The Art of TRE

5-week Masterclass Series

with Lynea Gillen

The Art of TRE©

A 5-week Masterclass Series with Lynea Gillen

Fridays, February 21 – March 21, 2025
8-10 am (PST-Los Angeles time)

Live, Online Training for Certified TRE Providers, Trainees and others that have trained with Lynea

Experience, Practice and Guidance

In a small supportive group learn from Lynea Gillen’s decades of experience on how to grow in your healing capacity while you deepen and broaden your skills in helping others release stress, transform traumatic experiences and cultivate hope and healing.

With illustrative stories and experience drawn from her background in yoga, TRE and counseling, Lynea highlights the fundamental principles and practices of her work.

Lynea loves to teach in a small supportive group where each person’s gifts and intelligence are honored and drawn out so they can be empowered to take charge of their healing and find their unique, creative expression in their lives and work.  Developing our personal Art of TRE through discussion and practice will be the vehicle for this collective journey toward health, healing and joy.

Masterclass Series

Each two-hour masterclass will consist of a presentation, TRE practice, group discussion and Q&A. Providing new insights and experiences over five weeks allows for deeper learning as there is time to reflect and practice after each session.

The following topics will be covered:

Week 1: The Power of Community in Healing
We often hear people exclaim that they “should” be tremoring more, but they don’t feel inspired to tremor alone in their own homes. Perhaps that’s because we are not always meant to heal in isolation. There is a crisis of isolation in our culture and we can bring this attitude to our TRE practice. We begin to feel that we must march on alone through our own healing. This becomes a continuation of the myth of our rugged individualism that tells the lie that we can do this alone. The truth is that we are all connected and we need one another to heal ourselves and our world.

In this session we will look at how we grow when we tremor in community, how to build safety and community as a group leader and how to build a referral network so we can “stay in our lane.”

Week 2: Honoring Defense Mechanisms
Defense mechanisms are natural – they help us manage difficult situations, survive trauma and even to live in cultures that don’t honor the full expression of who we are. TRE is effective at breaking down defense mechanisms. This can be freeing, but also terrifying. The body doesn’t like to let go of patterns that have helped us survive.

In this session will learn how to identify, name and understand common defense mechanisms so that we can understand and honor what role they played in our lives, when they are needed and when and how we can let go of them.

Week 3: Anger, Shame, Freeze: Breaking the Cycle
In my work with clients young and old I often see a cycle which has at its root self-protection from actual or perceived threats.

Appropriately expressed anger is the healthy setting of boundaries, of protection. But what can happen instead is an “anger-shame-freeze cycle” – where anger becomes destructive, leading to shame, which in turn leads to freeze and more repressed anger. The cycle can also be initiated from being shamed from making a mistake, for their feelings or thoughts or just being who we are. In both cases a continuous loop is created whereas the individual becomes trapped between these states, often escalating the anger with each cycle.

In this session Lynea will share her decades of experience with counseling and TRE clients on how to safely give voice to strong feelings and how to channel and release anger in order to re-discover lost personal power and ability to set boundaries..

Week 4: Celebrating the Human Spirit by Uncovering Our Ancestral Gifts
TRE provides an opportunity to journey into the mystery of the body. When we begin tremoring, we open up the box of memories, pain, joy, and beauty that is held inside. This internal journey is similar to an external journey – we need a map and a guide(s) to help us understand the terrain and have the necessary tools for getting through the rough spots, and celebrating the joy of a beautiful, moving moment.

In this session we will look at this journey and how to travel into the body with grace, knowledge and skill.

Week 5: Freeing The Authentic Self
Trauma, defense mechanisms, shame and fear can prevent us from knowing and living in our authentic self. We begin to push parts of ourselves away that are not allowed or accepted in our family, our culture, or our work place. TRE can help us connect to our natural pacing, our gifts, strengths and love.

In this class we will open ourselves up to our authentic selves and move toward loving the person that we are by listening to, and trusting our own inner wisdom.

Details

Fridays, February 21 – March 21, 2025
8-10am (PST-Los Angeles time)

Live, online training format

Recordings of lectures will be made available as well as retake discounts on future series in the event of missed sessions

Limited registration to 15 students

$395 for 5-week series

Cancellation/Refund Policy  

Instructor

Lynea Gillen, LPC, RYT, Global TRE Trainer, is a pioneer in the field of health and wellness education. Her heart-centered, creative and effective tools were developed directly from her 40+ years of as a school teacher, counselor and clinician.

Lynea has extensive experience with TRE in her private counseling practice and having organized and assisted with dozens of certification trainings over the last 12 years with Dr David Berceli, including the development of TRE’s online global certification trainings.

Lynea’s Yoga Calm program was developed in an elementary school with children suffering from the effects of trauma. Yoga Calm is now being used with tens of thousands of children around the world in diverse settings such as urban classrooms, clinics and psychiatric hospitals like the Mayo Clinic.  Her online course Transforming Childhood Trauma is a strength-based approach for working with trauma in classroom and therapeutic settings and her online Empower program provides nervous system education, yoga and mindfulness practices for children, ages 5-12.

Developing emotional literacy, community, and resilience are the hallmarks of Lynea’s approach and are exemplified in her award-winning books and media: Yoga Calm for Children, Mindful Moments Cards, Good People Everywhere, Little Banty Chicken and her latest, Little Book of Healing: A Coloring Book for Grief and Loss. Lynea has been featured on TV regarding children and trauma, and writes frequently on this and other health subjects.

Lynea is a current Licensed Professional Counselor with the state of Oregon, holds a Masters in Counseling in Education from Portland State University, and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. ​She is also an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Lewis & Clark College and the University of the Pacific, where she has created over a dozen courses in counseling and special education and has taught thousands of teachers, counselors and therapists.