Conscious Anatomy
Bones, Planes and Directions

Consider your brain organically absorbing anatomical terms and concepts with ease, through customizable, healing movement flows.

Imagine developing a deeper understanding of yourself while  experiencing how anatomy functions in your body. Explore customizable, anatomy infused movement that heals your body and gives you exceptional tools to be more effective with your clients and in your own life.

Appreciate how anatomy infused with self knowledge can benefit the effectiveness of your life and work and provide you with learning and understanding that will grow your business, improve your income, and your life. Whether you are a body worker, a yoga teacher, a holistic practitioner, a massage therapist, or simply someone interested in learning anatomy, Conscious Anatomy™ Movement cultivates tools that enable you to process grief, anxiety, depression and work through bodily aches and pains using blissful, calming movement flows within customizable frameworks.

Feeling attuned to your body and knowing how to attune to your clients’ will make big differences in the outcomes you get in your practice and out in the world..

Diving into understanding how anatomy functions in your body in a deep holistic way makes your career and life more satisfying because there is a perceptible, stellar difference in your results on all levels.

Developing a deeply integrated understanding of function from the physical to the somatic to the energetic is a magnetic must for your best life.

With a full spectrum of experience, you and your clients will take off to new levels of healing and harmony. This will not only help you grow your world harmoniously and the world at large, it will help you grow your wealth, your business, your practice. It will harmonize how you move through space and how you evolve your home and your life.

Frustratingly, learning anatomy or just keeping it current can be a real challenge. It can take much more time than you want it to.

Meanwhile, you may feel stagnant and in need of movement to be healthy, strong in your life and optimally effective in your practice.

For many of us, too much repetitive movement and not enough healing movement causes stress, anguish, and drudgery in our mind/body and robs us of our energy.

I was deep into edging on burn-out in my private practice when I had a light bulb go off in my head of how to hone my skills with anatomy through movement; and, I was entranced by adding in my healing modalities of somatic awarerness and energetic attunement.

I found I could heal my body with the movement activity by including my holistic, emotional and energetic approaches; and, with the increased anatomical knowledge, I could also benefit my clients.

You may feel like you’ve plateaued in your work with your clients, or in your life, and need deeper insights into how to get to the next level. This full spectrum, holistic anatomy could bring you into a higher level of healing which you can then pass onto your clients.

Traditionally our culture does not support somato-emotional expression, nor does it encourage experiencing ourselves authentically.

Neither body-oriented practitioners, nor any of us,  typically learn a full spectrum view of the body- from the physical, emotional, to  the subtle, energetic bodies. As yoga teachers, anatomy is often cursory. For massage therapists and other body oriented professionals, anatomy is not well integrated into function and life skills.

Standard exercise is too focused on the physical body, losing a huge opportunity to bring in deep healing through the somatic and energetic bodies.

Memorization and rote learning result in poor retention and demand exhaustive drudgery, pouring over books. This compromises your physical as well as somato-emotional health.

Unexpressed emotion ends up sequestered in your muscles, causing physical pain, foggy brain, stress and anxiety...none of this is good for work or in the rest of your life.

That’s why I created Conscious Anatomy: to bring you through an individualized healing experience of anatomy with how it functions in your body, mind, and spirit for outstanding application when working with others and in your own life.

Conscious Anatomy brings you into an expanded state of awareness that oxygenates your system, relieves sore muscles, conditions your brain to be a sponge for retention, calms your nerves and gives you a unique experience of yourself from your physical to your somatic to your energetic bodies.

Conscious Anatomy is blissfully healing, energizing, balancing, integrating and brings you authentically into yourself with robust anatomy skills to further your career along with skills to apply to your life. This is an unbeatable combination for success.

This full spectrum approach to learning anatomy integrates the body, mind and spirit for amazing healing, awareness and effective application. This new skill set will help you grow your business and bring more harmony to your life and, in turn, more harmony to the whole world.

Best of all the learning is easeful and exciting and deep because you are simultaneously engrossed in learning about yourself while your brain sponges up the anatomical terms and concepts.

You experience function first hand and retain the anatomy through enjoyable repetition, review and reinforcement by participating in fluid, dreamy, customizable movement flows led with anatomical terms and concepts in customizable frameworks.

What Students Are Saying About Working with Ann . . .

Module 1
Get Grounded: Enter Your Body With Ease By Cultivating A New Understanding of Anatomy From The Inside Out

In this first module you will learn healing movement flows that will alter your state of mind, allowing you to absorb anatomical terms and concepts while working through bodily aches and pains. In this module, you’ll cultivate your awareness:

• by delving into planes and directions from a movement and anatomical perspective.
• by beginning to build your foundation for somatic awareness
• by practicing a three part breath that flushes out the organs along with a breath that calms the nervous system
• by having a tangible experience of energetic attunement in your body
• by connecting the first three chakras to the corresponding planes in anatomy and
• by interfacing the experience of the infant on the floor discovering hands and feet to taking first steps and carving out a place in the world.

Module 2
The Bones: Experience Your Body As Graceful And Fluid With My Signature Movement Flow

Dip into healing movement flows and breathing techniques to calm your nervous system and alter your state of mind for deep body healing and organic absorption of anatomy. You will enjoy:

• becoming a sponge for the basic bones of the skeleton 
• gathering lightness in your body through increased somatic awareness and energetic attunement 
• dissolving aches and pains through my signature flow for joint and muscle pain

Module 3
The Cranium: Move From Your Inner Wisdom To Your Chosen Place In The World

It is super important to work both ends of the spine to get the greatest healing and ease between joints and muscles. In this module you will experience the pelvis in connection to the cranium and:

• delineate the facial bones
• along with the wormian and sesamoid bones
• fewer lay terms will reinforce your knowledge of anatomy from a physical to a somatic to an energetic integration.

Module 4

The Carpals and Tarsals: Bring Ease To The Rest Of Your Body Through Your Hands And Feet

Appreciate the dynamic of moving in a way that is healing for your body and nervous system while mnemonics keep you focused on remembering the little bones that are easy to forget . Sit back and take in

• a story about the carpal bones that reads like a child’s story book
• Find the bounce in your step with the tarsal bones and the three arches of the foot
• distinguish the ease in your body from the tension and gain surprising insight into your somatic and energetic bodies

Module 5
The Shoulder Girdle: Bring Ease To Your Whole Body Through Shoulder Mobility

The shoulder girdle is probably the most flexible set of joints in your body. This also makes it the least stable. 

Take care of this batch of bones by bringing clarity and focus and relief to the thorax :

• by intimately experiencing the shoulder girdle and arm bones
• by discovering the myriad movements associated with the shoulder girdle and
• by decreasing neck and shoulder pain through determining, first hand, how many bones need to accommodate to each other for ease of movement

Module 6
Spine and Voice: Experience Your Spine Becoming Supple And Easy As We Hum Into It With Sound

In this exquisite module, sound will be introduced as a way to bring supreme calm and interconnectedness into the realm of the physical body with a true integration of the body mind and spirit. Literally experience the web of life with:

• coordinated sound and movement with the chakras and the seven sounds of love
• love your spinal chord (sic) with fluid movement from one vertebrae to the next
• Accelerate your connection to your energetic body and
• Tap more deeply into somatic awareness for the benefit of yourself and your clients

Module 8

The Pelvis And Cervicals: De-stress Your Neck By Cultivating Pelvic Health and Vitality

We continue doing the crucial work of coordinating both ends of the spine. It is essential to work the cervicals at one end for flexibility, fluidity and increased range of motion after loosening up and strengthening the pelvis. We will discover what we hold there, through bony landmarks and guided meditation. You will learn 

•  a crucial movement flow for pelvic health and vitality
•  to experience your pelvis as a place of wisdom and creativity 
•  the bones and crucial bony landmarks of the pelvic girdle and
• the intricacies of the cervical bones in relation to the cranium

Module 8

Apply Your Knowledge: Revel In Your Deeper Understanding Of Anatomy And The Surprising Impact It Has On Your Life And Work From The Inside Out

You will be amazed at your ease of knowledge with skeletal anatomy, fluid body movements, inner calm and a deeper understanding of how the human body operates. You will more clearly know what your client on the table needs to allow their bones the fullest range of motion. The information from your own experience of how somatic awareness and energetic attunement have worked in your own body for integration of body, mind and spirit will provide expected and surprising tools for working with your clients. In this class you will discover how far you have come with  

• the use of virtually no lay terms
• the use of humming to relieve tension in your body
• the required prerequisite for Level 1 Conscious AnatomyTM Muscles And Attachments where you will learn muscle firing sequences through healing movement

Meet Ann Watkins M.A., DMT, LMT

Ann Watkins is a study geek with Honors in Psychology and a Masters in Dance Movement Therapy. She is Certified in Expressive Arts Therapy through the Person Centered Expressive Arts Therapy Institute and studied with Natalie Rogers and Carl Rogers.

Ann is also a yoga person, an improvisational movement lover, a published author, a Licensed Massage Therapist and bodyworker and owner of New Harmony Therapeutic Massage and Somatic Body Work - a private practice in postural corrective body work since 1988. She takes loads of continuing ed and teaches anatomy through movement. She originated Reactive Triads™ Bodywork and Conscious Anatomy™ Movement. She lives in Connecticut.

Her mission is to create space for healing and pain relief and to bring inner harmony to as many people as possible, believing this will bring greater harmony to the whole world.