Explore a Trager Session
Overall
Trager® sessions are designed to be both pleasant and effective. Sessions are generally 60 to 90 minutes long. Time and frequency of sessions are tailored to meet a client’s needs.
Sessions usually include interview, assessment, and movement. Clients can wear comfortable clothing. After sessions, practitioners offer individualized movement suggestions to expand upon the positive effects of the work.
Tablework
You'll recline, comfortably clothed, on a resilient padded table. The practitioner will move your body with a quality of touch and movement that allows you to experience the feeling of moving effortlessly and freely.
Mentastics
Mentastics are individualized movement suggestions that are simple, effortless, playful movements that you can use to ease pain and discomfort. Each motion of the Mentastics allows you to re-experience the freedom and pleasure of the motions you experienced during the tablework....and also allows you to explore and discover increased ease of motion on your own.
Dr. Milton Trager says:
“Mentastics are never about how many, how fast, how far, or how physically powerful the movements are.”
Gentle touch
Deeply effective, no pain
“Mentastics are done with the feeling of how light, how beautiful, how free, how complete the movements can be.”
Rhythmic movement
Profound physical and mental relaxation
“The purpose of my work is to break up those sensory and mental patterns which inhibit free movement that cause pain and disruption of normal function.”
Easier mobility
Easier mobility
Benefits of a Trager Session
Because many of the effects of The Trager Approach are cumulative, clients most often appreciate and will benefit most from a series of sessions. During a Trager session, you, the client will
experience gentle, non-intrusive, natural movements to support the release of deep-seated physical and mental patterns,
facilitate deep relaxation,
increase physical mobility,
foster mental clarity, and
experience increasingly free and easy movement.