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TRE® Tension Releasing Exercises

TRE® Tension Releasing Exercises

Gently let go of physical stress and tension


Let go of stress stored in the body

Learn to relax your nervous system

Recover and adapt positively from injury

A Simple Method to Handle Stress

Traumatic events—such as motor vehicle accidents—along with daily stresses and strains take their toll on our bodies and lives. Given the right conditions, however, our bodies have a tremendous capacity to adapt and improve.

The simple and gentle method in TRE® can be easily learned as a way to let go of deeply stored tension.

Add a powerful, yet gentle, tool to your toolbox to care for yourself.

Two Options

1. Group Class: Learn this powerful method in a safe environment with a handful of others.

2. Private Session: Schedule a private session to learn TRE® .

BOOK YOUR GROUP OR PRIVATE SESSION

TRE® Tension Releasing Exercises


What is TRE®?

A series of exercises

Specific exercises that stretch and fatigue the core fight or flight muscles in the body.

Release

While lying comfortably on your back, you allow your body to release stored tension. The method promotes release in the myofascial system.

Relax

This process allows you to relax at a deep level relaxing your nervous system which helps decrease pain and stress.


TRE® Explained

TRE® is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma.

Some history:
35 years ago Dr. Peter A. Levine discovered that wild animals recover from trauma by tremoring spasms of their body core and flailing of limbs, to complete the fight-flight they were in before they froze.
Specific exercises that stretch and fatigue the core fight or flight muscles in the body.

From minutes 11 -14 in the video above Dr. Levine shows a polar bear chased by biologists (just to tag him) and then shot with a tranquilizer dart. As the bear wakes from freeze, its body trembles intensely, its legs thrash, and it makes biting motions over its shoulder—replicating and completing all the fight-flight actions it was making during the chase. Finally it undergoes deep gasping. Discharging tons of stress chemicals which otherwise get frozen in the body.

Dr. David Berceli developed TRE® based on this tremoring, to help large groups of traumatized people in refugee camps, earthquakes, poverty, terrorism, war zones, any mass trauma. TRE® is a set of seven purely muscular exercises which induce this same “polar bear” tremors on a bodily basis, by exhausting the leg and other muscles that normally inhibit the psoas from tremoring, as Dr Berceli describes in the adjacent video.

Daily stresses and strains take their toll on our bodies and lives. Given the right conditions, however, our bodies have a tremendous capacity to adapt and improve. The simple and gentle method in TRE® can be easily learned as a way to let go of deeply stored tension.

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