From Reflex to Habit: Exploring the Gamma Motor System
Saturday, April 11, 2026 2:30pm-4:30pm PT
The gamma motor system is one of the best-kept secrets concerning our sensory-motor functions and motor learning. It controls the largely unconscious and highly reflexive processes of learning and preserving skills, developing habits, and imposing blocks and limitations in movement.
In addition to controlling all our movements, the gamma system is the special sense that informs us about weight, momentum, resistance, ease--in short, everything that has to do with our sense of mass and substance.
This workshop will present the neuro-anatomy of the gamma system, its integration in the muscles, the spinal column and the brain, and discuss approaches to facilitating its function with regard to learning skills, drifting into habits, and creating blocks.
Join us for this workshop with Deane Juhan, internationally renowned Trager Practitioner and trainer and author of “Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork”.
Designed for all students as well as a movement training program for bodyworkers of all kinds; yoga teachers and students, pilates, yoga and movement instructors.
CEUs available with NCBTMB.
Date: Saturday April 11 2026
Time 2:30pm – 4:30pm PST Check your time zone
Fees: $45
Technology: We will use zoom. You will receive the link in your confirmation email and also in an email 2 hours and 10 min before the event starts.
Recorded Video will be available. If you cannot make the time but would like to attend, please register to receive the video link. You will receive access to the recording for 6 months in our YogaKula Teachable Library, so you can revisit the content at your own pace
Refund: As a small business, we’re unable to offer refunds, but you’re welcome to share your ticket with a friend or loved one so they can enjoy it in your place.
Deane Juhan eloquently brings alive and makes accessible and intriguing the subjects of anatomy and physiology. These workshops allow us to develop new images and new language in order to more deeply understand the anatomical, physiological, and philosophical aspects of the body-mind.
All webinars will include extensive slides and lecture to illustrate and describe the material in their titles. They are the accumulation and consolidation of knowledge on their subjects that has been gleaned from Deane Juhan’s fifty years of research and practice.
Much of content of these classes is uniquely applied to somatic healing disciplines of all kinds. It offer perspectives that are not found in textbooks, and that in fact often run counter to accepted opinions about the nature of our organisms’ processes of development and healing.
Watch previous workshops by Deane Juhan - Visit our Online Academy.
Deane Juhan is an Instructor of the Trager approach to movement re-education. Deane was an Esalen Bodyworker for 19 years, and trained in a wide variety of practices and psychological therapy. While there, he met Dr. Milton Trager and was introduced to his innovative therapeutic approach. Deane was personally trained by him over the course of 24 years. As a certified practitioner and teacher of Dr. Trager’s work, Deane became one of his initial students that were entrusted to carry on the lineage of his unique approach to deep mental and physical healing. Deane has been teaching Dr. Trager’s approach around the world for more that 40 years.
Website: jobsbody.com