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Maitri Somatics, PO Box 8137, Essex Junction, VT (2025)

11/15/2025

🚣🚴‍♀️For the Athlete, Weekend Warrior, or Desk Jockey!

🎉It is time to retire the notion of No pain, No gain!

💪Your gains actually occur in the recovery process!

🤗In this therapeutic workshop experience you will learn a breathing technique to activate your repair and recovery mode. We’ll use soft foam rollers and small soft balls to build body awareness, move internal fluids, and soften into yourself. You will learn TRE® where your body accesses its own natural shaking mechanism to release tension and “massage” those hard to reach tissues deep in the body, leaving you feeling grounded, steady, and easeful!

🗓Saturday, December 12pm EST @ Maitri Somatics, Essex, VT

https://maitrisomatics.com/the-self-massage-tre-workshop/

10/25/2025

🌲Join me at Pinnacle Yoga & Retreat Center in the beautiful Adirondacks, NY!

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

👉register here: https://https://www.pinnacle-experience.com/book-workshop

🍁Saturday, November 1st 1pm-4pm EST

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🤔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®.

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

warmly,
joann (she,her)

10/19/2025

🌲Join me at Pinnacle Yoga & Retreat Center in the beautiful Adirondacks, NY!

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

👉register here: https://https://www.pinnacle-experience.com/book-workshop

☃️Saturday, November 1st 1pm-4pm

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🤔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®.

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

warmly,
joann (she,her)

10/06/2025

Join me @ Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, October 18th 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)

10/04/2025

Join me @ Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, October 18th 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)

09/27/2025

Join me - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, October 18th 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://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)

09/21/2025

Join me - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, October 18th 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)

09/20/2025

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

📅Saturday, October 11th @ 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 7:30am on October 11th. 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)

09/08/2025

Yoga & TRE Workshop!

❤️Join us a@laughingriveryoga Chace Mill, Burlington, VT!

🗓Saturday, September 13th 1pm - 4pm EST

🎟Tiered pricing: $65/$55/$45

🏋️‍♀️Most of us carry some tension on the tops of our shoulders, as if we are “carrying the weight of the world.” I know several women who are recovering from frozen shoulder, a long and arduous recovery. I myself had years of chronic neck stiffness and spasms following meningitis. Many of us suffer from tension headaches, stiff low backs, hamstrings, and for as many women I know with frozen shoulders, I know just as many men with achilles injuries?!

When our connective tissue, or fascia, becomes dehydrated, stiff, and tight, those areas of the body become more prone to injury and pain.

💃Your joints need regular movement to receive adequate blood flow and nutrition for good health. TRE® is one way to create more suppleness in your body through your fascial system. The TRE® movements travel along these fascial lines that wrap and encapsulate lines of muscles and even your organs!

Your fascia has 6-10 times more nerve endings than your muscles, it is your tissue of feeling.

🧘Your soft tissues need a variety of movements for suppleness and responsiveness to life’s challenges. Yoga offers movement practices that nourish your fascia as well as a life view, or philosophy, that supports you in riding life’s ups and downs with more ease. Combined with TRE®, you have a rich toolbox for relieving body tension.

If you could use more ease in your body, I invite you to join me for a TRE® & Yoga workshop this fall! In the container of a small group of not more than 15 participants, you will learn several strategies and practices for creating more calm and spaciousness in your body. You deserve to feel your best!

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

As always, if you have any questions, reach out!

warmly,
joann (she,her)

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09/02/2025

Yoga & TRE Workshop!

❤️Join us at Laughing River Yoga Chace Mill, Burlington, VT!

🗓Saturday, September 13th 1pm - 4pm EST

🎟Tiered pricing: $65/$55/$45

😟I had a client who had suffered several years of insomnia. I felt for them, I had a very similar experience myself a few years ago. This person had tried everything: herbs; naturopathic support; medication; therapy; acupuncture; chiropractic care; and massage. Still, no sleep. After their third TRE® session they slept that night through.

😁Night time is no longer a regular stressful event
..and the only sleepless night since was situational, because life happens!
I’m not saying the other strategies used didn’t support or contribute to TRE®’s effect, I’m sure much of it did. But this person has been able to come off all sleep medications and cut back on therapeutic appointments. Surely there has been a synergistic effect. I like to think that was the missing key to unlocking their body’s ability to settle and sleep again.

😴When we suffer from insomnia our body’s resources get tapped. The stress of nighttime amps up our anxiety and this cycle feeds sleeplessness. TRE® helps the body learn how to slow down and settle. When we can create the conditions for the nervous system to unwind from its highly activated state we can access sleep states again.

🥱Yoga practices, like yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, have been shown to increase relaxation, a sense of peace, sleep quality...
..self regulation, self awareness, self efficacy and reduce anger/rage, anxiety, and emotional reactivity. Combining TRE® and Yoga Nidra in my regular daily practice resolved my own insomnia!

❤️If you could use more ease in your body, I invite you to join me for a TRE® & Yoga workshop this fall! In the container of a small group of not more than 15 participants, you will learn several strategies and practices for creating more calm and spaciousness in your body.

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

As always, if you have any questions, reach out!

warmly,
joann (she,her)

08/16/2025

Yoga & TRE Workshop!

❤️Join us at Chace Mill, Burlington, VT!

🗓Saturday, September 13th 1pm - 4pm EST

🎟Tiered pricing: $65/$55/$45

I had a client who did 12 private sessions of TRE® with me for a variety of challenges. One of them was four years of chronic low back pain. She had sustained an injury to her back picking up a heavy barbell years ago and after several rounds of treatment with physical therapy, chiropractic care, massage therapy, MRI’s, and rolfing she found some intermittent relief, but nothing that lasted longer than a week or two.

After our first four sessions of TRE® her back pain disappeared.

We finished her twelve sessions in about sixteen weeks and her pain has not come back! The TRE® movements (shakes, tremors, pulsations, vibrations) arise first in the inner thighs and then pelvis. Particularly in your psoas muscle. This is your “tenderloin” and it connects you both top to bottom and front to back. The psoas starts at your inner thigh and wraps deep into your pelvis, attaching to the joints of your low back (lumbar vertebrae to thoracic twelve) and when it’s tight or tense it pulls on your low back. This is a pathway for how TRE® can have a powerful effect, and in this case quickly, for relieving low back pain.

The yoga postures we explore in TRE® & Yoga also prepare the psoas through targeted stretching and breathing practices. Since your breathing muscle, your diaphragm, shares connections with your psoas through your fascia (connective tissue), breathing practices powerfully enhance this effect.

Combined, the TRE® & Yoga practice calms your nervous system which “turns down the dial” on your pain experience!

If you could use more ease in your body, I invite you to join me for the TRE® & Yoga workshop this winter! In the container of a small group of not more than 15 participants, you will learn several strategies and practices for creating more calm and spaciousness in your body. You deserve to feel your best!

As always, if you have any questions, reach out!

warmly,
joann (she,her)

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08/14/2025

❤️Join us at Chace Mill, Burlington, VT!

Yoga & TRE® Workshop!

🗓Saturday September 13th from 1-4pm EST

🎟Tiered pricing: $65/$55/$45

🤔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®.

❤️It has been my great honor to guide hundreds of folks to access their own unique neurogenic tremor response for managing stress, tension, and trauma. If you have a body, you experience stress and this is for you! See what the Laughing River Yoga community has had to say about their experience...

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

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