NEUROFEEDBACK: YOGA FOR YOUR BRAIN
One of the. singular gifts to give yourself, is the tuning of your whole being, through neurofeedback.
It works by training your brain, directly, through a noninvasive, nonintrusive gaming system. Electrodes allow your brain signals (brain waves) to be transmitted to the computer, which then “reads” them, identifying imbalances and what needs strengthening. Then we select games (very simple, so as not to interfere with the specific communication between the target areas in the brain) .
The brain is a complex system with many differentiated parts. They need to be working well together for you to experience what I call seamless experience. Flow. ‘Being’ is effortless. Doing requires effort. When you are in the flow, what you do is much more efficient and effective. Athletes, performers, many people train in neurofeedback to close this gap: an application of neurofeedback called peak experience training.
Our modern world is not in sync with our organic bodies. Your brain holds the sum total of what you put into it. All experience is encoded and organized in neural pathways. Output:Input and Input:Output.
The brain learns from past experience, organizing what is encoded in a system that enables quick retrieval on the spot. That way you can do what you need to do with the least effort required. Effort is high energy expenditure. The brain is conservative. It aims to reduce energy expenditure, in part because it is hungry itself! It takes a great deal of energy to use the neocortical, or executive, functions.
Your behavior is the output of what you’ve learned. By behavior, I don’t just mean the external kind. I mean thoughts, emotional responses, behavioral responses directed toward yourself. Your relationship with yourself is learned too.
We become what we do. Through repetition, we strengthen muscles- experiential ones- that lay neural pathways and create skills. We use what we’ve strengthened the most. That creates imbalance. We don’t get to strengthen some muscles when we keep using others. Neurofeedback gently guides you through new exercises. So that you can develop balance. The difference is striking.
There are many devices on the market. After careful consideration and training with Sebern Fischer, author of ‘Neurofeedback in the treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear Driven Brain,” I decided to go with the same company she uses: EEGER. After training with them I was blown away! They developed a program that works with the arousal system, which I had previously developed biofeedback tools for, such as SSP, RRP, Heartmath: for heart rate variability training, in addition to somatic-experiential training I offer during sessions.
Arousal is the engine of our body. Drive, motivation, excitement…. In clinical terms: hyperarousal and hyper vigilance, associated with anxiety; hypoarousal, flattening or numbing associated with depressed states or other shut down states. Or a combination of both, in traumatized states. Those are the ends of the continuum.
In the middle we have the central engine of human experience: drive, motivation, excitement, vitality. So the axis along which this kind of neurofeedback training travels is central to how our body and mind organize themselves and each other.
Stable attention, concentration, memory, judgment and organization—the executive functions— are dependent upon the availability of enough gas (energy) produced by the body. The executive functions require so much, that if you are out of balance, you will immediately notice a disruption in your executive functioning.
Arousal based neurofeedback is highly effective. When I first tried it, I had a terrible flight. An 5 hour flight turned into 12 hours in airports. I barely slept the night before. My nerves were jangled, for sure. The first day of training, I was told to limit my first training session to 6 minutes. “Ah. That’s nothing,” I thought. I had previously used other neurofeedback systems, which run 20 minutes a session and it would be several sessions before I noticed anything. After 6 minutes, I could scarcely believe how much contrast I had!
Keep in mind, we all have different starting points, so experiences will vary.
EEGer is an integrated neurofeedback system., meaning it is designed to be used in tandem with coaching or clinical work. Because it is highly effective, training is done in context with guidance, boundaries, direction, and attention to the wide array of changes that can follow.
I continue to train Alpha Theta personally— for peak experience training. It helps amplify my meditation and my contemplative practices. I can attest to how much inner space and clarity I have gotten from it. This is after a lifetime of therapy, personal growth, meditation and spiritual practices. I respect its power.
We start with an assessment, to gain clarity on goals and history, use a QUEEG to do a brainwave assessment, which the software stores and sets up the thresholds for the training to commence. I adjust those thresholds as needed, depending on your feedback (between sessions, not during).
I am only now (2026) opening this service to the general public. Can’t travel? We can do it remotely, although that will obviously be more of an investment. You will need to purchase a machine or rent one. However, you are the tool that you use to create your life. Why would you skimp on yourself? I only wish I had known about the power of this kind of training when I was 20. What a different life that would’ve opened up.
Please contact me for more information. This is a new program and I am building a new website. I will add some resources to this page in the near future.
Note:
Neurofeedback is not a recent invention. It was initially developed in 1936. Shortly therafter, research interests (and funding) went in a different direction. Not until the later 1950s, would it be picked up again, and the first units became available shortly thereafter. This is a hidden gem. And a well trialed one.
Much of the other. services I offer are a reflection of what you learned in your early life. The developmental period is called that for a reason. What develops? You! You learn how to be yourself, how to do what you need to do. We learn effortlessly in the earliest years. We absorb experience like a sponge. Language, for instance. We then learn how to refine it but the base is more accurately said to be acquired. The template of our later learning is laid during development. Neurofeedback can help release patterns that are locked in.