Somatics is a form of re-education it re-awakens the mind's control of movement, flexibility and overall health directly through the central nervous system.  

When we use a camera, we learn to focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop and grow from the negatives and, if things don't work out, we take another shot at it.

Yoga gives us exactly what is needed, when the mind just simply hasn't a clue. In fact it probably continues to repeat the same old habits, always reacting to things and situations with the same old numbingly repetitive compulsive actions.