Somatic education as a self-care strategy

Abstract

Often the university worker integrates into life routines in which they limit or forget self-care and generates “professionals” disorders. High stress generated in universities has provoked a burnout syndrome on their workers, which is characterized by three dimensions: emotional wear, depersonalization, and low self-realization. An educational intervention was developed with the objective of training university employees through the technique of Self-awareness by the movement of the Feldenkrais method (somatic education) to alleviate the health disorders that they have generated. The intervention method used: participatory action research. The main disorders generated by the students were the burnout syndromes and the computer syndrome. The participation in the workshops "Active Pauses in the University" generated in the students a greater knowledge of their own corporal scheme, it was evident a more efficient corporal organization that is targeted in the reduction of pain and nervous tension previously reported technique.