February 8-11 and April 11-14, 2024

Location: Blueberry Gardens Healing Center, Ashton, MD

Registration deadline: January 25, 2024

Instructor: Roger Hughes

Language: English

Contact:, workshops@pmti.org  (202) 686-7046

Note: This class is included in the Certification Training Program that runs August 2023 through December 2024. For full program details see: PMTI.org/Trager Certification Series

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.

December 7-10, 2023

Location: Blueberry Gardens Healing Center, Ashton, MD

Registration deadline: Nov 24, 2023

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: English

Contact: workshops@pmti.org  (202) 686-7046

Note: This class is included in the Certification Training Program that runs August 2023 through December 2024. For full program details see: PMTI.org/Trager Certification Series

Mentastics: Dancing From Within

September 16-17, 2023

Location: Boulder, CO

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: English

Contact: Joseph Rodin, (206) 596-6782, joseph@josephrodin.com

Note: Saturday will review foundational principles of Trager through somatic movement explorations alone and in pairs. Sunday will be structured as a Supervised Practice Day to apply these principles to the inner work we do as we work with clients at the table. This class is included in the Certification Training Program that runs March 2023 through September 2024. For full program details see: https://josephrodin.com/class/trager-level-1-certification-training-with-roger-tolle-boulder-co/2023-03-24/

Trager Level 1

August 10-13 and October 12-15, 2023

Location: Blueberry Gardens Healing Center, Ashton, MD

Registration deadline: June 30, 2023

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: English

Contact: Workshops@pmti.orgpmti.org  (202) 686-7046

Note: This class is the first step in the Certification Training Program that runs August 2023 through December 2024. For full program details see: PMTI.org/Trager Certification Series

Trager Level 1

June 2-4 and 9-11, 2023

Location: Boulder, CO

Registration deadline: May 22, 2023

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: English

Contact: Joseph Rodin, (206) 596-6782, joseph@josephrodin.com

Note: This class is the first step in the Certification Training Program that runs through September 2024. For full program details see: https://josephrodin.com/class/trager-level-1-certification-training-with-roger-tolle-boulder-co/2023-03-24/

May 20-21, 2023

Location: Blueberry Gardens Healing Center, Ashton, MD

Registration deadline: May 5, 2023

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: English

Contact: Jennifer Brennan, workshops@pmti.org  (202) 686-7046

Class Description:

This two-day workshop illuminates the transformative experiences you bring to your clients when your touch pays more attention to sensing than doing – when your intention focuses less on resolving symptoms and more on freeing the body from unhealthy, unconscious patterns.

In the tradition of somatic movement therapy pioneer Dr. Milton Trager, you’ll learn to touch with full-body presence, ease, curiosity, delight, and depth. You’ll discover the power of softness and potent listening in your hands. You’ll witness the deep letting go that occurs when your clients feel their weight supported by the earth and their liquid body awash in pleasurable waves and quiet floating.  You will be moved by your capacity to connect authentically. What will it be like to become as vast and effortlessly transformative as the fingers of the ocean reshaping a beach?

Prerequisites: None

Level III

May 5-6-7 + 13-14.

Location: San Sebastián, Spain (Basque Country)

Registration deadline: 5th of April.

Schedule: from 9'30 to 13'30 / from 15h to 19h.

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Place: Nikabio Center - 51 San Francisco street - 20002 San Sebastián (Donostia)

Price: 500€

Language: Course taught in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

Contact: Gracia Ma Salaberria, + 34 650 103 253, trager@trager.es

Trager Level 1

Mar 24-26 and Mar 31-Apr 2, 2023

Location: Boulder, CO

Registration deadline: Mar 1, 2023

Instructor: Roger Tolle

Language: English

Contact: Joseph Rodin, (206) 596-6782, joseph@josephrodin.com

Note: This class is the first step in the Certification Training Program that runs through September 2024. For full program details see: https://josephrodin.com/class/trager-level-1-certification-training-with-roger-tolle-boulder-co/2023-03-24/

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

Transforming Touch: Becoming the Ocean

October 8-9, 2022

PMTI, 8701 Georgia Avenue, Suite 700, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Roger Tolle, Instructor

Contact: info@pmti.org  (202) 686-7046

Class Description:

 This two-day workshop illuminates the transformative experiences you bring to your clients when your touch pays more attention to sensing than doing – when your intention focuses less on resolving symptoms and more on freeing the body from unhealthy, unconscious patterns.

In the tradition of somatic movement therapy pioneer Dr. Milton Trager, you’ll learn to touch with full-body presence, ease, curiosity, delight, and depth. You’ll discover the power of softness and potent listening in your hands. You’ll witness the deep letting go that occurs when your clients feel their weight supported by the earth and their liquid body awash in pleasurable waves and quiet floating.  You will be moved by your capacity to connect authentically. What will it be like to become as vast and effortlessly transformative as the fingers of the ocean reshaping a beach?

Prerequisites: None

Sidelying

September 16-17, 2022

Seeham, Austria

Roger Tolle, Instructor

Language: Deutsch und Englisch

Contact: Gertraud Neumayr, gertraud.neumayr@sbg.at, +49 176 39229489

Class Description:

In this class, we expand on tablework vocabulary with clients in the sidelying position. We'll highlight the importance of bolstering to enhance physical and emotional support for your clients, as well as to keep clear boundaries and deepen Hook-up. You’ll be encouraged to develop continually freer and easier movement for yourself at the table, listen more deeply to the tissue responses, and explore a playful balance of Trager principles throughout.

When working with clients propped in the sidelying position, we can comfortably accommodate:

• those with tighter spinal structures like kaiphosis, lordosis and scoliosis,

• women in the later stages of pregnancy,

• the frail elderly,

• the emotionally distressed or traumatized,

• those for whatever reason are not comfortable lying flat on their backs or bellies.

To provide support for receivers, please bring two full size bed pillows and two smaller pillows with you to class, as well as sheets for yourself when receiving. 

As a bonus, participants who register at least a month in advance will receive the link to stream Roger’s video review “Sidelying in Practice” at the end of the weekend. 

Sidelying

September 8-11, 2022

Kiental, Switzerland

Roger Tolle, Instructor

Language: Deutsch und Englisch

Contact: Gabriela Scholl, tragerbygabriela@gmail.com

Class Description:

In this class, we expand on tablework vocabulary with clients in the sidelying position. We'll highlight the importance of bolstering to enhance physical and emotional support for your clients, as well as to keep clear boundaries and deepen Hook-up. You’ll be encouraged to develop continually freer and easier movement for yourself at the table, listen more deeply to the tissue responses, and explore a playful balance of Trager principles throughout.

When working with clients propped in the sidelying position, we can comfortably accommodate:

• those with tighter spinal structures like kaiphosis, lordosis and scoliosis,

• women in the later stages of pregnancy,

• the frail elderly,

• the emotionally distressed or traumatized,

• those for whatever reason are not comfortable lying flat on their backs or bellies.

To provide support for receivers, please bring two full size bed pillows and two smaller pillows with you to class, as well as sheets for yourself when receiving. 

As a bonus, participants who register at least a month in advance will receive the link to stream Roger’s video review “Sidelying in Practice” at the end of the weekend. 

Prerequisites: Trager Level 2, or permission from Instructor