Philosophy
Sotai practitioners claim that stiff structures should be regarded as a sort of stop light: if a movement hurts, the patient should stop it. They claim that Sotai(-hō) helps to determine where the movement is going wrong.
Similar to the acupuncture meridians in traditional eastern medicine, there are also muscular "meridians" along the body. Landsberger and Hoepke (1936) invented the term of muscular chains ("Muskelketten"). Sotai practitioners claim that it detects the "strains" within these chains. According to its philosophy these "strains" arise through habituated movements.
Moshe Feldenkrais said that a free person is able to do one action within one plot. Probably Hashimoto translated this thought into neurophysiological terms: He said that if one puts his centre of gravity adequately over his feet, the body will raise naturally. Hashimoto claims that people often shift their weight more to the outside of the foot, instead of shifting it towards the bale of the big toe. He said that the human body is not centred then, which means that the natural set reactions (Statomotorik) will not occur properly. Additional muscular work is needed to keep the body straight. To speak in Feldenkrais words, body energy is not focused on the act but is spent in keeping the trunk raised.
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