Today we’d like to introduce you to David Berceli.
David, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I was living in several countries in Africa & Mid East that were experiencing war and political violence. I noticed a pattern among all of us, that when we became anxious, frightened or traumatized, our bodies would begin to shake from fear. This shaking had a predictable pattern. It had a beginning, at the onset of violence; middle during the violence; and an end, the shaking would stop when the violence ceased and safety was restored.
I recognized that the shaking was not a pathology of the fear response, as traditional medicine suggests, but rather it was a healthy mechanism of the nervous system trying to help the body reduce its fear, tension and anxiety. I developed a method to artificially evoke this shaking response in a safe and controlled environment. This allows the individual to complete the shaking response long after the stressor is over and reduce the still-existing excited charge of the nervous system.
This process restores the calming and comforting effect of the parasympathetic nervous system thereby reducing symptoms of anxiety, fear, stress, tension and post-traumatic stress.
Has it been a smooth road?
I lived in war-torn countries (Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan, Israel, & the Palestinian West Bank) that were also experiencing poverty, political and social violence and daily hardships of life.
After returning to the USA to develop this technique, our current medical system could not include this unique idea in their current paradigm so it has consistently been dismissed.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
I travel the world (50 countries), teaching large populations how to release stress, tension and recover from trauma. I empower the local populations to use this technique among themselves without the need for ‘western professionals’. The uniqueness of this technique is that it satisfies the United Nations mandate to provide techniques and services that can be easily replicated by the local populations and sustainable after I leave.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://traumaprevention.com/
- Email: [email protected]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.berceli
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/dberceli
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Sarah Z Mitic, MD, PhD
February 22, 2018 at 8:26 pm
I am a medical doctor with 35 years of working experience. In the last six years, since I have started following the work of Mr. Berceli, I have been trying to explain this therapeutic method to my colleagues in multiple countries. The explanation is based on monitoring the functioning of the autonomous nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic component) as well as the instinctual defense reactions. The approach relies on the natural abilities of every one of us to get stiff during a stressful situation and to relax, once we are safe.TRE represents a residual relaxation in many of the life s challenges.
Even though we do not have enough money to conduct evidence-based studies, the fact is, that the knowledge about the TRE is spread through the world. I have demonstrated the method to the colleagues in Turkey and the interest in learning the method in Turkey has increased significantly. We even have a waiting list for the TRE courses that will be held in March, in Istanbul.
Why is this the case? It is because TRE has proven itself useful in practice. We who have survived horrors of war and had lived in the conflict areas are deeply grateful to Dr Berceli. I look forward to meeting you in person in Warszawa in July.
Danielle Godfrey
February 22, 2018 at 9:14 pm
Dave Berceli, you changed my life through your training at Inner Vision many years ago, personally as a lifelong PTSD sufferer, and professionally as a yoga teacher. I teach psoas release in every class which has helped so many and present TRE in a workshop I’ve developed. It’s VIB-to-TRE which starts with your psoas release warm up to show how the whole yoga system in its many styles is a stress management system, followed by Vibration Qigong, and concludes with TRE practice. I’ve wanted to let you know how grateful I am for years and how pivotal your work is. Thank you! Danielle Godfrey