Who is Chris Barnett?

Chris is a clinical Hanna Somatic Educator and Practitioner, Maryland Certified Massage Therapist, 500 hour yoga and Pilates teacher with over 18 years experience and is currently pursuing a BA in Psychology at UMBC and comprehensive Pilates training with Balanced Body. A true movement detective, Chris’s focus is to help you achieve full range of movement in a pain-free body. Her experiences as an Irish dancer, athlete and musician give her personal insight into the mechanisms of chronic pain and her education and hands on experience guide her work in creating custom tailored movement and bodywork sessions to help you move throughout life pain-free by getting you unstuck. 

What is Somatics?

Somatics is a rapidly effective form of neuromuscular (mind-body training) movement re-education that goes directly to the root cause of most chronic muscular pain: the brain and the way in which it senses and organizes the muscles and movement. By learning to regain awareness, sensation, and motor control of muscles – an educational process that can only be achieved through movement – the brain can remember how to relax and move the muscles properly.