What is
Neuro Athletics?
And how can it
help my voice?
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 combining it with movement 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, especially in Germany, and it’s now being used by high-level executives, salespeople and singers & actors who are aiming to excel in performance situations.
Anyone with a brain can benefit from this training.
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 pretty much 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.
