​Reminiscent of massage, the Trager Approach is its own distinctive form of bodywork. It combines table work and movement re-education. Trager brings into your awareness a sense of peace, joy and connectedness by mimicking the undulating movement of waves. It’s a gentle way of working with the nervous system using rhythmic movements like rocking, jostling, shimmering and elongation and includes compressions and pauses to integrate the work. These fluid, flowing and playful motions lull your mindbody into a harmonious state, releasing tension and softening the edges of physical, mental and emotional patterns; it’s a way to let go from that which holds you back. Trager can help create such a sense of lightness and ease, that the weight of seriousness can lift and joy can take its place so you are left feeling effervescent, refreshed and rejuvenated. Trager is a mind-body experience. It’s delightful and surprising to feel the depth that subtle movement can reach within the body and the Trager moves can be felt throughout the entire body all at the same time leaving one with a deep sense of connection.

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Move with Mentastics!​

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Another aspect of the Trager Approach is a form of movement re-education coined Mentastics by the founder of the method, Dr. Milton Trager. Mentastics is a word that combines the words mental and gymnastics. Mentastics are self-initiated, self-care moves. Through Mentastics, one experiences how using gentle, mindful movements practiced with feeling and intention enhances body awareness and ease of motion. It is a way to incorporate the Trager principles into daily life, and helps to recall the pleasure of having received the work, and fosters a deeper connection to one’s own body.

 

Trager is gentle and pain-free

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Trager is always gentle and an important edict of it is to not cause discomfort or pain. To assist in releasing tension for a client, the practitioner cannot introduce tension into their own body. Should the client tense up while receiving a Trager session, the Trager practitioner slows down, uses softness, less effort and relaxes themselves even more, to release any of their own tension so that they don’t transmit feelings of tension onto the client. This level of attunement contributes to an environment of safety and nurturing. Trager gives you a sense of freedom in your body, in your movement, in your thoughts and in your emotions.

With Trager, oil is not used and the client can remain dressed in loose comfortable clothing or in their underwear.