Practitioner Profile

Layo M. Nathan
Currently in Australia
layo@thenathans.com

Layo M. Nathan is a TRAGER® Tutor as well as Practitioner and works with the continuing education of TRAGER® students, practitioners and tutor trainees. Layo lived in Mill Valley, California for eight years where the TRAGER® Institute was first established, and was fortunate to have trained with, and assisted Dr. Milton Trager.

In Australia, where she spent the following eight years, Layo taught TRAGER® workshops, organised trainings and ‘grew’ a TRAGER® community of over fifty Practitioners, and students.

At present she is living in Northern Ireland, and is available for sessions, tutorials, TRAGER® workshops, Mentastics® Movement classes and demonstrations of the TRAGER® Approach.

"I met Dr. Trager in 1986, and was touched by his directness, honesty, humility, and the power of his relaxed, compassionate presence. I had been a massage therapist for five years previously, but I was having so many back problems that I knew something had to change. TRAGER® work taught me to be aware of how I was using my body, and to develop a quality of ease and comfort in everyday life, which I could then teach to my clients.

"Dr Trager’s guidance that, ‘The mind is everything. The body is just dumb flesh’, and ‘ Hook-up is the key ingredient in promoting change’ have kept me enquiring and growing in understanding of this work for the past seventeen years.

"The TRAGER® Approach provides us with a physical modality, which also reaches and soothes the mind, while the mental gymnastics, or ‘Mentastics’ teach us to ease the body through gentle questioning, "What could be lighter? freer? Hmm?" What a wonderful partnership! Body and mind coming into harmony in this way! The key to making it work is the relaxed, focussed awareness, which Dr Trager called ‘hook-up’, a sense of connectedness to everything.

"Whether the discomfort is the result of stress, accident, disease or work-related postural habits, you can learn how to ease discomfort and rediscover well-being with the TRAGER® Approach. I did."