🎈 Shake Your Sillies Out - Finding Liveliness During a Sedentary Time
🎈 This is the first in several Shake Your Sillies Out videos! During times when I’m feeling chained to my desk/computer, I often find it difficult to get moving. I know my body will feel better once I start, but sometimes it’s hard to mobilize. These light and playful prompts can be a quick way to stimulate the body and incorporate breath flow and sound flow in just a few minutes.
🎈Self-regulation is key. As you explore shaking in your own practice, start with short sessions. Take it easy. Don’t overdo it. Even if you don’t feel like you’re working hard, this work works YOU in a deep and transformational way. Be gentle with yourself, and ease into your next activity after these sessions.
🎈 As with all of the breath/sound/movement explorations I offer, there is vast research and theory underpinning the benefits of shaking. If you’re content to engage with this work and make your own meaning, I encourage you to keep doing your own personalized research, drawing on your experience and sensations to guide you. If, however, you’re curious to infuse your exploration with some reading and digging, here are a few resources I found on the benefits of shaking:
Therapeutic Tremoring - Shake Off Stress And Trauma
ACE Blog, 2018
This blog post discusses the benefits of shaking as a means of releasing stress, anxiety, and traumatic experiences, drawing comparisons to the animal world. Animals will often find a quiet place to shake and tremor following a stressful encounter.
The post also offers links to the work of Peter Levine (trauma therapist), as well as offering links to some simple shaking exercises from various disciplines and methologies.
https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/therapeutic-tremoring-shake-off-stress-and-trauma
Tension & Trauma Release Exercises, TRE
Developed by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, these exercises follow a progression along muscle trains started from the feet. This is one of many approaches that incorporates shaking.
Video link provides anatomical information, focusing on the psoas muscle and pelvis as the “seat” of the fight or flight response.
Can shaking exercises improve stress and PTSD?
Sally Turner, Feb2020
This article explains TRE in more depth, and provides links to other resources.
https://patient.info/news-and-features/can-tension-release-exercises-improve-stress-and-ptsd
🎈There is a TON of information out there - feel free to share your research with me! I’d love to learn from you.
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🌱 The next weekly pay-what-you-can #CommunitySession is Thursday, April 30th - 2:00pm EDT - Restorative Floor Work - PWYC (suggested $10). No Alexander Technique or movement experience necessary.
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