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Coming in December!

TRE Tension and Trauma Release Exercise

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?

Online or face to face.

Begin with a private TRE Shake Package $370

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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. 

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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.

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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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Private package of 3 ~ $370

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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.

TRE for 3 six-week program

Sliding scale payments per person
$370 Supported, $450 Supporter, $270 Concession

Anyone who experiences trauma has their own unique psychological responses to that trauma, so unique in fact that two people who have experienced the same traumatic event can have entirely different responses to it. However, how trauma impacts the body is almost universal, of course, there are going to be minor differences between people, but generally people seem to internalise traumatic experiences in their body in the same way.

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Unprocessed trauma in the body can look like a range of physiological ailments, symptoms or responses, some are:

 

  • an overactive startle response

  • muscle tension

  • neck pain

  • jaw pain

  • headaches or migraines

  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

  • lethargy

  • faster heartrate

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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

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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