Thomas Louis Hanna

Thomas Louis Hanna (November 21, 1928 – July 29, 1990) was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976.[1][2][3][4][5] He called his work Hanna Somatic Education. He proposed that most negative health effects are due to what he called Sensory Motor Amnesia.[6] He claimed that many common age-related ailments are not simply a matter of time but the result of poor movement habits.[7]

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  5. ^ De GiorgiI, Margherita (2015). "Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna's writings". Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença. 5.
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