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Trager approach

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Trager approach,
service mark for a bodywork technique whose purpose is to train patients to develop awareness of movement patterns that relieve pain and promote relaxation. It consists of two components: tablework, in which the practitioner, in a meditative state, uses touch and gentle passive movement to assist the patient in experiencing new movement patterns, and Mentastics, in which the patient is taught a series of movements designed to relieve tension.

Trager approach,
n.pr founded by Milton Trager, a method of teaching clients to move in the most effortless and intuitive way possible; addresses psychological blocks to free-flowing movement and seeks to remove them to help clients live pain-free and experience release from long-standing patterns of self-imposed physical and mental limitations.


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