Somatic Mindfulness – Expansion
Investment $389 16hr CE’s – Sat, May 9th – Sun, May 10th 8:30am-5pm
Recover from physical and mental burnout.
Rediscover how to work sustainably.
Rekindle your love for your practice and purpose.
Reinforce your techniques with somatic touch in your next session.
Physical and emotional burnout and injury are prevalent among massage therapists. Somatic Mindfulness bridges somatics and bodywork, teaching self-care as a professional skill, making the therapist’s own wellbeing the method for creating the conditions for healing, intuitive insight, and clarity of purpose.
Through Attuned Touch, each workshop invites discovery rather than direction, allowing the body to remember how it already knows to heal.
Somatic Mindfulness workshops (Fundamentals, Connection, Grounding, Expansion, Poise, Radiance, Resilience, Fluidity, Immersion, and Resonance) expose massage therapists to tragerwork and mindfulness-based skills that potentiate therapeutic efficacy. Inherent to the method is support for the therapist’s self-care, ensuring career longevity. Each workshop is self-contained, and there are no prerequisites to take each theme.
In Expansion, responsive hands invite the breath to return to its natural fullness and flow, allowing the torso, back, arms, and shoulders to remember their capacity for strength and openness. This work refines how therapists relate to breath, space, and movement through touch, reinforcing existing techniques while supporting sustainable practice.
Somatic Mindfulness does not replace what therapists already practice. It magnifies it by making embodied awareness and self-regulation central to how touch is applied, received, and sustained.
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 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 fernando@somaticmindfulness.co or go to https://somaticmindfulness.co/ces