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SUMMARY:Trager® Level 2
DESCRIPTION:Trager® Level 2 with Gwen Crowell takes place Friday – Sunday\, April 4-6th and 11-13th in Seattle\, WA. Trager® has become known as a highly effective neuromuscular approach to bodywork and somatic movement therapy with applications in rehabilitation\, movement re-patterning\, trauma informed care\, and psychophysical integration. \n \nTrager® Level 2\,  is the second step of Trager® Certification\, designed for students to experience a deeper level of therapeutic effectiveness and integration. \nCourse description and objectives:\nThis course is designed for students in the fields of massage therapy\, physical therapy\, body-centered psychotherapy\, fitness training\, yoga\, and other somatic practices. This first step in Professional Certification in the Trager® Approach can be taken as a stand alone course. Both Mentastics® (mindful movement) & Table-work are taught through demonstrations and supervised practice\, and you’ll come away with a an full body protocol to integrate into your current bodywork practice and a foundation for  subsequent certification to offer Trager® Approach as a primary modality in your practice. \nThe class will teach effective applications for pain and injury\, as well as relief from symptoms of sustained social\, emotional and psychological stress. It will also highlight ways of working with manual therapy and body sensation to address the effects of internalized trauma\, both recent and long past. Trager® is a valuable approach for anyone who wants to elevate awareness in themselves and their clients. \n  \nInstructor: Gwen Crowell. Gwen Crowell was introduced to the work of Dr. Milton Trager when she went to massage school in Berkeley. She worked with Dr. Trager from 1978 until his passing in 1997. Attracted by the joyful movement and ease of the work\, Gwen was delighted to share Trager® first with clients and then with students beginning in 1985 when Dr. Trager selected her as one of his instructors. \nGwen was a pioneer in bringing Trager to Washington and has maintained a private practice since 1979. She enjoys listening and attending to people. As a teacher\, she effectively guides students\, helping them to anchor moments of understanding and to recognize and celebrate their competencies. She is the designer of this Trager Program and a core faculty member at Discoverypoint. Gwen has also been a guest lecturer at Bastyr University and teaches Trager certification classes throughout North America\, Europe\, and Japan. She enjoys participating in the creative process of Trager and witnessing clients and students transform through the power of touch. \nMilton Trager\, MD\, who became aware of the basic principles at the age of 18\, spent over 50 years refining this unique approach to somatic movement therapy and bodywork\, achieving high levels of success with effects of Parkinson’s\, MS\, Post Polio Syndrome\, Back Pain\, Migraine’s\, and Chronic Pain\, while helping patients reconnect to their inherent sense of ageless\, ease and joy of movement. \n\nAbout Trager® The tablework\, involving deep\, fluid rocking movements (oscillations) of muscles and joints combined with gentle traction and compression\, feeds the brain’s natural neuroplasticity and induces dramatic muscular relaxation\, along with feelings of lightness\, freedom\, and flexibility. Sessions also include individualized\, mindful\, somatic movement explorations called Mentastics®.
URL:https://josephrodin.com/class/trager-level-2/
LOCATION:Institute for Bioenergetics\, 15832 34th Ave NE\, Lake Forest Park\, WA\, 98155
CATEGORIES:Level 2 Trager,Live Event,Trager
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SUMMARY:Trager Level 1 - Spokane
DESCRIPTION:New 2nd weekend option added.\nFirst Weekend: April 18-20th.\nSecond Weekend: April 25-27th OR *June 27-29th. \nWhy Trager® Certification\nDr. Milton Trager\, MD\, recognized well before contemporary knowledge on neuroplasticity\, autonomic regulation and current pain science\, that new information introduced to areas in the unconscious mind\, gently and with skill\, activates positive neurological changes which improve movement patterns and decrease pain. He referred to his work as Psychophysical Integration. \nTrager® Practitioners work in a calm\, cultivated\, meditative state\, enhancing therapist efficacy\, ease\, career longevity\, and facilitating neuroceptive co-regulation for client and therapist alike. Using the language of touch and movement they promote enhanced sensory awareness and ease of movement. \nTrager® sessions include gentle integrative waves combined with compressions and elongations and within a variety of amplitudes\, vectors  and rhythms\, received in a calming atmosphere. Cumulative in nature\, this work promotes ease\, physical mobility\, an enhanced sense of safety\, agency and natural movement. \nA mental\, emotional and physical education\, Trager® sends clients into the world with the physical efficiency and coordination that leads to effortless movement. Milton Trager called this feeling a place beyond relaxation\, a place of peace and agelessness. \nWhy Trager® Certification\nLevel 1 can be taken as a free standing course and is the first step of Trager Certification\, a program designed for students who want to develop Trager® as a primary modality in their practice. It offers highly focused\, in-depth training with the exploration\, supervision\, and feedback necessary for students to establish a successful Trager® practice. Being certified also allows the practitioner to market themselves with a tangible credential. Upon certification\, with their permission\, the US Trager® Association lists practitioners on its website as part of its referral network. \nDates for Trager® Level 1 and Certification\nLevel 1\, April 18-20 and May 25-27 OR *June 27-29th.\nGuided Practice\, sessions and tutorials: July\, tbd\nLevel 2\, Fall\, 2025\, tbd. \nWhat is Trager?\nTrager is a unique\, neuromuscular approach to bodywork and movement re-patterning. The tablework consists of deep\, fluid rocking movements (oscillations) of muscles and joints combined with compression and gentle traction. This feeds into the nervous system resulting in dramatic muscular relaxation\, along with feelings of lightness\, freedom and flexibility. The client is also shown simple exercises called mentastics which helps integrate the profound changes in the body. \nMilton Trager\, MD\, who became aware of the basic principles at the age of 18\, spent over 50 years refining this unique approach to somatic movement therapy and bodywork\, achieving high levels of success with effects of Parkinson’s\, MS\, Post Polio Syndrome\, Back Pain\, Migraine’s\, and Chronic Pain\, while helping patients reconnect to their inherent sense of ageless\, ease and joy of movement. \n  \nInstructor:\nJoseph Rodin is a licensed massage therapist\, psychotherapist\, and certified Trager® practitioner. His somatic background includes intensive study of Trager®\, along with extensive coursework in osteopathic inspired manual therapy methods. Joseph took his first Trager® course in 1995 and returned to later to become certified in 2010. Since then\, he has taught numerous Trager® introductory classes\, mentored with and assisted senior Trager® instructors\, been a Trager® Tutor and is the past President of the US Trager® Association and past member of the Board of Directors for Trager International. He’s presented on Trager and TMJ at Trager Conferences live\, virtually\, and for the Tragerology organization. \nJoseph’s movement experience began with being a Yoga Instructor for fourteen years and a student of Afro-Brazillian Dance and Percussion. These inform his Trager® work as much as his varied background with psychotherapy and bodywork. In Seattle\, in addition to seeing clients for psychotherapy\, Joseph has a strong manual therapy practice with a clinical focus on headache\, TMJ and chronic pain. He teaches courses around the Northwest and beyond in The Trager Approach\, myofascial release\, intraoral massage\, craniosacral and more. His passion for teaching is based on empowering students to further develop their unique gifts\, to convey both the art and science of manual therapy\, and to use the path of bodywork as mindful contemplation and inquiry into the healing process for client and therapist alike. \n*This additional option for a second weekend was requested by several prospective students and goes into effect with minimum of 4 students.
URL:https://josephrodin.com/class/trager-level-1-spokane/
LOCATION:Therapeutic Connections School of Massage\, 505 East 24th Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99203
CATEGORIES:Level 1 Trager,Live Event,Trager
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SUMMARY:DYNAMIC MOBILIZATIONS and HEADACHE & CONCUSSION
DESCRIPTION:DYNAMIC MOBILIZATIONS (Sunday) is a new offering with different\, complimentary content to other Trager courses. Go beyond passive and active range of motion by using the weight of the mobilized\, relaxed body against changing hand fulcrums and waves of various amplitudes. This is similar to the combination of the fluid dynamics of breath and fingers playing a solo on a flute or saxophone. This approach allows for deep tissue access and clinical creativity and specificity without sacrificing a feeling of safety and comfort for client and therapist alike.\n\nWe’ll explore mobilizations for the whole body including neck\, shoulder girdle\, spine and pelvis. We’ll explore prone\, supine and sidelying work\, and explore somatics (Trager Mentastics) that bring greater presence for client and therapist. \nLearn to: \n• Impact joints\, organs\, fascia and fluids\n• Increased proprioceptive reintegration\n• determine restrictions three dimensionally\n• simultaneously affect local and global change\n• trauma informed touch promotes neuroceptive safety\n• leverage the sensory-motor system for resolution of pain \n  \n  \n\n\nHEADACHES & CONCUSSION (Monday)  many who suffer from headaches have histories of high intensity impact to the the neck and head including from MVA’s\, extreme sport\, other acute trauma\, long term\, low grade deforming impacts\, and more. While these patients may vary in headache presentation\, they often share a common thread of excessive force and subsequent compression to the structures of the face\, head\, neck\, jaw and cervical spine. \n  \n\n\nEven skillful massage often leads to temporary results\, due to muscle dominant treatments that only affect certain contributors to the problem. The most effective treatments use a range of palpatory approaches with a variety of  structures\, differentiate types of tenderness\, grades and causes of hypertonicity\, and their contributions at different segments. \n  \n\nWe’ll learn an array of soft tissue techniques and approaches to release locked in\, compressive forces from the cervical spine\, jaws\, face and cranium\, differentiating\, and minimizing these forces on chronic headache presentations. Assessment and techniques focus on myofascia\, joints\, sutures\, and bones\, with special focus on the upper cerivcal spine and cranial helmet. We will also rule in or rule out contributions from the thorax and below and look at treatments to address them\, when relevant.\n\nInstructor: Joseph Rodin is a licensed massage therapist\, psychotherapist\, and certified Trager® practitioner. His somatic background includes intensive study of Trager®\, along with extensive coursework in osteopathic inspired manual therapy methods. Joseph took his first Trager® course in 1995 and returned to later to become certified in 2010. Since then\, he has taught numerous Trager® introductory classes\, mentored with and assisted senior Trager® instructors\, been a Trager® Tutor and is the past President of the US Trager® Association and past member of the Board of Directors for Trager International. He’s presented on Trager and TMJ at Trager Conferences live\, virtually\, and for the Tragerology organization.
URL:https://josephrodin.com/class/dynamic-mobilizations-headache-and-concussion/
LOCATION:Many Waters Wellness Center\, 800 Sprague St\, Walla Walla\, WA\, 99362
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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SUMMARY:CLINICAL MASTERY OF TMJ DISORDERS
DESCRIPTION:Manual Therapy for the jaw helps patients with neck\, jaw\, face and shoulder pain as well as many different kinds of headaches. \nAfter this sixteen hour course you may apply to the WA health Department Massage Board for Intra-Oral Massage endorsement. \nYou’ll learn\n• Anatomy and physiology of the TMJ\n• Biomechanics and assessment of the TMJ\n• Intra-oral and extra-oral palpation and treatment techniques\n• Indications and contra-indcations to treatment\, and hygiene\n• Integrating neck\, head and TMJ treatments. \nINSTRUCTOR:\nJoseph Rodin MA\, LMP\, CTP.\, has been practicing bodywork for twenty-three years. A certified Trager® Practitioner\, he’s also studied and taught intra-oral massage\, cranial sacral therapy and other forms of manual therapy in Washington and California. He’s worked at the nationally recognized TMJ Orofacial Disorders Center in Seattle where he’s treated extensive jaw\, head\, neck and facial problems. \n 
URL:https://josephrodin.com/class/clinical-mastery-of-tmj-disorders-3/
LOCATION:ABE Massage School\, 621 The Parkway\, Richland\, WA\, 99352\, United States
CATEGORIES:Clinical Mastery of TMJ Disorders,Live Event
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SUMMARY:TRAGER® LEVEL 2 --Part A
DESCRIPTION:Come join us on the waterfront in Orcas Island\, WA for Trager Level 2\, Part A\, with Joseph Rodin\, October 3-5th.\n  \nTrager Level 2\,  a stand alone class and the second step of Trager Certification\, is designed for students to experience a deeper level of creativity\, therapeutic effectiveness\, and integration. Trager Level 1 is a prerequisite. \nCourse description and objectives:\nBoth Mentastics (mindful movement) & Table-work are taught through demonstrations and supervised practice and you’ll come away with a more expanded full body protocol to integrate into your current bodywork practice and a more comprehensive foundation for subsequent certification to offer Trager Approach as a primary modality in your practice. \nThe class will teach effective applications for pain and injury\, as well as relief from symptoms of sustained social\, emotional and psychological stress. It will also highlight ways of working with manual therapy and body sensation to address the effects of internalized trauma\, both recent and long past. Trager is a valuable approach for anyone who wants to elevate awareness in themselves and their clients. \nAbout Trager The tablework\, involving deep\, fluid rocking movements (oscillations) of muscles and joints combined with gentle traction and compression\, feeds the brain’s natural neuroplasticity and induces dramatic muscular relaxation\, along with feelings of lightness\, freedom\, and flexibility. Sessions also include individualized\, mindful\, somatic movement explorations called Mentastics. \n \nInstructor: Joseph Rodin MA\, LMP\, CTP.\, has been practicing bodywork for over twenty-five years. A certified Trager® Practitioner\, Tutor and Instructor\, he’s also studied and taught intra-oral massage\, cranial sacral therapy and other forms of manual therapy. He’s worked at the nationally recognized TMJ Orofacial Disorders Center and Mind Your Body Pain Clinics in Seattle and currently enjoys his private practice in Psychotherapy\, Trager and Manual Therapy. \n  \n  \nMilton Trager\, MD\, who became aware of the basic principles at the age of 18\, spent over 50 years refining this unique approach to somatic movement therapy and bodywork\, achieving high levels of success with effects of Parkinson’s\, MS\, Post Polio Syndrome\, Back Pain\, Migraine’s\, and Chronic Pain\, while helping patients reconnect to their inherent sense of ageless\, ease and joy of movement. \n  \n 
URL:https://josephrodin.com/class/trager-level-2-orcas-oct2025/
LOCATION:Private: Eastsound Village\, Orcas Island\, WA\, 98245
CATEGORIES:Level 2 Trager,Live Event,Trager
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SUMMARY:DEEPENING SOMATIC PRESENCE
DESCRIPTION:From our deepened Somatic Presence arises greater effectiveness\, creativity and pain-free work at the table. Our clients come for integration and healthy movement. What better way to transmit this then working from our own pain-free flow? Leveraging insights from Trauma Informed Touch and the Trager Approach\, we’ll harmonize our client’s nervous system’s and maximize tissue change all while balancing our own systems. \n  \nLearn to: \n• Impact joints\, organs\, fascia and fluids\n• Increased proprioceptive reintegration\n• determine restrictions three dimensionally\n• simultaneously affect local and global change\n• trauma informed touch promotes neuroceptive safety\n• leverage the sensory-motor system for resolution of pain \n \nWhat is Trauma Informed Touch?\nAn approach that focuses on the client’s sense of somatic safety throughout the session. While conveyed verbally\, through skilled\, receptive touch and attention\, we’re able to transmit safety to the nervous system beyond words\, and which promotes muscular release harmonized with the nervous system rather than at the expense of it. \n  \n \nWhat is Trager?\nTrager is a unique\, neuromuscular approach to bodywork and movement re-patterning. The tablework consists of deep\, fluid rocking movements (oscillations) of muscles and joints combined with compression and gentle traction. This feeds into the nervous system resulting in dramatic muscular relaxation\, along with feelings of lightness\, freedom and flexibility. The client is also shown simple exercises called mentastics which helps integrate the profound changes in the body. \n \nMilton Trager\, MD\, who became aware of the basic principles at the age of 18\, spent over 50 years refining this unique approach to somatic movement therapy and bodywork\, achieving high levels of success with effects of Parkinson’s\, MS\, Post Polio Syndrome\, Back Pain\, Migraine’s\, and Chronic Pain\, while helping patients reconnect to their inherent sense of ageless\, ease and joy of movement. \n  \n \nInstructor:\nJoseph Rodin is a licensed massage therapist\, psychotherapist\, and certified Trager® practitioner. His somatic background includes intensive study of Trager®\, along with extensive coursework in osteopathic inspired manual therapy methods. Joseph took his first Trager® course in 1995 and returned to later to become certified in 2010. Since then\, he has taught numerous Trager® introductory classes\, mentored with and assisted senior Trager® instructors\, been a Trager® Tutor and is the past President of the US Trager® Association and past member of the Board of Directors for Trager International. He’s presented on Trager and TMJ at Trager Conferences live\, virtually\, and for the Tragerology organization. \nDiscount: Bring a friend or colleague discount: $25. Use coupon code frnd. No need to register together\, just reference their name when completing your own registration. \n 
URL:https://josephrodin.com/class/deepening-somatic-presence-nov2025/
LOCATION:ABE Massage School\, 621 The Parkway\, Richland\, WA\, 99352\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intro Trager,Live Event,Trager
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SUMMARY:TRAGER® LEVEL 1 - SEATTLE
DESCRIPTION:This Trager 1 course takes place February 20-22 & March 27-29\, in Seattle\, WA. Trager work has become known as a highly effective neuromuscular approach to bodywork and somatic movement therapy with applications in rehabilitation\, movement re-patterning\, trauma informed care\, and psychophysical integration. \nTrager Level 1 is a stand alone course as well as the first step of Trager Certification\, designed for students to experience a deeper level of therapeutic effectiveness and integration. \nCourse description and objectives:\nThis course is designed for students in the fields of massage therapy\, physical therapy\, body-centered psychotherapy\, fitness training\, yoga\, and other somatic practices. This first step in Professional Certification in the Trager Approach can be taken as a stand alone course. Both Mentastics (mindful movement) & Table-work are taught through demonstrations and supervised practice\, and you’ll come away with a an full body protocol to integrate into your current bodywork practice and a foundation for  subsequent certification to offer the Trager Approach as a primary modality in your practice. \nThe class will teach effective applications for pain and injury\, as well as relief from symptoms of sustained social\, emotional and psychological stress. It will also highlight ways of working with manual therapy and body sensation to address the effects of internalized trauma\, both recent and long past. Trager is a valuable approach for anyone who wants to elevate awareness in themselves and their clients.  \nMilton Trager\, MD\, who became aware of the basic principles at the age of 18\, spent over 50 years refining this unique approach to somatic movement therapy and bodywork\, achieving high levels of success with effects of Parkinson’s\, MS\, Post Polio Syndrome\, Back Pain\, Migraines\, and Chronic Pain\, while helping patients reconnect to their inherent sense of ageless ease and joy of movement. \nAbout Trager The tablework\, involving deep\, fluid rocking movements (oscillations) of muscles and joints combined with gentle traction and compression\, feeds the brain’s natural neuroplasticity and induces dramatic muscular relaxation\, along with feelings of lightness\, freedom\, and flexibility. Sessions also include individualized\, mindful\, somatic movement explorations called Mentastics. \nPrerequisites\nIt is highly recommended to have taken an Introduction to Trager Approach class\, live or online\, and receive one or more Trager sessions prior to class to get the most from the training.  \nPayment\nThe cost of both weekends together (six days) is $1\,345. Those who’ve taken any Trager Intro are entitled to $100 discount. Payment plans and sliding scale available\, please inquire. \nInstructor: Joseph Rodin is a Trager Practitioner and Tutor\, and a practicing bodyworker and psychotherapist in Seattle\, WA. He teaches continuing education courses throughout the Northwest and beyond. Into his courses he also weaves his background with Percussion and Afro Brazilian Dance. \n 
URL:https://josephrodin.com/class/trager-level-1-seattle-wa-feb2026-2/
LOCATION:Hotel Nexus\, Seattle\, WA\, 2140 N Northgate Way\, Seattle\, WA\, 98133
CATEGORIES:Level 1 Trager,Live Event,Trager
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