Laura M.Gates Hanna Somatics Full Movement Potential

15/12/2025

January online course 2026: Somatic Strategies to Free Upper Torso, Face, Neck, Jaw, and Into The Center.

Part 1: Thursdays, Jan 8, 15, 22 a three class bundle. $75 (before Dec 22, $90 after) Classes 90 min + mentoring, discussion time following.

This 3 class course will help you restore ease to common areas of tension in the upper body using the gentle but powerful technique, pandiculation. It re-educates the muscles to their optimum resting length, restores control, sensation, and in the process resets the nervous system to “calm.” Register here.

Part 2: Freeing holding habits that come with computer work. Thursday Jan 29. single class. $25 (before Dec 22, $30 after)

This class addresses tension habits that come with too much time online, with focus on hands, torso, neck, hip flexors, and includes some effective eye refreshing techniques. Perfect self care techniques to take the computer out of your body at the end of the day! Register here.
https://lauramgates.com/upcoming-events
All classes come with audio recordings for your continued learning.

08/10/2025

Discover and Release your Holding patterns
Balance Arts Center, NYC
$60.00 Sat Oct 25, 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
with Laura M Gates, CCSE, CHSE
a gentle but powerful somatic movement class that works for all ages and fitness levels. comes with audio recordings. Lauramgates.com/upcoming events

30/09/2024

Oct 5, 2024, noon EST, 5pm BST, Clinical Somatic Movement for Scoliosis Workshop with Laura M Gates, CCSE, CHSE. Enjoy a 2 hour online workshop offering an intro to this powerful but gentle work, and learn somatic strategies to improve asymmetrical posture and scoliosis. My host is the Move with Scoliosis learning platform, directed by Christine Jaureguiberry. Go to https://movewithscoliosis.com/shine-webinars/ to join her community and/or register for the class. See you there!

27/08/2019

Video Demonstration of a Private Essential Somatics Sessin with Laura M Gates

26/08/2019

One to one private Essential Somatics Session with Laura M Gates

16/01/2019

https://lauramgates.com/calendar-cms/2019/2/18/chattanooga-tn-freeing-the-body-from-old-muscular-and-emotional-habits

Come learn Essential Somatic Clinical movement basics that change the brain’s signal to the muscles, restoring optimum resting length, mobility, sensation and control. We will not use stretch, but approach the nervous a very different way

16/01/2019

https://lauramgates.com/calendar-cms/2019/2/16/somatic-solutions-creating-less-stress-and-silky-spacious-shoulders-neck-jaw

Come learn Essential Somatic Clinical movement techniques that change the brain’s signal to the muscles, restoring optimum resting length, mobility, sensation and control. We will not use stretch, but approach the nervous a very different way

30/08/2018

NYC class Tuesday Sept 4, 7:00-8:30 PM, “Somatic Solutions for Shoulders, Neck, Jaw” will address tension, pain, in these areas with gentle but powerful neuromuscular re-patterning techniques developed by the late somatic pioneer, Thomas Hanna PhD. This work changes the brain’s default signals to the muscles via movement, for improved mobility, sensation, control, giving more circulation and health to the tissues with potential improvement for many issues, like headaches, jaw tension, poor posture and more. Illustrated materials with each class for your home somatic practice.

At Balance Arts Center, 34 W 28th st, 3rd floor. NYC (between 6thave/Bway) Classes are $35 single, or discount class cards available, no time limit. Wear flexible clothing and socks. If you take pain medication, or have acute pain or recent surgery, please contact me prior to attending class. Everyone RSVP please to Lmgates51@gmail.com or text 718 350 0637. www.lauramgates.com/events

Laura M Gates, CHSE, MFA is a certified Hanna (Clinical) Somatic Educator and hands on practitioner in the clinical protocols developed by the late neuromuscular pioneer, Thomas Hanna PhD. She earned an MFA from Bennington College, and brings over 40 years of movement education experience and a professional dance background to her work. She is a long time student of master kinesthetic anatomy teacher, Irene Dowd. She currently teaches classes, workshops, and works with 1 on 1 clients in NYC, various locations in US, Europe, Australia. Lauramgates.com/events. She works with Martha Peterson, director of Essential Somatics LLC, and the training team for trainings offered internationally. see www.essentialsomatics.com for more info on these trainings.