INDEPTH TRAGER® WEEKEND for LEVEL 1-2 STUDENTS & PRACTITIONERS
2025-09-18 13:30 - 2025-09-21 18:30 UTC | Hotel Nexus, Seattle, WA, 2140 N Northgate Way, Seattle, WA, 98133
A welcoming space to grow your Trager work, connect with community, and move forward on your path.
This special gathering is designed for Trager students and practitioners to immerse in the work. Come for one day, or join for the full weekend experience.
Whether fulfilling student requirements or simply refining your Practitioner Tablework and Mentastics, this flexible, supportive learning environment offers small-group instruction, documentable trades, clinical labs with outside bodies, tutorials, and plenty of opportunity for connection and growth. Practitioners are welcome at half price.
Learning Explorations Include:
Refinement and integration of Trager principles into the curriculum
Trager Clinic: Live experience working with outside bodies with supervision.
Credit for one group tutorial.
Trager labs, including themed full and body-part specific trades

Level 1 and 2 students and practitioners will be working together as one cohort while Level 3 students enjoy a parallel Immersion in the large space. This will facilitate focus, community, and cross fertilization.

Dates and Times:
Thursday, September 18th – Sunday, September 21st
Th: 1:30-6:30pm (online / in person)
Fri-Sat: 10am-6:30pm (in person)
Sun: 9am-5:30pm (in person)

Receive and document up to:
9 sessions given (3 in supervised clinical setting with outside bodies.)
6 sessions received
6 hours mentastics
1 Tutorial (Group)
1 Recommending Tutorial (potential)

Price:
1 Day $195 (includes Thursday Mentastics and one other day)
2 Days $375
3 or 3.5 Days $545
w recommending tutorial $720
Practitioners: $100 per day (w free Thursday Mentastics)
*Recommending tutorial may be possible for L1 0r L2 students and must be scheduled in advance.
Payment Plans Available
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Instructors:
Michael Lear has been Studying somatic disciplines since the 1980’s. He’s a Trager Instructor, Tutor, and Senior Practitioner living in Easton, PA. He’s a decades long Ashtanga Yoga Instructor and Vipassana adherent in the tradition of SN Goenka. He’s a professional drummer and skillful group leader. He is currently focused on bringing Trager to those with complex PTSD, especially our veteran community.
Joseph Rodin is a Trager Instructor, Tutor and Practitioner in Seattle, WA, and brings his decades of experience as a bodywork and psychotherapist. He is a former Yoga Instructor and aficionado of Afro-Brazilian Dance and Percussion.

Lead Assistant:

Elizabeth Haselwood has been a Trager practitioner over twenty years, and brings a background as a former professional dancer, somatic educator, and psychiatric nurse. She’s worked extensively with groups at the BodyMind Clinic in Boulder, CO where she makes her home.

Ready to Register?

Payment plans available upon request
Fall in Seattle is beautiful and we hope you’ll join us for this enriching time of practice and community.

TRAGER® LEVEL 2 --Part A
2025-10-03 09:00 - 2025-10-05 18:00 | Private: Eastsound Village, Orcas Island, WA, 98245
Come join us on the waterfront in Orcas Island, WA for Trager Level 2, Part A, with Joseph Rodin, October 3-5th.

Trager 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.
Course description and objectives:
Both 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.
The 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.
About 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.

Instructor: 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.

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, 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.

DEEPENING SOMATIC PRESENCE - ORCAS
2025-10-06 10:00 - 17:00 | Private: Eastsound Village, Orcas Island, WA, 98245
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.

Learn to:
• Impact joints, organs, fascia and fluids
• Increased proprioceptive reintegration
• determine restrictions three dimensionally
• simultaneously affect local and global change
• trauma informed touch promotes neuroceptive safety
• leverage the sensory-motor system for resolution of pain

What is Trauma Informed Touch?
An 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.

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 helps integrate the profound changes in the body.

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, 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.

Instructor:
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.

DEEPENING SOMATIC PRESENCE
2025-11-02 09:00 - 18:00 | ABE Massage School, 621 The Parkway, Richland, WA, 99352, United States
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.

Learn to:
• Impact joints, organs, fascia and fluids
• Increased proprioceptive reintegration
• determine restrictions three dimensionally
• simultaneously affect local and global change
• trauma informed touch promotes neuroceptive safety
• leverage the sensory-motor system for resolution of pain

What is Trauma Informed Touch?
An 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.

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 helps integrate the profound changes in the body.

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, 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.

Instructor:
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.
Discount: 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.

HEADACHE & CONCUSSION
2025-11-03 09:00 - 18:00 | Many Waters Wellness Center, 800 Sprague St, Walla Walla, WA, 99362
Course is Full, click here for wait list or consider Deepening Somatic Presence, Oct 2nd, in Walla Walla.

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.

Even 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.

We’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.

Instructor: 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.

Discount: Bring a friend discount: $25. Coupon code: frnd. Enter friend or colleague’s name when registering.

Course is Full, click here for wait list or consider Deepening Somatic Presence, Oct 2nd, in Walla Walla.

TRAGER® PRACTICE DAY - TACOMA
2025-11-17 10:00 - 16:00 | Ramona’s House, Contact for Address, Gig Harbor, WA, 98332
Come and level up your skills through practice and community immersion. We’ll review and refine our learning with labs, somatics, trades, and an afternoon clinic. Open to all Trager students and practitioners. Students will be consulted for priorities for the review class.

Instructor: Joseph Rodin, MA, LMHC, LMT. Gwen Joseph has practiced bodywork for over 25 years. He teaches Trager, Intra-Oral Massage, Myofascial Release and other subjects throughout the Northwest and beyond. He lives in Seattle where he practices psychotherapy and bodywork, specializing in TMJ, Headache, and chronic pain presentations.

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.
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® PRACTICE DAY - BELLINGHAM
2025-11-22 10:00 - 15:00 | Brenda’s House, Contact for Address, Bellingham, WA, 98225

TRAGER LEVEL 2b
2025-12-06 09:00 - 2025-12-08 18:00 | The Mosaic Room, 11742 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98125
Trager 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.
Course description and objectives:
Both 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.
The 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.
About 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.

Instructor: 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.

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, 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.

TRAUMA INFORMED BODYWORK FOR HEALING AND RESILIENCE
2026-01-24 09:00 - 18:00 | Staybridge Suites, 328 NW 46th St, Seattle, WA, 98107
What if your hands could speak safety so clearly… your clients’ nervous systems finally listened? Join us and unlock the power of touch as a language with The Trager® Approach—transforming trauma-informed care for lasting healing.
Step into a transformative experience with The Trager® Approach—a gentle yet powerful method rooted in the highest standards of trauma-informed care. This class invites massage and somatic practitioners to explore the profound impact of non-verbal touch in restoring trust, releasing chronic tension, and awakening the body’s innate resilience.
Grounded in the principles of Presence, Co-regulation, Neuroplasticity, and client empowerment through movement, Trager® has demonstrated significant benefits for those dealing with PTSD, musculoskeletal and chronic pain, addiction, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. It’s more than just technique—it’s a paradigm shift in how we connect through our hands and teach movement. You’ll learn to create safety through rhythmic, effortless movement and presence-based touch, meeting clients where they are—without force, without agenda. When the body feels invited rather than fixed, true change occurs. “We’ll also incorporate somatic movement exercises, Trager “Mentastics” that build on the gains achieved during the table work session, empowering your clients to engage with their world differently and transform their human experience.
If you’re ready to enhance your practice with greater depth, compassion, and clinical effectiveness, this class is your gateway. Join us to elevate your skills and become part of a community committed to making a meaningful difference.
This Introductory Workshop serves as a prerequisite for the Trager® Level 1 Training leading towards certification as a Trager® Practitioner.
Instructor: Michael Lear is an internationally recognized Trager® Approach Instructor, practitioner, and Ashtanga Yoga Instructor with a client base spanning five continents and including a few Academy Award, Grammy and Emmy winners as well as many figures prominent in business and industry. He’s published in the field of trauma for his work with veterans and PTSD and with victims of the Tsunami in South Asia.
Please register for the workshop here!

SOMATIC NEUROREGULATION - FOR TRAUMA, VETERANS, AND PTSD
2026-01-25 09:00 - 18:00 | ABE Massage School, 621 The Parkway, Richland, WA, 99352, United States
We’ll learn transforming trauma-informed care for lasting healing utilizing The Trager® Approach, Positional Release, and Polyvagal Theory.

This class invites massage and somatic practitioners to explore the profound impact of non-verbal touch in restoring trust, releasing chronic tension, and awakening the body’s innate resilience.
Grounded in the principles of Presence, Co-regulation, Neuroplasticity, and empowerment through movement, Trager® integrated with Positional Release has demonstrated significant benefits for those dealing with PTSD, musculoskeletal and chronic pain, addiction, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm.
Learn to create safety through rhythmic, effortless movement, presence-based touch and holds, and meeting clients where they are—without force or agenda. When the body feels invited rather than fixed, true change occurs.

“We’ll also incorporate Trager somatic movement exercises that build on the gains achieved during table work, empowering your clients to engage with their world differently and transform their human experience.
If you’re ready to enhance your practice with greater depth, compassion, and clinical effectiveness, this class is your gateway. Join us to elevate your skills and become part of a community committed to making a meaningful difference.

This NCBTMB accredited workshop also serves as a prerequisite for the Trager® Level 1Training leading towards certification as a Trager® Practitioner.

About Michael: Michael Lear works with veterans and others managing effects of trauma and has been published on the subject. A Trager® Instructor, Michael has been practicing Trager® and other forms of bodywork since 1987. A dedicated mindfulness adherent (Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka) and Ashtanga Yoga Instructor, Michael’s lifelong commitment is to assist folks to be happy in their bodies and connected to those around them.

TRAGER® LEVEL 1 - SEATTLE
2026-02-20 09:00 - 2026-02-22 18:00 | Hotel Nexus, Seattle, WA, 2140 N Northgate Way, Seattle, WA, 98133
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.
Trager 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.
Course description and objectives:
This 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.
The 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.
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, 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.
About 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.
Prerequisites
It 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.
Payment
The 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.
Instructor: 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.

SENSATIONAL JOINTS
2026-03-12 09:00 - 18:00 | Therapeutic Training Center, 929 N 130th St, Ste 12, Seattle, WA, 98133, United States
Sensational Joints introduces the what, why and how of adding a focus on lower extremity joints in somatic work. Through slides, movement explorations, tablework demos and practice you’ll learn about

articular proprioceptors and how to activate them
open- and closed-pack position of joints
the difference between osteokinematic and arthrokinematic movement
characteristics of arthrokinematic movement
specific compressions and glides for lower extremity syovial joints
the effects of focusing on joints in somatics.

Discover how knowing more about the body’s articulations helps you articulate your work.
Instructor: Eileen Dickinson:
Eileen has been practicing physical therapy and the Trager Approach for several decades. Growing from her roots in Physical Therapy, she has been studying scientific information that is applicable to Movement and Manual Therapy, notably Trager, for many years. Biotensegrity, a rich and emerging field of science, is her most recent study. She loves sharing her current understanding of the anatomical and physiological correlates of Manual, Movement, and especially Trager principles, processes, and outcomes.

THE SCIENCE OF PRESENCE TOUCH AND MOVEMENT - A DEEP DIVE FOR BODYWORKERS
2026-03-13 09:00 - 2026-03-15 18:00 | Therapeutic Training Center, 929 N 130th St, Ste 12, Seattle, WA, 98133, United States
Join us for a transformative three-day class designed to elevate your practice by integrating cutting-edge scientific principles with hands-on techniques.
We’ll focus on the nervous system and how we can harness its power to create ease for ourselves as practitioners, and improve outcomes for clients.
Topics explored related to PRESENCE include

Autonomic nervous system
Neuroception
Mirror neurons
Nociception
Cognitive plasticity

Related to TOUCH we’ll cover interoception and fascia.
We’ll explore fascial plasticity, load, and reflexes when looking at the science of MOVEMENT.
Instructor: Eileen Dickenson:
Eileen has been practicing physical therapy and the Trager Approach for several decades. Growing from her roots in Physical Therapy, she has been studying scientific information that is applicable to Movement and Manual Therapy, notably Trager, for many years. Biotensegrity, a rich and emerging field of science, is her most recent study. She loves sharing her current understanding of the anatomical and physiological correlates of Manual, Movement, and especially Trager principles, processes, and outcomes.

CLINICAL MASTERY OF TMJ DISORDERS - INTRAORAL CERTIFICATION COURSE
2026-04-11 09:00 - 2026-04-12 18:00 | ABE Massage School, 621 The Parkway, Richland, WA, 99352, United States
Learn effective Manual Therapy applications for the jaw including intra-oral and extra-oral techniques and better help patients with neck, jaw, face, shoulder pain and many different headaches. This course includes pathology, differential assessment, multi-disciplinary approaches, and appliances
After this sixteen hour course you may apply to the WA health Department Massage Board for Intra-Oral Massage 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. he 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 and is a certified Trager® Practitioner and Instructor.

TRAGER LEVEL 3
2026-04-17 09:00 - 2026-04-19 18:00 | Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
This course is two consecutive weekends, April 17-19 and 25-26th. The the third step of Trager Certification, this course is designed for students in the fields of massage therapy, physical therapy, body-centered psychotherapy, fitness training, yoga, and other somatic practices. Both Mentastics (mindful movement) & Table-work are taught through demonstrations and supervised practice.
You’ll come away with a more refined full body protocol to integrate into your current bodywork or movement practice and a foundation for doing Professional Trager Psychophysical Integration. These five days provide the third step for those wanting to develop The Trager Approach as a primary modality in their practice.
The 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. The Trager approach is valuable for anyone who wants to elevate awareness in themselves and their clients.
Course Objectives. You’ll learn:

More Refined and enhanced full body protocol to integrate into your practice
Tools for deepening somatic movement exploration
To work pain-free and increase your own body ease
Greater therapeutic presence and resonance
To elevate Biotensegral and neurofascial reslience
To impact fluid, joint, muscular and organ systems more effectively

The Trager® Approach is a unique approach to bodywork and somatic movement therapy developed by Dr. Milton Trager, MD who became aware of the basic principles at the age of 18 and spent over 50 years refining his work. In its full expression, Trager work has become known as a highly effective neuro-fascial approach to bodywork with applications in rehabilitation, movement re-patterning, and psychophysical integration.

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®.
Trager Certification: An experiential, in depth training program designed for students to build the Trager® approach as a primary modality in their practice, and to deepen levels of personal, professional, and spiritual integration. Guided table-work and movement practices, supervision, tutorials, and supported practice days allow students to integrate Trager touch and movement into their current manual therapy and movement work while developing a successful Trager practice. Certification offers marketing credentials, an optional referral listing on the US Trager Association website, and access to further resources through the association.

Benefits of Trager Certification

Career longevity and satisfaction.

Facilitate deep levels of healing, and pain-free living in yourself and your clients.

Address chronic pain, the effects of trauma, movement disorders, and more.

Expand your clientele by broadening your approach.

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. He achieved 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.

Instructor: 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.
Gwen 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.
Payment Details
Level 3: $995
Deposit of $150 due by April 1st.

TRAGER LEVEL 1 - TRI CITIES, WA
2026-05-29 09:00 - 2026-05-31 18:00 | ABE Massage School, 621 The Parkway, Richland, WA, 99352, United States
Trager 1 takes place May 29-31 and June 26-28, 2026 in Tri Cities, 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.
Trager Level 1 is a stand alone course as well as the first step of Trager Certification that takes place in Tri Cities, WA, designed for students to experience a deeper level of therapeutic effectiveness and integration.
Course description and objectives:
This 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.
The 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.
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, 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.
About 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.
Prerequisites
It 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.
Payment & Payment Plans
Six Day Course Cost with Intro Discount: $1,245
($25 per hour/ $200 per day+ 2 year usta membership)

Six day Course Cost: $1,345

($26 per hour/ $208 per day+ 2 year usta membership)
Sliding Scale: $995

Payment plans: 6 months, as needed

Payment options below:
$150 deposit below and we’ll touch base from there.
Full Payment, $1,345
Full Payment with Intro discount, $1,245. Discount code: intro

WA State Tax
As you may know, the Washington State Department of Revenue is now taxing all manner of continuing education, including massage therapy courses. We are hoping this will be repealed in the next session.

Instructor: 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.

SOMATIC FOUNDATIONS OF PRESENCE, TOUCH, AND MOVEMENT
2026-11-13 10:00 - 2026-11-16 17:30 | Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
This workshop (2 and 4 day options) delves into the somatic foundations of presence, touch, and movement, inviting participants to experience the work’s guiding principles of softness, weight, waves, connection, play, pause, and authenticity.
Each workshop day is 10-5, with an hour and fifteen minutes for lunch. 12 or 24 ncbtmb ce’s awarded with 2 hours of hands on work each day to integrate the movement inquiries.

We explore how our felt sense of movement changes the potency of our touch. This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their relationship with touch and movement, in personal or professional settings. It fulfills the Mentastics class requirement for Trager certification.
Open to bodyworkers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about embodied connection, this workshop offers a nourishing space to refine your touch, heighten sensory awareness, and attune to the natural intelligence of your living body.
Instructor: Roger Tolle.
As a Trager Practitioner since 1985, Roger has worked with over 30,000 clients. His background includes a B.A. in Theater/Movement, and 15 years as a professional modern dancer. He’s studied extensively with Dr. Milton Trager and other somatic pioneers and methods in the field of somatic movement education including Continuum, Aston Patterning, Body Mind Centering, and Gyrotonics. He was awarded the title of “Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist” by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).
