When it comes to working with people’s pain and trauma, it turns out that feeling safe and exploring someone’s stories; their hopes, dreams and fears is key to healing. I trained as a chiropractor where we often only treat part of the body. One of the central ideas...
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Pain, Perception, Trauma and Safety
Why is it that two people can experience the same stressful event, but have very different outcomes? I recently joined Avni Trivedi on the Speak From the Body podcast to talk about deepening feeling, changing the narrative and addressing stress, pain and trauma. We...
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...
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...
Too fidgety to meditate? Try TRE – TRE® article in The Times
The new tension-release techniqueThe latest relaxation technique is perfect for people who can’t sit still 'If you have no patience for mindfulness and you’re too fidgety to meditate, a new approach to tackling stress has just reached the UK’s most...
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...











