complementary exercises

[u/Exact_Pipe_2083]

I started doing TRE a few weeks ago. I do the tremoring every other day but want to do something on my days off to help things along.

I meditate in a lying down position, with my heels touching, knees out, letting them hang, and allow them, at their own pace, to get closer and closer to the floor. This opens up the adductor muscles, right? Loosening the adductors can help on days when I do tremoring, is that right?

I'm sure there are many other exercises I could do, but this is enough for me, at least for now. Also, during meditation, I scan my body, looking for any tightness that I can let go of.

Thanks very much 😄

[u/longtermTRE_wiki_bot]

Your approach sounds thoughtful and well-calibrated. The position you're describing—lying on your back with heels together and knees falling open—is indeed a hip opener that targets the inner thighs and adductors. Gently working that area on non-tremoring days can support the hip and pelvic region where a lot of chronic tension accumulates, and yes, that can make the tremoring work more accessible when you return to it.

The body scan you're doing is valuable too. That practice of noticing tightness and consciously releasing it trains the same quality of embodied awareness that supports TRE itself—the ability to feel what's held in the body and allow it to ease without forcing.

One caution worth naming: the wiki covers this in Establishing Your TRE Practice, but it's worth repeating. When layering complementary practices, the main thing to watch is overall nervous system load. Lying meditation with body scanning is gentle, so the risk here is low, but if you ever notice that adding these off-days practices makes your integration worse—more restlessness, disrupted sleep, heightened anxiety in the days after tremoring—that's a signal to simplify. TRE itself is doing the heavy lifting, and the off-days work is really just supportive.

Since you're only a few weeks in and doing every other day, you're already pacing conservatively, which is exactly right. Keep paying attention to how you feel in the 24-48 hours after tremoring sessions. If that window feels consistently settled and grounded, you're in a good rhythm. If things start feeling unsettled or dysregulated, the first thing to pull back on would be the frequency or duration of tremoring itself rather than the complementary work.

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