Mentastics - Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement - with Roger Tolle, Florida US
Mentastics: Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement - With Roger Tolle
In-Person: May 13 - 17th 2026
Timing: Wed May 13: 9:30–12:30, 2:00–5:00 | Thu May 14: 9:30–12:30, 2:00–5:00 | Fri May 15: 2:00–5:00 | Sat May 16: 2:00–5:00 | Sun May 17: 9:00–12:00, 1:30–4:30.
Lunch break 1.5 hrs on Wed, Thu, Sun.
Location: Come to Life Yoga Studio, Fort Myers, Florida, US
Language: English
Price: Sliding scale of $750-$600-$450
Prerequisites: Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied
connection.
Contact for Registration & Information: Marva Sletten, marvasletten@gmail.com, +1-239-910-7577
CEs: 24
Other Information: This workshop delves into the somatic foundations of presence, touch, and movement, inviting participants to experience the work’s guiding principles of softness, weight, waves, connection, play, pause, and authenticity.
We explore how our felt sense of movement changes the potency of our touch. This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their relationship with touch and movement, in personal or professional settings. It fulfills the Mentastics class requirement for Trager certification.
Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied connection, this workshop offers a nourishing space to refine your touch, heighten sensory awareness, and attune to the natural intelligence of your living body.
24 NCBTMB CEs for the course Trager® Professional Training - Mentastics
Somatic Foundations of the Trager® Approach
Somatic Foundations of the Trager® Approach
Dates: June 4-7, 2026
Location: Netherlands
Instructor: Roger Tolle
Language: English
Contact: Evelien Kouwer, opleidingen@trager.nl, +31 6 20 61 61 54.
Notes:
This 4-day, 24-hour class is open to everyone!
It prepares students for further Trager classes, and serves as the Mentastics portion of the Trager Certification Training Program. It also helps Practitioners and Tutors clarify and find clearer and more contemporary language for guiding clients and students.
For further class information, visit: RogerTolle.com/SomaticFoundations
For website assistance, contact Wilfred Henry, wilfred.trager@gmail.com
Level 4: Trager® Professional Training
Level 4: Trager Professional Training
June 11 - 14, 2026. Thursday 10 am till Sunday 3 pm
Location: Kientalerhof, Switzerland
Instructor: Roger Tolle
Language: German and English
This class reviews and deepens the 4 areas of Practitioner development: Attitude and Communication, Mentastics, Tablework, and Professional Conduct. Time is spent developing both honesty and compassion in self-assessment, and in speaking and writing about the work. You’ll work individually and in small groups to address issues that have come up in private practice, and support each other in order to make the practice more effective, joyful and rewarding. Guided by the entire teaching staff, you’ll identify and fill gaps of awareness and skill in your practice. You’ll find ways of letting go of old habits, especially in relation to body use, client relationships and professional presentation.
Contact: Gabriela Scholl
+41 (0)78 726 81 10
info@tragerschuleschweiz.ch
www.trager.ch
Book a room at:
Renata Pfeiler
+41 33 676 76 21
renata.pfeiler@kientalerhof.ch
www.kientalerhof.ch
Mentastics - Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement - with Roger Tolle, Virginia, US
Mentastics: Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement - With Roger Tolle
In-Person: July 17-20th 2026
Timing: 10:00 AM –1:00 PM, 2:15–5:30 PM
Location: Cayce Reilly School of Massage, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Language: English
Price: $600,- US
Prerequisites: Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied
connection.
Contact for Registration & Information: To Register: https://secured.edgarcayce.org/hq.aspx?pid=11371&Campaigncode=CRW260717
Contact: Roxanne Sweeney, roxanne.sweeney@caycereilly.edu
CEs: 24
Other Information: This workshop delves into the somatic foundations of presence, touch, and movement, inviting participants to experience the work’s guiding principles of softness, weight, waves, connection, play, pause, and authenticity.
We explore how our felt sense of movement changes the potency of our touch. This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their relationship with touch and movement, in personal or professional settings. It fulfills the Mentastics class requirement for Trager certification.
Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied connection, this workshop offers a nourishing space to refine your touch, heighten sensory awareness, and attune to the natural intelligence of your living body.
24 NCBTMB CEs for the course Trager® Professional Training - Mentastics
Mentastics - Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch and Movement - with Roger Tolle, Michigan US
Mentastics: Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement - With Roger Tolle
In-Person: October 22nd - 25th
Timing: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM + 2:15 - 5:30 PM EST
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Language: English
Location: NEW Center (Nonprofit Enterprise at Work), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Price: $600,-
Contact for Registration & Information:
Eileen Dickinson — edickins@umich.edu | https://tragerology.com/october-2026/
https://www.rogertolle.com/somaticfoundations-workshop-annarbor
Prerequisites:
Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied
connection. Also serves as the Mentastics portion of the Trager Certification Training Program.
CEs: 24
Other Information: This workshop delves into the somatic foundations of presence, touch, and movement, inviting participants to experience the work’s guiding principles of softness, weight, waves, connection, play, pause, and authenticity.
We explore how our felt sense of movement changes the potency of our touch. This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their relationship with touch and movement, in personal or professional settings. It fulfills the Mentastics class requirement for Trager certification.
Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied connection, this workshop offers a nourishing space to refine your touch, heighten sensory awareness, and attune to the natural intelligence of your living body.
Prepares students for further Trager® classes. Also helps Practitioners and Tutors clarify language for guiding clients and students.
24 NCBTMB CEs for the course Trager® Professional Training - Mentastics
Mentastics - Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement - with Roger Tolle, Seattle, US
Mentastics: Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement - With Roger Tolle
In-Person: November 12 - 15th
Timing: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM + 2:15 - 5:30 PM PST
Location: Hotel Nexus, Seattle, Washington, US
Language: English
Price: $350 - 2 days / $495 - 4 days
Prerequisites: Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied connection.
Contact for Registration & Information: Joseph Rodin, joseph@josephrodin.com, +1-206-596-6782
https://josephrodin.com/class/somatic-foundations-of-presence-touch-and-movement/
For further class information, visit: RogerTolle.com/SomaticFoundations
CEs: 24
Other Information: This workshop (2 and 4 day options) delves into the somatic foundations of presence, touch, and movement, inviting participants to experience the work’s guiding principles of softness, weight, waves, connection, play, pause, and authenticity.
We explore how our felt sense of movement changes the potency of our touch. This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their relationship with touch and movement, in personal or professional settings. It fulfills the Mentastics class requirement for Trager certification.
Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied connection, this workshop offers a nourishing space to refine your touch, heighten sensory awareness, and attune to the natural intelligence of your living body.
24 NCBTMB CEs for the course Trager® Professional Training - Mentastics
Trager Level 1 in Prague
Trager Level 1
Dates: February 6-8 and 13-15, 2026
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Registration deadline: December 10, 2025
Instructor: Roger Tolle
Language: English, with Czech translation
Contact: Denisa Francova, deni@trager.cz, +420 725 067 422
Mentastics
Somatic Foundations of Presence, Touch, and Movement (Trager® Mentastics)
Training Dates: December 4–7, 2025
Location: Palm Springs, California, USA
Instructor: Roger Tolle, http://www.RogerTolle.com
Language: English
Cost: Sliding Scale $450–$600–$750
For more information and to register, visit RogerTolle.com/SomaticFoundations
Class Description:
This four-day workshop delves into the somatic movement foundations of presence, touch, and movement, inviting participants to experience the work’s guiding principles of softness, weight, waves, connection, play, pause, and authenticity. We explore how our felt sense of movement changes the potency of our touch. This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their relationship with touch and movement, in personal or professional settings. It fulfills the Mentastics class requirement for Trager certification, but is open to all.
Offered at a private residence in Palm Springs, California, the workshop is supported by the quiet vastness of the desert landscape—where sunlit stillness, open air, and the grounding presence of surrounding mountains create a spacious container for attuned touch, somatic presence, and easeful movement.
Prerequisites: None
Sidelying
Sidelying
Training Dates: September 11-14, 2025
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Instructor: Roger Tolle, http://www.RogerTolle.com
Language: English
Cost: Sliding Scale $750-$600-$450
For more information and to register, visit RogerTolle.com/sidelying-registration
Class Description:
In this class, we expand on tablework vocabulary with clients in the sidelying position. We'll highlight the importance of bolstering to enhance physical and emotional support for your clients, as well as to keep clear boundaries and deepen Hook-up. You’ll be encouraged to develop continually freer and easier movement for yourself at the table, listen more deeply to the tissue responses, and explore a playful balance of Trager principles throughout.
When working with clients propped in the sidelying position, we can comfortably accommodate:
those with tighter spinal structures like kaiphosis, lordosis and scoliosis,
women in the later stages of pregnancy,
the frail elderly,
the emotionally distressed or traumatized,
those for whatever reason are not comfortable lying flat on their backs or bellies.
Prerequisites: Trager Level 1, or permission from Instructor
24 NCBTMB CEs (identified as “Trager Professional Training: Sidelying”)
Level V: Spirals and Diagonals
Trager Level V: Spirals and Diagonals
April 21-23, 2025
Location: Seeham, Austria
Instructor: Roger Tolle
Language: Deutsch und Englisch
Contact: Gertraud Neumyer, gertraud.neumayr@sbg.at, +49 176 39229489
View the Introductory Video with German subtitles here: https://vimeo.com/917993153.
Through my 40 years of Trager practice, and from years before as a dancer, I have explored and learned to see and feel movement in the body along spiral and diagonal pathways. Through sensing and working with various qualities of movement along these lines we can contact and help free up deep structures in the neck, back, hips, chest and belly. We also find alternate ways to reach areas otherwise unavailable in some clients due to positioning or contact restrictions. We avoid falling into seeing the body as two dimensional. This gives us more flexibility in our work.
In this workshop designed for Trager Practitioners, we'll develop our awareness and ability to feel these pathways, and the connective tissue that creates them, both in ourselves and in our clients. We'll explore Mentastics that broaden our awareness of three-dimensional movement patterns, elongation, elasticity, and springy vitality. And spend much of our time practicing simple, efficient ways of facilitating these movement possibilities in our tablework partners.