The aim of a Somatic Awareness Training is to practice bringing awareness to sensation and to explore sensory information with an open, curious mind. Touch, movement, words, and mental images are tools we use to achieve this.
The fundamental belief is, when you bring your awareness to sensation, you self-regulate. The quality of awareness must be one of openness, or something like curiosity, friendliness, or mindfulness. With this quality of awareness on sensation you register more information about your body in space, and with that information, you learn to move more efficiently, elegantly, and fluidly.
When you were a baby, first learning to mobilize your body, you were immersed in sensation. You used this information to learn, at the most detailed level, how to move. You had little or no concepts available to summarize this information, you had less analysis and less conclusions. Your goal was to learn to move and you did it through exploration. You developed how you move, how you categorize, and how you respond to stimuli.
What happens when you enter into this dialogue with sensation now? How is it to explore sensation in a more raw form? Each moment is new and infinite. What do you want to explore?