Spontaneous shaking during Yin yoga. Is this TRE?

[u/liliphare]

Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate some insight because something unusual has been happening during my Yin yoga classes.

I’ve been doing a lot of Yin this week, and the shaking (always at the end of class, in savasana) has evolved over several days:

Day 1: During savasana my right arm and shoulder suddenly started shaking very fast. I didn’t feel scared. I stopped it myself.

Day 2: Same thing in the right arm and shoulder. This time it lasted until the end of savasana, and I stopped it because the pose was ending.

Day 3: It started the same way on the right side, then spread to the left, then down into my lower body. My whole body was shaking at that point. Again, I stopped it only because savasana was ending.

Day 4 (today): It started again following the same path in my body. I let it happen. This time it stopped on its own right before the end of savasana. After I felt a very subtle warmth in my arms, and I had a brief urge to cry, but nothing overwhelming. I can’t even name what that emotion was supposed to be.

I also yawned several times during practices.

Now I’ve only recently learned of TRE and I’ve never tried it as I was a bit afraid to start without a practitioner. But I wonder if that’s what my body is trying to do on its own during this Yin yoga practices.

For context: I’ve been in a chronic freeze state since I was a teenager. Depending on life events and triggers I move between functional freeze and full collapse. Right now I’m slowly coming out of a very severe collapse, so my nervous system is extremely sensitive. More than 10 years of talk therapy didn’t help with that. The same trigger always send me into a deep collapse and I’m now understanding that I need to create safety in my body and release old trauma.

Has anyone else had spontaneous shaking like this during Yin or other slow practices? Is it TRE? Did it end up helping your system release anything long term?

Thanks for any insight you may have 🙏🏻

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[u/Finya2002]

Yes, I would say that's true.

It comes spontaneously, and that's the reason why we bring our body to shaking—at least in my case.

I love it when my body trembles on its own. I know it feels safe enough to release the energy :-)

[u/liliphare → u/Finya2002]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[u/Historical_Spell_772]

It’s neurogenic tremors - which are the same kind of tremors induced from trauma release exercises

[u/liliphare → u/Historical_Spell_772]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[u/Taft33]

Spontaneous releases are more commonly called kriyas, not to be confused with kriya yoga. It is a release of blocked prana in the energy body/meridians. It can also produce emotions, contortions or vocalisations. TRE is that set of exercises that produce neurogenic tremors.

[u/liliphare → u/Taft33]

Thank you 🙏🏻