The 2025 Training Program begins with Somatic Foundations of the Trager® Approach

This 4-day course sets the stage for the whole 18 month Training Program. It is offered with stand-alone registration and includes 24 hours of training (schedule below).

Somatic Foundations of the Trager® Approach

Somatic movement experience is at the heart of Dr. Milton Trager’s remarkable life work, teaching new, positive body experiences through informed, intuitive touch and movement. The remarkable potency in his enveloping hands was often described as “light as a dancing cloud.” Those of us who studied with him and applied his Approach to working with a wide variety of clients in different settings discovered that behind the apparent simplicity was an integrated application of essential somatic movement principles.

He coined the term “Mentastics” (contraction of mental and gymnastics) to refer to a wide variety of movement and awareness processes, explorations, and movement experiments at the heart of…