Avoid Burnout, Go Deeper with Less Effort, Develop Mindfulness in Action
Investment $360 18hr CE’s – Sat, August 24th – Sun, August 25th 8:30am-6pm
Potentiate your therapeutic competence with skills that stimulate the brain’s neuroplasticity. Learn to introduce new neural information and activate positive neuromuscular changes in your clients, all while supporting your own self-care and ensuring bodywork career longevity.
Learn the theory and techniques to complement your massage treatments by:
- reducing or eliminating the potential of massage therapist burnout and/or related injuries
- preparing the client’s body for deep work with less strain; and
- developing, transmitting and sharing mindfulness in action
Somatic Mindfulness workshops (Fundamentals, Connection, Grounding, Expansion & Radiance) expose the massage therapist to tragerwork and mindfulness-based skills that potentiate their therapeutic efficacy. Inherent to the method is support for the therapist’s self-care, ensuring career longevity. In Grounding, the emphasis is on the experience of proprioceptive rooting for balance and stability. Handles are explored around feet, legs, and hips and their interconnection with the rest of the body. Each workshop is self-contained, and there are no prerequisites to take each theme. This class is NCBTMB-approved and is also sponsored to teach New York licensed massage therapists continuing education accepted by the state of New York for license renewal.
The techniques explored in this workshop were developed almost 100 years ago and have been used to manage symptoms of conditions such as Polio, MS, CP, and Parkinson’s. Moreover, the method includes the development and application of certain self observation capabilities which are necessary to ensure the efficiency of the techniques and result in direct benefits to the therapist
Somatic Mindfulness – Grounding
Learn the theory and techniques to complement your massage treatments by reducing or eliminating the potential of massage therapist burnout and/or related injuries; preparing the client’s body for deep work with less strain; and developing, transmitting, and sharing mindfulness in action. Somatic Mindfulness workshops (Fundamentals, Connection, Grounding, Expansion & Radiance) expose the massage therapist to tragerwork and mindfulness-based skills that potentiate their therapeutic efficacy. Inherent to the method is support for the therapist’s self-care, ensuring career longevity. In Grounding, the emphasis is on the experience of proprioceptive rooting for balance and stability. Handles are explored around feet, legs, and hips and their interconnection with the rest of the body. Each workshop is self-contained, and there are no prerequisites to take each theme. All classes are approved for license renewal by the state of New York.
Somatic Mindfulness workshops by Fernando Rojas MSMT/E, LMT, PhD are approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB)and also sponsored by NCBTMB to teach New York licensed massage therapists continuing education that is accepted by the state of New York for license renewal. It is also approved in Florida and Louisiana. They are recognized by Trager International and Trager Switzerland as a genuine application of tragerwork principles to complement massage therapy and bodywork. In Switzerland, Trager Therapy is a sanctioned method of complementary health therapy.
For More information or to Register contact Instructor:
Fernando Rojas, PhD, LMT (908) 938-4791 or tragerpr@gmail.com or go to https://somaticmindfulness.co/ces
