Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) are a breakthrough in stress management and trauma recovery. It is a body centred process that releases deep chronic tension created during traumatic or stressful events by deliberately invoking the bodies innate shaking/tremoring mechanism to rebalance after being in a defensive state.

It is easily learned, immediately effective and self empowering as the TRE process consists of a series of simple exercises to initiate the body’s innate tremor (shaking) mechanism (see nevrogenic tremors) to release stress, tension and trauma from the body itself without the need to talk about or remember specific events.

One of the main reasons people do not want to work with past trauma is having to talk about past events and experiences or relive  feelings and emotions that were overwhelming at the time. As neurogenic tremors are a body based process, the vast majority of participants will have no emotional experience whatsoever while tremoring. Those  few people who do are taught how to skillfully and safely self-regulate the tremoring so they are able to regain control of their body physiology and return to a calmer homeostasis gradually over time.

TRE invokes these innate tremors in a controlled and sustained manner to release deep chronic muscular tension from the core of the body where the protective pattern of muscle contraction is created, returning the body to a more calm, relaxed and balanced state.

While originally named and developed for their ability to process severe traumas, they also have a significant impact on reducing general stress, anxiety, tension and pain, (especially in the low back and pelvis,) making them ideal not only for survivors of extreme trauma, but anyone with chronic stress and tension seeking greater wellbeing in their lives.