Trager educator, who he is and what he does

The Trager educator helps to work on psychophysical balance thanks to the movements of the mentastic that generate vibrations and generate relaxation and lightness, acting in the direction of mind-body unity. Let’s find out better.

> What the educator Trager does

> How to become a Trager educator

> Teaching mentastics and the Trager method today

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What the instructor Trager does

The educator Trager transmits the movements developed by Milton Trager , movements that go in the direction of relaxation and lightness that positively affect the entire psychophysical balance . Seen from the outside, they all share one characteristic: grace. The body, you say, is bound by the passage of time. True. But what if the experience to be done on this earthly level were endowed with the possibility of living it naturally?

In mentastics we collaborate with gravity, we do not oppose it. Trager called this possibility “hook up” , a conscious connection towards psychosomatic harmonization .

Meditation in movement or in a static that does not however forget the internal spirals .

The operator then works beyond the conscious mind. To be precise, the maneuvers devised by Trager contemplate an alternative state of consciousness towards which the client is induced, defined by the inventor as “hook up”, which we could roughly compare to hypnosis .

The system of contact gestures performed by the operator on the client (these are rocking, vibrations, circular, rhythmic movements, stretches and compressions) are combined with active exercises that the client consciously performs . During the execution, the attention is on the breath, on the fluidity, one should enter a state of inner peace given by the pure motor experience.

Become a Trager Instructor

To become a Trager operator it is necessary to attend the courses organized by the Trager Italia Association (ATI) , established in 1991, an integral part of the Trager International Organization , which maintains and disseminates the research heritage of Dr. Milton Trager. In 2011 the Association celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its activity.

The Trager Italia Association organizes and coordinates training seminars , assists members (students and graduates) in their activities and promotes the knowledge and dissemination of the Trager Approach in Italy. It also has the task of ensuring that educators respect the ethical and professional rules as specified in the · Code of Ethics and · Statute of the Association itself.

In fact, in Italy the educator Trager is the only one who has followed theory and practice seminars , internships and individual supervision for an amount of about 1,000 hours . The update is constant; In order to maintain his qualification, the Trager Educator undertakes to attend periodic refresher seminars and to consolidate the quality of his work in annual supervision sessions .

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Teaching mentastics and the Trager method today

The Trager Approach owes its birth to Milton Trager and has been spread around the world by the institute he founded in 1975 and, since 2001, by the Trager International Organization , which is based in California (USA) and which brings together the Associations National tragers from all over the world. Trager Students and Educators are present in over thirty countries on all continents.

Trager developed his method thanks to research conducted over a lifetime. From his degree in physiotherapy to his later degree in medicine, he was able to range from boxing to dance to search for a type of movement that went beyond the conscious mind.

Today the Trager operator can include a lot of knowledge in his baggage, starting from a degree in physiotherapy, whether it is an osteopath or a chiropractor, as well as if it were the case of a personal trainer or a gym teacher who holds specific courses, perhaps already oriented towards the development of proprioception.

Curiosity

The method, used under medical supervision and integrated with other clinical therapies, has obtained positive results in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disorders including other degenerative types, Parkinson’s disease, in the treatment of asthma and post-traumatic recovery , especially in cases of strokes, fractures and ischemias.

Many chiropractors also become Trager educators and use mentastics in synergy with treatment on the spine and nervous system . The benefit is multifaceted: they improve motor coordination, concentration, psychophysical balance. Relaxation, in their case, allows the benefits of chiropractic treatment to amplify and last over time.