Dr. Jeff McCombs, DC, has been assisting patients, family, and friends for 30+ years in releasing and overcoming the tension, stress, and traumas of life.
Trauma Release Exercise (TRE) is a simple technique that allows the body to release years of accumulated and embedded stress, tension, and trauma from every day circumstances of life, including difficult situations, immediate or prolonged stressful situations, traumatic life experiences (i.e., natural disasters, social or domestic violence, PTSD, etc.), or emotional/psychological tension.
TRE is a set of six exercises that help to release deep tension from the body by evoking a self-controlled muscular shaking process in the body called neurogenic muscle tremors. The uniqueness of this technique is that this shaking originates deep in the core of the body of the psoas muscles. These gentle tremors reverberate outwards along the spine releasing tension from the sacrum to the cranium.
Once the technique is learned and mastered after several sessions, the warm-up exercises can be accelerated or replaced with your normal exercise activity like walking or yoga, and the technique then becomes a quick and effective method for consistent relaxation. Eventually, these tremors will evoke themselves naturally in a rest position to reduce any stress or tension that was accumulated over the course of the day.
Trauma Release Exercises were developed by Dr. David Berceli, an international expert in trauma intervention and conflict resolution, after years of observing and working with trauma victims in war-torn countries, natural disasters, and trauma inducing environments.
David Berceli’s books include Trauma Releasing Exercises: A Revolutionary New Method for Stress & Trauma Recovery and The Revolutionary Trauma Release Exercises: Transcend Your Toughest Times. A clinical social worker, licensed massage therapist and certified bioenergetics therapist, he currently travels around the world teaching the TRE™ self‐healing modality to empower those who suffer.
