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”) 

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

Level 4: Trager® Professional Training

January 29-February 1, 2026. Thursday 10 am till Sunday 3 pm

Location: Kientalerhof, Switzerland

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: German and English

Contact: Gabriela Scholl, tragerbygabriela@gmail.com

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.