OUR TEAM
We help athletes of all stripes—from dancers to singers, broadway performers to musicians, baseball players to rowers and weekend warriors—build strength, increase conditioning, and reduce their risk of injury. Sessions are scheduled individually with the trainers. There is also group training for performing artists who want to remain strong post their PT sessions - learn more below.
Andrew Schaeffer
Mental Health Counsellor, MA
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Andrew has been a fitness professional and certified strength and conditioning specialist for twelve years. As a coach, he specializes in strength training, Olympic weightlifting, and the roots of behavior change. He holds a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling and has a particular interest in the role that systems such as culture, society, and mental wellness play in physical performance. He works with the general population, with performing artists from professional dancers to Broadway performers, as well as collegiate athletes. He believes that physical strength forms the foundation for all performance.
Antoine Simmons
Motor Learning, MA Columbia Uni.
Industrial and Organizational Pyschology BS
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
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.
HOW IT WORKS
We’re taking opportunities to integrate nervous system regulation into the protocols we’re using at Flyspace. Something as simple as a 3 to 5 minute body scan—a form of mindfulness meditation—can benefit a rehab or training session. Often, we’re finding that patients and clients like it so much they ask for more. That’s an opportunity to normalize the benefits of paying attention to the psyche and opens the door to further exploration.
Nervous System Regulation
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 OCD 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 use any and all of these approaches to help you reach your maximum potential.
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NEURO-SOMATIC PROTOCOL
The Neurosomatic 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 in the most recent research in neuroscience, motor learning and control, visualization, mindfulness, mental health, and exercise science and kinesiology.
PELVIC FLOOR PT +NEURO-SOMATIC PROTOCOL
At our clinic, we are integrating a multimodal approach to treating pelvic pain and pelvic floor dysfunction by combining physical therapy with the Neurosomatic Protocol. This protocol combines techniques in performance-based visualization, trauma-informed affect management, breath-work, and mindfulness with strength training and is conducted by a mental health counselor/strength and conditioning specialist alongside a pelvic floor physical therapist.
Our goal is to help individuals treat not only the physical manifestations of pelvic floor pain or dysfunction, but also address any psychosocial or emotional aspects that may be present. We support the whole person through their recovery, body and mind. This program is billable through insurance.
