One primary component that is present in a full and healthy lifestyle, and especially apparent in healthy aging, is one's ongoing ability to embody the process of growth that requires change in our lives, both psychologically and physically. Soma is a system of bodywork, which works by way of the fascial (connective tissue) network, to release chronic, stored structural aberrations, and effectively realign the entire body. As the body rebalances itself in gravity, becoming more efficient in function and healthier with greater resistance to disease and injury, people notice more coordination and grace in movement after the Soma sessions. The result is a body that can process experiences more effectively, with greater awareness, which leads to enhanced learning and perceptual abilities. Qualities like self-reliance and creativity spontaneously emerge. Life is change and change is movement, movement in our bodies, our feelings, our thoughts, our inspirations. It is the loss of our ability to move and change our bodies, as well as our thinking processes, that continually diminishes our ability to fully experience life. In Soma we are softening the "hard wiring" and accessing more somatic options. We are not working toward the evolution of a "perfect person" by replacing old patterns with new "right ones," but rather towards a less predictable, more authentic individual who has the option to respond in new and creative ways to their environment.
