The Trager® Approach Trager is a pleasurable, gentle and effective approach to movement reeducation and mind/body integration. The Trager Approach can help release deep-seated physical and mental patterns and can facilitate deep relaxation, stress reduction, increased physical mobility, and mental clarity. A session usually lasts from 60 to 90 minutes. No oils or lotions are used. You may choose to be fully clothed, or partially clothed and appropriately draped.

The benefits of a Trager session are long-lasting and cumulative, with subsequent sessions allowing for deeper and longer lasting changes. At the beginning of your session, your practitioner adopts a calm state of consciousness similar to meditation. From this place of peace and awareness, your practitioner uses both touch and movement to invite tense holding patterns in your body/mind to experience freedom, ease, lightness and playfulness. Mentastics® are simple, effortless, self-care movements that your practitioner will share with you before, during or after the table part of the session. This unique aspect of The Trager Approach will help you bridge the gap between your sessions with your practitioner and your daily life and work, allowing you to feel flexibility, freedom and joy in your body and mind wherever you are. Many people seek Trager sessions for relaxation, personal growth or to increase their sense of awareness and well-being. The Trager Approach has also been helpful to easing or managing a wide range of conditions including:

“I feel like a dancing cloud” Chungliang Al Huang Tai Chi Master, author, philosopher and calligrapher

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Headaches Physical / emotional trauma Whiplash Sports and other injuries Carpal tunnel syndrome TMJ syndrome Multiple sclerosis Parkinson’s disease

Fibromyalgia Cerebral palsy Depression Eating disorders Back pain Post-polio syndrome Post stroke issues

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