Clinical Somatics for Scoliosis
In Clinical Somatics for Scoliosis, you’ll learn how to use Clinical Somatics exercises to release the chronic muscular contraction that is pulling your spine out of alignment. The scoliosis exercises also relieve muscle and joint pain, prevent joint degeneration, and improve balance, body awareness, and muscular control. By the end of the course you’ll be self-sufficient, able to continue to improve your posture and relieve your own pain by doing the exercises you feel that you need each day.

Clinical Somatics for Scoliosis Curriculum
Clinical Somatics exercises are slow, gentle, and therapeutic. The exercises are appropriate for all ages and fitness levels. In the three-month Clinical Somatics for Scoliosis course, you’ll learn Thomas Hanna’s Clinical Somatics exercises one by one though video demonstrations, audio classes, and written explanations. The scoliosis exercises release the muscular contraction that is pulling your spine out of alignment, relieve chronic muscle and joint pain, prevent joint degeneration, and improve proprioception (your internal sense of your posture and movement).
You’ll spend two days focusing on each exercise before moving on to the next one. This focused time gives you the opportunity to become completely comfortable with the exercises and the effects that each one has on your body. During the course, you will do audio classes (25-30 minutes in length) that combine the exercises into sequences. You can download and save these audio classes forever. The pace of the course is set, so you cannot skip ahead, but you can feel free to move more slowly through the course if you want to. You have lifetime access to the course.
Throughout the course, you’ll receive a daily email letting you know that there is a new exercise to learn, a new class to use, or suggesting what to practice that day. Ultimately, you will have learned the exercises well enough that you are able to assess yourself and do what you need on a daily basis to continue to improve your posture and relieve your pain. This course includes 27 of the total 40 exercises that are taught in the Level One & Two Courses. The 27 exercises in this course are the ones that most directly address idiopathic scoliosis.
In this three-month online course, you’ll learn how to:
- Use Thomas Hanna’s technique of pandiculation to release the chronic muscular contraction that is pulling your spine out of alignment
Alleviate idiopathic scoliosis, back pain, disc problems, joint pain, sciatica, uneven leg length, and more
- Learn proprioceptive exercises that improve posture and give you an accurate sense of how you’re sitting and standing
- Improve mobility, balance, body awareness, and muscular control
Prevent recurring injuries and joint degeneration
Develop a daily practice that addresses your individual needs
“My great good news is that I have not yet even completed the first course and my high hip (“short leg”) has almost completely returned to normal positioning! After two years (this very month, oddly), I had forgotten how wonderful it feels to move around normally again…”
“This is the best program I have encountered. I am a military veteran, with 2 tours to Afghanistan and have scoliosis which became much worse due to all the heavy lifting and carry overseas. These exercises have released the muscles and I am almost back to normal.“
“WOW!!! I am soooo thrilled to have stumbled on this yesterday!… I’ve been through all kinds of therapies…(After practicing these exercises I had) the most pain relief and best night’s sleep I’ve had in weeks!! I woke with only slight stiffness….compared to ‘Ok, how bad is it this morning?’ Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! The best birthday present!!!”
The Pain Relief Secret
How to Retrain Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, and Overcome Chronic Pain
by Sarah Warren, CSE
If you want to get out of pain for good, The Pain Relief Secret is a must-read. The book explains how Clinical Somatics retrains the nervous system, gives valuable insight into how you developed your unique patterns of tension and pain, and makes you aware of what you’re doing in your daily life that could be prolonging or worsening your tension and pain.