David Berceli

Remove the effects of stress from the body
Reduce tension and lower anxiety
Bring a lasting sense of peace and calm
Relieve chronic neck and shoulder pain,
Address lower back pain and gastrointestinal problems,
Learn a form of self-care to use for the rest of your life

Workshop Information

One Day  $115   Two Days  $225

These prices apply to tickets purchased before September 10, 2010

After September 10, 2010

One Day $135              Two Days  $265

Biography

David Berceli, PhD, is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that release the deep chronic tension created in the body during a traumatic experience.
 
Please bring yoga mat/pillow and dress for comfort.
 
This class can be used towards practitioner requirements, but you must register separately to qualify as a practitioner trainee.

For more information contact:
Flanagan MacKenzie

805.784.0745
trewrkshp.slo09@gmail.com

Class information

June 12 & 13, 2010
St. Louis, MO.

All That Dance Studio 123 Crestwood Plaza St. Louis, Missouri 63126

One Day  $115  Two Days  $210

These prices apply to tickets purchased before May 1, 2010.  You may attend one or both days.

Prices after May 1, 2010  One day $130  Two Days $240

Who is David Berceli?

David Berceli, PhD, is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that release the deep chronic tension created in the body during a traumatic experience.

Please bring yoga mat/pillow and dress for comfort.

This class can be used towards practitioner requirements, but you must register separately to qualify as a practitioner trainee.

For more information contact:
Flanagan MacKenzie
trewrkshp.slo09@gmail.com
805.784.0745

David Berceli

The Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) is a revolutionary new technique in stress reduction, tension releasing and the healing of trauma.

TRE consists of a set of six simple physical exercises. These exercises, which will be learned in this workshop, are designed to release the deep chronic muscular tension that is held deep within the structure of the body.

The workshop will inform you of the relationship between this deep chronic muscular tension and the functioning of all systems – neurological, biological, anatomical and emotional. You will understand how living with chronic stress and/or experiencing the overwhelming effects of trauma can impact your daily functioning.

The TRE’s are intended to be used as a self-help method that are easily learned, have immediate effects and can be integrated into a simple daily routine to help restore a sense of inner peace and relaxation.

Workshop Information

Sunday, March 21, 2010
Dr. Alexander Lowen Residence
New Canaan, Connecticut

Workshop  9:00 am – 4:30 pm
includes lunch

$149.00

To REGISTER
Contact:  http://LowenFoundation.org
E-mail:   connect@LowenFoundation.org          Tel:    (203)966-3474

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Joan Wright
E-mail:   joan@joanwright.ca
Tel:  (506) 461-0287

Click here to download the registration form.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will have a working understanding of the diagnostic criteria related to trauma.
• Participants will understand the meaning of trauma.
• Participants will be able to summarize basic knowledge of trauma’s affect on neurological, biological, anatomical and emotional functioning.
• Participants will be able to explain the importance of neurogenic tremors and their role in the restoration of homeostasis to the body following trauma.
• Participants will be able to complete the Trauma Release Exercises (TREs).
• Participants will understand how living/working in chronic stress conditions affects neurological, biological, anatomical and emotional functioning

Who is David Berceli?

Dr. David Berceli is an international expert in trauma intervention. For the past twenty-two years he has lived in nine countries providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations.

He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that help release the deep chronic tension created in the body during a traumatic experience. He has recognized that globally trauma possesses unique possibilities of transformation in the individual if they pursue their recovery process to its ultimate end.

Dr. Berceli’s education includes a Doctor of Social Work (PhD), Masters in Social Work (MSW), Master of Arts in Theology (MA), and a Master of Arts in Arabic and Islamic Studies (MA), Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), Certified Bioenergetics Therapist (CBT), and Certified Field Traumatologist (CFT)

David Berceli

The Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) is a revolutionary new technique in stress reduction, tension releasing and the healing of trauma.

TRE consists of a set of six simple physical exercises. These exercises, which will be learned in this workshop, are designed to release the deep chronic muscular tension that is held deep within the structure of the body.

The workshop will inform you of the relationship between this deep chronic muscular tension and the functioning of all systems-neurological, biological, anatomical and emotional. You will understand how living with chronic stress and/or experiencing the overwhelming effects of trauma can impact your daily functioning.

The TRE’s are intended to be used as a self-help method that are easily learned, have immediate effects and can be integrated into a simple daily routine to help restore a sense of inner peace and relaxation.

Workshop information

March 26, 27, 28, 2010
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Rio Grande Meeting Room
455 Rio Grande Place
Aspen, Colorado

Workshop Day 1 $129.00; Three-Day Level 1 Certification Training $299.00
Level 1 Certification Application Fee $25.00

To REGISTER CONTACT STEPHANIE
at (970)963-3155

For MORE INFORMATION CONTACT JACY
at (970)948-5154
trepromotions@gmail.com

Biography

Dr. David Berceli is an international expert in trauma intervention. For the past twenty-two years he has lived in nine countries providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations.

He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that help release the deep chronic tension created in the body during a traumatic experience. He has recognized that globally trauma possesses unique possibilities of transformation in the individual if they pursue their recovery process to its ultimate end.

Dr. Berceli’s education includes a Doctor of Social Work (PhD), Masters in Social Work (MSW), Master of Arts in Theology (MA), and a Master of Arts in Arabic and Islamic Studies (MA), Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), Certified Bioenergetics Therapist (CBT), and Certified Field Traumatologist (CFT)

My understanding of those who are “traumatized” prior to taking the course included victims of serious car accident injuries, stab wounds, sexual abuse, persons having lost family members, etc. Never having experienced “trauma” by my definition,

I did not anticipate to gain much personally from this class. Through the experience I have come to realize that trauma can manifest in the form of *past physical injuries* such as breaks, torn ligaments, sprains, and joint dislocations.

The first day of class was an all-day-Saturday session. After some introductions, Dr. Berceli led us through our initial attempt at the exercises while explaining the reason our bodies feel the way they do.

I was surprised at the concept of allowing (even encouraging) our bodies to tremor as a method to release stored trauma. As I lay on the floor for the final exercise, I did begin to tremor. However, I was not convinced that the tremors indicated anything more than muscle fatigue, especially since the shaking was isolated to the exact muscle group we had just stretched and flexed.

The trembling was in my thighs and pelvis, but never above my waist. I noticed a few of my classmates laughing uncontrollably, and a few others trying to hide that they were crying. Dr. Berceli encouraged both laughing and crying as he checked on each of the individuals. I did not feel any emotional change throughout the exercises. This only confirmed to me that because I had never experienced “trauma” by my definition, TRE would not have much impact on me.

As we returned to our seats, I noticed I felt incredibly relaxed… almost vegetated. We watched videos of Dr. Berceli teaching TRE in several countries including China, Brazil and Nigeria. Some of the participants in the videos were squirming and trembling from head to foot. I was open to the idea that these individuals lived in hard places where trauma, catastrophes, and stress were abundant, thus explaining their dramatic results. I figured I would be able to teach these techniques to my clients who had “real trauma” in their lives like those in the videos assuming there was some legitimacy to what TRE claimed to do. Four more attempts over the next week (both in class and at home) led to four more similar experiences. The tremors stayed below my waist and I felt relaxed at the end of the exercises.

The fifth time I did the exercises  I rolled my legs to the left side a bit to adjust my belt which was twisted under me. To my surprise (what felt like) a slight pulse of electricity buzzed up my back. I started to laugh some. I leaned a little more to my left and the pulses increased. I played with the position of my legs to try and increase the flow. As I leaned left, they went up. As I leaned right, they stopped.

Before long my left shoulder, arm, and hand were swirling and tremoring completely involuntarily. Dr. Berceli asked me to stay on the floor to allow others to observe my body’s movements. The class gathered round to see the self-acclaimed “guy with no real trauma” start to release some stored up pain from past injuries. Dr. Berceli told the class that although the movement was restricted to my left shoulder at that moment, it would move to my right side soon enough. On cue, I began to feel the tremors move into my neck, sternum, ribcage, and upper spine.

Suddenly, and with tremendous force, my right shoulder pulled upward, lifting my right side off the ground entirely! Then, any muscle above my waist would contract tightly, hold for 3-5 seconds and then relax.

The contracting was repetitively followed by a wiggle up my spine, then another strong contraction and lifting of my right shoulder. This sequence continued for approximately 30 minutes (though it felt like 5 minutes). Dr. Berceli asked what I had done to my right shoulder. I quickly responded with “nothing of signific… Wait a second!” Though the memory never entered my mind up to this point, I had severely dislocated my right shoulder playing high school football as a sophomore. I ran bleachers the rest of the season in a sling.

This was the point in my experience with TRE where I was positively convinced that there was legitimacy to the tremoring and what Dr. Berceli taught us about our bodies “knowing how to release trauma if we will just let them do their thing.”

I have been restricted in my ability to bring my right arm over my head comfortably since dislocating it 16 years ago. Despite 6 months of physical rehabilitation, some scar tissue and nagging pain remains. It is painful to lift weights, throw a baseball (unless sidearm), even shoot a basketball. I have become to the injury and the limited motion over the years. I made a list of past injuries to see if there were more I had forgotten about. The list includes: a broken right ankle (wrestling coach in high school used me as his practice dummy), torn hip flexor in right hip, bone inflammation under right knee, aforementioned dislocated right shoulder, fractured ring finger on right hand (now has a screw holding it together), green-bow fracture in right hand, two elbows above right eye at basketball (first time chipped a small piece of bone off the ridge of my eye socket with a large gash, second time just a gash), fake teeth on right side of my mouth (also an elbow at basketball.. maybe I should be wearing a helmet!), broken left arm at age 4, car accident last year resulting in lower back pain. I have worked in construction/demolition since high school. With the exception of only one of the injuries on the list, they all occurred on the right side of my body. I speculate that rolling on to my left side while doing the exercises unblocked the flow of the tremors, allowing them to travel into my upper body. Great accidental discovery! Regardless, I’ve come to realize I haven’t taken care of my body over the years.

So how did I feel after the TRE that night? … At first, it felt as though I had been in the jacuzzi or on the massage table all day! I was totally relaxed. I felt like my limbs were expanding into space. However, as I drove home, I felt pure energy pouring into me. It was not a feeling of jittery or jumpy energy, but rather (maybe sounds bizarre..) blood flow, restoration, and a quickened mind.

I was in a great mood. Class had released at about 8:45pm…by the time I got home at 9:15pm, I was completely charged. I went and ran with some guys playing late night basketball across the street. The energy, blood flow, and quickening continued until we finished around 11:00pm. I wasn’t ready for sleep, so I went to Walmart for some errands! For the next 3 days I felt like I was 18 again, which vastly improved my mood and desire to be active.

I continue to practice TRE regularly. As a future licensed therapist of psychology, I will teach my clients the exercises in hopes of helping them release stored trauma, stress, or pain as our minds and bodies are inseparably connected. Great thanks to Dr. Berceli for his efforts!

Travis Webb

LEVEL ONE CERTIFICATION
The first level prepares the practitioner to lead individuals safely through the exercises.  Those completing this level can refer to themselves as
Certified TRE Practitioners.

It is necessary that the applicant has performed TRE several times on their own prior to enrolling in the certification training to determine if this method is appropriate for you.

If you are interested in being certified to Level I, you can register at the following site. Registration

If you are interested in speaking to someone about the training please contact: Cheryl Sanders

Click here for additional information about Level I training.

Q: How often should I do these exercises? A: Since these exercises are natural to the body, they can be practiced every day without harm. Some people find them calming and therefore do them in the evening as a way of relaxing. Others find them energizing and do them in the morning or afternoons when they would like a bit more energy. It is often useful to incorporate these exercises into your regular exercise routine. Simply add another 15 minutes onto the end of your exercise routine so that you close with the shaking. This will relieve any stress created in the muscles as a result of your work out. However, the most important point to remember is to follow your body. When you become sensitive to your body, it will inform you of when you need to relieve stress.
If you are just beginning the exercises and do not have any adverse physical, psychological or emotional reactions to them, you can practice them every other day for a month. It helps to orient your body to the shaking and allow you to gradually decrease the tension in your body. After that, you can reduce the number of times you do them to every three days or approximately twice a week. If you do them less than that your body will once again begin to accumulate stress and tighten up.

Q; Do these exercises cause emotions to surface? A: These exercises only relax the muscle tension in the body. For some people, this deep relaxation allows deep emotions to surface. For other, they can just have a physical reaction of shaking without any emotional discharge. Both are perfect. It is simply the body releasing what it needs to release at this time. If however, your body is ready to release emotions you should be very respectful of this process. If you begin to feel vulnerable, sensitive, frightened, etc., then you should responsibly do these exercises in the presence of someone who can support you through this process. That may be a professional therapist, friend, spouse or support group.

Q: Does the shaking ever stop? A: As long as you are inhabiting your body you should be able to shake. Remember that it is a natural mechanism designed to relieve deep chronic tension in the body. It should always be available to you in the event that you need it. Once the deep tensions of the body are released and life’s traumas and tensions have subsided your body will simply produce a very fine tremor that feels a bit like a mild and pleasant purring-like vibration running throughout your entire body.

Q: What does strong or gentle shaking mean? A: If the shaking is obviously very strong it is an indicator that the large muscles in the body are breaking up ‘iceberg-like’ tension in the muscles. These tension blockages create strong shaking until they break up and the energy can flow more easily. You often can experience very strong shaking give way to milder shaking and then return to strong shaking again. This is simply the body’s way of systematically relieving the patterns of stress deeply embedded in the muscles. Just allow the body to shake the way it needs to. It fully understands what it must do next to soften and relax the patterns of tension that have been created over the years.

Q: How should I be shaking? A: Since each person has a unique set of experiences in life, we have all developed our own unique set of tension patterns. For this reason, there is no ‘one’ correct way of shaking. There are as many ways as there are bodies. You can often observe similar patterns of shaking because the muscle structure of the human body is identical. It is simply a matter of following the shaking as it works its way through the body. The best advice regarding this questions is: NEVER JUDGE YOUR BODY – JUST OBSERVE IT! I have many clients who say: “I wish I was shaking in a different way.” Or “I wish my back would shake.” It is not a matter of wishing your body to be shaking in any manner other than the way it is. It is the body simply shaking as it needs to. It knows exactly how and where it must shake next to relax itself. All the dialogue in the mind is simply ego interference and judgment. Try to avoid this as much as possible.

Q: If I get more shaking in the standing position should I stay there? A: Different people get shaking in different ways. This depends a lot on the tension patterns in the body and their ability to release. If you get shaking standing and that feels more comfortable for you then continue to stand and shake. Just remember that you may get the shaking in a different position each time you do the exercises. Eventually you should be able to get the shaking in a variety of positions. Each one has its own value for the body.

TRE are a revolutionary new technique in trauma healing and stress reduction. These exercises consist of a series of six simple exercises designed to evoke body tremors. Most of us are familiar with body tremors. It is not uncommon in all cultures to hear phrases such as: I was so frightened my jaw was quivering. I was shaking so strong that I couldn’t calm myself down. When I was giving that speech my legs were really shaking. My hands were shaking so bad I couldn’t hold anything. I was so angry I shook all over. This familiar, albeit disconcerting, experience of shaking is known as neurogenic tremors. It is well-known and documented that neurogenic tremors are a common result of a stress, anxiety and trauma.

Psoas Muscles

TRE evokes these natural tremors in a controlled and sustained manner. When evoked in this way, these tremors begin to release deep chronic muscular tension held within the body. They come from the center of gravity of the body (S3) which is protected by the psoas muscles. When these neurogenic tremors are evoked at this powerful center of the body where the protective pattern of contraction is created, the shaking reverberates throughout the entire body traveling along the spine releasing deep chronic tension from the sacrum to the cranium.

By focusing on the body, TRE provides the opportunity for all people to reduce their stress and anxiety as a result of daily as well as exceptional life experiences. For many people it can be used as a self-help method. For some, it should be used in conjunction with their therapeutic process because it can reach deep into the emotions and help resolve many of the deeper psycho-emotional sensations that often surface in the individual’s recovery process.

Since these exercises do not require therapeutic guidance for most people, they can be used as a self-help method that are easily learned, have immediate effects and can be integrated into a simple daily routine to help restore a sense of inner peace and relaxation.