Learn how physiological signals can be measured, understood, and trained to support attention, performance, relaxation, and overall well-being.
Learn Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Skin Conduction, Temperature & Surface Electromyography.
Train brain activity through HEG - real-time blood flow and EEG - electroencephalographic feedback.
Build awareness and more adaptive control. Increase response time and decrease recovery.
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Neurofeedback
Respiration
Pulse
Pelvic Floor
Muscle Tension
Heart Rate Variability
Temperature
Skin Conductance
Neurofeedback (biofeedback for the head) involves training that helps improve voluntarily regulated brain activity; both electrical activity and brain blood flow. Neurofeedback training is typically associated with increased self-awareness and hence, self-control. Brain training can positively support:
Performance Enhancement
Spiritual Development
Arousal Level Modulation
Sleep & Wake Regulation
Cognitive Process Organization
Sensory Processing Normalization
Motor Activity Inhibition
Emotion & Mood Regulation
Memory Organization
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Respiration training can teach you how to control and optimize your breathing cycle. Respiration training can improve over breathing issues like hyperventilation and help you fine tune belly breathing. Respiration training can help you deepen meditation.
Your state of mind is reflected in your respiration or breathing rate. If you are relaxed and calm your breathing is normally slow and deep. If you are tense or angry your breathing may be quick and shallow.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) training is done using a pulse photoplesmography sensor. Modern science shows that HRV is an important indicator of both physiological resilience and behavioral flexibility. HRV markers reflect your capacity to adapt effectively to stress and environmental demands. Best of all HRV can be improved with biofeedback training. There is a plethora of evidence-based HRV research and field validation for the following challenges:
Stress Reduction
Deepened Relaxation
Slowing Breathing
Raising Low Energy
Improving Health
Pelvic Floor training helps to identify, strengthen or relax your pelvic floor muscles with the aim of improving function and to decrease pain. The sensors are specific to your challenge and are designed to provide information about relevant use and misuse of muscle activity. The feedback process improves your sensitivity and control.
You may benefit from pelvic floor training if you have:
Pelvic Floor Pain
Incontinence
Constipation
Obstruction
Surface Electromyography (SEMG) training can be very useful for:
Strengthening & Building Muscles
Training Muscles
Relaxing (Jaw, Neck, Shoulder) Muscles
Relieving Muscle Tension (associated with headache)
SEMG uses a surface electrode to measure muscle activity. Information about your muscle activity can be helpful as you become more aware of muscular holding patterns. sEMG is helpful in learning how to reduce muscle tension. Muscle activity is measured in units of microvolts which is the equivalent of one one millionth of a volt. As muscle tension increases so does the micro voltage reading. As you learn to relax tension can be brought under control.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) training is done using a pulse photoplesmography sensor. Modern science shows that HRV is an important indicator of both physiological resilience and behavioral flexibility. HRV markers reflect your capacity to adapt effectively to stress and environmental demands. Best of all HRV can be improved with biofeedback training. There is a plethora of evidence-based HRV research and field validation for the following challenges:
Stress Reduction
Deepened Relaxation
Slowing Breathing
Raising Low Energy
Improving Health
Temperature training using a thermistor (sensor) is useful for managing:
Headaches
Tinnitus
Hypertension
Deep relaxation
Cold Hand or Feet
Deepen Meditation
General Stress
Stress normally involves constriction of the peripheral arterioles as blood is moved to the big muscles so you can run or fight.Find out more about how measurements are made and what specific training strategies look like.
Skin conductance response (SCR) monitors sweat glands on your fingers or on the palm side of your hand using an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor. Electrical activity which increases with sweat gland activation normally increases with stress and decreases with relaxation. SCR training is a "validating" intervention during counseling, psychotherapy and hypnosis; as sweat gland activity is also monitored during polygraph or lie detection. SCR training is helpful for:
Sweaty Hands
Poor Impulse Control
Anxiety
Rumination
Brain exercise relies on a process known as neurofeedback. Neurofeedback trains your brain in the same way you learn any other skill; practice and feedback.
Your brain contains about 86 billion neurons that communicate through tiny electrical and chemical signals. Every thought, emotion, movement and memory arises from patterns of activity within these interconnected networks.
When groups of neurons activate together, they produce rhythmic electrical activity called brainwaves. These patterns change continuously as you focus, learn, relax or recover from stress.
Electroencephalography (EEG) measures these electrical signals from the scalp. Advanced software amplifies, analyzes, and displays the frequency, amplitude, and synchrony of brain activity, transforming invisible physiological patterns into information that can be observed and changed.
When the brain can observe its own activity, learning is possible. Through feedback and practice, you can strengthen healthier patterns of brain function and self-regulation.
Biofeedback and neurofeedback make the invisible visible, allowing the brain to learn through observation, feedback and experience.
Neurofeedback transforms your brain’s activity into real-time visual or auditory feedback. This allows the brain to recognize its own activity and gradually learn more effective patterns through practice.
Measure - HEG & EEG sensors monitor brain activity many times each second and compare it to your goal.
Feedback - Software instantly rewards movement toward the desired goal and signals when attention or regulation begins to drift.
Learn —-Through repeated feedback, the brain adapts its activity, strengthening patterns associated with improved attention, self-regulation and performance.
Neurofeedback doesn’t change the brain. It teaches the brain to change itself.
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