Partner Specialist
Nava Wiegert,
Certified Trager® Practitioner
I grew up on the back of a horse where I acquired a mindful presence and hands that listen. Originally an inventor, designer, and crafter of inanimate objects and experiences, I grew inspired to elevate the potential of our living form. In stride, I bolstered my University of Michigan BFA with LMT licensure. I first specialized in a uniquely gentle and elegant form of fascial release and structural decompression and then gained rare certification in The Trager® Approach through a pioneering intensive program led by expert instructors who trained with Dr. Milton Trager. I merge my studies and continue to deepen my understanding by training with the world’s current masters. As a result of it all, I approach the intelligence of being with reverence and offer an ever-evolving and exceptional work of healing art.
In addition to my private practice, I work with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt as a core practitioner on his world-renowned healing team at the Sophia Health Institute. I teach and have served as Vice President of Trager® Northwest and a Board Member of the Trager® Foundation. Beyond bodywork, I live an adventurous, peaceful life in the mountains with my beloved Mexican mutts.
Musculoskeletal Pain
Muscle Tension
Soreness & Spasms
Fascial Restrictions & Imbalance
Limited Range of Motion
Stiffness
General Dis-Ease of Being
TRAGER® INDICATIONS:
Dis-Serving Mind/Body Patterns
Stress, Depression & Anxiety
Shortness of Breath
Trauma
Ungroundedness
Continued Peacefulness, Balance, and Joy
PLEASE NOTE: For a limited time in 2024, Nava will be traveling to Seattle to serve the clients, colleagues, and partners of Studio Saudade, offering personalized 90-min sessions designed to meet your unique needs. This exclusive opportunity will occur monthly, with a maximum of 3 sessions/day to ensure quality time with each client. This is a rare chance to engage with one of the most sought-after practitioners in the field of bodywork and wellness. We encourage booking early to ensure availability. If there are no spots open online, please email us to be added to the contact/waitlist. To learn more, please read the client testimonials below to hear what others have experienced working with her.
Session Fee = $285 (90 min)
$60 deposit to book online; remainder due via Venmo or Zelle on the day of session.
Client Testimonials
“Nava's work has been the gift of exhalation to my mind, body, and soul. The burdens of living melt in her hands as I am reminded again what it is to feel free. Her heart for the work is reflected in the transformation. And for that, I have the deepest gratitude.
Kamille
“Forty years ago I tore the acetabular ligament in my hip joint playing college soccer. I experienced hip pain and discomfort for thirty-eight of those forty years until meeting Nava. Her awareness, intuition, and skillful hands have given me the first real and lasting relief I've experienced. I have found her to be an expert and truly caring practitioner. I believe you will find no one better at helping you with what you need.”
James
“Nava’s work is of the highest quality. The Sophia Health Institute, which specializes in patients with extensive and serious health problems, has offered Nava some of the most challenging clients that a practitioner can engage with. Her work there has been exemplary and has materially benefitted the progress of Sophia’s patients and their recovery. She is a highly valued practitioner. Nava has been one of the best students I have worked with, and she is a shining example of the effectiveness of The Trager Approach. She has taken her work successfully into the “scary bodies” category of Milton’s work. Very few practitioners work with clients at this level.”
Deane Juhan
Trager Practitioner, Teacher, Author of Job’s Body, Friend & Peer of Dr. Milton Trager, and my Mentor & Friend.
“Nava's work has truly been a blessing to me. Her special technique and the conscious space that she holds during sessions have a unique way of freeing the body from trauma and holding patterns of tension. I am fortunate to have worked with her on numerous occasions in a series of sessions, which has helped transform my physical state even when that seemed impossible. I am very grateful to Nava and highly recommend her work!”
Lisa
“I have been in great pain for a few years now with a hip injury that has not healed from gentle yoga, massage, chiropractic, and acupuncture. Thanks to Nava's presence, her remarkable listening skills, intuitive hands, and deep patience, I have received a great gift today! I feel soooo much better after our first session! I was even given personal practices to support my own self-healing and self-awareness not only around my injury, but in my body as a whole. Being with Nava is like time out of time — a rich and special opportunity to heal on many deep levels with a gifted healer who lives her credo of helping to co-create new and positive possibilities for embodied physical transformation.
Thank you Nava!!!”
Wali
“I feel wonderful. I want to be this way forever. ”
Fancy
“It’s the best ever.”
Matilda
“What a journey, experience, awakening – using touch and body movement to invite the body/mind to play and experience feelings of lightness, softness, bliss and creativity focused in the present moment! I resonated with the Trager Approach immediately as it was/is transformational for me – letting go, without effort, to experience the present moment in a new way, free of restriction, allowing the mind/body to connect to a higher level of power that transcends time and space. Nava is a master Trager practitioner using her knowledge, words and touch to guide and explore new dimensions of reality and awareness, to encourage playful movement exploring new levels of softness, lightness and possibilities, allowing the mind/body to connect to the life force that surrounds us all. Thank you, Nava, for reeducating my body and mind on new possibilities and massively pushing out my mental/body boundaries and restrictions, opening‐up new levels of possibilities and creativity allowing me to connect to my true self!”
Randy
“Nava is an intuitive. She equally uses her being and moves out of the way. With her, you will realize that you are, in fact, healing yourself.”
William
“Nava has a gift. I was considering quitting my job because I had severe chronic pain. I was on a narcotic that was only masking the problem. I saw Nava for one session and the next day my pain was gone! I will always be thankful to Nava for her expertise and her gift.”
Laura
“Nava is an intuitive. She equally uses her being and moves out of the way. With her, you will realize that you are, in fact, healing yourself.”
William
“I've been seeing Nava at least once a month for the past four years. I live an active lifestyle and I can genuinely attribute faster recovery and fewer injuries to my sessions with Nava. She truly understands her client's needs and works through the body's tension and pain with focused and tailored movements. As a Trager practitioner, her sessions guide and encourage the body to move easier. I'm consistently impressed by Nava's knowledge of the body and what affects overall well-being. I highly recommend starting a program with her. You will feel a noticeable difference after your first session, and each one thereafter.”
Sebastien
“Over the last 25 years I have received regular monthly massage from all kinds of therapists. I typically felt great for a couple days after, but the muscle tension would always return. Nava changed my world. Her quiet, gentle approach finds the root of where tension is stored. She guides muscles and mind to unwind and release holding patterns for good. She creates a safe place to let go of all that gets trapped, both physically and emotionally. The results are long-lasting, and I feel a huge shift after every session. It’s the most effective deep bodywork I’ve ever received. Her passion, wisdom and pure artistry shine through in her work and I’m forever grateful I found her.”
Rebecca
“My mind has goosebumps from this.”
Susan
“I danced out of the building after my first session with Nava. Unusual, especially as I was still in the wake of extensive cancer treatments. The Trager orientation toward finding ease in the body pointed up all the ways I had habitually tried to force my car-crash-torn body into place. In the flow from Nava’s hands, my body instead went into deep energetic releases that left me feeling light, vibrant, and yes... like dancing! The second time I saw Nava my neck had been crinked for weeks —big reduction in range of motion. She got my shoulder socket vibrating, rotating, bouncing, I don’t even know what. What I do know is that out that shoulder socket emerged the most concentrated essential packet of grief I think I’ve ever experienced. Out came the primal grimace, no sound, just vibrating shoulder, and voila my neck was new. Give yourself the gift of letting Nava put her hands on you. She’s practicing a type of vibrational medicine. I bow to the source of the healing gifts she brings.”
Deb