TRE for Young People & Schools

Supporting Young People & Students

As TRE requires almost no mental focus, minimal physical effort and can be used in as little as 5-10 minutes simply lying on the floor or even in bed to assist with getting to sleep, it is easy & efficient when Young People are most stressed & least likely to undertake more demanding self-care practices such as mindfulness & general exercise.

Easily introduced in a group environment & providing a neurobiological model of resilience & self-regulation, TRE provides a critical outlet for Young People to physically release the literal internal tensions that build up in response to the educational & relational pressures of adolescence. As the spontaneous movements have an innate calming effect on the mind & help to reinforce natural meditative flow states, TRE not only helps reduce anxiety & improve sleep, but also helps to enhance creativity & performance under pressure during exams.

Supporting Teachers & Staff

TRE not only offers a self-care technique for Teachers & Staff to manage stress & optimise their own health & wellbeing, but also provides a trauma-informed model of learning, behaviour & development that integrates the underlying physiology of the nervous system in addition to cognitive inputs & conscious choices.

By combining education about the nervous system’s habitual responses to stress, anxiety & trauma with a practical technique to rebalance the nervous system below the level of conscious control, TRE not only empowers Staff in their own self-regulation, but also provides a body-based model of relationships that supports the growth & development of physiological resilience in their students.

Benefits of TRE

Balancing the Body

By releasing tension & rebalancing the neuromuscular system below the level of our conscious awareness or control, TRE supports & enhances consciously directed techniques (such as Yoga, Pilates, stretching, body-based treatments & general exercise) & helps improve posture, reduce pain, prevent injury & optimise movement patterns & dynamic core stability.

Building Resilience

By down-regulating the nervous system, switching off hypervigilance & releasing the chronic muscular tension associated with unresolved stress & trauma, TRE provides a simple, fast & effective self-care technique to build ‘neurophysiological resilience’ & coping capacity in the nervous system. As TRE is body-based & bottom-up, it supports & compliments top-down cognitive-based approaches.

Assisting Other Approaches

By invoking the body’s innate capacity to reorganise itself towards more optimal & efficient states below the level of our conscious control, TRE provides an adjunct & complimentary technique to support & enhance other approaches including counselling, cognitive-based therapies, mindfulness, bodywork, rehabilitation programs & self-care practices such as Yoga & Pilates.

Optimising Performance

By calming the nervous system, releasing neuromuscular tension, training meditative ‘flow states’ & optimising movement & skills patterns below the level of our conscious awareness, TRE provides a performance-enhancing technique to enhance creativity, improve problem solving & performance under pressure, and reinforce the mind & body states required for optimal performance at school, sport or work.