DATES: MARCH 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2021 AND APRIL 7, 14, 21, 2021
TIME: 1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. (EST)
LOCATION: VIA ZOOM MEETING
COST: $450 ($100 DEPOSIT REQUIRED)
SEE BELOW FOR 50% DISCOUNT OFFERED TO REPEAT ATTENDEES
CE CREDITS: APPROVED FOR 16 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS TOWARDS TRAGER TRAINING AND NCBTMB FOR LMT’S (Trager Students will receive the full 24 hours that is required of the Trager Certification Program)
While there is no substitute for in-person learning, COVID has provided an opportunity to use the internet for connection and continuing education. For the past 6 months, The U.S. Trager Association has offered well-attended Mentastics classes weekly on ZOOM. Many instructors are developing seminars on various topics and the effort has been well received by both the public and the Trager community.
This 8-week professional and/or personal (lay) training seminar, is approved as meeting the core curriculum requirements of the Trager training program. It also offers 24 hours of continuing education for Licensed Massage Therapist credit through the NCBTMB. The course includes 16 hours of ZOOM conferencing, and 8 hours of fieldwork which is supervised by the instructor. Each student will create a personal practice journal; two short, video demonstrations; and have a private tutorial with the instructor. These projects will provide the participant with many opportunities to enhance their skills for self-care, self-awareness, and how to share Mentastics with other if desired. Novices to professional caregivers are welcome.
If you are unknown to Trager, your introduction through this class will be rich and personally rewarding. If you are a professional bodyworker or medical practitioner, you will learn new techniques that can be used immediately to increase your presence and ease when with others, professionally. We will discuss ways in which movement in the form of Mentastics can improve and empower your clients to care for themselves better, improving their health and well-being. You may join in as a repeat student, if you have taken in the last 3 years at half price.
Mentastics movement, tablework, and communication skills are part of the “three-legged stool” that I envision as the hallmarks of the Trager® Approach and the International Trager Training Certification. This course focuses on self-care through movement and imagery and is designed to teach you a method to restore and maintain the agelessness of body and mind. Mentastics, often called “Moving Meditation” or “Moving Medicine”, can be adapted to all bodies, and all positions (sitting, standing and lying). It is subtle, effective and life changing. The movements can be very large and playful, or so small that no one can see that they are being done.
The term Mentastic is a coined expression meaning “mental gymnastics”; mentally directed movements intended to free the body from tension and unconscious holding patterns. Mentastics, done over time, rewire the central nervous system, layering new and more fluid ways of being in the world. Calming the central nervous system is essential for optimum health. Self-care using a regular Mentastics practice invites the magnificent, neuroplastic response of healing and regeneration that was unknown until recently.
Let this be the year you learn to LET GO!