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Deane Juhan: Workshop Facilitator, Author, Instructor
Practitioner Of The Trager Approach®

Deane Juhan may be best known as the author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork – which many consider the essential text on the means, methods, uses, and deeply personal applications of what has come to be known as "bodywork" – a vast, sophisticated series of modalities and techniques that take massage to the level of personal transformation at its greatest expression, profound emotional release and reintegration at its most basic core.

Deane is able to look back and recognize the influence of his mother, a beautician who also provided scalp massage to her loyal clientele, but he began his entry into adulthood as a young scholar, in particular a student of Willliam Blake. It was his experiences at the Esalen Institute, in particular meeting and studying with Dr. Milton Trager, which led Deane eventually into the nine year research and writing project that emerged as Job's Body.

He was born in 1945 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado (B.A.), the University of Michigan (M.A.), and the University of California at Berkeley, where he spent three and a half years as a doctoral candidate. In 1973 an experience with bodywork at Esalen Institute in Big Sur changed his career, and he remained in residence there for the next 17-1/2 years. He now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Jessica. His son, Tristan is a recent college graduate. Deane has a private practice there, and can be reached at 925.386.0131 or deanejuhan [at] comcast.net.

First trained in Esalen massage, he developed a private practice and led workshops in massage as well as seminars in anatomy and physiology for bodyworkers. In 1976 he met Dr. Milton Trager, founder of the Trager Institute for Psychophysical Integration, and has been a practitioner and instructor of the TRAGERWork® approach ever since. He is on the faculty of the Northern California Trager Institute and has developed a series of classes for bodyworkers and therapists of all kinds, which he conducts all over the United States, in Canada and in Europe.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

DEANE JUHAN, M.A.

Educational History

Glenwood Springs, CO
High School
Graduated 1963

University of Colorado, Boulder CO
English Literature
Graduated Cum Laude, 1963-1968

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
English Literature
Masters Degree, 1970

University of California, Berkeley CA
Stopped one year short of Ph.D., 1970-1974

Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA
In residence as massage therapist and instructor, 1974-1991

The Trager Approach
Trained 1974-1995, until the time of Milton Trager’s death
Practitioner since 1980; instructor since 1985
Designed and taught anatomy and physiology section of Trager Training
Track 1983-present

Publishing History

Contributing author to Massage Magazine and Massage and Bodywork

Author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork
Published 1987; third edition published 1998
Station Hill Press, Barrytown NY

Author of Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork
Published 2002
Station Hill Press, Barrytown NY

Teaching History

Teaching Assistant for English Compostion:

University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1974

Massage Instructor, Esalen Institute, 1976-1992:

While at Esalen (in 1978), I designed and taught a series of lectures on anatomy and physiology for bodyworkers based upon the ten-session series of Ida Rolf. During this time (1980) I also designed and began teaching an anatomy and physiology training for the Trager Certification Program, which has since 1995 been a core requirment of the Trager training program.

Trager Instructor:

In addition to being the anatomy and physiology instructor for the Trager Institute, I became a full instructor in 1985, and have continued to teach core certification trainings since that time.

Continuing Education Instructor:

While teaching anatomy and physiology and core certification trainings for the Trager Institute, I designed a series of 3-day Continuing Education classes for body workers of all kinds. I am a Category A Provider for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, and have been teaching these classes in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan since 1985.

Continuing Education Classes:

Connective Tissue: Web of Structure, Web of Ch’i Neuropeptides: Our Emotional Soup
The Body As the Landscape of Perception: The clinical work of Jason Brown
Breath: The Rhythm of Life
The Molecular Processes of Muscle Activity
The Gamma Motor System: How We Create Skills, Habits and Blocks
Anatomy and Treatment of the Jaw
The Neck
The Shoulder Girdle
The Torso
The Spine
The Pelvic Girdle
The Feet and Legs
The Hands

Since 1985 I have continued to teach these classes, 10 to twelve of them a year. In addition to teaching these classes for the Trager Institute, I have taught them for many massage schools throughout the country, as well as retreat centers such as Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, Kripalu, The New York Open Center and Heatrwood Instutute.

I conservatively estimate that since 1985 I have taught 400-600 classes, with an estimated total number of students of 6,000-9,000 students.

Conference Presentations

Keynote speaker four times for Trager Conferences Keynote speaker twice for Somatic Psychology Conferences Keynote, 2006 for the Postural Integration Conference, Seattle Keynote, 2006 for the Polestar Pilates Conference, Key Biscane

Extra! Just Added!

From Harvard "BioVisions"

Click here to see "THE INNER LIFE OF THE CELL"

BEAUTIFUL, VIVID, MUST-SEE VIDEO ~ HIGHLY EDUCATIONAL!

Helps us Understand How "Body Work" Works at the Cellular Level

Look For This Site To Expand Soon
With More Upcoming Workshops, Articles, and Additional Information
JobsBody.com ~ The Official Website of Deane Juhan

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