TRE & Neurogenic Yoga

And, miraculously, just as intelligent response is woven into the fabric of the body, so too is the capacity to let go.

We don’t have to carry everything with us.

One way the body supports this is through neurogenic tremoring: the body’s natural capacity to shake as a way of unwinding protective contraction.

“We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.”

Mary Oliver (from Evidence)

One of the things I love most about TRE and Neurogenic Yoga (two practices that invite neurogenic tremoring to emerge) is that they provide a doorway back into what the body already knows. With this work, we are leaning into the body.

You may remember the experience of shaking or trembling – before an important conversation, giving a speech, after a shock, after childbirth. In fear. In excitement. In joy. In grief.

We see it in young children, whose bodies have not yet learned to suppress these movements.

And we see it in the animal world.

Because the truth is, the body has always known how to shake.

But along the way, often when we are very young, we learn that these movements aren’t welcome. We learn that shaking, especially in public, is associated with weakness, illness, loss of control, or disorder.

What if it were something else?

What if shaking wasn’t malfunction, but a lived expression of the body’s wisdom? What if shaking was a completion, a way back home, and part of our birthright to move through this world and to meet it fully. What if shaking was an embodied affirmation that yes, life contains difficulty, and yes, we are built to meet it and then to let it move through us.

This understanding forms the foundation of my work. It also reflects a wider philosophy: that we are not and never have been, and never can be, broken. We are alive.

Trust

My work is not about fixing. It is about making space for the body’s innate intelligence to be recognised, trusted and freely expressed so that we can move through life with greater freedom, ease, and grace.

What to expect

As your facilitator, I relate to neurogenic tremoring not as something that we do to the body, but as a process that emerges from the body when the conditions are right. Establishing a felt sense of safety is an essential part of creating those conditions.

Sessions move slowly and are guided by choice, curiosity and respect for your body’s pace. Sometimes that means our first session – or even our first few sessions – may be less about tremoring itself and more about developing your capacity to listen to your body, and to trust its language.

Together we might explore grounding, interoception (our capacity to be with internal sensation), listening, attuning to impulse, and discovering what helps your nervous system to feel supported.  

This isn’t preparation.

It is the work.

When we are ready to explore tremoring, there are two different pathways we might take:

Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) uses a simple sequence of seven highly adaptable exercises to create the conditions in which tremoring can emerge. Many people appreciate the clarity and structure of this approach, particularly when beginning.

Neurogenic Yoga weaves together an understanding of the body’s innate tremor response with the science and practice of yoga. Rather than following a fixed sequence, it draws on posture, breath, movement, meditation, and embodied awareness to gently invite neurogenic tremoring to arise. There is space to follow sensation, instinctive movement and the body’s own impulses, allowing each session to unfold in its own way.

Neither approach asks the body to perform. Both begin from the fundamental understanding that the body already knows what it is doing.

Throughout our work together, you remain in control. Tremors can be invited, paused or stopped at any time. There is no right way for the body to respond and no expectation that anything in particular should happen.

Our intention is never to make something happen.

It is to create the conditions in which the body can remember what it has always known.

Working together

My role is to meet you, and the life moving through you, with presence, curiosity and an unshakeable trust in the wisdom of your body. If trusting that wisdom feels difficult at first, my role is also to reflect back what I see until your own experience begins to make it feel real.

Over time, my hope is not simply that you develop a sense of ease and familiarity with tremoring. My hope is that you begin to recognise and trust that your body knows far more than either of us.

Some of the most exciting words I’ve heard recently from people I work with are simply:

“My body is amazing.”

“Yes,” I say. “It is.”