We invite you to a six-day training workshop with Deane Juhan, Author of Job’s Body: a Handbook for Bodywork Anatomy instructor and Trager Instructor
This training satisfies the anatomy requirement for Trager students and offers 48 hours of continuing education credits with the NCBTMB.
COST: $1050
$50 discount if paid before October 6, 2024
Part 1: Wednesday – Friday, November 6, 7, 8, 2024 9 AM – 6 PM Hour for lunch
- Feet (grounding, the basis of postural reflexes)
- Legs (muscular elements that provide lower orientation and support of the pelvis)
- Pelvis (the mobile bridge between the legs and support of the spinal column)
Part 2: Sunday – Tuesday, November 10, 11, 12, 2024 9 AM – 6 PM Hour for lunch
- Torso (spine and rib cage, expanding breath capacity)
- Shoulder Girdle (the mobility and range of motion of the arms)
- Neck (the bridge between the brain and the rest of the nervous system)
Location:
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalism
1606 Bonita Avenue
Berkeley, California
Contact for registration:
Rebecca Young
rebdesy@gmail.com
Deane has these comments about his workshop:
This workshop does not use a typical academic approach—listing individual muscles, their origins and insertions and singular kinetic actions.
After 50 years of experience with thousands of clients, it is my felt observation that muscular activity is not achieved by individual muscle components, but by the synergistic coordination among widely distributed muscle fibers. No one muscle does any one thing, and no muscle every acts alone.
My active viewpoint is that we really have one muscle that is stimulated into movement by one integrated nervous system. We are shape-changers, not robots.
All muscular fibers are doing one of four things at all times during movements:
- Some are shortening
- Some are lengthening
- Some are bracing to provide stability for the movement
- The rest are remaining neutral so that discreet movements can take place.
All these values are shifting kaleidoscopically in small fractions of seconds during any shape-changing motion, and their selection and timing are monitored by our nervous system as a whole. Stimulatory messages from the mind to the tissues are what produces my motions, patterns generated in my mind and radiating out to my tissues. It is this concept that must be addressed if any lasting change is to occur with dysfunctional habits, compensations for injuries and trauma, and the limitations imposed by pain and discomfort.
Each of the six days will include:
- Anatomy slides to review the structure of each area we will be addressing
- Supervised table-work to translate the lectures into therapeutically effective applications
The basis of the table-work will be the approach of Dr. Milton Trager to psycho-physical integration and will be an immersion into the deep, sensitive feeling that most effectively creates shifts in habits toward a sense of what is freer, easier, lighter, less encumbered by the past and more how our tissues should feel and function.
All modalities of training and experience are welcome. Students in the past have included practitioners of Swedish, Rolfing, Feldenkrais, Alexander, yoga, chiropractic, Pilates, dance therapy, Esalen massage and meditation.
Please bring briefs or light shorts, with loose unrestrictive tops for women to use in the table-work.
