Trager's Long-lasting Results

What is it about the Trager® Approach that gives such long-lasting results?

It is an educational process, teaching a man or woman to fish.
An old proverb -- “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime.”

Esoterically speaking , you could say that Trager affects change at a deep level of the mind-body -- below conscious resistance, releasing patterned body-mind tensions and problems. However, such a projected outcome seems meaningless unless you have been blessed by the actual experience of such release and good feeling. I and others could testify that our personal Trager experiences have had such deep and lasting outcomes, but personal experience is the only validator of the effects of Trager.

It might give a clearer light on Trager success to explain that this approach is different than many other modes of bodywork and massage. The Trager Approach is not so much a treatment for an illness, but rather an educational experience that introduces a felt-awareness of how the body-mind can feel and move better.

The approach is more than just receiving a session, unless your experience of Trager sessions is as an antidote for dis-ease -- a way of finding ease and comfort in your daily activities. How then does the educational process proceed?

1st There is the immediate feeling-sensation passively received on the table, an experiencing of what easier, freer movement is like -- of pleasure and peace.

2nd The continued deepening of the feeling experience in subsequent hands-on sessions and by the practice of personal daily explorations of movement-with-ease between sessions -- taking a few moments after tension-producing activities or within the activity, as a pause or break.

3rd The learning of better movement and static (postural) body patterns that create an alternative to the dis-ease, pain, and chronic limitations. This is solidifying lessons learned, but wait -- not too solid !

4th Keep the learning alive --
(a) sessions at sensible intervals to re-new the feeling of more functional movement possibilities and
(b) continued personal explorations toward better and easier movement sensations -- not falling back into routine or patterning that deadens our awareness and aliveness.