I teach somatic touch to bodyworkers who are experiencing burnout so they rediscover how to work sustainably and love their practice again.
Somatic Mindfulness workshops bridge somatics and massage, teaching self-care as a professional skill.
03/18/2026
Somatic Mindfulness returns to Arkansas. Empower your massage and bodywork practice with somatic touch...
Register here: https://somaticmindfulness.co/2026-workshops?category=Arkansas..
- / Recover from emotional & physical burnout.
- / Rediscover how to work sustainably.
- / Rekindle the love for your practice and purpose.
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02/20/2026
Somatic Mindfulness Immersion for Massage Therapists
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico | Oceanfront Venue
August 2–8, 2026 · 24 CEs NCBTMB
This is a transformative workshop for massage therapists who want to make their well-being the method behind their work. Somatic Mindfulness bridges somatics and bodywork, teaching self-care as a professional skill so your presence, clarity, and regulation become the foundation for powerful client outcomes; not something separate from your practice.
In this immersive experience, you’ll learn trauma-informed somatic practices that help you:
• use your own nervous system regulation as the ground for healing presence
• work deeper with less effort and less physical strain
• cultivate embodied clarity, presence, and intuitive precision
• create sustainable depth in your practice and long-term career wellbeing
This isn’t about adding more technique. It’s about refining how you are while you work so you can practice for years without wearing out your body or depleting your spirit.
In collaboration with Advanced Massage Specialty Group NY, this workshop is NCBTMB approved for 24 continuing education credits.
👉 Front-row ocean views
👉 Shared lodging or commuter options
👉 Monthly payment plans available
🌴 Bienvenidos al Paraíso en Villa Annunziato, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 🌊 Imagina despertar con el sonido de las olas, disfrutar de una vista espectacular al ...
02/06/2026
"Feel differently, and then your thoughts change"
Somatic Mindfulness - Heal the Healer workshop, in collaboration with NYS Society of Medical Massage Therapists, Inc, Long Island, NY.
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01/29/2026
"The missing link..."
Somatic Mindfulness - Heal the Healer workshop, in collaboration with NYS Society of Medical Massage Therapists, Inc . Long Island, NY.
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01/27/2026
"A conversation... energetically"
Somatic Mindfulness - Heal the Healer workshop in Long Island, NY, in collaboration with NYS Society of Medical Massage Therapists, Inc ...
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01/26/2026
Somatic touch for massage therapists. "This feeling of acceptance is what creates the conditions for something to change."
What is next for Fernando? What projects is he working on and what is his bigger vision for Somatic Mindfulness? Join us and if you like this conversation, p...
01/25/2026
Seeds of Somatic Mindfulness in the field.
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In this first episode with Aly, you will experience some gems of wisdom that may ring true to you as a bodyworker or as a client of receiving bodywork. She s...
01/20/2026
“It’s none of that… and so much more…”. Somatic touch for massage therapists.
Fernando offers some guidance about how anyone can use the principles of Somatic Mindfulness to increase their self-awareness and begin to improve our abilit...
Meet Fernando Rojas, originator of Somatic Mindfulness. Here he talks about how he got into bodywork and shares some of the influencers that helped to shape ...
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El método Trager® surge como resultado de una larga experiencia del Dr. Milton Trager en la observación de la conexión entre el cuerpo y la mente a través del lenguaje del movimiento y el tacto.
El Trager® invita a la mente a liberar patrones de tensión en los músculos sin esfuerzo. Utiliza movimientos que pretenden inducir a un estado de relajación profunda y a incrementar la movilidad corporal con el fin de optimizar el funcionamiento del cuerpo, sin experimentar dolor o incomodidad durante el proceso.
A través del movimiento corporal y un contacto suave, el método Trager® invita a experimentar sensaciones de ligereza, libertad, suavidad y fluidez, para enriquecer nuestros movimientos cotidianos, aportando armonía a la totalidad del cuerpo de una manera sencilla. Estas sensaciones, como todas las que vivimos en nuestras experiencias físicas y psíquicas quedan grabadas en la memoria subconsciente y no pueden ser borradas.
Los movimientos del Tragerwork envían al sistema nervioso centenares de sensaciones positivas de bienestar para que queden almacenadas y puedan reemplazar a los patrones existentes de tensión y bloqueo originados por posturas y hábitos de movimiento ineficaces, lesiones, traumas emocionales y estrés. Apelando a esta capacidad que tiene el cuerpo de recordar una sensación del pasado y revivirla nuevamente, podemos reproducir un determinado estado o movimiento corporal más libre, eficaz y ligero.
La experiencia es a la vez similar a un masaje tradicional, y diferente al ser basado en técnicas que pretenden conferir sensaciones de serenidad, soltura y fluidez. Una de las formas que se ha descrito el efecto es como un sentido de ingravidez, como estar en una nube. Aunque los beneficios de este estilo de terapia corporal son adecuados para cualquier persona, es siempre recomendable consultar con su médico si tiene alguna inquietud. Este enfoque es también altamente efectivo para personas que normalmente no optarían por un masaje tradicional ya que es adaptable, no requiere lociones ni aceites y se puede utilizar ropa cómoda.
BENEFICIOS:
Algunos de los beneficios que se pueden experimentar con el Tragerwork son:
Relajación profunda.
Lucidez
Paz interior.
Calidad mejorada de los patrones de sueño.
Desbloqueo de las articulaciones.
Mejora de la coordinación muscular y la postura.
Incremento de la movilidad corporal.
Mejora de la circulación del fluidos del cuerpo.
Estimulación del mecanismo de la propiocepción.
Recuperación de lesiones musculares y articulares.
Incremento de la conciencia corporal global y de la apertura a las sensaciones placenteras.
Estimulación de la capacidad para estar presentes en el “aquí y ahora”.
Mejora del rendimiento y la recuperación en deportistas, bailarines y artistas, favoreciendo su expresión y movilidad corporal.
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#TRAGERWORK
Tragerwork is an innovative, gentle and pleasant body therapy that improves movement and mobility and releases habitual patterns of muscular tension that have accumulated over the years in your body. It was created and developed by Dr. Milton Trager over his lifetime and continues to evolve based on the founding principles.
Through touch and movement, Trager® sends a message to your body and mind, encouraging feelings of lightness, ease and comfort. With the gentle quality of the practitioner's touch and the assistance of gravity, this message is conveyed to the nervous system and the memories of lightness, ease and comfort are activated at the cellular level. This results in renewed awareness of a sense of oneness, wholeness and presence in a relaxed body.
Each Tragerwork movement bypasses the way that you habitually move, introducing movement options that are easier, more pleasurable and more functional. The technique has many benefits, including deep relaxation, increased mobility, and heightened clarity of thought. These benefits are cumulative, with subsequent sessions allowing for deeper and long-lasting changes.
A Tragerwork session generally lasts 60 to 90 minutes. You can choose to be comfortably clothed. No oils or lotions are used. At the beginning of a session, a Tragerwork facilitator enters into a state of awareness, a form of active meditation. From this state of mind, your practitioner uses touch and movement to communicate with your body.
During the table work, you lie on a well-padded table in a safe, comfortable environment while your practitioner gently supports and moves your body within its pain-free range of movement and natural rhythm. You'll experience gentle rhythmic rocking, elongation, and rotating of your body's tissues in your legs, arms, shoulders, back, neck, chest and abdomen. This produces pleasant responses in your body and a very deep state of relaxation.
Tragerwork uses hundreds of little movements including rocking, shimmering, different pressures and gentle elongations - and each one of these elements of touch is imprinted into the unconscious mind of the recipient. As the practitioner sets your body into motion, you experience the feeling of moving effortlessly and freely on your own. As your body and mind receive these soft movements, tensions disappear and new movement patterns become possible.
Tragerwork helps release deep-seated patterns of tension and facilitates:
Increased mobility
Decreased pain
Deep relaxation
Tragerwork can ease or manage a wide range of conditions, including:
