Healing Movement Exercise to RELEASE TENSION: Move through stress,anxiety, trauma & emotional blocks

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In this video, we will be exploring a powerful movement exercise to help you release trauma from your body. Elements such as unprocessed emotions, repeated exposure, uncompleted stress responses, and frequent triggers can cause trauma to stay stored in our bodies, often making us feel unsafe, anxious, and overwhelmed. This video uses 3 powerful somatic techniques to slowly guide your nervous system back to a space of grounding and relaxation.

More about the 3 somatic techniques:

1. Venting: High-intensity, fast-paced movements that help release pent-up energy and unblock stuck emotions in your body, while disconnecting from the mind. Venting is a strategy most of us are used to doing verbally. Something upsetting happens to us, we call a friend, talk very fast for 5 minutes straight about the upsetting event, and feel a sense of release afterward. Well, venting can also be done with your body! And, it is usually more effective because you get to go to the core of the blockages and pent-up emotions that are creating an over-stimulation of your nervous system.

2. Tense & Release: Rhythmic movements that create a small build-up of tension, followed by a release. These movements help gently soothe your nervous system while making it feel grounded and supported. If you are highly triggered, connecting to stillness and calmness can shock the nervous system when done abruptly. Movements like swaying and bouncing regulate the nervous system, gently de-escalating the stress response and walking it toward relaxation.

3. Relax Calm, flexible movements that use body weight, breath, rocking, and rest to allow the body to gently come back to its state of balance. Having gone through the previous steps, this state is now more accessible to me, allowing for deeper integration. This is where the healing happens!

Important, go at your own pace and always adapt the movements to what feels comfortable! Repeat this exercise as many times as you need, it is meant to really train your body into returning to its natural state of balance and harmony. Remember, your body is wise. The more you make space and time to connect to it, the better you will feel.

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Music:

- Fizz by Xack
- Lamma Amoot by Ebo Krdum
- Musing by Amber Glow
- Rest In His Love by Joyspring

About me: I'm a Dance Movement Therapist whose mission is to help people embody the truest, freest, most embodied version of themselves!

00:00 Intro
00:32 Venting
03:24 Tense & Release
08:34 Relax

[passinghuman]

This is amazing! I'm almost 50 yrs old and I've tried everything for anxiety. A lot of practices like "yoga for anxiety", which involve a lot of stillness and often talk from the instructor make me feel worse when anxiety is running riot. This just works! Now I feel I can meditate and other things. I'm not going to overthink it, just do this every day. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Hello from Glasgow in Scotland where the sun is actually out :)

[annayukari-qw]

Wow. I must say this was absolutely beautiful and such a serene gift from you my love! 🤍

[Earthlyfer]

I searched “movement for trauma “ in YouTube and this was the second video. I am so thankful for this new found channel and video. Thank you for sharing your gift, talent and love with the world. 💜

[EternalDancers]

Tamara, thank you for leading this extraordinary and effective exercise in truly releasing tension from the body.... ahh... I can breathe easier now and I feel more at peace in my body. Thank you.🙏

[ShawnicornMindshiftCoaching]

I was searching for a movement to release trauma, and you were on the top of the list.

I can see why. Thank you, for this.

I'm on my healing journey, and I am a Wellness Coach (Health&Life) with an emphasis on childhood trauma and narcissistic abuse. I will be directing my clients to you, and this video, to help with trauma/ emotional release, as it did wonders for me.

Thank you for putting content like this out here, for people like us, to reclaim our health, mentally and physically.

[canoegirl]

I’m finding this video as I lay in bed getting ready to sleep..
I have an anxiety disorder that manifests in the mornings and is debilitating… I take medication for it but I still have so many physical symptoms.
I believe doing this kind of somatic exercise will help that adrenal/ cortisol awakening that makes every morning a struggle.
First thing for me to do tomorrow is this video. Thank you!

[kristinpage]

I am having a very hard time right now and I did not know what to do to feel better, I felt a desire to move my body and was guided to search healing dance and I am so grateful. This was the most perfect thing I could have done for my body and my spirit. I cried almost the entire time so a lot of releasing! I will do this so many times!! You are a beautiful healer, thank

[tanyaraunamba-oparah]

This was incredible. All I can say is thank you. I had such a stressful and tiring day and had just prayed that God would give me peace so that I could go to sleep. I then came across this video and I feel so much better. I didn’t realise how much I was holding onto because I started to cry towards the end. Thank you for the release ❤

[LinaJonason]

I'm finally learning to love my body just as it is through movement. What a powerful tool to just dance, move and touch my body in a new way. Healing is a small word to describe what's happening inside of me! <3 Thank you for your love Tamara <3

[KathleenBlanco-tb]

I’ve been currently in a very stressful situation and while I had a therapy session, this movement was medicine for my soul I vented, felt heat, and screamed hard. I struggle with anxiety and staying grounded and while I take no meds for anything, this was release I needed!

[Laura.p.e]

I feel so calm but at the same time like I could cry... Such releasing. Thank you

[Lorenzo]

Hi Tamara, a big hug from Italy... i found your video today, at the top of a very stressful, anxious, overwhelmed time of my life... and just follow your voice and Let my body express... I started crying a bit and it feels so good, I feel like a little fissure of light starts to break this hard, black and sweltering armour where I closed my self for so long... it will be a long long path but right now I fill like you pushed me in my first step. Thanks you ❤

[lilgurlluvsutube]

I broke down and cried halfway through "relax"😞❤

[jennatemamouni]

Hey Tamara! I wanted to thank you, deeply and sincerely, for sharing this with the world! This video definitely helped me feel more grounded and released something in me. Thank you so much, thank you.

[margriethover]

What a great way to start the day. Love the music also❤

[margogeurts]

@tamaranazon I want to say a big thank you 🙏🏽
Your videos are a huge help for me to release and connect to the love for my body.
To dance with all the emotions and release them.
Iam high sensitive and feel often very overloaded with my children. I appreciate your video on that as we a lot.
I share your content with lots of my friends.
I wish you will make more of them and see more of your work. It feel very authentic, real and in connection.
Thank you so much!
Love Margo

[michellem.h.]

Thank you so very much for sharing this….❤ I cried 3 times, and could let out some things that I think couldn’t connect before when I hugged myself …. Thanks you a lot 🩷 Greetings from Mexico

[RKN]

I’ve done this video twice so far & it’s felt great both times! I think dance/movement is what I truly need. Thank you!

[snowinsummer]

I love everything about this video. your movements, your calming voice, your general serenity. I was looking for „healing movement“ and I think this is absolutely it! I have the flu at the moment, so I‘m not yet doing those moves that will make me wheeze…. But I‘m very much looking forward to the whole experience. I also love your wall! ❤🥰

[artandsoulclinic]

This is awesome content. I really enjoyed following along. I am an expressive arts therapist and I am excited that this is a good resource to use and share with my community. Thank you!!.