In this episode of Toxic Silence, we’re exploring the body’s most ancient language — the quiet gestures, shapes, and postures through which emotion speaks when words fall away.

So many of us carry the residue of unspoken experience — the tension in a jaw that never got to shout, the collapsed chest of someone who learned to stay small, the throat that still fears being heard. Our bodies remember what our minds try to forget.

Healing doesn’t always require effort — sometimes it begins in stillness. A simple gesture, a soft breath, the willingness to bring awareness to the places we’ve abandoned.

The body is always whispering, always trying to find its way back to flow. A blocked channel, a held muscle, a forgotten inhale — all of it waiting for our presence, for the small acts of devotion that say: I’m here now. You can soften.

When we shape our hands into a Mudra, when we sit and breathe into a posture, we’re not forcing anything open. We’re creating space — a quiet invitation for energy to circulate again, for emotion to move, for life to return to the places that have gone numb.

This is the essence of Kriya, of Mudra, of movement as medicine: the understanding that the divine is not something we must reach for, but something we remember through the body.

My guest today is Rachel Zinman, an internationally renowned yoga teacher, author, and musician based in Byron Bay. With over 35 years of teaching experience, she shares the wisdom of Yoga and Self Knowledge through the Sundaram Online Ashram, which she co-founded with her partner and Vedanta master, John Weddepohl. Rachel’s love of mudras — sacred gestures that restore balance and calm — infuses her work with depth, stillness, and grace. Through her classes, writing, and music, she guides others to experience yoga as a living path toward harmony and awareness.

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Website: https://rachelzinmanyoga.com/

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Today we’re exploring something that lives beneath language… beneath thought… even beneath emotion.

It’s the body’s own rhythm of release — a trembling, shaking, quivering movement that we’ve long been taught to suppress.

It's something called it TRE — Trauma and Tension Release Exercises — a simple but profound practice that invites the body to remember how to let go.

When animals experience threat, they shake.
After the chase, after the freeze, their bodies tremor — releasing the charge of survival. And then, just like that, they return to grazing. Calm. Present. Reset.
Humans, on the other hand, have learned to override this natural wisdom. We hold it all in. We stay composed, controlled, contained.
We call it resilience — but really, it’s often just endurance.

Over time, this unspent tension builds up — in our muscles, our fascia, our breath, our sleep, our relationships.
It becomes the silent language of the body — tightness, anxiety, inflammation, burnout.
Our systems are still trying to complete a story that never had an ending.

TRE is a way to finish that story.

My guest today, TRE and Reiki Therapist Gabriel Kaszab. Gabriel is a TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) and Reiki practitioner based in Brisbane. He guides people in reconnecting with their body’s innate wisdom through tremor, touch, and presence — helping the nervous system unwind stored tension and return to calm. His work bridges science and energy, offering a grounded, compassionate path to regulation and resilience.

Links:

Website: https://www.gabrielkaszab.com/

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/gabriel_kaszab

Today I’m joined by Kim Williams, founder of the Frequency Lab in Newtown, Sydney. Kim is an experienced wellness entrepreneur, aromatherapist, and sound medicine practitioner whose work bridges ancient healing and modern innovation.

In this conversation, we explore the language of frequency — how rhythm, resonance, and light entrain the body toward coherence, release stored emotion, and help us return to our natural state of balance.

Links:

Website: https://frequencylab.com.au/

Insta:

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