Somatic Fanatic: How Training My Nervous System With the World's Master Instructors Helped Me Beat My Midlife Crisis

By Dan Sykes

By age 40, Dan Sykes seemed to have all the cash and prizes most men want-the beautiful wife, the happy kids, the thriving business-without ever surrendering to a mundane life. That is, until everything unraveled.

 

After a difficult divorce, Sykes felt old, heavy and not thrilled to embark on bachelor life with a gut-all while

• Language: English
• Publisher: Legacy Launch Pad Publishing
• Release date: Dec 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781956955033

Dan Sykes

Dan Sykes is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, bodyworker and founder of the Somatic Training Network, a company dedicated to learning and sharing somatic arts and practices from around the world. Sykes has studied somatics with Master Instructors in the USA, Canada, Russia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Japan, and earned the titles of Systema Bodywork Instructor and Martial Arts Instructor under Grand Master Mikhail Ryabko and Master Instructor Vladimir Vasiliev, respectively. He is in his fourth year of the Feldenkrais Method® Professional Practitioner Program at the Feldenkrais Institute in New York, and he has also studied Yoga Assisting, Anatomy Trains®, Wheel of Consent and Somatic Consent. Sykes has also produced and directed two seasons of Emergency Fish Party, his Systema-oriented YouTube show. Sykes lives in Brewer, Maine. Somatic Fanatic is his first book.

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