Trauma Release Exercises - TRE

[WorldOvertaker]

Yeah, many religious/spiritual practices are actually just ways to induce some healing mechanisms in the body. I’ve been really losing my faith in spiritual things the more I learn…

This is just one example. There’s also an example of how loud chanting would improve breathing drastically - if you are familiar with Buteyko and its theory, chanting does basically the same thing if done properly. Or even better because humming gives additional Nitric Oxide boost. And people were thinking it’s just spirituality gives them benefits…

[Parsifal]

Still I see a valid point in spirituality.
We never started any of this voluntarily, no one knew why we did it. It was rather in a transcending atmosphere when suddenly this movement started on its own.
I actually see some divine intervention here.
When the divine is leading you towards healing through natural processes, the way it was intended, perhaps even paving the way towards discovering this principles for healing in general.

[JAnon]

I’m not sure what exactly you mean by Somatic Exercises, would you care to share a link to the course and we can comment further?

TRE itself is a minor spinoff of the whole-body system of Bioenergetics, as written about by Alexander Lowen.

[Thunder]

Hey this is the course I’m looking to buy:

Release Stress & Stored Trauma In 30 Days

This is what Wikipedia says about somatics which is better than how I would explain it:

Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasizes internal physical perception and experience. The term is used in movement therapy to signify approaches based on the soma, or “the body as perceived from within”,[1][2] including Skinner Releasing Technique, Alexander technique, the Feldenkrais Method, Eutony, Rolfing Structural Integration, among others.[3] In dance, the term refers to techniques based on the dancer’s internal sensation, in contrast with “performative techniques”, such as ballet or modern dance, which emphasize the external observation of movement by an audience.[4][5] Somatic techniques may be used in bodywork, psychotherapy, dance, or spiritual practices.

It has given me some releases, it just seems more targeted than tre.

I’ll likely do both if I do purchase the course

P.S it says it’s for women but really it’s for everyone, I think they just mentioned women in order for targeted marketing as women are more likely to buy these courses

[Fractal_Explorer]

This looks really good, thanks for sharing!

[Jouissance]

Just wanted to put this here even though it’s not directly related to TRE - it is related to the mind/body connections

@Jouissance

@SaintSovereign

There must be a correlation between the tension in the body and the tension in the mind

This is exactly what Vipassana is about.

By feeling the body, you get direct access to the mind, and by systematically going through each component of the body you get full access to the ENTIRETY of your mind.

And of course you learn through your own direct experience (not theory or intellectualization) all of the lessons of oriental traditions - craving, aversion, karma, the noble truth of suffering, acceptance, action, metta loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity, etc….

Vipassana isn’t about releasing the stores within your body, it’s just about assessing the body via attention, which naturally removes layers of tension as you stop reacting (consciously and/or unconsciously) to the sensations on the body.

At a deeper level, you start realizing that in general, we crave craving, as much as we crave aversion. We even crave thought itself (even unpleasant thoughts) and have an aversion to feeling our own sensations (even pleasant sensations).

At the deepest level, you realize all physical material particles are experiencing rapid change at an unbelievable frequency, directly experienced by you as you dissect and disintegrate sensations that felt “solid” at first but become extremely vibrational as you place equanimous attention on them. This is “Anicca.” It’s the basis for understanding no-self (Anatta) and the complex nuance behind the idea of suffering as a noble truth.

[JAnon]

Awesome.

Yeah, I practice Bioenergetics that uses many different positions to directly target neurotic holding patterns and muscular tightening from many different positions and angles and across the whole body. I find it far more broad and deep than TRE, personally.

If it’s given you some releases, keep it up! Good things are happening.

[Thunder]

Nice, thanks for sharing this.

I’ll check out bioenergetics too.

And thanks for the encouragement too

[Risky]

I’ve tried this a few times. It feels great, felt like I’ve taken a good nap or like after a nice session of meditation.

Don’t know about the whole trauma/spiritual perspective, but the benefit of feeling like a good relaxation or stress relieving exercise makes it worth for me to keep experimenting with.

Like any modality, tread carefully and do it with an expert if you’re unsure. You have been warned. 🫡

[Joa23]

Tomorrow morning I have an appointment with this woman thats a certified TRE Trainer, Im gonna be posting my experience here for anyone interested.

Reasons for consultation, Symptoms, Goals and the Before/After picture.

[Joa23]

Ok… Im bare footed in the grass in a park close to where I had my TRE session… just relaxing and integrating the experience.

The reason for booking a session is because I have a chronic inflammation in my left sacroiliac joint, for about 2 years now. Ive tried a lot of different approaches with all kind of results. The things is Im far better that what I used to feel, no more pain crisis, but Im not good, Im not healthy. I still have some weaknesses and a soft but constant pain, that sometimes makes my lower back tense up and get painful.

A while ago I decided that Im not gonna stop until I feel good in my body, recover strenght and flexibility, to enjoy having the body I have.
Chiropractor is good, but its lacking something for me.

I wanted a guided TRE session because you have no feedback whatching youtube.

The most important lesson I got today is you get further by going slower. Sometimes the tremors arrives with unpleasant emotions and I thought you just gotta breakthrough it. The TRE lady told me to stop everytime it got unpleasant (emotionally or physically) to let my body know that it is safe, that stress and alertness are not necessary. That at some point I might need to go through something like that, but thats not the goal.

TRE is not about pushing through pain, discomfort and negative emotions, it is about showing your body that it is safe to relax and feel good.

She also told me that the pauses in between the tremors and at the end of the session are just as important, so you can be aware of how your body responds and reacts to the process.

At the end of the session (about 1 hour long) I felt deeply relaxed and expanded, still do. Most notably I feel like a solid block of stone was removed from my body, a stone big enough to cover all the space between my stomach and pelvis. That was followed by an energetic expansion towards the outside.
I can feel the world through my sacral and plexus centers.

She recommended 4 sessions total and then to keep the practice on my own for as long as I want to.

[Joa23]

Went for a second TRE Session yesterday, it was very different in a sense. The tremors started in my pelvis as usual, but after a while they moved exclusively to my left leg. I started kicking for a while,
then I had a tingling sensation all over my skin, warm, electric and very pleasurable, it made me laugh a lot.

The weirder part was that just after that, the tremors moved to my jaw, my jaw went crazy, then it all stopped.
It was a shorter session and I ended up feeling really expanded, relaxed and happy, in a very deep Trance. Yesterday I felt deeply relaxed the whole day, today Im not stressed at all.

[WorldOvertaker]

Yesterday I had some weird tremors. They are as usual but weird in the sense that when my hands and shoulders were tremorring, they’d get extremely itchy. Felt like some big releases happened in hands and my tremors transformed afterwards to my traps. Also, was extremely sleepy and tired after the session, then had the deepest sleep I’ve had lol

[Joa23]

Yeah I slept super deep last night… Tomorrow I´ll start KB and AoH, so lets see how these beauties work with TRE. I had 2 more sessions booked and then I will keep the practice on my own… In a couple of months I will decide whether or not I want to invest in becoming a TRE Trainer.

[antonioromero]

How long shoudl I stay tremoring?

10 minutes? 15 minutes? Is there a proper duration for this?

[Joa23]

As long as you feel comfortable doing it, don´t go to the point in which you get tired. If you get an intuition, body feeling to stop, then stop, even if you are far from being tired.
10 to 15 minutes should be fine.

[Akephalos]

Any course or videos on this?

[JAnon]

Sure, @Akephalos

I think this is a good, layman level explanation if you can spare an hour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vujdX82_dAI&t=1166s

For a five-minute summary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuSgrrj2beQ

Both of these creators have a number of free, follow-along workouts on their YouTube channels. I really like this one for general tension release, embodiment, groundedness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=supymV8uFV0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWCyJYm-0wY&t=1621s - A bit more challenging, and longer, but definitely shifts some crap.

They also both have more indepth, paid courses (In the region of $30-50/month) which really dig deep into the process over the course of like 4-12 months. I joined Arnold/Healing Houses course a few weeks ago and it’s pretty cool so far - gradual introduction. (No affiliate or anything here just sharing my experience)

If you would like to study closer to the roots of the system I’d recommend the book ‘Bioenergetics’ by Alexander Lowen

They both have a TON of free info on their channels. Devaraj is great, I met him on a Bioenergetics retreat in England a few years back and he’s the real deal also.

Daily Bow and Arch (just search on Dev’s channel) is a great practice, would compliment TRE very well imo.

Hope this helps.

[Joa23]

I had my 3rd TRE session today out of a total of 4. Then I will practice on my own.

At the end of the practice I was elevated and expanded to a level I do not normally reach by any other practice. I was ready to dissolve into atoms and become one with the infinite cosmos.

Super relaxed and with my mind at complete silence.

Now for the more technical aspects… I learned that you can just let your body intelligence lead the whole practice and do whats best for you at the moment, or you can decide to focus your attention into a specific part of your body… The simple yet powerful act of shifting your attention changes what your body is doing and how its doing it, leading the experience to a different place.

Also you can use you attention to identify micro movements, little vibrations, subtle things that are not flashy and when you do that you can go deeper into the process, seems like you can navigate into other dimensions of your nervous system and the emotional and physical memories stored in the body.

At the end of the session while resting and integrating the experience if you focus on the part of the body that feels best, you are rewiring your nervous system to sort for pleasure and well being, instead of pain and tension.
Its the same framework as the style of NLP and Hypnosis that I use, but using the body as the main instrument, instead of the mind, of course both practices compliment each other synergistically.

[Joa23]

So today I had my 4th and last TRE session, now Ive been suggested to keep it as a regular practice on my own, at my own rhythm and only go back after a while if I feel I need it.

@Joa23

At the end of the practice I was elevated and expanded to a level I do not normally reach by any other practice. I was ready to dissolve into atoms and become one with the infinite cosmos.

Super relaxed and with my mind at complete silence.

This time at the end of the session I was equally relaxed and with a silent mind, the difference was that instead of feeling expanded into the cosmos, I was (still do) very grounded into my body.

When I was walking to my session I realized that for the first time in god knows how long, my joint was pain free and relaxed, I only had some muscular pain and tension around it, but in the more superficial muscles.
Im developing a very acute awareness that allows me to notice when I put tension on that zone and Im able to release it. Thats the main job Ive been assigned now, to modulate that and continue to teach my body and nervous system that its ok to relax… The more the pain is gone, the safest it is to continue to relax.

@Joa23

rewiring your nervous system to sort for pleasure and well being, instead of pain and tension.

This time it was pretty obvious that the tremors are getting incredibly pleasurable, filled with tingling sensations and waves of relaxed joy traveling around the body. Kind of an orgasmic feeling reaching from one place to another, from the core through the spine, then the shoulders, the arms and finally reaching the hands. It feels like the whole pleasure centers are being triggered ON, on the nervous system.