TRE courses
3 week intro courses
TRE Tension and Trauma Release Exercise
2026 TRE Trauma Sensitive Somatic Group Programs
Is traditional talk therapy falling short of giving you relief from
chronic anxiety, depression, tension and trauma?
Are you looking for a somatic pathway to recovery?
Do you have disrupted sleep?
Join a 3 week intro to TRE or a longer group course
focused on pain and anxiety, and sleep.
In person only. See timetable here.
Prefer a private TRE Shake Package $370?
Your body doesn’t need to calm down.
It needs permission to complete.
TRE somatic therapy for
anxiety, pain and
sleep recovery
TRE courses are either 3 weeks or longer and serve the needs of our evolving community. TRE and Trauma Sensitive Yoga therapy blend perfectly together to offer you a deeper somatic awareness, within the principles of trauma healing.
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Designed to:
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have a gentle focus on pain and anxiety
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connect and share with your community
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restore trust and safety as a felt sense
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acknowledge and be with the effects of stress and trauma in our nervous systems
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learn TRE for quality restoration and release
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practice self regulation at home and together
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befriend your body without the need to 'fix it'.
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Less talk, more embodiment
Did you know that stress, tension and even past traumatic events are held in the nervous system? This is why traditional talk therapy can fall short of relieving you of the symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression.
By engaging neurogenic tremors, befriending your body and letting go becomes effortless and effortless.
TRE empowers you to let go of chronically held protection responses from the past and experience deep-seated rest and recovery.
What is TRE?
TRE, or Tension and Trauma Release Exercises are a series of exercises that allow your body to recover a natural shaking or tremor mechanism within the body’s muscles.
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Founded and created by Dr David Berceli, a social worker/bodyworker and international expert on trauma intervention who helped and studied communities in Africa and the Middle East who had been traumatised by years of war and conflict. Dr Berceli found that instigating the body’s natural tremor response meant people were less likely to need psychotherapeutic or pharmacological interventions after experiencing severe trauma.
We shake with joy
we shake with grief.
What a time they have these two
housed as they are in the same body.
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Mary Oliver
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How does
TRE work?
TRE does not require you to talk about trauma and requires minimal physical effort. 10 minutes of shaking a day can bring noticeable results.
You can be on the floor or in bed.
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As TRE invokes the human body’s innate capacity to release stress & reorganise itself towards more optimal & efficient states, the benefits experienced from TRE & the ways it is being applied are as diverse as the individuals using it.
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What are the benefits?
SUPPORTS TRAUMA RECOVERY
Trauma can remain stuck in the body.
TRE releases shock & reduces the acute stress response by addressing the unconscious neurobiology.
Provides a self-regulating technique to assist recovery from traumatic events such as car accidents, natural disasters, giving birth & loss of a loved one.
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ATTUNES & CALMS NERVOUS SYSTEM
Naturally helps to calm and clear the mind & reduces hypervigilance and fatigue.
Releases subconscious muscular tension associated with stress & anxiety.
Supports & enhances flow states that assist mindfulness & meditation practices.
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Pathway to develop greater capacity for the self-regulation of addictions, anxiety, anger & compulsive behaviours.
COMPLEMENTS TALK THERAPIES
TRE is body-based & bottom-up, it supports & compliments top-down cognitive-based approaches.
Offers essential embodiment wisdom to avoid re-triggering and overwhelm.
Offers a trauma-informed model of health & wellbeing that integrates the body & empowers you with a practical tool for ongoing self-regulation.
What do you need help with?
PAIN
RELIEF
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release chronic shut down to free up energy
ANXIETY & DEPRESSION
mobilize and befriend fight and fight energy
TRAUMA RECOVERY
discover trauma sensitive ways of being back in control
BETTER
SLEEP
explore release and
relax before sleep
The body remembers and tells stories that words cannot express.
Bessel van der Kolk
Psychological view of tremors
Panic attacks - ‘trembling’
Social phobia - ‘tremors’
Generalized anxiety disorder - ‘trembling or shaky’
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - ‘trembling’
'In the scientific field of psychology, body tremors are seen as a pathological expression of the above disorders.
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In TRE, the deliberately invoked tremor mechanisms is not seen as part of the pathology of human neurophysiology but rather the brain's attempt to correct the pathology of a hyper-aroused nervous system'. Dr. David Berceli
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