SP 282: Hanna Somatic Recovery Healing with Chris Ruane
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
When we get sober, we prioritize healing our mental, emotional, and spiritual health, but what about our physical health? Stress, anxiety, and unprocessed trauma can leave an imprint on the body and affect our health for years to come.
On this week's SHAIR Recovery Podcast, Practitioner Chris Ruane shares about a lifesaving practice that not only has helped her manage anxiety, stress, and trauma, but helped hundreds of others create lasting change.
Using Hanna Somatics as a pathway to empowerment, this form of body healing is a type of mind-body training that encourages physical and mental control over muscles to reduce pain and teach the brain to re-learn movements. Different from massage, Hanna Somatics creates a healing experience that taps into empowerment, removes barriers that keep us stuck, and can shed a lifetime of negative belief systems in just four sessions.
On today's SHAIR Podcast, you'll learn:
- How Chris went from becoming a massage therapist to a Hanna Somatics Practitioner
- What a Hanna Somatic session consists of
- How Hanna Somatics can be a quick way to work through unresolved trauma
- Where to find a Hanna Somatics Healing Practitioner near you
Chris Ruane is an educator in the field of movement and wellness, combining a 19 year practice of Hanna Somatics Education and Bodywork, Massage, Pilates, Yoga, Energy, and Breathwork. Her study of alignment and awareness, background as an Irish Dancer, athlete and musician give her personal insight into the mechanisms of chronic pain. Today she helps others learn how to get themselves "unstuck" from the physical and emotional patterns that prevent them from creating the life they want.
For the show notes and links for this episode go to theshairpodcast.com/282.
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| 0:00.0 | So as I began offering somatics, clients who were interested started exploring it on their own. |
| 0:10.2 | They started learning more and educating themselves. |
| 0:12.7 | And those are the ones who ended up wanting to either switch part of the time or all of the time to somatic work. |
| 0:19.2 | It's different than a massage. |
| 0:20.8 | It's active. It's a massage. It's active. |
| 0:22.3 | It's a massage. |
| 0:23.6 | It's passive. |
| 0:24.2 | You lie there. |
| 0:25.1 | It's like having someone take care of you. |
| 0:28.0 | But with somatics, it's very much you being empowered and learning to take care of yourself. |
| 0:33.9 | And so for some of us, that's a scary idea. |
| 0:37.1 | You know, it's easier to stay stuck in that pain loop and have people feel badly for us |
| 0:42.3 | or not be responsible for not being able to change those patterns. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.2 | So basically what I saw was it's a wonderful tool for those who are ready to create change. |
| 0:55.5 | That was Chris Rewain and this is the Share Podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | Getting sober is one thing. Staying sober is another. |
| 1:09.0 | In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term recovery |
| 1:13.4 | is community and connection. Share is not only a recovery podcast. It is a global sobriety network. |
| 1:22.1 | Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world who will share with you |
| 1:27.3 | their inspirational journey |
| 1:29.0 | of recovery. Welcome to the Share Podcast Recovery Network. |
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