NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION

PERFORMANCE TRAINING

High performance coaches use nervous system regulation to create better body awareness, allow athletes to visualize training scenarios, and help them achieve and maintain flow states during competition. Mental health professionals use it to help manage challenges from anxiety to depression, to trauma. Health care providers have been integrating it as a way to manage pain, speed recovery, and regulate overstimulated nervous systems. At Flyspace, we integrate any and all of these approaches to help you reach your maximum potential.

HOW IT WORKS

Nervous system regulation is tailored to your specific needs and goals. For some, the focus is entirely based in mindfulness and mental health interventions, for others it is a blend of mindfulness and visualization techniques applied to exercise. To find out what it might look like for you, please reach out.

Nervous system regulation by expert strength and conditioning team at FlySpace Physical Therapy in New York.

Personal trainer coaching strength and condition client at FlySpace Physical Therapy in New York.

NEURo-somatic Protocol

The Neuro-somatic Protocol links together and then trains your cognitive, psychological, and physical performance in one comprehensive program. Over six to twelve weeks, in private or semi-private sessions, you will increase and hone attention and awareness, learn to modulate psychological and emotional responses, and then apply these skills to physical training.

What makes this program unique is the fact that from day one, each of the above performance domains are treated not as separate realms, but as one completely integrated system. The protocol is based on the most recent research in neuroscience, motor learning and control, visualization, mindfulness, mental health, and exercise science and kinesiology.

INQUIRE ABOUT PROGRAM

MEET THE FLYSPACE STRENGTH TEAM

ANDREW SCHAEFFER

Mental Health Counsellor, MA
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Andrew is a strength and conditioning specialist and licensed mental health counselor with more than fifteen years of experience working with high-level performers and professionals. He has worked privately with professional dancers, Broadway performers, and C-suite executives, and has been brought in by organizations including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Broadway productions to develop strength and conditioning programs for individual artists and entire casts.
With advanced training and certifications in strength and conditioning, Olympic weightlifting, kettlebell training, and corrective exercise, Andrew brings a comprehensive approach to physical performance. His career in mental health provides an additional lens through which to understand the psychological side of performing at a high level—including pressure, confidence, recovery, behavior change, and the relationship between physical and mental resilience. At FlySpace, he also leads the Performer Open Strength Hour, helping performing artists develop physical resilience and the health literacy to better understand and manage their own training.
Whether preparing a performer for an eight-show week, developing programming for a professional company, or working privately with an executive, his goal is the same: to help people build the capacity to perform at their highest level.
ANTOINE SIMMONS

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Motor Learning, MA Columbia Uni.
Industrial and Organizational Pyschology BS
Antoine has a been a fitness professional for thirteen years. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University in Motor Learning and Control in addition to holding certifications in strength and conditioning, nutrition, corrective exercise, wave vibration training, and kettlebells. He has worked with collegiate, professional, and Olympic athletes as well as Navy SEALS, television personalities, professional dancers, Broadway performers, and laypeople. His philosophy centers on the notion that peak performance is relative. It is not one size fits all. Instead, each person requires an approach that will meet their unique demands. Therefore, any peak performance regimen should reflect and cater to those individual demands.