The Trager® Approach is a pleasurable, gentle and effective approach to movement education and mind/body integration. The Trager Approach helps release deep-seated physical and mental patterns and facilitates deep relaxation, increased physical mobility, and mental clarity.

TRAGER® PRINCIPLES

• Live and work aware of the vast ocean of pleasantness that surrounds and supports us.
• Explore, be curious. Let go of your agendas, decisions, judgments, what you want to achieve. Instead appreciate what is.
• When you meet resistance, go lighter. Ask What could be lighter? What could be easier? What could be freer? What could be softer? Communicate lightness, freedom, soft, ease, with your own body and mind.
• Get it in yourself- you can only give what you honestly have.
• Let the feeling of the touch nourish you, feed your hands with luxurious full contact. Feeling the weight is one way to do this. When you have the full weight, there is ease.
• It is in the pauses that the integration happens, that change is accepted into the body/mind.
• Recall strengthens the feeling state and subsequent response each time we use it.

TRAGER® MENTASTICS® FOR SELF-CARE

This class is for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers. Spend a morning learning simple movements based on Trager principles that can restore and refresh your body after and during working. Ease low-back pain, release shoulder strain, open the wrist, and much more. Keys to longevity in your profession are presented here in this class- and it's easier than you would ever have beleived!

TRAGER® INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP

The Trager® Introductory Workshop introduces participants to the Trager® Approach. Principles and concepts are explored through Mentastics®, Trager® movements designed to produce the same feelings of relaxation in the body/mind that a hands-on session produces. Time permitting, a few Trager® principles may be explored at the table.

The Trager® Introductory Workshop fulfills a prerequisite for entering the Trager® Professional Training Track. It is also a wonderful way to spend the day. Becoming more aware of your body, finding peace in that inner place that defines who you are, not what you do, or have done- the day can be an oasis in the pace of your professional and personal life.

INSTRUCTOR Nancy Toner Weinberger is a Trager® Practitioner and certified workshop leader. She studied with Dr. Milton Trager, and became a Practitioner in 1985. She has a private practice in North Raleigh, NC.

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE WELCOME
Explore the possibility of a career in movement re-education! Licensure is not required in North Carolina. Six CEs are awarded to LMBTs. Please wear loose or stretchy clothes and comfortable shoes. No jeans, no flipflops or heels, please. Bring a sheet to cover the massage table, a regular bed pillow. Meets 9:30AM-4:30PM with an hour for lunch.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students who complete the workshop will be able to:

• Explain and/or identify:
o Holding patterns, the anatomical and physiological basis for Trager® bodywork and Mentastics®.
o The history of the development of the Trager® Approach by Milton Trager, M.D.
o The influence of the feeling state of the practitioner upon Trager session effectiveness (Hook-up) and use of recall.
o Service mark limitations and training requirements for certification as a Trager® Practitioner.
• Discover Mentastics® for the hands, arms, shoulders, legs and lower back.
• Visually and tactilely recognize Trager® tablework, and identify basic differences between Trager and other styles of bodywork.
• Begin to incorporate Trager® principles and concepts into their current bodywork practice, if applicable.

TRAGER® MENTASTICS®

Learn gentle free-flowing movements that can release stress and alleviate aches and pains. Suitable for everyone, regardless of age or physical fitness. This class is oriented to the general public. Come and enjoy! No CE credit given.

Read more about Trager® Mentastics® here.

TRAGER® INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP FOR BODYWORKERS

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The Trager® Approach

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TRAGER® INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP

TRAGER® MENTASTICS®

TRAGER® MENTASTICS® FOR SELF-CARE

TRAGER® INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP FOR BODYWORKERS