With Sovereignty in Sobriety, we aim to heal the root cause of addiction and trauma through community and connection.

Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) are the core of the support group holistic services offered and teach people about not just regulating their own nervous system but healing it in an accessible way.  TRE is a type of somatic practice, created by Dr. David Bercelli which is described as a body or body awareness practice to bring healing. “TRE® is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and trauma. Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (or TRE®) is based on the fundamental idea, backed by research, that stress, tension and trauma is both psychological and physical.”  It is in engaging with this practice that clarity, connection, and an overall sense of peace is embodied.  Through the release of the muscular patterns of trauma, TRE elicits deep muscular relaxation and induces the body to activate the parasympathetic nervous system (the relaxation response).

Each healing circle is 90 minutes long and centers around Trauma/Stress Release Exercises as the core activity. As of now, Sovereignty in Sobriety is held at D3 Arts the second Wednesday of every month, all ages welcome. There is also a youth program that moves through the same outline but created in a way to meet youths where they are at so they may receive this medicine in a supportive way.

Program Outline

• Opening Introduction and grounding techniques for a soft space  

• Open discussion and community shares guided by topics and teachings based in,
  body awareness practices and root causes and solutions of addiction.  

• Trauma/Tension/Stress Release Exercises

• Reiki and AcuDetox are practices that will be in rotation and integrate the
  somatic or body awareness therapies. These holistic modalities create deeper self awareness and connection.

• Closing shares with each other and the group for people to connect on their experience.
  
  This is a donation based circle offered monthly at D3 Arts and provides services at different organizations. We can provide this curated circle in schools, residential treatment centers and sober living homes.