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Thomas Louis Hanna was born on 21 November, 1928, is a Thomas Louis Hanna was philosophy professor. Discover Thomas Louis Hanna's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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1928

Thomas Louis Hanna (November 21, 1928 – July 29, 1990) was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976.

He called his work Hanna Somatic Education.

He proposed that most negative health effects are due to what he called Sensory Motor Amnesia.

He claimed that many common age-related ailments are not simply a matter of time but the result of poor movement habits.

Thomas Hanna was born in Nov. 21, 1928 in Waco, Texas, the son of Winifred Hanna and John Dwight Hanna, a traveling representative for a pharmaceutical firm.

He went to Waco High School.

1949

In 1949, Thomas Hanna earned a bachelor's degree in theology from Texas Christian University.

1950

The following year he married Susan Taft on 12 May 1950.

They went to Paris and Thomas Hanna served as Director at Jean de Beauvais Club of the University of Paris.

1954

Returning to the US he earned a Bachelors of Divinity at the University of Chicago by 1954 and went on to get his PhD in philosophy and divinity in 1958.

He went on to lecture and research at different universities, first at Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia and as a guest teacher at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, Paris, Brussels, Mainz and Guadalajara.

1965

From 1965 to 1973 he was Professor and chairman at the philosophy department of the University of Florida.

1969

In 1969, he published these ideas in his book "Bodies in Revolt: A Primer in Somatic Thinking".

1973

Moving to San Francisco in 1973, he was introduced to the Functional Integration of Moshé Feldenkrais and in 1975 he participated in the first Feldenkrais course in the United States.

Hanna became director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute (later renamed into Saybrook Institute) in 1973.

1974

In 1974 he remarried to Eleanor Criswell Hanna, the founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute.

1975

Together with his new wife Eleanor Criswell Hanna, they started the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in 1975 and published the new journal "Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences".

It provided a new venue where the ideas of Somatics could be discussed.

1988

He developed his ideas and published them in Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health in 1988.

He proclaimed that it's possible to age without chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and that even high blood pressure don't occur if we maintain conscious control of nerves and muscles.

He claimed that we can relearn abilities lost due to Sensory Motor Amnesia and develop what he calls Sensory-Motor Awareness.

1990

He died on 29 July 1990 in a car accident in Sonoma.

His wife continued to teach his work following his death.

At the University of Florida, Hanna studied neurology and developed the idea that all life experiences lead to physical patterns in the body.

In 1990 he started his own training program at the Novato Institute to teach Hanna Somatic Education.

Publications on Hanna Somatic Education