The Trager is an excellent practice for joint release and for psychophysical balance. Let's find out better.

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Origins and descriptions of the Trager method

To tell you about the origins of the Trager Method we have to tell you a little about the history of its creator, because this discipline is the result of the search for a lifetime. Milton Trager was born in Chicago, beginning of the century, precisely in 1908. Trager will move to Miami in 1925, where he will begin a boxing career that will see him as a pupil of Mickey Martin. From gloves to the bar : Trager gives himself to dance, in extraordinary time he becomes a professional dancer. Contamination with acrobatic gymnastics is soon known. In 1941 Trager graduated in Physiotherapy at the University of Los Angeles. In his career he decides to deal mainly with recovery of patients with poliomyelitis and people suffering from neuromuscular disorders, with good results through a system that includes both passive contact and active body training.

I don't pay, in 1949 he enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine . It is 1949, Trager is 41 years old . After graduating, Trager moved to Hawaii and it was there that he began to divulge the Trager method, from which the so-called mentality would later derive, in the sense of a practice that contemplates Trager maneuvers in self-produced mode.

What is it for?

Among the benefits that can be drawn from the work that the educator Trager performs in energy exchange with the patient there is the possibility of going to act on the deep musculature, the one behind the bones.

Excellent benefits on subjects who report disorders related to bruxism and Parkinson's.

It is an excellent practice for joint release and for psychophysical balance . It removes energy blockages that hinder the relationship with the Other from itself, helps to adopt a better relationship with pain and improves proprioception.

A typical Trager session

The educator Trager listens to the client's body and performs specific maneuvers on it, which also vary depending on the intuition prompted by contact with the other. Basically the client is lying down and the educator acts through rhythmic maneuvers, acting on the vestibular systems and on the receptors of the movement, they have a calming effect on the person and induce a deep relaxation.

Throughout the session the benefit comes directly to the nervous system : delicate oscillations avoid the possibility of tensions or rigid reactions. The body does not passively receive; receiving learns. This is the meaning of the practice, that is learning in a proprioceptive way how much certain positions and movements are possible and easily replicable also, subsequently, autonomously.

The perceived sensations remain in the subject's cellular memory.

Who can operate in Italy

To become a Trager operator you must attend 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 the activity.

The Trager Italia Association organizes and coordinates training seminars, assists the associates (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 Conduct and in the Statute of the Association itself.

The Trager Approach owes its birth to · Milton Trager and was spread throughout 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 groups the Associations National tragers from around the world. Trager students and educators are present in over thirty countries on all continents.

The Trager Approach can be used in individual sessions and in experiential groups.

In fact, in Italy the educator Trager is only the one who has followed theory and practice seminars, training periods and individual supervision for an amount of about 1, 000 hours.

The update is constant; Trager Educator, to maintain his qualification, undertakes to attend periodic refresher seminars and to consolidate the quality of his work in annual supervision sessions.

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