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TRAGER Mentastics

an alchemical experience

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This past week, I played with Mentastics, a term Milton Trager created to describe making somatic connections between a felt sense and bodily movement. This was my first Trager workshop in training that will continue into 2026, but my second experience with Trager.

Already I can see that Trager will become a companion to processing felt sensations identified from body scanning.

Trager is also reshaping my approach to clinical tablework with clients.

It is the usual course of things when learning a new somatic discipline that a student’s first client is herself. Also, it generally unfolds that old stuff stirred up gets worse before it gets better. Both were true for me, and after the second day of Trager, I was in a dark mood. There wasn’t an apparent cause, so I asked myself a coaching curious question, “What needs to be shaken loose?” I took this question to my evening meditation and then to bed. An answer came during my morning shower.

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Lisa Patrell, https://linktr.ee/dellaureo
Lisa Patrell, https://linktr.ee/dellaureo

Written by Lisa Patrell, https://linktr.ee/dellaureo

I am too old to be new, but not so worn that I cannot regard life anew in poetry. Other hours I hold space for people transforming & do things for our planet.

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