JOSEPH RODIN

NEUROMUSCULAR INNOVATIONS - The Trager Approach for Massage and Bodyworkers - Wenatchee
2022-11-05 09:00 - 18:00 UTC | Screaming Octopus-East Wenatchee Location, 100 Eastmont Ave B-2, East Wenatchee, WA, 98802
Trager’s® rhythmic, interweaving waves of soft tissue and joint compression and traction result in profound levels of integration.

Improvisational and fluid, Trager® releases chronic pain patterning while unfolding deepening levels of somatic integration.

Dissolve patterns shaped through protection, injury, and trauma.
Restore greater ease and a more pain free life for client and practitioner alike.
What is Trager®? Trager 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 help integrate the profound changes in the body.
Sessions include individualized, mindful, somatic movement practices called Mentastics®. These support on-going well being, enhance the benefits of Trager Sessions and teach clients how to integrate the principles into their daily life.
Milton 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.
Trager® stands alone as an approach, but also beautifully complements and deepens other styles of massage as well. Come and learn the language of the neuromuscular system, and turn the temporary release of tension into an ongoing dissolution of muscular tension patterns. This Introductory Workshop serves as a prerequisite for the Trager® Level 1 Training leading towards certification as a Trager Practitioner.
Along with gaining mastery and deepening personal growth, Trager® certification bestows a tangible credential in Neuromuscular Therapy and Movement Education and, with permission, the US Trager® Association will list practitioners on its website.

NEUROMUSCULAR INNOVATIONS - The Trager Approach for Massage and Bodyworkers - Sandpoint, ID
2022-10-30 09:00 - 18:00 | North Idaho Massage Academy, 30410 Hwy 200, Ponderay, ID, 83852

NEUROMUSCULAR INNOVATIONS - The Trager Approach for Massage and Bodyworkers - Post Falls, ID
2022-10-29 09:00 - 18:00 | American Institute of Clinical Massage, 4365 Inverness Drive Unit #103, ID, 83854, United States

TRAGER DAY WITH MICHAEL LEAR - Seattle
2022-10-01 09:30 - 17:30 | Joseph Rodin’s House in N. Seattle, 12547 Densmore Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98133, United States
This Supervised Practice Day with Michael Lear is for all level of Trager student along with practitioners. We’ll review and deepen our effectiveness with Trager curriculum and practice Michael’s approach to ‘leg around’ as an advanced psoas release. Students receive credit for session given and received requirements.
Class is 9:30am-5:30pm, the cost is $150. The cost for Practitioners to join is $40. At the end of class we’ll enjoy optional takeout Thai and a bit of good ol’ community time.
Facilitator: Michael Lear, Trager Instructor, Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, and Professional Musician. Michael has practiced Trager almost thirty years, and his sense of humor has improved incredibly since he was here in February. Really. It has…

BECOMING THE OCEAN-The Trager Approach to Bodywork and Massage- Boulder
2022-09-25 09:00 - 18:00 | Southwest Acupuncture College, 6630 Gunpark Drive, Suite 200, O 80301, Boulder, CO, 80226, United States
Improvisational and fluid, Trager® releases chronic pain patterning while unfolding deepening levels of somatic integration.

Working from the inside out, dissolve patterns shaped through protection, injury, and trauma. Restore greater ease and a more pain free life for client and practitioner alike.
What is Trager®? Trager 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 help integrate the profound changes in the body.
Sessions include individualized, mindful, somatic movement practices called Mentastics®. These support on-going well being, enhance the benefits of Trager Sessions and teach clients how to integrate the principles into their daily life.
Milton 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.
Trager® stands alone as an approach, but also beautifully complements and deepens other styles of massage as well. Come and learn the language of the neuromuscular system, and turn the temporary release of tension into an ongoing dissolution of muscular tension patterns. This Introductory Workshop serves as a prerequisite for the Trager® Level 1 Training leading towards certification as a Trager Practitioner.
Along with gaining mastery and deepening personal growth, Trager® certification bestows a tangible credential in Neuromuscular Therapy and Movement Education and, with permission, the US Trager® Association will list practitioners on its website.

CLINICAL MASTERY OF TMJ DISORDERS-Yakima
2022-09-10 09:00 - 2022-09-11 18:00 | Muscle Release Medical Massage Yakima, WA, 3908 Creekside Loop STE 110, Yakima, WA, Yakima, United States
Manual Therapy for the jaw helps patients with neck, jaw, face and shoulder pain as well as many different kinds of headaches.
After this sixteen hour course, you may apply to the WA health Department Massage Board for endorsement.
You’ll learn
• Anatomy and physiology of the TMJ
• Biomechanics and assessment of the TMJ
• Intra-oral and extra-oral palpation and treatment techniques
• Indications and contra-indcations to treatment, and hygiene
• Integrating neck, head and TMJ treatments.
INSTRUCTOR:
Joseph 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.

Upper Body Sources of Low Back Pain
2022-04-16 10:00 - 19:00 | Therapeutic Training Center, 929 N 130th St, Ste 12, Seattle, WA, 98133, United States
Non-traumatic, chronic back pain often is often caused by issues upstream to the low back. When clients have chronic low back pain, finding and treating contributing structures from the upper body can be the key to effect full resolution. Learn dynamic assessments and treatments for relationships of the following structures to low back pain, including: organs, bones, joints, and myofascia of the torso, upper extremities, neck and head. By the end of class students will be able to confidently assess and treat non-local structures contributing to stubborn, non-abating low back pain.

TREATMENT OF THE JAW MUSCULATURE
2022-03-18 09:00 - 2022-03-20 18:00 | Hotel Nexus, Seattle, WA, 2140 N Northgate Way, Seattle, WA, 98133
With trager fundamentals and resistance and release work.
Comprehensive treatment and release of the muscles of the jaw are almost never covered in massage trainings. And yet they are of vital importance in a number of ways.
They are instrumental in addressing many issues that clients present: TMJ problems, dental alignment, teeth grinding, free craniosacral movement in the bones of the skull, headaches, various eye issues, swallowing problems, the freeing of the voice musculature and authentic vocal communication.
They are frequently impacted by stress and anxiety because they are typically a funnel for the unconscious muscular responses of psychological disturbances associated with these states of stress and anxiety. Their tonus is raised, imbalances of jaw positions and movement is adversely affected, and many of the issues listed above that clients often present follow suit.
The Trager Approach with Resistance and Release treatment is a two-fold process of treating these powerful muscles:

Gentle movements that deeply relax and soften the muscle fibers
The introduction of a variety of angles of resistance to the jaw’s movements that re-coordinate the actions of the muscle fibers involved, so that lasting change in their movement patterns is achieved.

These methods are the distillation of Deane Juhan’s 50 years of experience of working with thousands of clients. He has been a practitioner and teacher of the Trager Approach for 40 of those years, and is the innovative developer of Resistance and Release Work.
This class will give you powerful new tools in the treatment of the jaw and cranium, and also effective methods of freeing your own jaw, throat and neck. A slide/lecture reviewing of the anatomy of muscles of the jaw will be included.
This workshop will be of interest and usefulness to bodyworkers of all kinds. No matter what form of work in which you have been previously trained, these methods are easily adapted into your sessions.

Treating the Source of Headache Pain
2022-02-13 09:00 - 18:00 | Therapeutic Training Center, 929 N 130th St, Ste 12, Seattle, WA, 98133, United States
Headaches refer to a broad range of pain experienced in the head, face and skull. They derive from any combination of various structures including nerves, sutures, sinuses, arteries,
muscles, and the functional and structural abnormalities. Sources can be both local and remote from the site of pain.
The key to treating headaches is combining the client’s symptom profile with incisive history taking and prolific palpatory assessment. We can then differentiate among the many sources and types of headache and base our treatments accordingly.
In this workshop we’ll differentiate between facial, sutural, TMJ, neurologic, structural and vestibular causes that result in migraine, tension, sinus, cluster and other headaches. We’ll learn both their presentation and targeted methods of treatment.
