Finding Safety: Trauma and the Body, Steve Haines, Somatic Movement Summit 2020
Finding Safety: Trauma and the Body What is trauma? When your physiology is stuck, you are stuck. Trauma can be defined as being stuck in protective reflexes. Dissociation is a protective reflex most people are unaware of. In my experience, most people dissociate most...
10 Ways to Work with Anxiety in Times of Crisis
Many people are experiencing more anxiety than usual in the face of the global pandemic. Whether you’d like some guidance for your own anxiety, or you’re working with people who need extra support, I hope these ten approaches help you to feel more freedom and ease....
Five Ways to Prevent Injury (or Recover More Easily)
One: Too Much Load Can Lead to Injury People who are not sleeping, or resting, who are managing lots of stress, are emotionally out of balance and whose nutrition is poor are more likely to experience pain and get injured. When people are training they often are very...
TRE featured on www.patient.info
Can shaking exercises improve stress and PTSD? Great article on TRE on www.patient.infoSteve Haines is a leading TRE provider, teaching in locations worldwide. He says what makes TRE special is that it focuses on relieving stress and trauma by triggering a natural...
Anxiety is Really Strange, Isn’t It?
Anxiety is most commonly framed as a psychological problem. My clinical experience for over 20 years has been that by safely connecting to the body, people become less anxious.
Embodiment Podcast – Steve Haines on Bodywork, Trauma and Feelings, Dec 2019
Here is podcast of me being interviewed by Mark Walsh. At the start there is some framing of how I believe cranial work works, the importance of feeling and the limits of energy models. For TRE folks at 00:34:30 we discuss TRE, including some responses to critiques of...
My favorite Books About the Body, Mind and Health
If you’re looking for something interesting to read over the Winter break, I can recommend the following books, as well as my own series; Pain, Trauma and Anxiety are Really Strange. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith...
Shake It All About – TRE in Metro, London 2019-11-28
TRE, the new exercise craze born out of a war zone I’M lying on my back with my knees bent and slightly apart, and my legs are twitching uncontrollably. For some reason, rather than making me anxious this strikes me as utterly hilarious — I just have a mental picture...
Webinar: Working with Trauma via Relational Touch 2019-10-29, Steve Haines
This webinar was designed to explore how 'Relational Touch' supports embodiment and grounding to heal trauma. When our physiology is stuck, we are stuck. Understanding the protective reflexes of 'fight-or-flight' or 'freeze' is a key piece in working with trauma....
Webinar: Relational Touch 2019-09-26, Steve Haines
https://vimeo.com/manage/362675753/general “Touch, my studies show, is the primary language of compassion, love, and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation.” -Keltner, D. (2009) Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. 1st Ed, W. W....