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
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
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.