Neurogenic Integration Podcast
Neurogenic Integration Podcast is hosted by Neurogenic Integration and features conversations and interviews about neurogenic tremoring, nervous system health, and the lived experiences of real people. Each episode explores how the nervous system responds to stress and trauma, and how practices like tremoring may support regulation and recovery. Listeners hear personal stories alongside discussion of body-based approaches to wellbeing.
Episodes
Post-Traumatic Growth Up Close: A Coma, Neuroplasticity & the Way Back with Dr. Justin Kennedy
In the Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) certification program there's an idea we keep coming back to: post-traumatic growth. The possibility that moving through trauma can redirect a life toward something bigger and more purposeful. It's easy to describe and much harder to point at. Dr. Justin Kennedy is what it looks like up close. He was 29, on a motorbike on a wet road in
E25 - TRE & the Nervous System of Leadership with Isabelle Claus Teixeira
For years, Isabelle Claus Teixeira trained leaders on everything you could put on a slide — competencies, values, communication. But one question kept coming back that no framework could answer: what actually creates executive presence? The search took her out of her own head and into her body, and eventually to a floor in Singapore, tremoring, finally getting the answer she'd been chasing fo
E24 - Humanitarian Applications of TRE: Disaster Response & Finding Local Champions with Sae Kani
In 2004, photojournalist Sae Kani was dropped by a US helicopter into Aceh, Indonesia, days after the tsunami erased entire villages. She walked, photographed, interviewed — and felt nothing. It was only back home, diagnosed with PTSD, that she began to understand what disaster leaves in the body. Two decades of humanitarian work later, she is still answering the question that experience planted:
E23 - One World, One Family: 1,000 TRE® Workshops Across Indonesia with Hindra Gunawan
A betrayed business partner. Five years of anger and sleepless nights. A vow of forgiveness that the mind made but the body refused to keep. That was Hindra Gunawan's life before he found Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) — and a seven-minute phone call afterward showed him something had changed at a level no amount of willpower had reached.In this episode, Alex sits down with Hin
E22 - Neurogenic Tremoring as a Dynamic Superpower for Kids with Vera Live, Špela Potočnik & Katja Jarc
Most people meet Neurogenic Tremoring through trauma work. This conversation asks a different question: what if kids learned it first — as a built-in resilience skill, before the world ever tells them something is wrong?In this episode, Alex sits down with three women working at the frontier of that idea — Vera Live, Špela Potočnik, and Katja Jarc — to trace how Neurogenic Tremoring is being refra
E21 - Neurogenic Tremoring As a Catalyst for Meditation, Qigong & Nondual Practice with Jared Dahmer
Most people come to tremoring looking for relief. Jared came looking for depth. By the time he found Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®), he'd spent nearly a decade inside ancient yoga, Daoist Qigong, and nondual meditation — and what he wasn't expecting was that a single video, found mid-session on the floor of his own room, would finally let all of it land in his body.In this
E20 - Neurogenic Tremoring for Manual Therapists: Bridging Bodywork, Fascia & the Nervous System with Ágnes Katona
In this episode, Alex sits down with Ágnes Katona — a physiotherapist and manual therapist in Budapest, Hungary — to compare notes on a journey many bodyworkers are quietly making: from working only with tissues, joints, and fascia to recognizing the nervous system as the missing piece. Both Alex and Ágnes were trained in traditions that had no language for what their own bodies started doing on t
E19 - The Body in the Classroom: TRE, YogaCalm & Why Youth Need Somatic Education with Lynea Gillen
⏱ KEY HIGHLIGHTSLynea's Journey — From Yoga to YogaCalm to TRE00:00 — Welcome & Introductions: Alex in Boulder, Lynea in Portland03:00 — "It Worked With My Body": Finding Yoga at 15 and a Nervous System That Didn't Respond to Talk05:00 — When Yoga Opened the Trauma: Why Practitioners Didn't Know What to Do, and the Gap Between Body and Story06:30 — Building YogaCalm: C
E18 - From Pediatric Oncology to TRE for All: A Nurse's Path Into Stewarding a Global Practice with Tanya Beard, MN, BN
In this episode, Alex sits down with Tanya Beard, MN, BN — Executive Director at TRE for All (TFA), the global nonprofit that has stewarded TRE certification trainings for nearly fifteen years. Tanya comes to this role through a career most people don't take a straight line through: pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant nursing at twenty-two, ten years as a child and family psychiatri
E17 - From Stillness to Shaking: Meditation, TRE, and the Body's Lead with Gabriel Kaszab
In this episode, Alex sits down with Gabriel to explore one of the most unusual origin stories in the NI community: a meditator who came to neurogenic tremoring not through a workshop or a training, but through his own body's spontaneous intelligence. Their conversation moves through Gabriel's childhood states of effortless meditation in Romania, the schooling that gradually shut those s
E16 - Breathwork & TRE: Where the Breath Meets the Tremor — with Mike Maher
What does it feel like when your body starts moving before your mind has any idea why?For Mike Maher, the answer came in the basement of a hotel in Poland — lights off, a room full of strangers, thirty rhythmic breaths — and then tears, trembling, and a release he couldn't explain. That single session with Wim Hof lit a fire that eventually became the Take a Deep Breath YouTube channel, one o
E15 - Finding Your Ground: Jonah Robins on TRE, Bioenergetics & Coming Home to Your Body
Host Alex Greene is joined by TRE provider and somatic coach Jonah Robins for a rich conversation about what it means to come home to your body. Jonah discovered TRE in his early twenties — introduced by his father, Dr. Eric Robins, during a particularly stressful season of life. His first tremoring session stopped him in his tracks: lying on the ground, legs finally still, he felt a wave of peace
E14 - Osmosis of Life: TRE, Fascia & the Body's Natural Intelligence with Oltita Raluca Rad
What if the key to deeper healing isn't working harder — but softening first?In this episode, host Alex Greene sits down with Oltita Raluca Rad (Tita), an Advanced TRE® Facilitator and Fascial Maneuvers practitioner from Brasov, Romania. A former accountant, Tita discovered TRE in 2019 and describes her first session as "love at first sight" — the moment she realised she wasn't
E013 - How Can Neurogenic Tremoring Heal Trauma Across Cultures? TRE in East Africa with Mary Gitau
Mary Gitau, a psychologist and suicide prevention specialist based in Nairobi, shares how she's bringing TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises) to communities across Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan affected by conflict and war. She discusses her personal healing breakthrough with TRE and how body-based approaches can reach populations where traditional talk therapy cannot—particu
E012 - Shaking Medicine with Dr. Keith Motes
In this enlightening episode, host Alex Greene sits down with Dr. Keith Motes, founder of Shaking Medicine and a PhD in quantum physics, to explore the fascinating intersection of science, spirituality, and therapeutic tremoring. Broadcasting from Thailand, Dr. Motes shares his remarkable journey from quantum computing researcher in Australia to becoming a pioneer in teaching neurogenic tremoring.
E011 - Eunju Choi on Body Wisdom and Building TRE Korea
In this conversation, host Alex Greene sits down with Eunju Choi, founder of TRE Korea and certification trainer, to explore her remarkable journey from professional photographer to bringing trauma release work to South Korea. Eunju shares the powerful story of her first TRE session in 2014, where vivid images of Korean students, mothers, and fathers appeared in her mind, planting the seeds for wh
E010 - Nervous System Regulation for Chronic Illness with Lindsay Wolff
In this episode, host Alex Greene sits down with Lindsay Wolff, a certified health coach and mentor with the Primal Trust Program. Lindsay shares her powerful journey from experiencing debilitating chronic illness—including chronic fatigue, Lyme disease, and severe pain—to discovering the transformative power of nervous system regulation and somatic practices. After spending nearly a decade naviga
E09 - Finding Hope Through TRE: Svava Brooks' Journey from Freeze to Freedom
What happens when a trauma survivor discovers TRE and becomes the practitioner she needed? Alex Greene speaks with Svava Brooks, a TRE practitioner in Reykjavik, Iceland, who has mastered integrating neurogenic tremoring with mindful self-compassion and polyvagal theory. Svava didn't set out to become a provider—she entered the training for her own healing. But what she discovered transformed
E07 - Multimodal Approachers: TRE, Nutrigenomics and Brain Spotting
Host Alex Greene interviews Jo Lothian, a UK-based practitioner who combines neurogenic tremoring (TRE - Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises), nutrigenomics, and brain spotting in her practice called The Happy Reset. Jo shares her personal history of childhood medical procedures, family dysfunction, and health challenges that led her to explore these therapeutic approaches. She will be presenti
E06 - Safe and Sound Listening + Neurogenic Tremoring with Jenna Anderson
Alex Greene talks with Jenna Anderson, a TRE provider and Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) practitioner who has been combining these two powerful nervous system approaches since 2017. Jenna explains how Dr. Stephen Porges' SSP uses a specialized algorithm that "dances" with the nervous system through filtered music, making it fundamentally different from regular therapeutic audio you m
E08 - TRE Meets Fascia: Bringing Neurogenic Tremoring to the Fascia Congress with Liza Kimble
Alex Greene welcomes back Liza Kimble for an exciting follow-up conversation about her groundbreaking experience at the Fascia Congress in New Orleans. Fresh from her travels, Liza shares how she introduced TRE and neurogenic tremoring to the international fascia research community, where over 100 attendees experienced tremoring for the first time. The congress brought together leading voices in n
E05 - Tremoring and the Yoga Sutras with Bonnie Pariser
Alex Greene speaks with Bonnie Pariser, a TRE provider and yoga therapist who runs Yoga Loca studio in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Bonnie shares how she transformed her yoga therapy practice by integrating TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) with traditional yoga approaches. Her unique journey from fashion design to embodiment work led her to discover that tremoring can dramatically improve o
E04 - TRE in the 2025 Fascia Congress with Liza Kimble
Alex Greene talks with Liza Kimble, a body therapist from South Africa who combines TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises) with gentle touch work. Liza has worked with bodies for 32 years and discovered that lighter touch often works better than deep, painful massage. She works with both people and horses, teaching them how to release tension through natural tremoring.Liza shares how she wen
E03- The Body is the Portal: Exploring Internal Alchemy with Simba Stenqvist
What if the secret to deep healing wasn't found in a technique---but in the quality of presence you bring to another human being? In this episode, Alex reconnects with Simba Stenqvist, TRE® trainer and somatic innovator based in Thailand, to explore his groundbreaking modality called Internal Alchemy---a fusion of neurogenic tremoring, fascial work, breathwork, and energetic practices.Simba s
E02 - The Wellness Toolbox: A Journalist Explores Neurogenic Tremoring
This week, Alex sits down with Daniel Seifert, a journalist whose work has appeared in the BBC, New York Times, and National Geographic. Daniel shares how he stumbled upon neurogenic tremoring through YouTube videos while looking for ways to manage deadline stress. What started as curious exploration quickly became a regular practice that helped him sleep better, release jaw tension, and feel more
E01 - Neurogenic Integration: The Mystery of Spontaneous Movement
What if your client’s tremor, stretch, or undulation wasn’t a symptom—but a sign of healing? In this episode, Alex sits down with physical therapist, somatic educator and TRE Provider, Joel Begin to explore the natural, spontaneous movements that often arise in bodywork, movement therapy, and somatic healing—but are still largely misunderstood.Joel shares the story behind his 2022 paper, “Characte
