Dates: 10/11/12/13/14 of August 2025

Location: Loc. Santa Lucia in Faulle, Panzano In Chianti (FI) -details about the address posted on

www.trager.it

Teacher: Luca Di Napoli

Language: italian & english

For any information and for application please contact:

Mara Pagotto +39 3494968397 marapagotto@alice.it

Donella Tassi +39 340 1479751 donella.tassi@gmail.com

ATI secretariat +39 3714681851(only whatsapp) info@trager.it

Note: 3 hours classes in the morning, free time in the afternoon

Somatic Foundations of the Trager® Approach: Mentastics

Dates: January 9-12, 2025

Location: Blueberry Gardens Healing Center, Ashton, MD

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: English

Contact: workshops@PMTI.org, (202) 686-7046

Cost: Regular Registration $660. Early Bird registration: $599. (Both include $100 deposit.)

Notes:

This 4-day class is open to everyone!

It prepares students for and is included in the Certification Training Program that runs May 2025 through December 2026. For full program details see: www.PMTI.org.

It is offered with stand-alone registration and includes 24 hours of training:

Thursday, January 9th - 10:30-1:00 / 2:30-5:30

Friday, January 10th - 9:30-1:00 / 2:30-5:30

Saturday, January 11th - 9:30-1:00 / 2:30-5:30

Sunday, January 12th - 9:30-1:00 / 2:30-4:30

24 CE hours credit for professional bodyworkers.

The Trager® Professional Certification Training: Mentastics is the title recognized by NCBTMB. If the participant registers by the end of this class for the whole program and pays the $100 Student Membership fee to the USTA, it counts as the required Mentastics class in the program.

Class Description:

Somatic movement experience is at the heart of Dr. Milton Trager’s remarkable life work, teaching new, positive body experiences through informed, intuitive touch and movement. The remarkable potency in his enveloping hands was often described as “light as a dancing cloud.” Those of us who studied with him and applied his Approach to working with a wide variety of clients in different settings discovered that behind the apparent simplicity was an integrated application of essential somatic movement principles.

He coined the term “Mentastics” (contraction of mental and gymnastics) to refer to a wide variety of movement and awareness processes, explorations, and movement experiments at the heart of his work. These have informed, structured and given meaning to the practices of thousands of students around the world since 1975.

Those who spent years studying with Dr. Trager, including Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist and Trager Instructor Roger Tolle, recognized a body of work in which every touch provides both safety and meaningful challenges to unconscious habits, where a wide variety of innovative movement coaching invites clients step by step into new, more playful and functional life patterns, and where movement discomfort dissolves as the body’s simple, natural, graceful design takes over. At the heart of this work is the joy of coming from a deeply peaceful inner state while leaning into aliveness and connection in all interactions. Roger brings an enthusiasm and passion from 40 years in private practice and teaching the Trager® Certification Training Program in 16 countries on 5 continents.

This class focuses on the somatic movement foundations of Trager’s presence, touch, and movement through integrated practice of the essential principles, including:

• Fully embodied presence

• Softness in attention, intention, contact and movement

• Weight - sensing lightness and groundedness

• Fluidity in tissue and movement patterning

• Balancing floating in the sweet center with playing at the edges

• Artful transitions in speed, size, density, intensity

• Taking out the slack in the three-dimensional biotensegral web

• Integrating meaningful movement into both professional and personal life activities

• Connecting to ourselves, our partners, the earth, and to the life forces of the universe

The class also introduces the benefits of studying the Trager® Approach

• Replacing restrictive movement habits with natural, graceful movement patterns.

• Reframing daily self-care exercises as opportunities for mindful embodiment and self-development.

• Equipping participants with practices to better navigate stress and cultivate resilience.

• Integrating somatic practices into spiritual exploration and creative expression.

• Addressing the somatic dimensions of trauma, depression, and anxiety, offering pathways to healing and transformation.

• Enriching both professional and personal relationships (platonic and intimate) through embodied presence and attuned connection.

•  4 Continuing Education Units available from NCBTMB

• Tues eve 4/11 6:30-8:30 CST Tues eve 4/18 6:30-8:30 CST

• Explore “Self-Care as Health Care” and how you can improve your own health through movement explorations and gentle touch

• Deepen the ability to sense changes in your body and recognize patterns that no longer work for you

•  Sense the difference between fatigue, tension, and pain

• Explore movement possibilities that enable you to be more joyful and energized for yourself and your clients.

• Learn about Milton Trager’s vision for peace in the world, one person at a time.

•  Partially meet prerequisites for the Level One Trager Professional Training     Novices and professionals welcome!

Join us for 2 evenings of learning about the Trager Approach. Discussion, movements for self care and meet Dr. Milton Trager MD, (1908 - 1997), on video, and hear about his vision “to create peace in the world, one person at a time”.

For Information contact Kelly McGee yournaturecare@gmail.com

To register from US online go to: http://yournature.care/Events Cost for both classes is $75 USD

To register in Canada go to:  info@mindyourbody.ca $75 CAD for both classes

Please register by April 10th.

Transforming Touch: Becoming the Ocean

October 8-9, 2022

PMTI, 8701 Georgia Avenue, Suite 700, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Roger Tolle, Instructor

Contact: info@pmti.org  (202) 686-7046

Class Description:

 This two-day workshop illuminates the transformtive experiences you bring to your clients when your touch pays more attention to sensing than doing – when your intention focuses less on resolving symptoms and more on freeing the body from unhealthy, unconscious patterns.

In the tradition of somatic movement therapy pioneer Dr. Milton Trager, you’ll learn to touch with full-body presence, ease, curiosity, delight, and depth. You’ll discover the power of softness and potent listening in your hands. You’ll witness the deep letting go that occurs when your clients feel their weight supported by the earth and their liquid body awash in pleasurable waves and quiet floating.  You will be moved by your capacity to connect authentically. What will it be like to become as vast and effortlessly transformative as the fingers of the ocean reshaping a beach?

Prerequisites: None