Body-Brain Re-Train
A Hanna Somatic Movement Program To help you move freely & live fully
What Is Body-Brain Re-Train?
More than movement—it's retraining how your body and brain work together
Body-Brain Re-Train is a somatic movement method rooted in Hanna Somatics—a practice designed to help your body unlearn deeply ingrained patterns of tension and pain.
It’s not about stretching, pushing harder, or muscling through. It’s about teaching your brain and muscles to communicate differently—more consciously, more efficiently, and with more ease.
This isn’t just about feeling better in the moment.
Once you learn it, it starts to change everything:
✔︎ How you stand, sit, and walk.
✔︎ How you drive, work out, or rest.
✔︎ How you swing a golf club or paddle a boat.
✔︎ How you pay attention to your body in the everyday.
This is conscious contraction, conscious release—a retraining of your nervous system that helps your body move naturally and pain-free again.
How Does It Work?
Understanding the patterns behind pain—and how to change them
Your body learns movement the same way it learns everything else: through repetition. Every time you sit, walk, drive, sleep, or even slouch, your brain is memorizing that pattern. Over time, certain muscles get stuck in a constant state of contraction—a condition known as Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA)—where your brain has forgotten how to relax them.
This is often where chronic pain and dis-ease begin. And no amount of traditional stretching can reverse it if the nervous system still believes that “tight” is normal.
Body-Brain Re-Train uses small, slow, intentional movements to reconnect your brain with your muscles. This process—called pandiculation—helps the nervous system relearn how to release tension and reset your baseline for movement.
It’s not passive. It’s not a quick fix. But once you experience the shift, you begin to understand:
It’s not about doing more. It’s about doing differently.
You may raise your shoulders before you soften them. That’s the point.
That’s conscious movement—and it’s what creates real, lasting change.
Move Smarter, Feel Better
Gentle movements, real relief—feel the difference in everyday life
Whether you’re living with chronic pain, recovering from injury, managing stress and trauma, or training for a sport you love, this work meets you where you are—and invites you to move with more ease, balance, and awareness.
You'll begin to notice:
Your posture improves
Your workouts slow down—but become more effective
Your golf swing, rowing stroke, or daily walk feels more fluid
You sit, stand, and move with more awareness and less effort
You stretch differently—because your body understands release
This isn’t about being flexible, strong, or “fit enough.” It’s about coming home to a body that moves the way it was meant to—without strain, without pain, and without feeling stuck.
“I came to Michelle feeling stuck and overwhelmed on an ongoing basis, both physically and emotionally, due to the chronic pain I’ve had from a car accident. I have sought various methods but have not found anything as helpful as sessions with Michelle. I trust her completely. She knows what she is doing. She is passionate about helping me and she truly listens. After just a few sessions, I began to experience deep relaxation and a lightness in my body that provides me with peace, ease, and calm continually—feelings and sensations I didn’t think I would ever have again.”
— DEBBIE R.
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