What is Alpha brain wave training?
Alpha brain wave training teaches your brain to produce more Alpha waves (8–13 Hz), the rhythm of relaxed, alert focus. At Biocybernaut you train in a private booth for seven days. Sensors on your scalp read your brainwaves and a tone gets louder as your Alpha gets stronger, so you can feel what works and do more of it. Unlike standard neurofeedback, which conditions the brain without your awareness, this is conscious learning: you make the change yourself, and you keep the skill.
- 7 days, in person, in small groups, at our centers in Sedona, Arizona and Bavaria, Germany
- No meditation experience needed. Many trainees have never meditated
- Everyone starts with Alpha One; Alpha Two, Alpha Three and Theta training build on it
- Published results include +11.7 IQ points and +50% creativity scores on average
How the Alpha levels build on each other
"Alpha 1 was like, being able to put out your arms and fly. Alpha 2 was like being in the cockpit of an F-16 and being able to zoom up to the edge of space. Alpha 3 was like integrating everything I ever wanted to integrate. And Alpha 4 knocked it out of the park!"
Biocybernaut Graduate
Twenty Four Levels of Alpha Trainings
Alpha Trainings build on each previous training bringing you into richer and richer experiences and allowing your brain waves to organize and grow and synchronize more broadly across your head. Each successive training allows you to further advance in your Mind Mastery through increasing self-mastery of your own brain waves.
Alpha One training gives you feedback on four different channels. The left and right Occipitals, as well as the left and right Centrals. On the fourth day, you will receive feedback on the coherence between your left and right hemispheres. This Hemi-Coherence feedback continues all of Days 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Alpha Two gives you feedback on all 8 channels, which are the left and right Frontals and the left and right Temporals (in addition to the Alpha One feedback channels). The feedback also includes hemi-coherence on four Left Brain: Right Brain channel pairs.
Alpha Three provides feedback that focuses your learning predominantly on integrating your Left Brain and your Right Brain. This involves compelling feedback that emphasizes your hemi-coherence tones and scores, all of which deal with left: right synchronization.
What is the differences between the Premium Single and Premium Double Alpha Neurofeedback Trainings?
For our Alpha 2 Neurofeedback Training, all 128 channels are up and running starting on Day 1, but the brain would be overwhelmed with too much information if all of these channels were provided as feedback. An “information overwhelm” slows down or even prevents learning. At Biocybernaut, EEG activity is recorded bilaterally from Occipital, Central, Temporal and Frontal Cortical locations. Bilaterally means left hemisphere and right hemisphere of the brain.
In the International 10-20 electrode placement systems, this is O1, O2, C3, C4, T3, T4, F3 and F4.
At each one of these cortical locations, the Biocybernaut technology derives 16 different EEG filter bands, so there are 128 EEG Integrated Amplitude scores being derived continuously, and all are available for feedback. Of course, the brain would be overwhelmed if it were provided with anywhere close to this number of independent channels of feedback information. So the Biocybernaut research has shown us which are the most effective channels of information, and how many at any given time, to provide to our clients (our trainees) in the introductory Alpha One training and also in the more advanced trainings, which go up to 24 separate Alpha training programs, each of which is 7 days long.
In addition to these 128 channels of integrated amplitude scores, there are over 65,000 hemicoherence pairs which can be simultaneously derived. In the Alpha One and Alpha Two trainings these are normally derived from the Broad Band Alpha of the Occipital pair, the Central pair, the Temporal pair and the Frontal pair. There are an immense number of combinations of Hemi-coherent pairs that could be made available as feedback, so the Biocybernaut research team has found which of these tens of thousands of possible hemicoherence pairs are bestto provide to our clients in each of the 24 levels of the Alpha trainings.
What about the Neurofeedback Channels for the Alpha 1 Single or Double?
In the Alpha 1 Premium Single, where people go into the neurofeedback chamber once each day, people start with 6 digital scores and 4 audio feedback channels. The six digital scores are Broad Band Alpha EEG from O1, O2, C3 and C4. In addition, there are the 2 Hemicoherent Broad Band Alpha scores from the Occipital pair and the Central pair of electrodes. On the 4th day of the Alpha One Premium Single, we add in the audio feedback from these two hemicoherent pairs, making for six audio feedback channels and 6 digital score feedback channels. These 6 scores and 6 audio feedback channels are then given as feedback for the rest of the training week, which includes Day 5, 6 and 7.
In the Alpha 1 Premium Double, where people go into the neurofeedback chamber twice each day, people start with 6 digital scores and 4 audio feedback channels, just like in the Premium Single. The six digital scores are Broad Band Alpha EEG from O1, O2, C3 and C4. In addition, there are the 2 Hemicoherent Broad Band Alpha scores from the Occipital pair and the Central pair of electrodes. On the 4th time in the chamber (which is the second session of Day 2) of the Alpha One Premium Double training, we add in the audio feedback from these two hemicoherent pairs, making for six audio feedback channels and 6 digital score feedback channels.
Then on Day 4 of the Alpha 1 Premium Double, we add in 3 more scoring channels and two more audio feedback channels. The 3 more scores are the F3 and F4 Integrated amplitude scores from Broad Band Alpha EEG and also the Hemicoherence score from the Frontal Broad Band Alpha. On Day 5 we add in the audio feedback from the Hemicoherence of the Frontal Broad Band Alpha. This is now 9 channels of audio feedback and 9 channels of digital feedback on integrated amplitude Alpha activity.
On Day 6 of the Alpha 1 Premium Double, we add in 3 more scoring channels and two more audio feedback channels. The 3 more scores are the T3 and T4 Integrated amplitude scores from Broad Band Alpha EEG and also the Hemicoherence score from the Temporal Broad Band Alpha. On Day 7, we add in the audio feedback from the Hemicoherenceof the Temporal Broad Band Alpha. This is now 12 channels of audio feedback and 12 channels of digital feedback scores, which include both the integrated amplitude Alpha activity and the Hemicoherence Alpha activity.
These 12 channels of feedback include 8 channels of integrated amplitude Broad Band Alpha scores from the International 10-20 electrode placement systems, which is O1, O2, C3, C4, T3, T4, F3 and F4. And in addition, there are 4 channels of hemicoherence feedback tones and scores from the Occipital pair, the Central pair, the Temporal pair and the Frontal pair.
Already completed your Alpha 1 Neurofeedback Training? Want to know where the Alpha 2 Neurofeedback training starts?
In both the Premium Single and the Premium Double Alpha 2 training, there are 12 audio feedback channels and there are also 12 digital feedback channels every one of the 7 days of this Alpha Two training.
These are are 8 channels of integrated amplitude Broad Band Alpha scores from the International 10-20 electrode placement systems, which is O1, O2, C3, C4, T3, T4, F3 and F4. And in addition, there are 4 channels of hemicoherence feedback tones and scores from the Occipital pair, the Central pair, the Temporal pair and the Frontal pair.
In the Alpha 1 Premium Double these 12 channels of audio and digital score feedback only became fully available on Day 7. So in Alpha Two, all 12 of these channels are available continuously for the entire 7 Days of the Alpha Two training program. Thus the Alpha Two enables people to more fully develop their mastery of these 12 important EEG parameters over the entire week of the Alpha 2 training.
Common questions
How long does Alpha brain wave training take?
The core program, Alpha One, is seven consecutive days at one of our centers. Plan for full days: 10 to 14 hours of training, testing, coaching and group work. Ask us about our 5-day intensive.
Do I need meditation experience?
No. Many trainees have never meditated. Experienced meditators also come, and usually say the feedback shows them in days what years of practice couldn’t.
Can I do Alpha training at home or online?
No. The training uses Biocybernaut’s own EEG feedback technology and trainers, so it takes place in person at our centers in Sedona, Arizona and Bavaria, Germany. There is no home unit.
How is this different from other neurofeedback?
Most clinical neurofeedback relies on operant conditioning, where the brain is rewarded without your conscious involvement. Biocybernaut uses voluntary control: you hear your brainwaves in real time and learn to change them yourself, supported by a trainer and a small group.
What comes after Alpha One?
Graduates can continue with Alpha Two and Alpha Three, which add more feedback channels, or with Theta training. Alpha One graduates can also come back for a short 1 to 4 day tune-up.
Do the results last?
In Dr. Hardt’s federally funded research, reductions in anxiety were stronger at 6 months than right after training, and stronger again at 12 months.