Short Intro: The Trager® Approach - a unique bodywork

Watch Tara Grodjesk, VP of Earthlite LLC, Founder of Tara Spa Therapy speaking about the Trager® Approach - the unique form of bodywork developed by Milton Trager, M.D., through a lifelong commitment to exploring the body-mind relationship. She shows some quick tips on an Earthlite massage table.

[@ultrajayme]

I've been intrigued by this since I was in massage school in 2006!
I do so much of this naturally with my clients already that it makes me wonder if it's instinctual and if you "get it" you get it.

[@lindamacconnell7369]

Thank you Tara! Trager approach is such a fabulous way of being with a client, in mind and body. Profound changes really do happen with gentleness!

[@taragrodjesk7648]

Thank you so much Roger for the thoughtful comments. The intention was to remind the massage therapy community of Trager in any small way possible. It would be great to refer those interested to someone like yourself Who is still carrying forward this special work that should not be forgotten.

[@roger5666]

As lovely as this presentation is, and as respectful of the work as Tara seems, she is straying quite a bit from the roots of the Dr. Milton Trager's work. If she were a student in one of my Trager workshops, I would be pleased that she had picked up some lovely quality to share with her massage clients, and pleased she was excited about being able to work through clothes and a sheet during the pandemic. But I would also be reminding her (gently) that Milton's work is not a massage technique. I’d be explaining that the main principle of Milton's Approach is reaching the unconscious with a felt sense of peaceful aliveness and structural evenness. To have long lasting effectiveness, the rebalanced tone from the table work needs to be woven into new habits of thinking, feeling and moving with the support and encouragement of the practitioner. Trager is more appropriately understood as Somatic Movement Education and Therapy.

[@KathrynFritze]

Lovely observations.

[@Lehmann108]

Trager is absolutely amazing.

[@patriciad8709]

does anyone know if Trager therapy is offered for one on one sessions in Rome Italy?

[@joeallen2286]

interesting, she rocks at about 80 BPM or 1.33hz.

[@playdefrtiuo9872]

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