Program Teacher
Joseph Rodin, MA, LMHC, LMT, Certified Trager® Practitioner, Tutor, and Instructor
Joseph Rodin is a licensed massage therapist, psychotherapist, and certified Trager® practitioner. His somatic background includes intensive study of Trager®, along with extensive coursework in osteopathic inspired manual therapy methods. Joseph took his first Trager® course in 1995 and returned to later to become certified in 2010. Since then, he has taught numerous Trager® introductory classes, mentored with and assisted senior Trager® instructors, been a Trager® Tutor and is the past President of the US Trager® Association and past member of the Board of Directors for Trager International. He's presented on Trager and TMJ at Trager Conferences live, virtually, and for the Tragerology organization.
Joseph’s movement experience began with being a Yoga Instructor for fourteen years and a student of Afro-Brazillian Dance and Percussion. These inform his Trager® work as much as his varied background with psychotherapy and bodywork. In Seattle, in addition to seeing clients for psychotherapy, Joseph has a strong manual therapy practice with a clinical focus on headache, TMJ and chronic pain. He teaches courses around the Northwest and beyond in The Trager Approach, myofascial release, intraoral massage, craniosacral and more. His passion for teaching is based on being able to empower students to further develop their unique gifts, to convey both the art and science of manual therapy, and to use the path of bodywork as mindful contemplation and inquiry into the healing process for client and therapist alike.
Visiting Trager® faculty may be brought in for all or parts of Levels 2 and 3 depending on the size of the certification program and the availability of various faculty.