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Maitri Somatics, PO Box 8137, Essex Junction, VT (2026)

08/26/2026

❤️Join us at Chace Mill, Burlington, VT!

Yoga & TRE® Workshop!

🗓Saturday September 5th from 1-4pm EST

🎟Tiered pricing: $65/$55/$45

🤔Have you been feeling curious about this TRE® thing? Explore the panels to learn more.

🌟TRE® teaches you how to access your body’s built in response to unraveling stress and tension and discharging the energy accumulated from the stress response that lives in you. It is yours!

📣"This was such a safe space to try something that may, at first, felt/seemed a little strange, but with a curious perspective, I was very surprised and satisfied with my experience! Thank you." ~TRE® & Yoga workshop participant
Join us to learn how to activate it for more ease and peace in your life❤️

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here:
https://laughingriveryoga.union.site/events/laughing-river-yoga-yoga-tre

📅Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

warmly,
joann (she,her)

08/16/2026

❤️Join us at Chace Mill, Burlington, VT!

Yoga & TRE® Workshop!

🗓Saturday September 5th from 1-4pm EST

🎟Tiered pricing: $65/$55/$45

🤔Have you been feeling curious about this TRE® thing? Not sure about doing something so “weird” with others? I hear you! I remember the first time I learned TRE®, it was in a group of about 40(!) other people and I wasn’t so sure. In fact, I set myself up right next to the door so I could exit quickly if needed!

😍To my pleasant surprise, I was able to stay, and tapped into a powerful healing practice that has changed the landscape of my being in profound ways. My chronic pain cycles began to subside. My anxiety condition improved so much that I was able to come off of a handful of medications (w/my Dr.’s assistance, of course), and my daily panic attacks disappeared. And it's not just me! Thousands of people all over the world have benefited in a wide variety of ways from TRE®.

❤️It has been my great honor to guide hundreds of folks to access their own unique neurogenic tremor response for managing stress, tension, and trauma. If you have a body, you experience stress and this is for you! See what the Laughing River Yoga community has had to say about their experience...

🤔learn more here: https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

08/13/2026

Mary Fregeau Engelberth, 90 years old, of Essex, VT passed away on June 30, 2026 surrounded by her loving family.

Mary was born on April 24, 1936 in Sherbrooke Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Albert and Catherine Fregeau. During her childhood Mary loved attending school at the Ursuline Convent in Stansted Quebec and spending time with the nuns. She graduated from Stansted College and then the Bugbee Business School in 1957 where she was active in the jazz band, knitting club, and played piano at the prom.

On September 18, 1964 she married her devoted husband Otto Engelberth with whom she spent the next sixty years. Mary had a tremendous amount of love in her heart and enjoyed helping others whenever she could. She was always there to offer advice and support to whoever needed it. During her life she enjoyed working at her father’s law office, organizing Well Child Clinics, running horse shows and volunteering wherever she was needed. Mary loved spending time at The Tavern at The Essex and enjoyed getting to know the staff and chatting with people at the bar. She also enjoyed a good martini and a barstool there bears a plaque with her name engraved.

Mary, a devoted mother and wife, is survived by her loving husband, Otto Engelberth; her children, Tim Engelberth and his wife Joann, and Beth Engelberth and her husband George Bergin. Mary is survived by her grandchildren Lena, River, Henry and his fiancée Taylor Barnaby; and her great grand daughter Eloise. She was predeceased by her parents Albert and Catherine Fregeau.

A celebration of life will be held at The Essex on August 21st from 4-6 pm. Please come and enjoy a martini in Mary’s honor.

In lieu of flowers donations in Mary’s name may be made to Essex Alliance Church, 30 Old Stage Road, Essex Jct., VT 05452.

08/13/2026

Mary Fregeau Engelberth, 90 years old, of Essex, VT passed away on June 30, 2026 surrounded by her loving family.

Mary was born on April 24, 1936 in Sherbrooke Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Albert and Catherine Fregeau. During her childhood Mary loved attending school at the Ursuline Convent in Stansted Quebec and spending time with the nuns. She graduated from Stansted College and then the Bugbee Business School in 1957 where she was active in the jazz band, knitting club, and played piano at the prom.

On September 18, 1964 she married her devoted husband Otto Engelberth with whom she spent the next sixty years. Mary had a tremendous amount of love in her heart and enjoyed helping others whenever she could. She was always there to offer advice and support to whoever needed it. During her life she enjoyed working at her father’s law office, organizing Well Child Clinics, running horse shows and volunteering wherever she was needed. Mary loved spending time at The Tavern at The Essex and enjoyed getting to know the staff and chatting with people at the bar. She also enjoyed a good martini and a barstool there bears a plaque with her name engraved.

Mary, a devoted mother and wife, is survived by her loving husband, Otto Engelberth; her children, Tim Engelberth and his wife Joann, and Beth Engelberth and her husband George Bergin. Mary is survived by her grandchildren Lena, River, Henry and his fiancée Taylor Barnaby; and her great grand daughter Eloise. She was predeceased by her parents Albert and Catherine Fregeau.

A celebration of life will be held at The Essex on August 21st from 4-6 pm. Please come and enjoy a martini in Mary’s honor.

In lieu of flowers donations in Mary’s name may be made to Essex Alliance Church, 30 Old Stage Road, Essex Jct., VT 05452.

07/31/2026

Join me Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

❓Why would I want to learn TRE® ?

“Because you have a body!”

Your body’s natural shaking mechanism is a body response we share with all mammals. In fact, when you were coming “into being” in the womb, kicking your momma in the belly, you were trembling, shaking, and stretching into being via your body’s natural shaking mechanism!

Your body wants to shake, and already does, even if you don’t notice it! The problem is that culturally we learn early not to allow this shaking to happen.

To zip it up. Keep it together. Be still.

And we have a litany of diagnoses and medications to help you see it as an illness or disorder that needs to be stopped. Sometimes this is true, like the challenge of living with Parkinson’s…

…and most of the time they are just your body’s way of discharging stress and tension.

It is an attempt your body makes to bring your organism back towards homeostasis. On the brighter side, exercise physiologists have known for a long time that vibration enhances athletic performance, recovery, muscle function and more! (Remember those vibration belts in the 60's? or the vibration plates in gyms today!)

Maybe you are working out hard or training for an event and could use a quick and simple new recovery tool. Maybe you have body tension that is uncomfortable. Maybe anxiety and pain will bring you to TRE®. Maybe your mind is just too busy to settle and you are ready to calm your mind through your body. Since you have a body, TRE® is for you!

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here: https://sanghastudio.union.site/performances/jdbbm6wz

🗓Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

07/24/2026

Join me @ Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

❓Why would I want to learn TRE® (Part 2)?

👼🏼In the previous post I wrote about how you came into being in the womb through tremors, shakes, and stretches. It seems that these “twitches” that happen in utero help the nerves growing from your brainstem and spinal cord find their connections in your periphery muscles, think legs and arms for example. These twitches create chemical and electrical impulses that help a body connect to their proprioceptors, certain nerves found in joints, muscles, and skin.

☯Your proprioceptors are those nerves that help you know where your body is in space; in relation to your environment; and in relation to your other body parts.

🚨Injuries, pain, surgery sites, stress, and trauma all impact our body schema; interrupt our proprioception awareness; disrupt our body schema.

🗺When our body schema gets wonky we have a hard time feeling our bodies and making sense of how we are organized. Our inner “body maps” get distorted and that creates a lack of stability and impacts our sense of safety.

“Once [the baby has made these] neural connections [has grown nerves into their peripheral muscles] their body continues to twitch [away] to help calibrate their body schema…” (Khazipof et al 2004 Peterson, Waidenstrom, Fahraens, & Schauenburg 2003)!

If you could use a recalibration of your body schema I invite you to join us!

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here:
https://www.union.fit/.../sangha-studio-tre-yoga...

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

07/17/2026

Join me @ Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

❓Why would I want to learn TRE® Part 3?

🧠Your body is intelligent. Consider all it does without your assistance: it digests; repairs tissues; pumps blood; releases enzymes; and many, many more intricate and amazing systems that keep you alive and functioning without the need for your mind to manage it…at all!

Thank you, body, for saving me so much mental energy!

📝We often find ourselves trying to manage all the details. We want to control things! The fact is, your body has its own locus of control. TRE® 's tremoring, shaking, and stretching are your body's natural responses that reduce physical contraction patterns that arise from stressful experiences. This tremor mechanism restores movement to soft tissues and muscles that surround your organs, along your spine, and the rest of your body.

TRE® helps your central nervous system detect parts of your body you haven’t spent much time “feeling” or “sensing.”

🧬TRE® is a reorganizational impulse that helps your body keep evolving! TRE® is an experience of being moved by your body’s own innate intelligence.

💡In TRE® we use our brain’s capacity for discernment and awareness to create psychological safety to allow your body to move itself towards health at the pace that is just right for you. One of the reasons this practice is so powerful is that,

“Embodied interventions work best when they can activate the body’s own intrinsic neuromotor growth processes.” (The Psychophysiology of Self Awareness, Alan Fogel).

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here:
https://www.union.fit/.../sangha-studio-tre-yoga...

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

07/10/2026

Join me Sangha Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, August 15th 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:

⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50

✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60

💚Choose Your Own Donation

🤔Have you been feeling curious about this TRE® thing? Not sure about doing something so “weird” with others? I hear you! I remember the first time I learned TRE®, it was in a group of about 40(!) other people and I wasn’t so sure. In fact, I set myself up right next to the door so I could exit quickly if needed!

😍To my pleasant surprise, I was able to stay, and tapped into a powerful healing practice that has changed the landscape of my being in profound ways. My chronic pain cycles began to subside. My anxiety condition improved so much that I was able to come off of a handful of medications (w/my Dr.’s assistance, of course), and my daily panic attacks disappeared. And it's not just me! Thousands of people all over the world have benefited in a wide variety of ways from TRE®.

📣“What a COOL workshop! As someone who is not very in tune with their body I was pretty terrified when I got there. The exercises were amazing to experience. Being aware and noticing what is going on in your body is a GIFT and this workshop gave me that. Thank you!”
~Jordan L., TRE® & Yoga workshop participant

🤔learn more here https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

👉register here:
https://www.union.fit/.../sangha-studio-tre-yoga...

Mark your calendar, pre-register, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
(& this group will be no more than 15 people😅)

warmly,
joann (she,her)

06/11/2026

THANK YOU PERU!! So much gratitude to the amazing people of this place that made it possible to hike the Inca trail to Maccu Picchu, tent several nights, navigate a hail storm, and my own limitations. So much gratitude to the Sacred Valley that nourished and held me in deep practice. So much appreciation and deep thankfulness to my guru Kavitha Chinnaiyan Kavitha Chinnaiyan for the profound healing she made possible for me here. To the shamans and space holders I'm forever indebted to your immense skill and grace. And thank you to my family for their continued support of my "weird" journey❤️😍😭❤️

05/09/2026

Join me Studio - Williston, VT

TRE & Yoga Workshop!

🗓Saturday, May 16th, 2pm - 5pm EST

🎟Suggested Donation:
⚖️Sustaining Rate: $50
✨Gold Glitter Rate: $60
💚Choose Your Own Donation

🙏Relating in TRE®? Relate to what? Is this necessary? Important?

❤️I see this practice of relating on two levels: how are we relating to our body and its process with TRE® & Yoga? And how am I relating to others, both within and outside of the group?

🤔At the first level, we are beginning to cultivate increased awareness of our internal and more subtle body experiences. So how do we care for ourselves in this process? I invite you to continually return to the questions,

🥰“What is right for me at this moment?” “What discerning choices can I make moment to moment for my own healing, recovery, and well being?”

🔶Within the container of the group is the space and encouragement to go at your own pace. So you can develop self trust and take the right actions for you.

😀At the second level, connectedness is a biological imperative. Neuroscience teaches us that we are wired to be in relationships, in community. Healing happens in community. And humans, that’s us, learn our most robust regulation skills from other regulated nervous systems! We’ll explore our own real time experience in the online group, as well as identify ways to find connections with other regulated humans in your sphere to enhance your capacity to feel at ease and comforted in the presence of others.

👉I invite you to join me for a TRE® & Yoga Workshop this summer to Release, Regulate, Relate, and Renew your Resilience. In the container of a small group of not more than 15 participants, you will learn several strategies and practices for building somatic hygiene, the care and keeping of your body.

Learn more and sign up...

👉https://maitrisomatics.com/the-tre-workshop/

❓As alway, if you have any questions, reach out!

warmly,
joann

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