Thomas Hanna was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term "somatics" in 1976. Somatics was meant to distinguish the body as a felt subjective experience, rather than a lifeless object studied by science. He is the most unlikely body worker, seen as he is in a shirt and tie in the following video: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_cWnoZqJZ8g" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Some choice expressions of his: - If you're in pain, you're losing (in response to the interviewer asking him if he belonged to the "no pain no gain" school of thought) - All growth is gentle. - All human growth is interior.