Thomas Louis Hanna (November 21, 1928 – July 29, 1990) was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976.
[6] He claimed that many common age-related ailments are not simply a matter of time but the result of poor movement habits.
[citation needed] In 1974 he remarried to Eleanor Criswell Hanna, the founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute.
At the University of Florida, Hanna studied neurology and developed the idea that all life experiences lead to physical patterns in the body.
He claimed that we can relearn abilities lost due to Sensory Motor Amnesia and develop what he calls Sensory-Motor Awareness.