rogerhugheslmt

My Practice

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A brief summary of how Trager found me and sustains me

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In 1999 I attended an introductory workshop in the Trager Approach. 

At the time I had been practicing as a licensed massage therapist providing anatomically specific deep tissue techniques for my clients. I had a growing clientele since graduating from the Chicago School of Massage Therapy in 1995. At the time, I was tolerating back pain that was related to old injuries and trauma. My awareness then was that the pain I was feeling was solely related to the giving of deep tissue massages, and that this was just how things were to be. My mantra was to provide a high standard of service despite what that might be doing to my body, or to my mind. I was a hard worker!

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What happened in that 6-hr Introductory workshop in 1999 shifted my view in how I had been meeting myself and meeting my clients. It all came down to the manner in which I was meeting resistances in myself, and conversely how I was meeting the resistances (tensions) in my clients. I had become very skilled in locating and pushing through pain, discomfort and feelings.

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Six months after the workshop I entered the professional Trager training program. A 6-day comprehensive training (1st of 3) in learning the Trager principles of movement, touch and presence. I did not really know why I was drawn to this softer approach. However, my unconscious awareness was guiding me where I needed to go to feel better, more whole, to heal and find contentment.

 

What is now so clear to me is strongly echoed in a phrase that Dr. Trager was   known to share with his students and practitioners "You can only give to the degree in which you have honestly developed in  yourself."

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For the last 20 years I have witnessed countless moments of transformation in healing and growth with clients. I am forever grateful to Dr. Milton Trager, my Teachers, my clients, my students and to me, for the moment of pause I took to to listen to the 'deepest tissue', my unconscious mind back in 1999!

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Roger Hughes

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