WASHINGTON — Feb. 26, 2018 — Can combined biofeedback, waking imagination and lucid dreaming enhance sports performance? Our Biofeedback app is an attempt to articulate both this question and the potential responses. The app leverages the Apple Watch OS native functionality to record heart rate, and also allows you to manually record conscious breathing, body temperature (all three biofeedback mechanisms), mental […]
Mindfulness and Sport Performance: Elite Athletes, Flow and Spirituality
Mindfulness can be a useful method of helping athletes stay in the present both while training and then while competing. While in the present, the athlete has a much better chance of experiencing the flow state, which can then lead to a broader spiritual experience. The paper ranges from the hyper-hormonal, competitive, entrepreneurial aspects of […]
MBM 5566: Qualitative Research Overview
Voluntary body control can enhance sports performance. The purpose of this literature review is to explore how biofeedback, neurofeedback, mental rehearsal, and lucid dreaming can enhance sports performance by looking at 15 research articles published between 2012 and 2017. Download MBM 5566: Qualitative Research Overview
BioFeedback App Now Available for iPhone and Apple Watch in the App Store
WASHINGTON — Aug. 24, 2017 — Beginning today, athletes can download the BioFeedback app, a platform to record data that, when analyzed, will guide the athlete to improve performance. The app allows you to record data about conscious breathing, heart rate, body temperate (both biofeedback mechanisms), mental rehearsal and lucid dreaming. The data is collected […]
Gratitude
I am grateful today for all of the many wonderful people who have crossed my path and have become clients. I am grateful for being able to perfect my skill and craft. I am grateful that the opportunity presented itself for me engage in a PhD program that fits into my integrative work life and […]
Self-Care
This morning I am thinking about the importance of sustainable, consistent self-care. In a profession where I spend so much of my energy and time caring for others, I have learned that I also need to carve out time for me and my own self-care. For the last year or more I have been consistently […]
Reiki and Therapeutic Touch: A Comparison and Contrast
The history and development of energy medicine from pre-history to current day concepts in quantum physics tells us much about who we are and what we value as both a culture and nonlinearity are really what stream of consciousness is about. Download Reiki and Therapeutic Touch: A Comparison and Contrast
Starting
I’m looking forward to sharing my journey as I continue to both finish my PhD studies and facilitate both the injury prevention and recovery of the athletes I work with. I’m very much looking forward to the combination of the soft tissue work I’ve been practicing since 2003 with the mental applications I am learning. […]
US Olympic Marathon Trials
I’ve gone to several US Olympic marathon trials as well as Track and Field Trials. These events are full of energy and expectation and I have been very fortunate to develop a cadre of both therapists and runners/athletes in this process where we refer to each other’ expertise.
Twin Cities Marathon and Paraolympic Track and Field Trials
Tyler was born without the use of his legs. I met him at the Twin Cities Marathon which I have accompanied clients to for several years. He was the first finisher in the chair division. I worked on him when he came into the elite tent and we both discovered we were from the Washington […]