Free Your Soul

15/05/2025

🌱 Awaken Your Aliveness — A TRE® Workshop for Spring Renewal 🌸

As nature begins to bloom, so can you.

What if the aliveness you’re seeking isn’t something to chase outside of you… but something to uncover inside of you?

Through TRE® (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises), we invite the body to release deep-held tension, reconnect with its natural rhythm, and return to a place of ease and vitality.

🌀 In this live online workshop, you’ll:
🌿 Gently shake off layers of stress
🌿 Deepen your connection to your body
🌿 Create space for grounded energy and presence

✨ Awaken Your Aliveness – A TRE® Workshop
📅 Sunday, May 25
🕒 15:00–17:30 CEST | 09:00–11:30 EDT
💻 Online – Join from anywhere
💶 70.00 EUR per participant
❗️ Limited spaces available. Registration closes May 24.
🎟️ All are welcome. No previous experience needed.

Let your nervous system bloom this spring. 🌼

Reserve your spot via the link in bio/comments.

02/04/2025

🌿 Spring Cleaning… for Your Nervous System? 🌿

We’re so good at decluttering our homes when spring arrives—sorting out old clothes, deep cleaning, and making space for fresh energy.

But what about the stress, tension, and emotional weight we’ve been carrying all winter?

Our bodies hold onto stress just like dust in forgotten corners—tight shoulders from long workdays, shallow breathing from daily overwhelm, that lingering exhaustion we push through instead of releasing.

But nature doesn’t hold on unnecessarily. Trees shed old leaves, let go of last season’s fruit, and trust the cycle of renewal. What if we did the same?

TRE® (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) is a simple yet powerful tool that helps your body naturally shake off stress and tension—not just once, but whenever you need it. Think of it as spring cleaning for your nervous system, all year round.

If you’re ready for a reset this season, join me for my online TRE® workshop on Sunday, April 6. It’s a space to let go of what no longer serves you and reconnect with your body’s natural rhythm.

❗️ Online Group Workshop
📌 Awaken Your Aliveness: A TRE® Experience
📅 Sunday, April 6
⏰ 15:00-17:30 (CEST) / 09:00-11:30 (EDT)

💚 Sign up here: https://Freeyoursoul.as.me/OnlineGroupWorkshop

❓What’s something you’re ready to release this spring? Let me know in the comments!

Schedule your appointment online Free Your Soul

08/03/2025

🌷🌿✨ Honoring the Strength, Resilience, and Compassion of Women Everywhere ✨🌿🌷

On this International Women’s Day, I celebrate the incredible power of women—their wisdom, courage, and ability to rise, even in the face of challenges.

To all the wise, strong, and compassionate women who have lifted me up, guided me, and walked alongside me—thank you. Your support, kindness, and presence mean more than words can say. 💛

🌿 Today, let’s honour ourselves and each other. 🌿

07/03/2025

A beautiful reminder of the deep interconnectedness we so often forget. Take a breath. Feel that connection. You are already whole. You are already enough. 💛🌿😇

Thought for the day (to blow your mind…)
“You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells.

You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a s***m. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.

You are not living on Earth. You are Earth."

——-

You are incredible just as you are!!!!!

Words by Aubrey Marcus
Incredible painting by Emily Fiegenschuh

25/02/2025

🌿 The Hidden Cost of Productivity 🌿

Have you ever ignored your body’s signals?
❌ Pushed through exhaustion?
❌ Skipped meals to meet a deadline?
❌ Suppressed emotions to “keep going”?

For years, I thought success meant doing more—working harder, achieving bigger goals, and staying "strong" no matter what. But that mindset left me burned out and with chronic fatigue, disconnected, and exhausted in ways I didn’t even recognise.

Our modern world pushes us to override our natural rhythms—but nature doesn’t work that way. Even in winter, when everything slows down, we still expect ourselves to be in constant motion. This imbalance contributes to chronic stress and burnout.

At Free Your Soul, I guide people in reconnecting with their body’s wisdom through TRE®, Breathwork, and somatic practices—because healing starts with listening to the messages your body has been sending all along.

✨ Ready to break the cycle? Read my latest blog:

🔗 How We Are Out of Alignment with Nature’s Cycles and How It Contributes to Burnout >>> https://free-your-soul.co.uk/blog/

💬 Have you ever experienced burnout from ignoring your body’s signals? How have you learned to overcome this? Let me know in the comments...

15/11/2024

🍂Autumn Workshop: Grounding Your Nervous System in Stormy Times 🍂

As autumn deepens around me, leaves drift from trees, vibrant colours change, and the days grow shorter. Like the trees, which gracefully let go of their leaves naturally, it reminds me that we are also designed to let go naturally.

Life's unavoidable storms may unsettle us, yet we can take inspiration from nature's quiet resilience, finding strength and a steady calm within ourselves.

In the uncertain times in which we live, stress, worry, and overwhelm can take a heavy toll, leading us down a path of sleepless nights, mental fog, and a spiral of self-criticism.

If you've noticed yourself:

⚡️Feeling "on edge" or consumed by worst-case thinking
⚡️Lying awake at night with spiralling thoughts or lost in anxious daydreams
⚡️Struggling to think clearly, stay focused, or stop self-criticism
⚡️Relying on habits like nail-biting, skin-picking, or comfort eating

Please remember, you're not alone.

These signs indicate an overworked nervous system that's inching toward burnout.

They are ways to self-soothe, but they are not healthy or sustainable. I have been there, too, and I know how hard it is to feel grounded in stormy times. There are better, more sustainable ways to self-regulate and anchor your nervous system.

🍁I have created a 2.5-hour online workshop inspired by autumn themes that offers grounding techniques to help you release stress and build resilience in challenging times.

The workshop includes breathwork, body-connection practices, and methods like TRE®, which uses the body's natural healing capacity to calm and regulate the nervous system, fostering mental clarity, emotional resilience, and self-compassion.

Details:

Dates: 21 Nov (5-7:30 PM London) & 24 Nov (9-11:30 AM New York)
Location: Zoom
Cost: €50 for one, €90 for both (with coupon Release10)

➡️Register Here: https://Freeyoursoul.as.me/?appointmentType=70516146

I hope to see you there!

Carolanne 💛

30/06/2023

This lovely message from Vicki Cook of TRE Scotland accurately describes how tics is the body’s way of showing that it wants to heal itself, to discharge from the body the high energy created by stress and anxiety, through involuntary movements, jerks, shakes and tremors.

The tremor mechanism is already innate in the body (in all mammals actually), and the exercises of TRE help to initiate it, to naturally discharge stress and tension from the muscles, helping the body to heal.

Practising TRE and shaking regularly really can reduce symptoms as the body naturally heals itself.

If you want to know more, or to experience TRE yourself, don’t hesitate to get in touch. TRE is for everyone. ❤️

Tourette's is your body wanting to release anxiety and stress - A message for Lewis Capaldi and others

“Tourette's syndrome (abbreviated as TS or Tourette's) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder. It is characterized by multiple movement (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic. Common tics are blinking, coughing, throat clearing, sniffing, and facial movements. These are typically preceded by an unwanted urge or sensation in the affected muscles known as a premonitory urge, can sometimes be suppressed temporarily, and characteristically change in location, strength, and frequency. Tourette's is at the more severe end of a spectrum of tic disorders. The tics often go unnoticed by casual observers.” Source - Wikipedia
This is a description of what the medical profession label Tourette’s. In the TRE world of natural involuntary ticks, jerks, shakes, tremors and facial releases we would say Tourette’s is one’s body wanting to release stress and anxiety through involuntary movements.
Having seen Lewis Capaldi in his documentary and his performance at Glastonbury last weekend, what I see is Lewis’ body wanting to naturally release his anxiety and stress. I don't see it as a dis-order or dis-ease. I see it as a body wanting to release stress and anxiety. The tics (involuntary movements) are instinctual, genetically programmed releases. There are other ways the body naturally releases, and these are also given medical labels again making them part of our issues, ‘Restless Leg Syndrome RLS’ and ADHD, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. When the body makes these movements it wants to heal itself. Unfortunately we don't listen to the body anymore and we have medicalised and monetarised it's healing.
TRE is a way to re-connect to these involuntary movements and start a journey of allowing our body to heal itself. TRE is not well known and only accepted by the Brazilian NHS and Danish MS society.
Many people over the last twenty years have been using David Berceli’s TRE and now understand how our body has this natural, instinctual release mechanism. As a result of reconnecting to this neurogenic release in our body many people have been healing many symptoms of ill health. Every time I teach someone to reconnect with their body I see the transformation as their body starts to regulate our nervous system and release stress and anxiety.
I would love to work with anyone who has Tourette’s and show them how to reconnect to their body and transform their tics into a natural healing release. I spent 11 years allowing my neurogenic release to heal me and now I know it’s my body doing these amazing involuntary tics, shudders, stretches, shakes etc I want to share it more and more. Contact me to find out more.
Vicki Cook
28 June 2023

19/05/2023

31/01/2023

🌱FREE Breathwork sessions🌱

To allow me to complete my Breathwork Facilitator training, I am offering FREE 75-minute Breathwork sessions teaching a combination of some everyday useful breathing techniques as well as the deep release and transformational technique, Conscious Connected Breathing.

Held in small group sessions, the 75-minute class will be an opportunity to share a Breathwork journey with others, in a safe and controlled environment on Zoom, with a 30-minute Conscious Connected Breathing technique, an opportunity to ground together and to share your experience in the group.

🌱Conscious Connected Breathing🌱

This breathing technique encourages profound shifts on all levels – mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. Through this breathing technique, there is an ability to connect with the deepest parts of yourself - to transform, to shift or to let go of what you no longer need to hold on to.

Conscious Connected Breathing is a diaphragmatic breathing technique where the breather intentionally connects the breath without any pauses by actively inhaling and passively exhaling to release, like rolling waves of the ocean.

During this technique, 3-4 times the usual amount of oxygen enters the lungs. Think of that oxygen as energy entering the body - energy that will boost immunity and reset the nervous system.

🌱Contraindications🌱

We all breathe every day, however, when using Conscious Connected Breathing, there can be powerful effects. Therefore, there are some contraindications to be considered which are included in the mandatory questionnaire when enrolling for these classes.

🌱Enrolment required🌱

Whether you have already attended a Breathwork class before or this is the first time, you are all welcome to enrol.

Class spaces are limited but there are a few different dates to choose from.

To enrol or check the timings, please use this unique link. https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=24764069&appointmentType=41046561

Hope to hold a breathing space for you soon!

Much love,
Carolanne

02/12/2022

Christmas is around the corner! 🎄🎅🏼🎄

During the busy festive period, it can be easy to be swept along with the festivities and forget to slow down.

It was this time of year, 3 years ago, that I burnt out. I did not see it coming at the time but looking back there were plenty of signs. As much as a challenge it was to recover, I am grateful that life presented me with an opportunity to recover, to change my lifestyle, and to learn techniques such as TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) and Breathwork, empowering me with tools to regulate my own nervous system and avert burnout. 🙏🏼

During the month of December, I am hosting December Drop-In Sessions every Tuesday at 16:00 UK time. These sessions are a small group setting, and is an opportunity to slow down, to practise various grounding techniques including the powerful TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) and Breathwork plus many more.

Join me for this series of drop-in sessions, or simply drop in for one to see if you like it. Registration required.

➡️December Drop-In Sessions
➡️Tuesdays at 16:00 UK
➡️£30 per session
➡️Registration required

https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=24764069&appointmentType=39316569

Love and Blessings 🌟
Carolanne

03/11/2022

🍂 Autumn is well under way 🍂

Like the trees, who gracefully let go their leaves naturally, we are also designed to let things go naturally. We can learn a lot from nature right now.

Did you know our bodies are designed to let go naturally through tremoring or shaking and even crying and yawning?

When we do not let go of what the body no longer needs to retain, it can lead to all sorts of discomforts and ailments – from tension, aches and pains that become the norm, to sleep problems and digestive issues.

Through the innovative technique of TRE®, we learn to activate our innate tremor mechanism to release stress and tension from our muscles, helping us to feel calm and relaxed and more resilient in the face of stress.

Thats right, our bodies have an innate tremor mechanism that we share with all mammals on the planet! Yet for us humans, we have trained ourselves out of this primitive technique through social conditioning. Society has taught us that shaking is bad or shows weakness and that crying shows vulnerability. So, we suppress these natural impulses and retain tension in our bodies.

Join me for a 4-session introduction to learning a technique that will help alleviate tension, aches and pains, rebalance mind and body, relax you to the point of having a deep and peaceful sleep, and even enable you to keep calmer in the face of stress.

4 sessions will likely be sufficient to enable you to practice by yourself at home safely.

🌟 Group online course: 8,11,15,18 November @ 17:00 UK
🌟 Private online course: at your convenience

For more information of booking, please visit: http://free-your-soul.co.uk/booking/

Blessings,
Carolanne 🍂