Jack’s article on SLS is here.

Many bodyworkers/manual therapists must have learned side-lying work for pregnacy in massage schools and forget using it in sessions because many modalities don’t work on the side and rather, they use supine or prone for certain moves. 

Think about this… We were all growing in fetal position, feeling the mother’s movement in the womb… Being rocked along her movements. Side-lying is the perfect position for a client to re-experience this soothing, comfortable and safe feeling in the session with so many benefits which come from this position.

Low back and neck pain, abdominal issues, working with shoulder, reacnihg psoas, getting the whole sense of legs, hip work, sandwiching torso with both hands, rib and chest/upper back work, approaching face, whole body movement, getting the feeling of connection of whole body and wholeness… Side work is so much less burden for your client and you, physically and mentally, and we can guarranty that this way of working is unbeliebably effective with movements and decompression.

As you can see in the title, this work is real somatic work. You will learn how to get the sense of somatics on the side. You and your client will be both aware of what you both are aware of feeling in the bodies.

Enjoy this unique and unusually effective work getting the whole picture and real feeling of the concept of somatic work. You will use this work immedietely in your sessions for your clients and yourself. Just get some more pillows in your session room!