CLASS VOUCHER!
We have a new USTA membership benefit - a “voucher” which members can use this year at specific classes! These voucher classes are generous gifts from Instructors and others who have offered to teach a class day (or part of a day) for free or for a reduced fee.
We wanted you to know about two upcoming classes accepting this virtual voucher:
Speaking and Listening with the Body Systems, with Roger Tolle
Charlottesville VA, July 19 - 21,2020
$450, or $300 with voucher (more information about this elective is at the end of this article)
Lymphatic Awareness, A Trager® Perpective, with Roger Hughes
Nazareth KY, September 10, 2020
More information to follow
Other members have also volunteered to teach voucher classes, and we’ll let you know details once the classes are scheduled. We’re all working to imbue USTA membership with significant value!
ONE-TIME BENEFIT FOR FORMER MEMBERS!
We want to encourage former members to rejoin, so we are offering a one-time benefit, this year only, to former Practitioners who have not been a member for more than two years. The Practitioner membership dues this year will include the cost of a re-entry tutorial! (The USTA will pay the tutor who gives this re-entry tutorial.)
REDUCED STUDENT DUES!
The USTA Board is excited about changes we’re making and member benefits we’re offering. We've agreed recently to reduce Student dues drastically - from $140 per year to $100 paid with Level 1 to cover two years of membership (and $50 annually after that)! Students renewing this year will only pay $50 dues!
FREE WEBSITE FOR YOU!
Have you looked into another member benefit, the free website available to each Practitioner? You’ll only need to provide basic information about yourself for this option. You can find out more about this on the Members Only page of the USTA website (located under the “Discover Trager” tab).
https://www.tragerapproach.us/website-templates
GARY BROWNLEE VIDEOS!
Also on the Members Only page, Practitioners can view videos of former Instructor Gary Brownlee working with a client with Parkinson's.
DISCOUNTED LIABILITY INSURANCE!
USTA is now able to provide Trager Practitioners with the option to purchase a professional liability insurance policy for their Trager Practice for only $99 per year. Only those Trager Practitioners who practice in states that do not also require you to be a Massage Therapist are eligible for this new policy. This policy provides coverage up to $2,000,000 per claim with a $6,000,000 aggregate.
If you would like to apply for this new professional liability insurance policy, please email Renae Davies at exec@tragerus.org. Only current, paid Trager Practitioner members are eligible, so be sure that you have renewed your 2020 membership.
We have more ideas for growing the Trager® community, so stay tuned for more!
$150 “Voucher" Discount in July:
Speaking and Listening with the Body Systems
July 19 - 21 2020, Sunday - Tuesday
Charlottesville VA
9:00 am - 5:30 pm each day
Cost for the three day elective: $450, or USTA Member Voucher plus $300
In this elective workshop for students and practitioners of the Trager® Approach, we explore the various “minds” of the body, and work with clients from these states. In each system mind, we ask questions like: “How do I move? How is my touch? How do I feel the weight? How do I pause? What is the quality of my connection to my client?” Easy access to a richer pallet of feeling “colors” give us more range and depth in reaching a broader variety of clients.
When we focus our personal Mentastics on the skeleton with its bones and joints, it leads us to loose freedom of movement, mental playfulness, and an articulateness of touch. When we allow the organ system to come into the foreground of our Mentastics experience, it leads us into roundness and buoyancy of movement, and a more full and encompassing touch. A focus on the nervous system brings detail and precision to both touch and movement communication. The connective tissue as guiding image brings length and volume to our own movement, and powerful supportiveness to our touch as well as an ability to handle our clients’ weight more easily. The muscle system gives density and meatiness to our dialog with the tissue. Our fluid systems inform the many rhythms of ripples and waves, and invite boundary-less floating for our clients.
I was delighted to see that Roger had developed this elective. Having an interest in Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's work for years, I value how Roger used this model to explore depth and breadth in Mentastics exploration. My ongoing wish is that students and practitioners have more opportunities for in-depth exploration and growth in their own personal Mentastics as well as expanded models for how to facilitate others in their movement. This class is another wonderful opportunity to bring that possibility of depth and breadth to our community. I heartily support this class. - Cindy Popp-Hager, Trager Instructor
The Chesapeake Region also invites you to our Trager® session trades in Charlottesville VA on Saturday afternoon, July 18.
For more information about this elective, contact Roger Tolle, Rogertolle@gmail.com, 434-227-6934