somatics

I realize, now, that the title of this piece might seem like hype. I thought Thomas Hanna's introduction to his methods sounded like hype. What pathos! when the truth sounds unbelievable! when what sounds too good to be true IS true! To understand the metaphors, "Socratic, Promethean, and Herculean" in relation to Hanna somatics, we must understand some things about Socrates, Prometheus, and Hercules. Socrates was a teacher and prominent personage of ancient Greece. As a teacher, he guided his students along lines of consideration, asking them leading questions so that his students might arrive at insight, themselves. His viewpoint of knowledge, topsy turvy to that of most contemporary ways of operating, is that we inherently know everything, but have forgotten nearly everything, and the teacher only reminds us of what we have already known but forgotten.