Continuing Education

The Gamma Motor System

With Deane Juhan

September 16-18, 2006

Elective: The Gamma Motor System

Instructor: Deane Juhan

Certification: 24 CE contact hours for RNs and massage therapists awarded by the US Trager Association.

Tuition: $385

Open to Trager® students and practitioners and non-Trager® health professionals.

Sat-Sun. September 16-18, 2006 9:30AM-6:30PM

All classes will be held at Clear Horizons, 1200 Trinity Road, Raleigh, NC

Inexpensive hotel options are available ($39.99 per night for a room with 2 queen beds. Contact the Class Organizer for details.)

Please e-mail or phone Nancy Toner Weinberger, Class Organizer, to let her know you plan to attend: 919-562-1548 or weinberger@mindspring.com

Then mail your check for $100 deposit made out to Dynamic Equilibrium to
Nancy Toner Weinberger, 309 Oakwood Court, Youngsville, NC 27596

Balance of tuition may be paid on the first day of class - check, cash, or credit card accepted.

In order to ensure enrollment accuracy, you must send your deposit no later than August 25, 2006. (Classes will not be held without sufficient participation. Don't be lazy.)

About The Gamma Motor System

The gamma motor system is disregarded, or briefly discussed, in most of the literature about motor control and the development of skills, habits, and holding patterns. This is surprising, because the gamma system is responsible for managing the enormous amount of unconscious sensory and motor information necessary for us to voluntarily control our billions of muscle cells, to learn reliable patterns of movement, to react automatically when a rapid response is required, or to alter dysfunctional habits and reactions.

This subsystem of the sensorimotor complex involves the muscle spindle cells, the Golgi tendon organs, the brain stem, and the specialized neurons which unite them and ultimately connect them to the sensorimotor cortexes. It is engaged whenever we make any sort of movement whatever, or learn to do absolutely anything. Understanding its operations is one of the primary keys to understanding how any form of bodywork is effective in changing patterns and habits and how any form of organized movement is possible.

This workshop will examine the anatomy of the gamma sensory and motor system and discuss the details of its operations and their significance for all forms of bodywork and performance. We will use slides, lecture and discussion, movement exercises, tablework demonstrations, and supervised practice to build our knowledge and experience of this vital and necessary part of our organisms. No matter what the nature of your practice may be, it will be dramatically enhanced by this deeper understanding of how your and your clients' patterns are formed, and how they can be changed.

About Deane Juhan

Deane Juhan has been a professional bodyworker since 1974. Originally trained at Esalen Institute, he was a member of the massage crew and workshop leader staff there for seventeen years. In 1977 at Esalen he met Dr. Milton Trager, and began training with him, a pursuit that lasted until Dr. Trager’s death in 1998. He is currently a Trager® practitioner with a private practice in Mill Valley, California, and a Trager® instructor who teaches across the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

Deane is the author of Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork, and has developed a wide variety of seminars for bodyworkers and interested health professionals of all kinds concerning the anatomy and physiology of touch and the increasing role of hands-on care in the health care system.

This course is sponsored by Dynamic Equilibrium.
Register on-line at http://www.dynamicequilibrium.com/
or call Nancy Toner Weinberger at 919-562-1548.