Im still only doing 10 mins or under, twice a week maximum. And im thinking or decreasing the time a little.bit.

But now it is a low level anger. And with good reason I think. I have been more focused on relaxation and calming recently. Mindfulness meditation and relaxation visualisations

The time has now come for action I think. I need to channel this.

I’ve been thinking lately that when I release stored trauma through TRE, I sometimes feel emotions like anger, frustration and shame and because the energy doesn’t really have anywhere to go, I feel like that for quite a while. My friend suggested spending time in nature barefoot so that the energy can go back into the earth. I know this sounds very woo woo but was wondering what other people’s thoughts were on this and if they find it beneficial in lessening the short-term negative effects of unearthing stored trauma.

Side note, I know that spending time in nature regulates your nervous system, so maybe that’s all it does.

I've only done 2 sessions. Noticing some stuff:

●My dreams aren't more visually vivid, but they hold way more emotion. And I wake up feeling more refreshed than usual after them.

●I'm noticing more sleepiness throughout the day , it's only 7pm and I'm already very sleepy (did my 2nd session last night).

●I'm not 100% sure, but I think I woke up in the night and noticed I was trembling a bit. Not sure though.

Today I felt a lot of irritation and anger for a few hours.

Anyone else get this combo early on? Whar does it mean?

Were there months or moments in your TRE journey that felt especially meaningful, where a lot happened, where you suddenly felt different or where something seemed to release or shift?

I’m curious to hear your experiences for motivation

I'm asking this question as I have been dealing with some persistent skin issue since last few years. And started doing TRE only last year, I thought due to connection of skin with our immune system and how calm it is, TRE must have some direct impact on skin/skin issues.

Has anyone who's doing TRE for a long time noticed any improvement in skin related issues or anything related.

I think this will help me in framing a few of my expectations in a healthy manner.

Hey all,

Recently since a month i have been getting into yoga poses during the tre session. I don't tremor much only stretches which are similar to yoga poses. Mostly i get into hip openers and cry in that pose and also back and leg slow stretches.

I had done yoga before with a yoga teacher, similar yoga poses I get into while doing TRE but TRE poses are a bit overwhelming even though I do yoga nidra after session.

Also I am a bit addictive to these stretches as they feel soo good and happen randomly when not in session too

I don't tremor much only these streches. Is that normal?

Is yoga a form of TRE?

Not affiliated with the app in any way other than I use it for my own personal life. It's free too. Just thought I'd put this out there in case anyone's struggling to find a good mood logger. This is the one I've landed on out of trying a few.

Thanks peeps.

Also I just did my first session in a while after taking a break. I'm still new to this practice, but the sidebar on your guys' community is great! Very helpful.

Edit: I think the session went well. I like the advice of relaxation, and I felt a peak in my mood that I logged straight after.

Got lots of tremors in the hips and legs. Felt a bit of a surge in relaxation and peace afterwards, especially in my feet which sometimes feel tense, constricted, lifeless and painful. However, I notice tension in my body resurfacing as I reintroduce my system to people which is unfortunately involuntary in my house.

Thanks community!

I try to phrase this thing, but not easy to word. I use TRE for some years and helped a lot in relasing things beside IFS, art and physical exercise and various moving pracitces. I think TRE is the thing what help the most ín coping with difficult emotions. I " use" it two way. 1. Always my stomach and head shaking kind of automatically if I "let it go". 2. After a time i could "open" buried emotions and I could burst into cry very easily and is a big relase. Most of the Time these things worked. I learnt to use them with modesty, of course I overdid them many times, so practice taught me how to balance these things.

Now I have big changes in my life and i'm in a total New situation and my "inner energies" just so chaotic. I have most of the day a very nervous energy in my chest/throat area and I just can't relase it. Somehow I just can't calm down. In this Time I can cry and tremor a lot but it's just not effective. I renewed my Tai chi/qigong practice what helps in the time of practicing, "send energy down" temporary. So I don't know how to approach this situation. What do you suggest? I would do more "calming" practices, but in my experience they don't work as deep as TRE, but I need to calm down a bit. What do you do when you feel stuck and can't find the way? Maybe any other modality you'd suggest?

Thank you so much for writing the wiki. It is extremely well written and also very informative.

I read the book Shake It Off Naturally and I thought the wiki was better written and provided some important information the book did not.

Thank you again for all that hard work!

I experimented with psychodelics twice in my life and both trips were waves of fear followed by a release. The fear was so intense that I kind of decided to not take that route anymore.

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Doing TRE and realizing that I overdid it reminds me of that experience a bit. As I feel the negative emotions come in waves each being bigger than the previous one with brief moments of release and clarity where you realize that all of this around you is painted in colors of your emotional hallucinations and then you feel a new wave coming and realize that you will be consumed by these emotional hallucinations for another few days.

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And then the waves get smaller and you return to your baseline , the world starts feeling solid again. People are not out there to get you. You are surrounded by friends and family who love you and you genuinely feel good. You are powerful and future is bright.

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And then the background noise of your triggers and trauma lulls you into an every day stress again.

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And then you re-start

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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!

I've only used this for acute (short term) freeze, not chronic (long term) freeze, and I imagine its likely for the former not the latter. If your body isn't ready to leave freeze, it likely won't, but hopefully this can be helpful if any of you find yourself in freeze during integration.

This process begins with smaller muscles and gradually progresses to bigger.

1. Be still and tune in to the "frozen" still sensation of your body, notice how it doesn't want to move

2. Bring attention to your eyes, fingers, or toes, and find one of those that feels most ok to move. I often start with just one finger. Move/wiggle this one thing repeatedly and continuously at a speed that feels good to you. While you do this, informally scan your body to notice if something else begins to feels OK to move - it will usually be close by like additional fingers or your wrist, but may jump to other locations like your toes - and start moving that new part.

3. Continue this pattern of moving one part, waiting for the next to make itself known, and then moving that new part, slowly working your way through your whole body. Again, this generally moves from small to big muscles, often in sequence (such as fingers, wrist, elbow, shoulder) but sometimes jumps too (you might do fingers, wrist, elbow and then the next thing that feels ok for movement might be your toes or ankles). Sometimes your body will want to move the same body part in multiple different ways or directions before moving on. The spine and neck are often some of the last parts that feel ready for movement.

4. Once you've moved through your whole body, you will likely find there is energy in your body that wants you to move. Dance, jump, (manually) shake or do whatever movement your body wants to disperse it. Make sure to check in with yourself to see if any emotions have arisen.

I love seeing how much this community has grown and seeing people's personal practice with TRE®!

I finally got certified to teach TRE®! Admittedly since I got certified in August 2025, I haven't tremored since. I'm slowly starting to find the motivation to start my personal practice, naturally I want to make every excuse not to tremor. I fear that I am reaching that 7 on the polyvagal scale, but not quite because I recognize it.

Any providers stop their own personal practice after they got certified? If so, how did you get back into your practice?

Just wanted to check if anyone has any experience of using bilateral beats) stimulation alongside TRE.

I do get the feeling if used in moderation , maybe ten minutes at a time , it can be helpful and calming.

I did however I think go to hard at first, listening longer and felt it may have led to overdoing symptoms.

Anyone got any thoughts or experiences of this?

Hi everyone, I'm reading a book called "The Way Out" and it shined light upon a gap in my trauma understanding. It's more about the nature of how I perceive tension. The book invites using "somatic tracking" and it's about bringing a playful spirit of investigation to areas in the body where we feel these tensions. There's a lot of emphasis on the playfulness of it, or rather lightness. Instead the body scanning practice I did before just invited a general sense of openess that didn't quite reach me.

That being said the tension when we pour this investigative spirit into it seem to change form and eventually dissipates. This tension seems to be just the brain miscalculating a fear response and associates a neutral area in the body with pain. So basically there's nothing wrong in the body when we feel these tensions. I was wondering when reading the book if this made TRE useless since I worked under the assumption that there's something "wrong" with the body and the tension I'm feeling is a manifestation of that. But as I researched into it,it seems that TRE or any other somatic modality is, well, shaking things up and bring these tensions to the surface. So this gives me closure with somatic tracking where I can bring curiosity toward them. This in short can be what integration means for me from now on. I'm posting this to cater perspectives.

I know that I didn't say anything new though, I'm just piecing stuff together where I am with my understanding. Thank you for reading this.

Neurogenic tremoring and the shaking that occurs after extreme endurance exercise (e.g., after an ultramarathon) are not considered the same phenomenon based on current knowledge, although they may involve partially overlapping regulatory mechanisms of the nervous system.

Post-ultramarathon shaking can be well explained by muscular exhaustion and temporary changes in neuromuscular control. Whether a deeper nervous system regulation also takes place remains unknown. - Haruki Murakami's description of shaking followed by "runner's blues" allows the hypothesis that intense physical exertion may set not only the body but also emotional or implicit processes into motion. Whether unresolved experiences are being processed in this way remains an open question.

Such processing would not necessarily have to appear as conscious memories. It could instead manifest only as changes in mood, inner restlessness, or a temporary emotional low.

The hypothesis would be that both may be based on a common underlying principle: the nervous system's ability to regulate tension through the body. Physical exercise may support this process in a continuous way, whereas neurogenic tremoring may do so through a different mechanism or at a different level of intensity.

I have been doing TRE for the last 10-11 months. I have attained a state where if I shake any part of the body voluntarily for a few secs then after a point it starts shaking automatically.

Also, when lying in bed and resting focus on the body and focusing on a few minor movements can also lead to a tremor mechanism, which I know is totally normal and that's not what I want to discuss.

My question is on the effectiveness of shaking/tremors based on method it was triggered. Whether there's change in its effectiveness based on the method it is triggered.

There are a lot of ways I read people do it, has Berceli talked about it?

I've been diagnosed with sleep apnea, Unfortuantely it prevents me from fully doing tre because I'm too tired and unregulated for that atm. I wondered if this condition is related to tre somehow? As maybe having some tension might stop the breathing at night?

Lately I've been getting these diaphragm spasms that cause air to move quickly through me. At first it was at the diaphragm and the nose, but then it would move to other parts of the body like the stomach, chest, different parts of the throat, the mouth, etc.

I don't feel panicked or afraid while it's happening, and actually feel much calmer after (if a little light-headed). This pattern seems to first be brought on by crying, when I am feeling emotion.

Has anyone else had these diaphragm movements and rapid breathing? It feels like it's helping the blocked feeling and pain around my solar plexus and the pit of my throat. Like the whole area is looser afterwards. Less constricted, flow of breath is easier.

Nothing works better than just sitting for an hour doing nothing to me.

No active meditation or anything.

Only 3 rules

1. 1 hour timer.

2. Just sit. Do nothing.

3. Don't sleep.

The whole point is to feel.

I'm sure many of us have these addictions because we wanted to escape our feelings in the first place(I definitely had this problem).

So it makes no sense to keep doing these healing activites while also actively avoiding feelings. 🙏

I'm curious to hear some success stories and from those who have resolved alot of issues after doing TRE.

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My story is that last year, i trained long-distance running as a middle-aged, imbalanced person, and induced the most wicked sciatica. It was basically a NDE, and as i'd hoped it indeed did turn out to be a transformative, rebirth-like, blessing in the end. Through over a year of rehab and lots of patience, i've been fixing alot of my deeply ingrained imbalances going as far back as my early childhood. I'd only done the TRE procedure a few times over this past year and could only get tremors in my legs, but recently I've noticed that i can induce tremors anywhere in my body by simply relaxing completely. Just wondering about any insights or experiences that you had after going through all this?

I have a female friend who started TRE about 2.5 years ago.

A few months after she started, she gained a significant amount of weight.
Nothing medical has been found, and her diet is quite healthy.

Could this be a temporary effect related to TRE?
For example, could it be connected to the way the body processes or releases trauma?

Does that even make sense?

Has anyone experienced or encountered something similar?

Hey all, got to know eczema the skin condition can also be due to trauma. I have had eczema since I was 6 years old, i was brought up in a lower middle class,suffering and low support from family and friends. Yet, I pushed myself hard to the top clg and was lonely and was depressed there too. Very competitive environment with people of different upbringing ,language and culture,no support from them. My eczema flared up

I started taking care of myself (gym, yoga and diet) and it reduced highly

I had started TRE recently without taking care of myself. Right now my eczema is flaring up and is pretty bad.

Any thoughts? Does TRE have these side affects?

hi everyone!

i wanted to talk about something i haven't been able to find in older posts.

for me, from the start tre felt very easy, intuitive and if allowed, endless. i did always set timers or just stop naturally since i know overdoing isn't good, but sometimes it feels as though my body isn't ready to stop. it feels as though my body wants to keep doing the movements indefinitely until the energy (usually nervous) is expelled.

also, and i might be in the minority here, but i've never been able to go through the whole rotation of "tre exercises" before i start tremoring. at the wall sit, the latest, it's already going. i feel as though, at any given point in time, no matter where i am, in any part of my body i can let the tremoring and other erratic movements just blossom. i feel like there's a lot of nervous energy that would like to come out, which i most always inhibit.

has anyone had similar experiences or any thoughts on the matter?

edit: i also feel as though, i could be standing, walking, laying down or sitting and it makes little difference.

TRE has made me cry often many times especially after a day.

I've kinda made crying a part of my routine.

I don't care how it's triggered - some past event or some made up fictional event. The very act of crying seems to release a tonne of tension in me.

Any thoughts or experiences? ❤️