Service Description

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday, June 28th Please wear comfortable gym or yoga clothes. Bring sheets (no lotion needed). In Poise, gentle, attentive touch invites the spine and back to reveal their natural wisdom and grace. Our hands follow the rivers of tissue that flow beside and support the spine, allowing each layer to find its most elegant expression. Somatic Mindfulness workshops transform your massage practice through the art of attuned touch. By bridging somatics with bodywork, these workshops invite both practitioner and client into a deeper conversation with the body's inherent wisdom. Learn to work with natural ease and flowing precision, allowing tissues to reveal their own path to change while protecting your own body's resources. Through mindful presence and refined listening skills, discover how to create the conditions for lasting therapeutic change. This approach naturally cultivates practitioner sustainability and wellbeing, supporting both career longevity Somatic Mindfulness workshops expose the massage therapist to tragerwork and mindfulness-based skills that potentiate their therapeutic efficacy. Application of the techniques stimulates the brain's neuroplasticity, introduces new neural sensory information and activates positive neuromuscular changes in clients. Inherent to the method is support to the therapist's own self-care which ensures career longevity. Each Somatic Mindfulness workshop is self-contained and there are no prerequisites to take each of the themes. About the Instructor: Fernando Rojas-Otero, PhD, LMT, RSMT Certified originally in 2004 in Osho Rebalancing, a meditative bodywork modality that combines deep tissue (Rolfing) and Osho Joint Release (Tragerwork). Then went on to complete the full Trager® Approach training in 2011. Fernando is affiliated with: The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) , United States Trager Association (USTA), Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP). He also served as a therapeutic massage lecturer, instructor, externship clinic manager, massage therapy program manager and faculty lead for educational institutions in both New Jersey and Puerto Rico. "Somatic Mindfulness is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider and is also sponsored by NCBTMB to teach New York LMT's continuing education that is accepted by the state of NY for license renewal."