Trager educator, who he is and what he does

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

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 influence the whole psychophysical balance . Seen from outside, they are all united by one characteristic: grace. The body, you say, is bound by the flow of time. True. But if the experience to be done on this earthly level had the possibility of living it naturally?

In mentality one works with gravity, one does not oppose it. Trager called this possibility "hook up", a conscious connection to psychosomatic harmonization.

Meditation in motion or in a static that does not 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 "hook up", which we could orientatively compare to hypnosis.

The system of contact gestures performed by the operator on the customer (involving rocking, vibrations, circular movements, rhythmic movements, stretching and compressions) is combined with the active exercises that the client knowingly performs . During the execution, the focus 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 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.

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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Teaching the mentality and the Trager method today

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.

Trager has developed his method thanks to research conducted for a lifetime. From the degree in physiotherapy to that in medicine achieved subsequently, he had the opportunity to range from boxing to dance to search for a type of movement that went beyond the conscious mind.

Today the operator Trager can put in his baggage a lot of knowledge, which starts 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 degenerative diseases, Parkinson's disease, in the treatment of asthma and post traumatic recovery, especially in cases of stroke, fractures and ischemia.

Many chiropractors also become Trager educators and resort to the mental in synergy with the treatment on the spine and on the nervous system. The benefit is multifaceted: it improves motor coordination, concentration, pysophysic balance. The distension, in their case, allows the results of chiropractic treatment to be amplified and lasted over time.