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Four Ways to Creatively Manage Pain
There’s an awful lot of pain around. There was a huge survey done in Europe recently: 1 in 5 people experience chronic pain. They have persistent or severe pain for more than six months. For many of them, the median time was a number of years. The really exciting news...
Relational Touch – Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 200 words
'Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness. Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, ‘relational touch’, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge. There is a distinct...
Body Maps and Interoception: Liberated Body Podcast from 2014
https://www.liberatedbody.com/podcast/steve-haines-lbp-015/ 'Steve Haines talks about biodynamic craniosacral therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted. Interoception and why there is more pain in areas that are more poorly mapped. The huge role the...
‘Mind the Gap’, Emotions and the Body
https://vimeo.com/338392078 This is a short video on how emotions emerge from the body and how we can learn to negotiate with raw feeling states. Enjoy! Affect is the first experience of the physiological state of the body. Emotions, thoughts and memories co-emerge as...
How Can We Be Less Sensitive?
https://vimeo.com/338245305 This is a short video on the importance of feeling, on how nerves can get sensitised and some tips to be less sensitive. Enjoy! How can we be less sensitive? Danger chemicals from immune cells and stress hormones sensitise nerves....
What is Shaking Meditation? – Byrdie article
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) teach you how to relate to intense feelings in a grounded and self-regulated way by releasing tension and waking the body up. In the right context, the feelings generated by shaking can also be a powerful stimulus to come out of old,...
Stressed? Just shake it off!: Angela Neustatter puts 2019’s weirdest wellness trend to the test
TRE in The Daily Mail - 21 Jan 2019 'Lying on the floor one morning, I watch as my legs begin to tremble. Then my tummy wobbles like a half-set jelly. A few minutes in, and my body is positively shuddering, even though I am doing nothing to make this happen. It’s as...
Evening Standard Magazine: Meet the Mind Healers
TRE in Evening Standard Magazine - 18 Jan 2019 Meet the Mind Healers: Steve Haines, Trauma Releasing Exercises 'A key feature of trauma is the shutdown, or freeze response. Haines literally shakes out the nervous system, relaxing tight muscles and...
Top Santé: Shake It Off
TRE in Top Sante - 7th Jan 2019 Shake it off - Could making your muscles quiver and shake help release tension and anxiety from your life? Do a quick scan of your body now - are you clenching your jaw? Are your shoulders tensed up around your ears? If you...
Grazia: Shake It Off
TRE in Grazia - 7th Jan 2019 Shake It Off Giving totally new meaning to the term 'loosen up' comes Trauma Release Exercise (TRE), a set of simple movements that are used to trigger the natural tremor mechanism or ‘shakes’ in the body. ‘Using a simple set...
Harper’s Bazaar: Shaking Meditation – The biggest wellness trends for 2019
TRE featured as one of the biggest wellness trends in Harpers Bazaar - 10th Dec 2018 Shaking Meditation 'TRE (Tension & Trauma Exercise), dubbed 'shaking meditation', involves a series of controlled shaking exercises that aim to release muscular tension and reduce...
Shake it Off | Is ‘Trembling Therapy’ the New Yoga?
TRE in Amuse-ID - 22nd Oct 2018 Can we shake away our problems as carelessly as an animal? One trauma expert seems to think so, and we put his theories to the test For full article click here Shaking it off may sound a little dismissive as a way to deal...
Get The Gloss: Shaking is the stress-busting trend that everyone can benefit from
TRE in Get The Gloss - 21st Oct 2018 Does your body automatically clench when you're under stress and you just can't seem to let things go? Put down the pinot and shake it off. It could even trauma-proof your life. For the full article click here But what...
Elle: Shake It Off
TRE in Elle - 1st Oct 2018 'Triyoga has launched shaking meditation session, or TRE (tension and trauma releasing exercises), led by guru Steve Haines, who believes shaking releases tension and can help us feel more connected to ur bodies' NB: New...
The Sunday Times: Shake It Off – How to release stress and re-energise
TRE in The Sunday Times - 1st Oct 2017 'The new wellbeing craze of shaking your body promises instant relief from tension and fatigue' For the full article click here The premise of shaking is that it releases tension and energises the body — neither of which actually...
What would it be like if your arm had a mind of its own?
What would it be like if your arm had a mind of its own? Even stranger, if you had 8 arms so ‘suffused with nervousness’ that they wander, explore and feel with their own goals, acting as ‘agents of their own’. This is the model offered for being an octopus in Peter...
TRE® and Steve featured in London Evening Standard, Sept 2018
TRE in London Evening Standard: 24th Sept 2018 'Shaking meditation: the new mindfulness craze set to take London by storm. 'There's more to finding zen than sitting still. A new technique releases tension by moving your muscles.' For full article click here Meditation...
Welcome to Body College
Learn how to feel Body College is dedicated to body-based tools, back by science, to change anxiety, pain and trauma. The most important decisions your brain is making are 'Am I safe?' and 'How much energy is it going to cost me to respond'. We are constantly...