You really can learn a way of moving and being that comes with ease and lightness. Through softly, purposefully asking, "What would be lighter? What would be easier?" we uncover a bit of the answer. It is not one answer, but a journey. The Trager Approach is a form of movement education (along with Alexander Technique and the Feldenkreis Method) in which you are not a passive recipient of the work, but a partner in it. Trager must be experienced to even begin to know it, but you can learn more from this article and interview.
The Trager Approach embodies a spirit of curiosity and inquiry. Before and after the table work, we do standing work (Mentastics®), which lets us explore what is going on in your body through movement that you initiate. Please wear clothes which allow you to move comfortably. For the table work, you may remain clothed, or not, as there will be a table fully prepared with sheets and a blanket. You need to wear underpants (briefs for men) at the minimum, as there can be quite a bit of movement on the table. Your privacy and modesty are respected at all times.
While on the table, you can just rest and let yourself be a ragdoll as Robbin initiates movement: rocking, shimmers, elongation, compression, and much more. Robbin wants to know right away if anything is uncomfortable in any way, as discomfort is not a part of this work at all.
Robbin will pause periodically to let you rest in sensation that opens for you in that time. This gives you a delicious recall moment - a touchstone to which you can return later to recall the feeling and learn it more fully. That pause also lets Robbin play with Mentastics herself, to keep her self and her approach ease-ful and centered, and convey that on all levels/dimensions to you. Afterwards, you are invited to play with movement again in that same manner of easy curiosity, as the table work and Mentastics work and play together. And, Robbin can help you find Menatstics that help in your learning, your recall of what you experienced that you want to take into your life.
So, please come ready to play and be curious about what might bring your body greater ease in this moment. And, this moment.
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