The Trager® Approach
Trager is an approach to movement education and mind/body integration.
Trager uses gentle, supportive touch and rhythmic movements to free the body from restrictive movement patterns, to restore greater functionality and to allow you to learn to let go of pain and tension.
Reconnect with your inherent fluidity. The gentle waves of movement that you experience during your session (through the rocking, lengthening, swinging, shimmering, rolling and cradling of the body), lull the nervous system into releasing long-held tensions and restrictions. You are encouraged to explore and incorporate comfortable, playful movements, to help you to retain these pleasant sensations, and create new patterns. Developing a self-care practice in your daily life (even for only one minute at a time), can have a profound effect, unwinding those (k)nots that build up without our noticing.
Trager enhances awareness of your body by entraining your nervous system to the experience of pleasurable sensations; engaging the brain’s neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to modify, change, and adapt both structure and function in response to experience.
Learn to inhabit your body in a gentler way by experiencing this exquisite quality of touch. Trager reminds you how it feels when you can pause and tune in to your self, when you feel supported, when you are relaxed and can let go… of tension, of pain, of patterns of unconscious holding.
Trager is deeply transformative... moving an overloaded mind and body into a place of quiet and peace. Trager empowers you to begin to affect the present moment by noticing your own tensions and then actively changing the way your body feels.
Trager is a registered service mark of Trager International
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