BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.35.1//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/ X-WR-CALNAME:Spiritual Growth Events X-WR-CALDESC:Free X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=03;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:MEC-0b01fc79281433649e7d67e55f663274@spiritualgrowthevents.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261124T173000 DURATION:PT1H DTSTAMP:20261111T091443Z RDATE;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261124T173000,20261128T120000 CREATED:20261111 LAST-MODIFIED:20261111 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:1 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:Release Unconscious Patterns of Tension for Greater Mobility – Free Class with Martha Peterson DESCRIPTION:\n\nFree Online Event\n\n Stiffness, tension, and discomfort can gradually change the way you move through everyday life. Activities that once felt effortless — standing up, walking, turning your head, reaching, or simply getting comfortable — can begin to require more thought and effort.\n \n\n Martha Peterson offers another way to understand these changes through Clinical Somatic Education. Her approach explores how unconscious muscle patterns learned over time can influence movement, posture, comfort, and your sense of physical freedom.\n \n\n You’ll be guided through functional assessments that bring greater awareness to familiar movements, including walking, standing up from a chair, and using your phone. Martha will also introduce pandiculation, a somatic practice involving gentle muscular contraction and release.\n \n\n Rather than asking you to force greater flexibility or push your body harder, this event focuses on slowing down enough to notice how you are moving. That awareness can help you explore where unnecessary effort and habitual tension may be showing up in everyday life.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n\n Registration is free, and event access details and reminders will be sent after you sign up.\n \n\n\n\n\n Explore This Free Event\n \n\n Jump directly to the section that interests you.\n \n\n\n \n →\n Why Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n What You’ll Learn\n \n \n\n \n →\n Who Should Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n About Martha Peterson\n \n \n\n \n →\n Endorsements\n \n \n\n \n →\n Frequently Asked Questions\n \n \n\n \n Register Here For Free\n →\n \n \n\n\n Move With Greater Awareness\n \n\n Why Attend “Release Unconscious Patterns of Tension for Greater Mobility: Explore Somatic Practices for More Ease, Freedom & Confidence”\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n When movement becomes more restricted or uncomfortable, it is easy to assume that stiffness is simply something you have to accept with age. Martha offers a different perspective by exploring how long-standing patterns of muscular tension can become so familiar that you no longer consciously notice them.\n \n\n Clinical Somatic Education brings attention to the relationship between your brain, muscles, and habitual movement. Instead of relying on force, Martha’s approach emphasizes sensing what your body is already doing so you can become more aware of patterns that may be creating unnecessary effort.\n \n\n Martha brings more than 30 years of experience in dance, bodywork, and somatic education to this work. Through simple functional assessments and somatic movements, she’ll help you examine familiar activities with fresh attention and explore how small changes in awareness can influence the way movement feels.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Somatic Awareness + Guided Movement\n \nWhat You’ll Learn\n\n We’ll begin with simple functional assessments of familiar movements, so you can notice comfort, effort, balance, and coordination without trying to immediately correct anything. You’ll start with activities such as walking and standing up from a chair, using awareness as a way to observe how your body organizes movement.\n \n\n From there, Martha will introduce sensory motor amnesia and pandiculation, so you can understand how muscles may remain habitually contracted outside conscious awareness. You’ll explore gentle contraction and release rather than forcing a stretch, and then notice whether your experience of movement changes.\n \n\n Along the way, you’ll look closely at everyday habits such as reaching for and holding your phone, which means seemingly ordinary movements become opportunities to notice your head, neck, chest, belly, breathing, and muscular effort. The emphasis remains on slowing down and sensing more clearly so that habitual patterns become easier to recognize.\n \n\n Here’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n \n\nHow unconscious muscle patterns can influence stiffness, comfort, mobility, and everyday movement\nWhat sensory motor amnesia means in Clinical Somatic Education\nHow pandiculation uses gentle muscular contraction and release to build sensory awareness\nWays to observe the comfort, speed, balance, and effort of your normal walking pattern\nWhat you can notice about your movement when standing up from a chair\nHow habitual phone use can involve your head, neck, chest, belly, breathing, and muscular tension\nWhy slowing down can make subtle sensations and movement habits easier to notice\nHow tension in one area may relate to compensatory patterns elsewhere in the body\nWhy Martha challenges the assumption that every change in mobility should automatically be dismissed as inevitable wear and tear\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n A More Conscious Way to Move\n \nWho This Is For\n\n This event may be especially relevant if stiffness, tension, discomfort, or reduced confidence in movement has begun to affect everyday activities. It also speaks to people who want to maintain mobility and independence while developing a clearer understanding of their own movement habits.\n \n\n Martha introduces the foundations of Clinical Somatic Education through guided observation and movement, making the session relevant to people who are new to somatics as well as those already interested in body awareness, movement education, or self-regulation. The event may also be useful for movement professionals and practitioners curious about how habitual muscular patterns influence function.\n \n\nPeople noticing recurring stiffness or tension during everyday movement\nThose interested in maintaining mobility, confidence, and independence as they age\nAnyone curious about the relationship between habitual muscle tension and movement patterns\nPeople exploring somatic approaches to greater body awareness\nThose who want to understand movements such as walking, standing, reaching, and turning more clearly\nMovement professionals and practitioners interested in Clinical Somatic Education\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Meet Your Teacher\n \nAbout Martha Peterson\n\n Martha Peterson, CCSE, is a certified clinical somatic educator, founder and CEO of Essential Somatics®, and author of Move Without Pain. She leads a growing faculty of clinical somatic educators who offer Essential Somatics teacher trainings, retreats, workshops, and seminars around the world.\n \n\n Her experience spans more than 30 years in dance, bodywork, and somatic education. A former professional dancer, Martha came to this work through her own experience with chronic hip and knee pain following injuries and her search for a more useful way to understand recurring patterns in the body.\n \n\n Martha also maintains a private clinical practice and teaches Clinical Somatic Education as a way of developing greater sensory awareness and voluntary control of muscular patterns. Her approach emphasizes learning to sense, recognize, and work with habitual tension rather than simply pushing harder against it.\n \n\n An experienced hiker, Martha has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and trekked in Sikkim in Northern India. Her broader approach to healthy movement combines regular somatic practice with vigorous, enjoyable activity, relaxation, self-regulation, and a sense of humor.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Clinical Somatic Education and Movement\n \nEndorsements\n\n\n\n “Having not heard about somatics before, I was amazed at how simple and effective Martha’s approach is. I experienced significant improvement in the pain and stiffness I was feeling in my body, which I thought was an inevitable part of getting older.”\n \n\n Jennifer\n \n Sydney, Australia\n \n \n\n\n\n “I experienced radical improvement in my back and hip pain after just the introductory session. I have not gone to the chiropractor since, and I had been going weekly or biweekly for a very long time. Martha’s exercises were fairly easy to learn and practice on my own. It is amazing to have these tools to be able to help myself feel so much better in my body — and save so much time and money by not having to get professional treatment. I am so glad I signed up for her course and I highly recommend it.”\n \n\n Maria\n \n Sweden\n \n \n\n\n\n “The short sessions with Martha were packed with so much learning. It was amazing how such simple awareness of my body could bring such relaxation and change in posture.”\n \n\n Karen Joy\n \n Oceanside, California\n \n \n\n\n\n “Martha obviously loves her work and actively listens to answer participants’ questions. She explains the work well and gives credit to Thomas Hanna and whoever else has influenced these teachings, which gives a historic perspective and honors the original teachers. The class had a very positive feeling and the results can be very helpful. I looked forward to each class because I felt better both physically and emotionally after participating. The process and encouragement was uplifting.”\n \n\n Elissa La Conner\n \n Washington\n \n \n\n\n\n “The course has helped me become more aware of my standing and my walking. I started doing somatic movements in preparation for Martha’s class, and now it’s just a part of my routine for the rest of my life. I am so happy that I have this practice now, so I can continue to be independent and vibrant as I age. I want to move through life with grace and ease.”\n \n\n K.L.\n \n Bloomington, Illinois\n \n \n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Everything You Need to Know\n \nFrequently Asked Questions\n\n Select any question below to reveal the answer.\n \n\n Event Details\n \n\nWhen and where does the event take place?\n\n This free online video event takes place on Tuesday, November 24, 2026, at 5:30pm Pacific Time. A final replay presentation is scheduled for Saturday, November 28, 2026, at 12:00pm Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nWho is Martha Peterson?\n\n Martha Peterson, CCSE, is a certified clinical somatic educator, founder and CEO of Essential Somatics®, and author of Move Without Pain. Her experience spans more than 30 years in dance, bodywork, and somatic education.\n \n\n\nWhat will I learn during this event?\n\n You’ll explore how unconscious muscle patterns can influence everyday movement, learn about sensory motor amnesia and pandiculation, and take part in functional assessments involving activities such as walking, standing up from a chair, and using your phone.\n \n\n\nWhat if I can’t attend live?\n\n Register anyway. Registrants can receive a full-length recording after the event, and a final replay presentation is scheduled for Saturday, November 28, 2026, at 12:00pm Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nHow long is the event?\n\n The free online event is approximately one hour long.\n \n\n\nDo I need any special equipment to participate?\n\n Any participation details will be provided when you register, along with event access information and reminders.\n \n\n\nWho is hosting the event?\n\n This event is presented by The Shift Network\n \n\n\nIs this event suitable for beginners?\n\n Yes. Martha introduces Clinical Somatic Education through foundational concepts, guided observation, and simple functional assessments, making the session accessible to people who are new to somatics as well as those already familiar with body-awareness practices.\n \n\n\nIs this event religious?\n\n The event centers on Clinical Somatic Education, body awareness, and movement patterns. Martha’s teaching is somatic and educational in focus.\n \n\n\nWill there be an opportunity to go deeper after the event?\n\n Yes. Martha will also share information about a new 18-week live training that guides students through six progressive phases of Clinical Somatic Education, from awareness and release through self-regulation, integration, and functional freedom.\n \n\n\nWhat can I expect to feel during the event?\n\n You’ll be invited to notice sensations such as comfort, effort, balance, breathing, and muscular tension as you move. Individual responses vary, so the emphasis is on observing your own experience rather than trying to produce a particular result.\n \n\n\nCan I share this event with friends?\n\n Yes. You are welcome to share the registration page with friends who may be interested in somatics, body awareness, mobility, or more conscious movement.\n \n\n\nIs this event really free?\n\n Yes. Registration for this online event is free. Martha will also discuss an optional 18-week live training separately.\n \n\n\n About Clinical Somatic Education & Movement\n \n\nWhat is Clinical Somatic Education?\n\n Clinical Somatic Education is the approach Martha uses to help people become more aware of habitual muscular patterns and how those patterns influence movement. The event introduces this work through conscious sensing, functional assessments, and gentle somatic movement.\n \n\n\nWhat is sensory motor amnesia?\n\n Sensory motor amnesia refers to a state in which muscles remain habitually contracted without your full awareness, making it harder to sense or voluntarily release the tension you are holding. Martha will explain how this pattern can influence movement and comfort.\n \n\n\nWhat is pandiculation?\n\n Pandiculation is a somatic practice that involves gently contracting and then releasing muscles with conscious attention. Martha will use it during the event as you explore how habitual muscular effort can affect familiar movements.\n \n\n\nWhat will the functional assessments explore?\n\n Martha will guide you in observing everyday movements such as walking, standing up from a chair, and reaching for or holding your phone. You’ll pay attention to factors such as balance, coordination, speed, breathing, comfort, and the amount of effort involved.\n \n\n\nWhy does Martha emphasize slowing down?\n\n Slowing down makes it easier to notice subtle sensations and habitual movement patterns that can otherwise happen automatically. Martha uses that increased awareness as a foundation for exploring movement with greater choice and control.\n \n\n\nHow can phone use reveal habitual tension?\n\n Martha will have you notice what happens to your face, head, neck, chest, belly, and breathing as you move into and out of holding your phone. The exercise shows how an ordinary daily habit can involve more muscular effort than you consciously realize.\n \n\n\nCan tension in one area relate to patterns elsewhere in the body?\n\n Martha will explore how discomfort in one area can sometimes be connected with compensatory patterns of tension elsewhere in the body. This is one reason her approach looks at whole-body movement rather than focusing only on the place where tension is most noticeable.\n \n\n\nHow does Martha approach aging and mobility?\n\n Martha challenges the assumption that every increase in stiffness or reduction in mobility should automatically be accepted as inevitable wear and tear. She’ll explore how learned muscular patterns can also influence the way you move and what greater sensory awareness can reveal about those habits.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Health Disclosure\n \n\n The contents of this website/e-mail are for informational purposes only and are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This website does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.\n \n\n\n\n Relationship Disclosure\n \n\n We are grateful to be of service and bring you these life-changing events free of charge. In order to do this, please note that whenever you click the links and purchase items, in most (not all) cases we will receive a referral commission. 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