Level 5: The Heart of the Matter

January 25-28, 2024. Thursday 10 am till Sunday 3 pm

Location: Kientalerhof, Switzerland

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: German and English

Contact: Gabriela Scholl, tragerbygabriela@gmail.com

This class will focus specifically on the body’s core and how to access it from the limbs, chest and back to free up breath, posture, and emotional expression. We will tune into the whole person, finding our most effective ways of facilitating change through careful attention to psycho-physical attitudes, to restrictions in movement, breath, and voice patterning, and to relative stability and mobility in the myofascial web of support. We’ll cultivate deeper listening in our touch to engage seamlessly with the client’s breathing cycle. We’ll soften our therapeutic presence with more kindness and patience, and expand our biotensegral body structure to meet weight with lightness.

In our preparation Mentastics, we’ll lean into the deep joy of acknowledging the wisdom and possibility alive in the one and precious body we live in. We’ll practice opening our hearts to the more authentic and vulnerable self we can become. And we will share all of it in simple ways our client’s can integrate in their lives.

Level V: Spirals and Diagonals

Location: Puerto Morelos, Mexico (on the beach near Cancun)

Training Dates: November 2-4, 2022 (Come a few days before, stay a few days after, to enjoy a beach vacation.)

Instructor: Roger Tolle, http://www.RogerTolle.com  

Language: English (French, Spanish or German translation if needed.)

Class Fee: $450 if paid by September 1, 2022, or $550 thereafter.

Contact for registration, and for housing in nearby rooms, casitas and apartments

Martina Stamand +52- 998-213-4595, martinasoasis@hotmail.com, http://www.martinasoasis.com

Class Description:

Through my many years of Trager practice, and from years before as a dancer, I have explored and learned to see and feel movement in the body along spiral and diagonal pathways. Through sensing and working with various qualities of movement along these lines we can contact and help free up deep structures in the neck, back, hips, chest and belly. We also find alternate ways to reach areas otherwise unavailable in some clients due to positioning or contact restrictions. We avoid falling into seeing the body as two dimensional. This gives us more flexibility in our work.

In this workshop designed for Trager Practitioners, we'll develop our awareness and ability to feel these pathways, and the connective tissue that creates them, both in ourselves and in our clients. We'll explore Mentastics that broaden our awareness of three-dimensional movement patterns, elongation, elasticity, connection and expansion. And spend much of our time practicing simple, efficient ways of facilitating these movement possibilities in our tablework partners.

Prerequisites: Trager Practitioner, or permission from Instructor