This page contains links to various scientific literature regarding to many of the implemented features of LinSublim Somatic Education.
We invite you to explore the wonderful world of somatics and start reading. However, the fastest way to participate in the scientific inquiry is to Take a break, do a lesson and feel the the benefits.
The book "The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity" explains Somatic Education inditrectly through explaining Neuroplasticity which is the main goal of LinSublim. Two chapters are dedicated to Moshe Feldenkrais' and his method, which form a foundational part of Lin Sublim Somatic Education. Another chapter talks about chronic pain, which can be completely eliminated by using Lin Sublim.
"The Body Electric by Robert O becker" a Nobel Prize winner - Details the regenerative power of our body.
This page is still work in progress, meaning new research will be added and most links are not organized.
Effects on low back and neck pain Hanna somatic education Thomas hanna Somatic education - Effects on low back and neck pain
Jacobson relaxation technique The Neuroprotective Effects of Exercise: Maintaining a Healthy Brain Throughout Aging
Studies showing Somatic Education efficiency
- Patients who had pain neck and low back pain for longer than 2 months resolved after 5 sessions, once every 1-2 weeks. Effect of Thomas Hanna Somatic Education on Low Back and Neck Pain Levels
- Study showing significant decreases in complaints from neck and shoulders and disability during leisure time in somatics group in female industrial workers. Physiotherapy showed no change, control groups had worsening of symptoms
- Reducing of bruxism, tight jaw clenching in children Effect of awareness through movement on the head posture of bruxist children
- Lengthening the Hamstring Muscles Without Stretching Using “Awareness Through Movement” somatic education
- Therapeutic effects of Somatic Movement and Education in patients with eating disorders. Extract: **The participants of the Somatics-course showed increasing contentment with regard to problematic zones of their body and their own health as well as concerning acceptance and familiarity with their own body. Other results were a more spontaneous, open and self-confident behaviour, the decrease of feelings of helplessness and decrease of the wish to return to the security of the early childhood, which indicates the development of felt sense of self, self-confidence and a general process of maturation of the whole personality. The outcome points to the therapeutical effectiveness of the Feldenkrais Method with eating-disorder patients within a multimodal treatment program. **
- 20+ studies linked in Meta analysis of somatic education, especially Moshe Feldenkrais' variant
Studies showing how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills, including sensory and kinesthetic learning:
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Using imagination to improve muscular and nervous system by combining practice with break periods, in which offline gains are apparent. Consolidation of human skill linked to waking hippocampo-neocortical replay
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Benefits of breaks, reducing stress, increasing productivity, boosting brain function, improved learning, developing social skills. In case you wondered why there are so many "breaks"/pauses during a LinSublim lesson research
- Boost your brain, while having a break! The effects of long-term cognitively engaging physical activity breaks on children’s executive functions and academic achievement
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40-second green roof views sustain attention: The role of micro-breaks in attention restorationS0272494415000328
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Why it's important to move with awareness in somatic education. Attention to movement modulates activity in sensori-motor areas, including primary motor cortex
when we challenge our proprioceptive system, we see major improvements in executive function, working memory, and psychological health research. -
A reason why many linsublim somatic exercise lessons have a specific progression and different movements is that Neuroplasticity is promoted by task complexity and variation.
NSDR Training attention for conscious non-REM sleep: The yogic practice of yoga-nidrā and its implications for neuroscience research - LinSublim uses various body scan techniques which have the same effects. At the beginning, during and the end of every lesson. Gaining even more benefits.
- Using imagination and rest intervals interspersed with practice strenghtens the wakefull consolidation of a skill meaning that while you rest after practicing somatic movements, your brain continues to make gains. Another research for muscle strength has similar findings
How come LinSublim somatics helps you regulate your emotions, anxiety and get rid of depression?
Since the pioneering work of Penfield and his colleagues in the 1930s, the somatosensory cortex, which is located on the postcentral gyrus, has been known for its central role in processing sensory information from various parts of the body. More recently, a converging body of literature has shown that the somatosensory cortex also plays an important role in each stage of emotional processing, including identification of emotional significance in a stimulus, generation of emotional states, and regulation of emotion. So by doing the specific movements, we indirectly affect and regulate our emotions.
From anatomy to function: the role of the somatosensory cortex in emotional regulation
The fact that you can get rid of anxiety by just moving is mind boggling 1
Additional reading
Clinical Somatic Education A New Discipline in the Field of Health Care
https://www.appliedsomatics.com/documents/Clinical%20Somatic%20Education%20Article.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344020559_The_Somatic_Work_of_Thomas_Hanna_Tai_Chi_and_Kinesiology
- Exploration of somatic education, mindfullness and pilathes method (another form of somatics)
- To whom it may concern: Somatic Education in academic research
Attentional Focus Strategies to Improve Motor Performance in Older Adults: A Systematic Review
Mindfulness happy productive
Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies 2
This is extracted from the research:
Enhancing body awareness has been described as a key element or a mechanism of action for therapeutic.
Embodied self awareness -> emergent self organization and wholeness
Greater unity between body and self -> SOMA integration
non-judgmental 'mindfulness'
Effects seen in patients variety of medical conditions including chronic low back pain[18–22], pelvic pain[23, 24], fibromyalgia[25–27], musculoskeletal pain[28, 29], chronic pain in general[29, 30], disordered eating and obesity[3, 31, 32], irritable bowel syndrome[33], sexual abuse trauma[4, 34], coronary artery disease[35, 36], congestive heart failure[37], chronic renal failure[38], falls in the elderly[39], anxiety[40–42] and depression[43].
Body self awareness involves an attentional focus on and awareness of internal body sensations. (proprioception interoception in consciousness)
and is modifiable by mental processes including attention, interpretation, appraisal, beliefs, memories, conditioning, attitudes and affect
Ability to recognize subtle body cues -> it may be useful in the management of chronic diseases such as chronic low back pain[18, 46], congestive heart failure[37], chronic renal failure[38], and irritable bowel syndrome[47].
Other
Please review this community forum for specific articles detailing specific issues where I have many more links to research papers which I may have not included here.
There are hundreds of other research papers which are extremely scientific and each explain single elements of why we do something the way we do it during LinSublim Somatics:).
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Kolt GS, McConville JC: The effects of a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement program on state anxiety. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapy. 2000, 4 (3): 216-220. 10.1054/jbmt.2000.0179. 10.1054/jbmt.2000.0179 ↩︎
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Mehling, W.E., Wrubel, J., Daubenmier, J.J. et al. Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies. Philos Ethics Humanit Med 6, 6 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-6-6 ↩︎
