The Language of Pain is an ongoing creative health project that ‘voices’ the invisible and often denied experience of chronic illness and pain. This presentation introduces our approach where we are not expected to perform wellness but show up as…
We are Liam, Lauren, Martha and Emily, a group of students at the university ofLeeds, who took part in this movement snack on the 23rd of October, as we are doinga project on somatic practice and chronic pain, as part…
We want to share some new resources developed over the last few months: 1/ Move Eline Kieft of Wild Soul Centre is a dancer and researcher with lived experience of chronic pain, and she has a free 30 minute movement…
By Dr. Eugenia Kim The term ‘chronic pain’ is often used to refer to a wide variety of conditions, severity, and individuals. On 28 November 2023, we gathered to discuss this ‘diversity of chronic pain’ within the context of somatic…
By Micia de Wet As a white South African woman who’s now in a long-distance relationship with migraines, I’ve got a particular perspective on pain management and medical specialists. As a researcher, somatically-inclined performer, and advocate for bigger pictures, I…
by Micia de Wet The Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network held a webinar on the topic of Persistent Pain: Movement and (Mis) Communication on 5th of May 2021. The event included short presentations and discussion with panel/ participants. Here we share a summary…
In this video, Dr. Aline Haas discusses her project on dance for those with Parkinson’s disease to improve quality of life. Based in Brazil, Aline and her team work with Samba and Forró dance rhythms. During the global pandemic, her…
Sarah Charles Highlighting the biological and psychological mechanisms that lead to pain can help provide some insight into how movement in general, and somatic practice in particular, might help those living with pain. One of my major interests is the…
In this interview, pain specialist nurse Jenny McHugh discusses working with children at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, with Prof. Bernie Carter. They talk about the kinds of persistent pain children present with, and the role of a multidisciplinary team in…
Toshio Nomura and Emma Meehan Future projects In February 2020, we asked network members to generate project ideas about somatic practices (SP) and pain that needed to be addressed. In this blog, we present a qualitative research approach, called KJ Ho…
