Thomas hanna biography
Thomas hanna biography
Tom hanna!
Thomas Louis Hanna
Thomas Louis Hanna (November 21, 1928 – July 29, 1990) was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976.[1][2][3][4][5] He called his work Hanna Somatic Education.
He proposed that most negative health effects are due to what he called Sensory Motor Amnesia.[6] He claimed that many common age-related ailments are not simply a matter of time but the result of poor movement habits.[7]
Life
Thomas Hanna was born in Nov.
21, 1928 in Waco, Texas, the son of Winifred Hanna and John Dwight Hanna,[8][9] a traveling representative for a pharmaceutical firm.[10] He went to Waco High School.[9] In 1949, Thomas Hanna earned a bachelor's degree in theology from Texas Christian University.[11] The following year he married Susan Taft on 12 May 1950.
They went to Paris and Thomas Hanna served as Director at Jean de