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International certification is now within reach! BCIA is now the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance

The Biofeedback Certification International Alliance, formerly The Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA), is the only institute recognized worldwide granting Board Certification to biofeedback practitioners. BCIA was established in 1981 with the mission of protecting the general public by establishing strict standards for biofeedback practitioners. In March 2010, the new name was formally adopted to reflect the global identity.

Durban Homeboy Tim Harkness celebrates a year of success as a Sports
Psychologist with Chelsea football team

Tim's own biofeedback team specializing in Optimal Sports Performance is Bruno De Michelis (AC Milan) and the MindRoom concept. The MindRoom was envisioned and developed by Thought Technology's enthusiastic Larry Klein!

Under pressure: What big games do to players and how they cope

Nothing feels normal when the whole world's watching. You're in the NBA Finals, playing the most important game of your life, and things don't feel right. You don't know why, buts you damn sure know they don't. "Everything is magnified," explained Dr. Leonard D. Zaichkowsky. But it's not just the fact that there's a title on the line: "There's going to be different lighting, the music will be even louder, and there's just more attention." And yet, you've got to perform. It's Zaichkowsky's job to help you do that....

Biofeedback and Neurofeedback at the Vancouver Olympics 2010

Canada's top secret initiative -OWN THE PODIUM - involved the use of the latest in high-tech training. The biggest secret was the use of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback to train athletes to develop the ability to rapidly switch between a relaxed state and a super-focused state without wasting any physiological resources...

SHAPE Magazine Article - Pelvic Floor Panaceas- Minding Your Pees and Loos

At forty-two I’m supposed to be supremely female. I’m supposed to run with the wolves. But how’s a girl to run with the wild pack if she leaks pee when she does. I’m supposed to be peaking, not leaking! I should be in control, not bloody incontinent. The very term evokes images of my beloved nana who, at 97, could quote Keats at the drop of a hat, but who always had a vague smell of pee about her. Not an alluring scent...

What does India's Gold Medal Winner have in common with Italy's Soccer Team and NASA?

The Power of Infiniti™

India's Bindra Used Biofeedback To Win Olympic Gold

Beijing, China (AHN) - It turns out that Abhinav Bindra had a secret weapon when he took the gold medal in the 10 meter air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics becoming the first athlete from India to ever earn an individual gold medal in that Olympic sport. Bindra trained for his event using biofeedback training to master control over the other skills, besides dead aim, that a shooter needs to excel in the 10 meter event

The Biofeedback Way To Starve Stress

Mark Golin If you're like me, then you've probably flirted briefly with some sort of meditation or guided-imagery technique in an attempt to give stress the slip.

Unfortunately, I always ran into the same problem. After wrapping myself up into a reasonable facsimile of the lotus position, I'd close my eyes and set sail for inner peace. About 10 minutes into my journey, I'd start wondering if I was doing it right...

Biofeedback for Southern Africa

"The time has finally come to bring affordable biofeedback and neurofeedback equipment to South Africa!" says Lawrence Klein, Sales Director for Thought Technology, Montreal, Canada.

Can biofeedback give equivalent results to years of yoga training?

Hasselt - "The reason why I invited this Japanese yogi is that I wanted to know how much pain he feels and how he can do these things without screaming of pain", says Dr. Peper, president of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe . Ten minutes later Mitsumasa Kawakami wets the iron skewer with his tongue and pierces it through the skin of his throat. His respiration rate does not increase, his heart rhythm remains stable. "Health is control over your body", concludes Dr. Peper.

Psychophysiological Psychotherapy, The use of Biofeedback, biological monitoring, and stress management principles in Psychotherapy

Sigmund Freud described the interpretation of dreams as the "royal road to the unconscious" for psychotherapy (1900). Today psychophysiology can provide that royal road for psychotherapists. This program introduces fifteen principles guiding the use of psychophysiology in psychotherapy, including specific techniques and case examples, showing the use of biofeedback instrumentation to augment the work of psychotherapy...