Lymphatic Awareness, a Trager® Perspective
3.5-day ‘Elective’
Open to: Post Level-1 Trager® Students and Practitioners
Dates: April (TBA), 20224 Nazareth, Kentucky
Elective Teacher: Roger Hughes, Trager Practitioner and Instructor
Registration and Payment must be completed by March 1st, 2024
Tuition: $400, $450 after March 10th, 2024
Organizer: Elisabeth Contadino, 513-470-5210, econtadino@gmail.com
Expanded from the initial 1-day ‘pilot’ workshop presented in October of 2022, in Nazareth, Kentucky, this class will give you a practical understanding and hands-on application toward meeting and supporting the lymphatic network both as a self-care practice and in the collaboration of a session with a practice partner or client.
In this newly developed 3-day Elective class, we will open each morning with guided movement explorations for arriving and priming a feeling of ease, receptivity and open-focus with the vastness of the lymph system. From this dynamic awareness we will follow the course of lymph from its ‘ending’ confluence into the circulatory system (at the termini) to the ‘pre-lymphatic’ vessels where lymph begins its long journey.
With a partner in supine, prone and sidelying positions the class will provide a variety of access to a hands-on guided tour of the lymph system’s far-reaching pathways and specific directions of flow. With an informing touch, a collaborative presence and a sensitive (and sensing) intention, attendees will discover and deepen their clinical applications for supporting the lymph system, and thereby taming an overactive inflammatory response. This class is designed to give you a structured and intuitive approach in addressing areas of congestion, swelling, edema, puffiness, etc.
Learning outcomes will include both ‘active’ and ‘passive’ Trager approaches to support and facilitate optimal lymph flow through areas of the body that ‘typically’ carry patterns of tension, congestion and/or unconscious holding.
We will be working primarily (not exclusively) with the superficial lymphatics, or those that sit right underneath the skin’s surface. For a skin-to-skin contact and for optimal outcomes and learning, attendees will be encouraged to receive while partially clothed and draped.
Attendees will receive a handbook that highlights practical and basic lymphatic physiology.