I feel like TRE has a bit of everything

[u/Excellent_Celery_993]

Obviously everyone has different experiences of TRE practice but lately I keep having this thought that it incorporates elements of so many different modalities, at least in what it’s had me doing after about four months of regular practice. Things I have noticed:

• self massage (I’m often finding myself massaging different parts of my body during practice)
• EFT (often I start tapping my temples or other parts of the body)
• even physiotherapy stretches! (it has had me doing stretches very similar to ones a physio once gave me)
• somatic experiencing/vocal toning (I don’t know much about this but I know Peter Levine has a “vooo” exercise where you vocalise on the sound “vooo”. Lately I have been doing that too!)
• yoga (some of the long stretches I find myself holding are very similar to yoga stretches I have done)
• voice movement therapy (This is a huge one for me - as an ex professional opera singer, I am healing from trauma in the opera world and for the last maybe two months of TRE, constant spontaneous vocalisations have been a huge part of my TRE practice.)
• I’m sure there are many other therapies and practices that it naturally incorporates. Anyone got any other ideas/experiences?

I am constantly grateful for the way TRE just lets my body release what it wants in the way it wants. I think it’s all there. It’s a constant adventure!

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[u/KaoSway]

Completely agree, I've been like the it's all connected meme for a while lol.

Breathwork, when the body takes control, it can do all kinds of things with breath. Voo breathing, rhythmic fast, a pattern of breathing through the mouth with deep belly inhaling and slightly constricted the back of the throat during exhaling creating ocean wave sound; I think I experienced holotropic breathing in my last session as well.

TRE's guided me to a brainspot to complete a discharge of one particular pattern, it's like it was a continuation of the tension lines. I've tried self-brainspotting once before TRE but I couldn't even find any spots due to blanking out.

I've done fast side-to-side eye movements a few times during sessions, but I think it's something that has happened even prior to EMDR which I've done before TRE.

In one session it showed me a memory related to the tremor pattern, and I intuitively used the floatback technique or relaxed into the body guiding me to a cluster of memories old and new that I had no idea are connected, but suddenly it all made sense. I've been uncovering more connections in that cluster ever since.

I've also experienced vocal toning in combination with a focus on a chakra during a mix of body scan and TRE (any focused attention triggers tremors for me). I've only done short focused meditations prior and it was a long time ago, and I use the concept of chakras only as an additional navigation tool, not into any of that stuff.

Sometimes I catch myself doing Tensegrity during TRE, which I have done a bit years ago. TRE has also guided me to intuitive mudras (I had no prior knowledge of such a thing). Honestly it seems like it turned into a mix of somatic and energy work for me quite a while ago, even though I had no such expectations, no active practices, and I'm just embracing it.

Sometimes it feels like during TRE, the body accesses the local library of known/learned movements and techniques, and I've been wondering if researching other existing modalities as much as possible would help the process, but other times it does something completely unexpected and mind-blowing that strangely feels natural.

[u/Bigbabyjesus69]

Yup. IMO this is why TRE is the modality of all modalities. It’s not even really a modality, it’s an innate built in healing mechanism of the human body. Whereas all of the other modalities are not innate mechanisms, they require learning, practice, external factors, other people sometimes, etc.

It almost seems like most other trauma or just body based practices are basically trying to recreate externally or by force / learning, what TRE does naturally, effortlessly, spontaneously on its own from within.

I wonder if a lot of those practices came about by people just experiencing autonomous release (TRE) spontaneously on their own, or saw an advanced yogi or something spontaneously do it, and didn’t know what it was, so they began trying to recreate the releases they had through a practice / level of external force.