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Level 1 is a six-day comprehensive somatic training consisting of clear explanations, demonstrations of supine and prone tablework, chair, and standing repertoires. You can look forward in learning the foundational somatic movements called Mentasitcs or 'mental-gymnastics' for embodying lightness, grounded freedom, enlivenment, and more! You will discover how the “quality” of touch, movement, and presence will enhance your self-growth and provide positive affects with those you work with in your current practice. 

 

Informing Touch 

You will learn how mindful touch provides feeling information from the perspective of the receiver. You will have opportunities to develop ‘listening and curious’ hands to facilitate and deepen positive feeling and functional outcomes. With this intention of touch, you'll develop ease, support, fluidity, and biotensegral integrity in your own body as you work at the table!

 

Somatic Movement

Trager® Mentastics or ‘mental-gymnastics’ are the foundational movement practice developed by Dr. Milton Trager. At their core, Mentastics are somatic movements that are mind-guided or body-initiated, or a combination of both. Ranging from profoundly relaxing to the exuberant.  Mentastics both tame tension and enliven the spirit. Guided Mentastic explorations will teach you how you can achieve and develop a reliable body-centered resource from which to move with greater biotensegral awareness and function.

 

Presence

In the TRAGER Approach, presence, or presencing, is an active state of awareness characterized by a sense of peacefulness, wholeness, aliveness, and connection to a greater force. It is both a relaxed and an awake state of consciousness. Similar to a meditative state, yet playful, and guided with open possibilities of an inquiring mind. Dr. Milton Trager called this state of presence ‘hook up’, as one is ‘hooked up’ to a greater force, universal force, chi, or other.  

 

Students will learn how to approach stiff, achy, and inefficient movement patterns with effective and pleasurable somatic practices to invigorate self-development and to enhance ease in working with others.  

 

Students will receive access to either an online electronic copy or ‘printable’ copy of the Level-1 Student Handbook.

 

Recommended readings for this Level-1 training include “Movement as a way to Agelessness”, by Dr. Milton Trager and Kathy Hammond, and “Moving Medicine”, by Jack Liskin.

 

Taken as a stand-alone continuing education experience, you will gain therapeutic skills that will ease and refine the intention of your touch, help you move more freely in your daily life, and strengthen your self-regulatory resources! 

 

If you are looking to extend your massage/bodywork carrier, work with much less effort, fall back in love with what you do, with renewed resilience and passion, consider this fun and highly educational Trager training!