging. HSE reverses SMA using mindful awareness, somatic movement, and biofeedback principles, enabling the voluntary release of chronic tension and enhancement of somatic awareness. By exploring specific stress patterns and applying targeted HSE movements, participants from the general public can regain control, unravel habitual bracing, and fundamentally redefine their process of aging.  

Understanding SMA will help Somatic Movement practitioners from a variety of lineages make fast holistic assessments of their student’s unconscious tension patterns. And, by experiencing the Hanna somatic movement practices, they will have a better felt sense of how movement is initiated and directed at different levels of the nervous system. So, there will be benefits participants experience as self-care and also benefits that may inform and explain what practitionersare doing in their respective practices.  

Participants will:
• Understand what SMA is and how to identify it in themselves and others.
• Learn specific somatic movement techniques to reverse SMA and lower resting tone.
• Apply these techniques to specific movements that target common patterns of stress and injury 

Gabriel Posner, PhD, RSME

Gabriel is the current president of the Association for Hanna Somatic Education's board of directors and is funded by the Association as a research director. In addition, Gabriel trains clinical practitioners and movement teachers with Martha Peterson and Essential Somatics. He also operates a private practice in Denver, Colorado, offering hands-on clinical somatic sessions, group classes, and trainings for both somatic practitioners and massage therapists. His first book, Somatic Techniques for Massage Therapists was released by Handspring Publishing earlier this year.

After becoming certified as a massage therapist in 2004, Gabriel developed chronic musculoskeletal pain. His journey to resolve his own issues led him down a path of integrative health exploration, ultimately finding relief with Hanna Somatics. Gabriel became a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator in 2008 and has been practicing ever since, helping others unravel their own musculoskeletal issues. A desire to better understand and promote the science underlying somatic practices led him to get his doctorate in Mind-Body Medicine, which he completed in 2022. While Gabriel enjoys working one-on-one with clients, he is at his best when working with and training other somatic practitioners.

For full details and to register, click here and you will be directed to ISMETA’s Website.

1:1 Virtual Sessions

One of the best things about Somatic Education is that all of the changes are happening within you. They are self-initiated and a function of your consciousness/awareness. While hands-on touch is helpful, somatic sessions can very effectively be carried out virtually.

So, while we are all practicing self-distancing, virtual somatic sessions are still available to help with patterns of tension/pain and dysfunction you may be experiencing. 

Elevated Online education

// Video Lesson’s

Lesson 1

// Tight Back

A 30 minute guided video lesson designed to help you mobilize your back, including shoulders, hips and legs.

You will learn how to integrate, balance and relax tension from the base of your head all the way down to your feet.

Can’t make a class? Want to get a taste of what a Somatic Group Movement experience with Gabriel is like?

Then this series of recordings are a great way to start. Tune into these audio sessions for free!