What is
Neuro Athletics?
And how can it
help my voice?
All Thought &
Movement
Starts in the Brain
Your brain's #1 job is to keep you alive right now. In order to do this, it processes approx. 11 million bits of information every second, but only 40-50 bits are consciously processed.
If that information leads your brain to believe you're in danger, or if messages coming in or going out are not clear or complete, then your brain won't allow you to move at your very best - including sing! - because instead, it's worried about keeping you alive.
In Neuro Athletics, we use simple drills to assess your brain and body (eyes, ears, taste, walking, smell, movement and even piercings & scars!) to see where the communication could be improved.
When communication is improved then your brain feels safe.
When your brain feels safe, you will immediately sing better, move better, gain strength, and find a new sense of ease and connection to your voice.
Anyone with a brain can benefit from this training.
Watch me demo how a scar I have completely "makes or breaks" my body & voice depending on how I move it!
In a Nutshell...
Since its inception in 1990, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has greatly enhanced our understanding of the brain. Neuro Athletics was created in the early 2000’s, taking this new and scientifically-based information about the brain and nervous system and using it to help train athletes. While it’s still a relatively new field and the science continues to grow, Neuro Athletic training has been used with great success by Olympic and other high-level athletes around the world, and it’s now being used by high-level executives, salespeople and singers & actors who are aiming to excel in performance situations.
As a trainer, I use simple exercises to assess the singer’s brain and nervous system, and then we use drills to help their brain to either calm down any over-active parts, or turn up any parts of the system that are running below-capacity. Because the nervous system acts at approx. 400km/hour, the results are immediate. Drills which provide high-payoff to the singer become favourite “go-to’s” when training and before performance. Drills which show less-engaged parts of the nervous system and brain become “rehab” for the singer to continue to do in small doses so that they can train their brain and perform at their highest potential.
Drills can be as simple as alternating between touching one's nose and the trainer's moving finger, or the trainer guiding the singer through nerve or muscle-specific stretches or contractions.
The drills are simple. The pay-off is huge.
Singing is work,
but let's make it effortless.
