Clouds Rest Care The Trager Approach

The Trager Approach helps release deep-seated physical and mental patterns and facilitates deep relaxation, increased mobility and mental clarity. Many people seek Trager sessions for personal growth or increased feelings of joy and wellness. The Trager Approach has also been reported to ease or manage a wide range of conditions including:

• stress
• limited movement
• back pain
• depression
• multiple sclerosis
• post-polio syndrome
• sports and other injuries
• carpal tunnel syndrome
• back and neck pain
• everyday aches and pains
• muscle spasms
• headaches
• physical/emotional trauma
• cerebral palsy
• Parkinson’s disease
• fibromyalgia

The second aspect of the Trager Approach, called Mentastics®, involves instruction in the use of self-care movements.Mentastics is taught both in private sessions and in group classes. 

Dr. Trager developed these simple, effortless movements to encourage playful exploration of “what could be freer” for your body. Integrating Mentastics into your daily life will allow you to enhance and recall feelings of ease, freedom, flexibility and joy. Mentastics can become part of the way you take care of yourself and relieve stress and tension.