01/08/2026
Thursday Night Special at 6:30pm is a Rotating Class where we rotate through special class styles. First Thursdays are Neurogenic Yoga. This special 90-min class is treated like a regular drop in class. Memberships and class passes can be used. Sign up in advance, or drop in and the front desk can sign you up (space permitting).
Register here: www.MainStreetYogaCenter.org/studioschedule
Neurogenic Yoga™ is a revolutionary technique in trauma healing and stress reduction.
This practice combines yoga asana and pranayama with the body’s natural, therapeutic shaking response. This shaking response in humans, much the same as the instinctual shaking in animals, is the nervous system’s way of discharging long-held tension and trauma, or unconscious muscle contraction in order to restore the body to wholeness. When the nervous system identifies threat, vibration or shaking in the body is designed to occur automatically. However, negative social constructs and beliefs around what it means to allow ourselves to shake, tremor, or show vulnerability, condition us out of this innate release mechanism at a very early age. Neurogenic Yoga reawakens our body’s intrinsic release mechanism for optimal health.
Neurogenic Yoga is a simple, gentle and profound practice that facilities the lengthening and relaxation of the psoas muscle and the release of physical and emotional stress and tension. During a Neurogenic Yoga™ practice, we safely self induce neurogenic tremoring using yoga postures, breath and body-driven movement. Often vibration begins in the legs and may spread throughout the entire body, releasing long held tension. This method is based on Dr. David Berceli’s technique of Trauma Releasing Exercises® (TRE®), but expands on the pathways through the nervous system to produce the Neurogenic Tremors, often adding a dimension to TRE by using a larger variety of switches in the Nervous System.
Reported benefits include:
• Release of chronic tension
• Increase of energy & stamina
• Discharge of buried emotional & physical trauma
• Freedom from pain of sciatica & fibromyalgia
• Decrease of aches & pains
• Improved sleep
• Improved circulation & flexibility
• Improved mood
• Improved sense of feeling grounded & focused
• Increased sense of wellness & relaxation
The first half of this 90-minute class will focus on physical practice designed to warm up the body and invoke Neurogenic Tremors using Dr David Bercelli's TRE Technique. After tremoring for 20 to 25 minutes, we will then shut down our tremoring and integrate the nervous system. Very Accessible to all experience levels, this process is a complement to, but should not be used as a substitute for trauma recovery procedures of a medical or psychological nature.
Alex Pfeiffer is a Certified in both Neurogenic Yoga and TRE.
