Episode #56. Shaking Off Tension: How TRE Helps You Release Stress and Trauma with Sylvia Tillmann
Feeling stressed, tense, or stuck in a cycle of pain?
What if your body already knew how to heal, and all you had to do was let it?
In this episode, I speak with @learntre about the power of Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®): a simple, natural, and surprisingly powerful way to shake off what’s weighing you down - both physically and emotionally.
We cover:
– What TRE actually is (and why it looks a bit odd at first!)
– How it helped Sylvia recover from back pain
– Why you don’t need to dig into past trauma to benefit
– The science behind shaking as a stress release
– What a typical TRE session looks like
Tune in if you’re curious about reconnecting with your body and giving your nervous system the reset it’s crying out for.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to TRE: Understanding the Basics
03:02 Sylvia's Journey: From Practice to Teaching TRE
06:00 The Impact of Trauma: Big T vs. Little t
09:01 Recognizing Symptoms: How Stress Manifests in the Body
12:06 The Role of TRE in Healing and Self-Regulation
15:01 The Process of a TRE Session: What to Expect
17:58 Empowerment Through TRE: Taking Ownership of Health
25:15 Empowering Health Through Education
30:09 The Science of Tremoring and Stress Release
34:31 Building Confidence in Tremoring Practice
40:51 Integrating Tremoring into Daily Life
46:39 The Mind-Body Connection in Healing
About this week’s guests:
Sylvia Tillmann
Sylvia is a holistic practitioner who offers a range of modalities, but TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises) is her favourite as she can empower her clients to heal and help themselves.
She has a business background and knows very well what stress is; although she used to dismiss it as “but I am having fun”, its impacts were there: teeth-grinding and lower back pain.
Fast forward 25 years and Sylvia truly believes that stress is the root of almost all evil, but she also knows how to support our bodies to release stress, tension and the symptoms of trauma.
She has a foundation training in counselling (COSCA), but prefers working with the body, as “The Body Keeps the Score” and the body is indeed so much cleverer than we give it credit for.
Sylvia's teaching is informative, gentle and empathic, empowering her clients to take their health into their own hands, well body, while saving time and money.
Connect here:
Website - https://www.tremendoustre.co.uk/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/learntre/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvia-tillmann/
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More about your host, Wendy
Wendy (50) founded Reclaim Movement after a running injury at 40 turned into 4 years of chronic pain. In her search for answers and to reclaim her own movement again she discovered natural movement. The philosophy of training real life practical movements to be able to keep using them as we age, coupled with the benefit of using strengthening and mobilising whole-body movement patterns that are underused in today’s modern world made her realise she had found a way to move for life.
Wendy’s aim is to help people embrace a movement-rich life, at any age, to improve mobility, strength and confidence to keep moving well and doing the things they love for as long as they want.
MovNat Level 1 certified & Functional Range Conditioning certified, she coaches online group classes live & by replay in the Reclaim Movement membership as well as online and in-person private coaching in Oxford.
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