Trager

We do and do and do. In all our doing we pattern. Some patterns serve us. Some don’t. Traumas, conditions, and general life situations affect our ease of being and limit our potential and beliefs. We can forget what freedom feels like. Maybe we’ve never known it.

The Trager® Approach is a therapeutic experience that helps us rediscover the feeling of freedom, or perhaps experience it for the first time.  Gentle and rhythmic in nature, Trager® facilitates deep relaxation and the release of unconscious patterns that manifest as tension, pain, and functional limitation.  Although gentle, Trager® is deep and effective. The lymphatic, musculoskeletal, and nervous systems are all engaged and invited into flow and balance.  In painless passive motion, every cell is asked to reconsider where it is, how it is, and how it might prefer to be. Touching even the changeable subconscious, letting go happens at a source level. With patient suggestions of softness, old patterns dissolve. Known edges expand. Freedom can happen.

Fascia, muscle, joints, bone, organs, lymph, fluid, energy, patterns, and the nervous system are all subjects of the work’s play. The body and mind are invited to release their weights by putting those weights into novel, passive motion. The fullness of the shoulder, for example, is engaged and gently lifted and released in hypnotic rhythm — sometimes slow and lulling and sometimes quick and vibratory. Gentle bounces, rebounds, and waves erode patterned subconscious control. Physical energies and systems organize as the body flows freely and ripples uninterrupted. It is a unique experience to feel what you don’t need to hold onto being literally and pleasantly tossed away — leaving just you.

Shoulders are reminded how to hang, arms how to swing, fingers how to dangle, necks how to glide, spines how to slither, ribs how to rise, bellies how to breathe, hips how to sway, feet how to roll, scars how to yield, bones how to bounce, the mind how to soften. Although one session can be profound, results are cumulative.  Each successive session offers deeper depatterning of a limiting state and repatterning of a more optimal state. 

Prevailing effects clients report are freedom from pain and tension, easier movement, increased range of motion, improved posture, an overall lightness of being, a sense of length in limbs and spine, a natural heaviness of shoulders, feeling where numbness was, emotional release, body-mindfulness, fuller breath, more restful sleep, deep peace, renewal, centeredness, joy, and a friendlier relationship with oneself and others and gravity. When we feel something different and better we can become something different and better. A kinder condition evolves as old, negative patterns are offset by new, positive experience. The subconscious redefines itself, and our potential.

Sessions often begin or conclude with simple, effortless movement explorations that put you into your own hands and empower you to replace old habits of holding on with new ways of letting go. A more peaceful condition evolves as you explore what could be freer, lighter, easier… And what could be freer yet, even lighter, ever easier? What does effortlessness feel like? Integration of this mindful curiosity into your daily life will positively change you forever.