Richmond Heath

Richmond Heath is the founder of TRE Australia and a global leader in Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE), a body-based method that helps people release chronic stress by activating the body’s natural tremor reflex.

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Hilmarie Hutchison

Richmond Heath

Founder, TRE Australia | Global TRE Educator | Physiotherapy & Mental Health Background

Richmond Heath is the founder of TRE Australia and a global leader in Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE), a body-based method that helps people release chronic stress by activating the body’s natural tremor reflex. With a background spanning physiotherapy and mental health, Richmond has worked across a wide range of environments, from disaster recovery and trauma support to elite sport, corporate wellbeing, and everyday nervous system regulation.

His story starts with a surprisingly early “why”. As a child, after watching conflict on the news, he felt a deep pull toward helping people experience more peace and harmony. Years later, that instinct found a grounded, practical outlet through TRE. I

Today, Richmond’s mission is simple and powerful: support healing and resilience at scale by helping people reconnect with the body’s built-in recovery mechanism, and move toward “world peace, one body at a time.”

About this Episode

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In this episode of the Matrix Green Pill Podcast, host Hilmarie Hutchison sits down with Richmond Heath to explore a different way of thinking about stress, trauma, and healing. Richmond explains what TRE actually is, why shaking and trembling are often misunderstood, and how the tremor reflex isn’t a sign that something is wrong, but a sign the body is trying to recover.

They unpack how TRE works in practical terms, why it can help people without needing to retell or relive painful experiences, and how it adapts across settings like disaster recovery, high-performance sport, and workplace stress. Richmond also shares the deeper long-term benefits he’s seen in consistent practitioners: increased groundedness, improved sleep, more creativity, stronger resilience, and what he calls “physiological maturity,” where the nervous system becomes more stable, safe, and centred over time.

The conversation also covers accessibility: how people can learn TRE in-person or online, how it can be practiced safely, and why empowering individuals to regulate their own nervous system can remove a major barrier found in many support models. It’s a practical, hopeful episode that brings healing back to something human and natural: the body already knows what to do, we just need to let it.

“What does well-being mean to you? It means having peace within myself, harmony in my relationship with others, and joy and vitality at the experience of being alive in a human body.”

Richmond Heath

“People learn how to self-regulate the tremoring. So, we lie down, you use a simple exercise to fatigue the muscles, the body starts to shake, and then we take the muscles off load and the body stops shaking.”
Richmond Heath

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The beauty is that once you learn to access this natural process inside you, you can then use it on your own for free for the rest of your life. -Richmond Heath Click To Tweet

“It’s an absolute joy because being able to reframe, you know, someone’s paradigm and then provide them with a process which, you know, there can be life-changing transformations happen in a single session.”

Richmond Heath

“It’s an absolute pleasure and a joy and a privilege to be able to reconnect people with this process and this resource which is already inside them, and then to be able to empower them with that so they can take that away for the rest of their life.”

Richmond Heath