Maitri Somatics

Join me Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

❓Why would I want to learn TRE® ?

“Because you have a body!”

Your body’s natural shaking mechanism is a body response we share with all mammals. In fact, when you were coming “into being” in the womb, kicking your momma in the belly, you were trembling, shaking, and stretching into being via your body’s natural shaking mechanism!

Your body wants to shake, and already does, even if you don’t notice it! The problem is that culturally we learn early not to allow this shaking to happen.

To zip it up. Keep it together. Be still.

And we have a litany of diagnoses and medications to help you see it as an illness or disorder that needs to be stopped. Sometimes this is true, like the challenge of living with Parkinson’s…

…and most of the time they are just your body’s way of discharging stress and tension.

It is an attempt your body makes to bring your organism back towards homeostasis. On the brighter side, exercise physiologists have known for a long time that vibration enhances athletic performance, recovery, muscle function and more! (Remember those vibration belts in the 60's? or the vibration plates in gyms today!)

Maybe you are working out hard or training for an event and could use a quick and simple new recovery tool. Maybe you have body tension that is uncomfortable. Maybe anxiety and pain will bring you to TRE®. Maybe your mind is just too busy to settle and you are ready to calm your mind through your body. Since you have a body, TRE® is for you!

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here: https://sanghastudio.union.site/performances/jdbbm6wz

🗓Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

Join me @ Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

❓Why would I want to learn TRE® (Part 2)?

👼🏼In the previous post I wrote about how you came into being in the womb through tremors, shakes, and stretches. It seems that these “twitches” that happen in utero help the nerves growing from your brainstem and spinal cord find their connections in your periphery muscles, think legs and arms for example. These twitches create chemical and electrical impulses that help a body connect to their proprioceptors, certain nerves found in joints, muscles, and skin.

☯Your proprioceptors are those nerves that help you know where your body is in space; in relation to your environment; and in relation to your other body parts.

🚨Injuries, pain, surgery sites, stress, and trauma all impact our body schema; interrupt our proprioception awareness; disrupt our body schema.

🗺When our body schema gets wonky we have a hard time feeling our bodies and making sense of how we are organized. Our inner “body maps” get distorted and that creates a lack of stability and impacts our sense of safety.

“Once [the baby has made these] neural connections [has grown nerves into their peripheral muscles] their body continues to twitch [away] to help calibrate their body schema…” (Khazipof et al 2004 Peterson, Waidenstrom, Fahraens, & Schauenburg 2003)!

If you could use a recalibration of your body schema I invite you to join us!

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here:
https://www.union.fit/.../sangha-studio-tre-yoga...

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

Join me @ Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

❓Why would I want to learn TRE® Part 3?

🧠Your body is intelligent. Consider all it does without your assistance: it digests; repairs tissues; pumps blood; releases enzymes; and many, many more intricate and amazing systems that keep you alive and functioning without the need for your mind to manage it…at all!

Thank you, body, for saving me so much mental energy!

📝We often find ourselves trying to manage all the details. We want to control things! The fact is, your body has its own locus of control. TRE® 's tremoring, shaking, and stretching are your body's natural responses that reduce physical contraction patterns that arise from stressful experiences. This tremor mechanism restores movement to soft tissues and muscles that surround your organs, along your spine, and the rest of your body.

TRE® helps your central nervous system detect parts of your body you haven’t spent much time “feeling” or “sensing.”

🧬TRE® is a reorganizational impulse that helps your body keep evolving! TRE® is an experience of being moved by your body’s own innate intelligence.

💡In TRE® we use our brain’s capacity for discernment and awareness to create psychological safety to allow your body to move itself towards health at the pace that is just right for you. One of the reasons this practice is so powerful is that,

“Embodied interventions work best when they can activate the body’s own intrinsic neuromotor growth processes.” (The Psychophysiology of Self Awareness, Alan Fogel).

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here:
https://www.union.fit/.../sangha-studio-tre-yoga...

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

Join me Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

🤔Have you been feeling curious about this TRE® thing? Not sure about doing something so “weird” with others? I hear you! I remember the first time I learned TRE®, it was in a group of about 40(!) other people and I wasn’t so sure. In fact, I set myself up right next to the door so I could exit quickly if needed!

😍To my pleasant surprise, I was able to stay, and tapped into a powerful healing practice that has changed the landscape of my being in profound ways. My chronic pain cycles began to subside. My anxiety condition improved so much that I was able to come off of a handful of medications (w/my Dr.’s assistance, of course), and my daily panic attacks disappeared. And it's not just me! Thousands of people all over the world have benefited in a wide variety of ways from TRE®.

📣“What a COOL workshop! As someone who is not very in tune with their body I was pretty terrified when I got there. The exercises were amazing to experience. Being aware and noticing what is going on in your body is a GIFT and this workshop gave me that. Thank you!”
~Jordan L., TRE® & Yoga workshop participant

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here:
https://www.union.fit/.../sangha-studio-tre-yoga...

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

THANK YOU PERU!! So much gratitude to the amazing people of this place that made it possible to hike the Inca trail to Maccu Picchu, tent several nights, navigate a hail storm, and my own limitations. So much gratitude to the Sacred Valley that nourished and held me in deep practice. So much appreciation and deep thankfulness to my guru Kavitha Chinnaiyan Kavitha Chinnaiyan for the profound healing she made possible for me here. To the shamans and space holders I'm forever indebted to your immense skill and grace. And thank you to my family for their continued support of my "weird" journey❤️😍😭❤️

Join me Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, May 16th, 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:
⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50
✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60
💚Choose Your Own Donation

🙏Relating in TRE®? Relate to what? Is this necessary? Important?

❤️I see this practice of relating on two levels: how are we relating to our body and its process with TRE® & Yoga? And how am I relating to others, both within and outside of the group?

🤔At the first level, we are beginning to cultivate increased awareness of our internal and more subtle body experiences. So how do we care for ourselves in this process? I invite you to continually return to the questions,

🥰“What is right for me at this moment?” “What discerning choices can I make moment to moment for my own healing, recovery, and well being?”

🔶Within the container of the group is the space and encouragement to go at your own pace. So you can develop self trust and take the right actions for you.

😀At the second level, connectedness is a biological imperative. Neuroscience teaches us that we are wired to be in relationships, in community. Healing happens in community. And humans, that’s us, learn our most robust regulation skills from other regulated nervous systems! We’ll explore our own real time experience in the online group, as well as identify ways to find connections with other regulated humans in your sphere to enhance your capacity to feel at ease and comforted in the presence of others.

👉I invite you to join me for a TRE® & Yoga Workshop this summer to Release, Regulate, Relate, and Renew your Resilience. In the container of a small group of not more than 15 participants, you will learn several strategies and practices for building somatic hygiene, the care and keeping of your body.

Learn more and sign up...

👉https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

❓As alway, if you have any questions, reach out!

warmly,
joann

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This month, we’re highlighting a practitioner whose work reflects what we teach inside TIWL, Joann Engelberth!

Through Maitri Somatics, Joann helps people grow from stress and injury by developing an empowered relationship with their body, centering safety, nervous system awareness, and sustainable change.

She works with people who are ready to move beyond quick fixes and toward long-term healing, especially those navigating chronic pain.

Help us support Joann:

Join me Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, May 16th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:
⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50
✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60
💚Choose Your Own Donation

“Tension Release Exercise.”

🤕I don’t know about you, but that sounds nice to me right now! The weather, the boss, the pain, the politics, the, the, the list goes on. I notice more tender tight areas in my body, my hamstrings, my jaw, my upper back. These are moving, low grade and manageable. But there was a time when I had such chronic recurring neck stiffness and pain, I couldn’t turn my head for days at a time, and migraines liked to join along for the ride. Ouchy.

😮I remember the day I was so overwhelmed by the pain that I laid down to invite my body to find the way– to allow my breath and my TRE® practice to do its work. In that surrender my head began turning side to side, with some speed, and…no…pain!!! Wow.

🤯The mind/body connection became instantly real to me. I couldn’t consciously turn my head to the right without pain, but my body could! Mind. Blown!!!

❤️If you would like to tap into your body’s innate healing potential; it’s own way of releasing excess cortisol and adrenaline from too much stress; it’s power to reorganize the tissues of your body towards more softness and integrity, I invite you to join me for a TRE® & Yoga Workshop this summer to Release, Regulate, Relate, and Renew your Resilience. In the container of a small group of not more than 15 participants, you will learn several strategies and practices for building somatic hygiene, the care and keeping of your body.

Learn more and sign up...

👉https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

❓As alway, if you have any questions, reach out!

warmly,
joann

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TRE & Yoga Workshop! Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

🗓Saturday, May 16th, 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

❓Regulate? What do you mean by that?

🚘Ever find yourself driving along, singing to the radio perhaps, or enjoying the scenery…enjoying your drive, when suddenly someone cuts you off and you blow up into some choice words, maybe some finger or fist pointing?

🤬You are steamed; hot; agitated. How long do you stay that way? A minute? A mile? An hour? Half a day? Are you still telling the story at the end of the day?

🕕Holding onto the angst and agitation of a small traffic incident all day (or longer, I know, I’ve done it!) is what I would call not regulated. Not able to settle and let go of and release the incident and its effect, not only on your mind (all that thinking and storytelling), but also your body–remember that heat? Angst? Agitation? Tension?

😤Without some regulation skills, the events of our day and our conditioned reactions to them can take us over. Even if we have strong mindfulness skills, those aren’t integrated until you address it at the body level. We have to take the time to integrate both together to gain the the ease we desire. The ability to go with the flow of life, rather than being swept away in the waves of circumstance.

😊…your body requires a certain level of safety for you to experience the goodness in your life.

🎶Join us to bring more smoothness to your system, more ease, and a greater capacity to settle so you can get back to rocking out to your music rather than chewing out your fellow drivers on the road!

❤️Join me for a TRE® & Yoga Workshop this summer to Release, Regulate, Relate, and Renew your Resilience. In the container of a small group of not more than 15 participants, you will learn several strategies and practices for building somatic hygiene, the care and keeping of your body.

Learn more and sign up...

👉https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

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In Person! TRE® & YOGA PRACTICE GROUP POP UP CLASS

📅 Saturday, May 9th@ 10:30am EST in Essex, VT

🤲Join us for this small group, IN PERSON, practice experience! Did you know that in the small group you get more individual attention? With the small practice group I can check in with participant’s to identify common threads of experience and adapt my offering to YOUR NEEDS!

🧘‍♂️For example, your TRE® pattern might be big and energetic but you’d like to use it for sleep or settling. In the small practice group I can offer you specific practices and interventions like use of props (cushions, yoga belts, small balls, etc.), hands on assistance from myself as desired, as well as self interventions...things you can do to change, move, or slow your pattern so you can move towards your desired outcome!

🥰These groups are designed to offer you more affordable access to my skills as a certified TRE® provider with PAY WHAT YOU CAN pricing!

👉Learn more and sign up at https://maitrisomatics.com/tre-yoga-practice-group-pop.../

📅...no later than three (3) hours before class start time. I look forward to supporting you on your tension & stress releasing journey!

⚠️This is for folks who have learned TRE® previously.

🙏May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you both be and feel safe! May you live your life in peace and ease!

warmly,
joann (she,her)