Individual Coaching

Unlock more potential.

LevelUp Neuro Performance Coaching

is designed for athletes and dancers who want to move past obstacles to great performance, like:

On-going or recurring soreness, pain or stiffness
Old injuries that never fully go away
Flexibility limitations

And — once we’ve cleared those obstacles — for athletes who want to reach new levels of performance and feel unstoppable. Results you can expect:

Tools to help you accelerate learning new skills and achieve performance goals
Easier, faster, and pain-free flexibility gains
Better balance, speed and coordination
A toolkit to quickly recover from training
Greater resilience and resistance to injury so you can train and compete for as long as you want

Ready to tap into your full potential? Book your first session.

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I can help you clear obstacles, trust your body and move from feeling stuck to feeling unstoppable
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The LevelUp Process

Level 1: Overcome Obstacles

When athletic performance is affected due to chronic pain, recurring injuries or mobility issues, including the brain (the CEO of movement and pain), can accelerate change and recovery. We’ll shape a plan to meet your goals, including a program of at-home exercises to start you on a path to feeling invincible.

Typically 3-5 sessions
Level 2: Boost Your Baseline

Once we've identified and addressed the key barriers to performance, we'll shift focus to training the pillars of athletic excellence: vision, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems. We'll refine and advance your program to improve flexibility, stability, speed and power while supporting daily recovery. You’ll start to feel better during practice and competition and have effective recovery methods for managing daily aches and pains.

5-10 sessions once core obstacles are cleared
Level 3: Peak Performance

sustain and enhance your new levels of performance. Sessions shift from building a new foundation to refining and optimizing the gains you’ve achieved. You’ll learn more advanced performance tools (elite athletes never stop learning!) and can use sessions to help you recover from training, matches & meets so you feel your best when it matters the most.

On-going, I recommend 2x per month

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Athlete Testimonials

I highly recommend Yuka to anyone looking to elevate their athletic performance. Whether you are an amateur seeking a breakthrough to fast-track your progress or an elite athlete striving for that competitive edge, Yuka’s biomechanical knowledge and experience can make a profound difference. The vestibular drills and proprioception exercises she taught me have been key elements to my training and significantly optimized my performance. My average range of motion has increased, response times have improved, and my air awareness and body orientation understanding have sharpened—all thanks to Yuka’s expertise. My work with her has had a transformative impact on my gymnastics in the last three years.

Colt Walker, USA Gymnastics National & World Team Member, Stanford '25
Working with Yuka was a key breakthrough in my comeback journey. When I first met with her, I had the figure skating equivalent of the twisties, and lost all type of awareness going on my triple jumps, despite mastering them for over 15 years. Yuka’s approach was methodical, costumed and really curated to my needs and feelings and one day, it clicked. We had been working for a few weeks, and as I was practicing off ice, my nervous system was responsive again, and the known feelings came back. This breakthrough moment taught me so much about muscle memory and the power of the brain on performance, and how high stress, and repetitive traumatic experiences can impact my body’s ability to perform.  Today I understand how valuable neuroperformance work is, whether it is to learn and improve new skills, help with the recovery process after an injury, and help guide the body when you are stuck in strong emotional states such as fear or stress.   I am forever grateful to Yuka. With her guidance, I was able to overcome the crumpling fear I felt doing something that always felt like second nature, and regain my awareness doing triples.

Maé-Bérénice Méité, 6-time French National Figure Skating Champion, 2014 & 2018 Olympian
Working with Yuka in the lead up to the Olympics was incredible for supporting my body and improving on areas in balance, flexibility and landings. I found that from working with Yuka I was able to feel more control in my body and realised that I didn't need to 'force' my body to do things, rather I could activate certain parts of the brain for the improvements I needed. I incorporated a lot of the work we did together in my warm up routine and pre apparatus prep to ensure that I was warm and ready, and that I ended up doing one of the drills on the competition floor before I competed. This also helped me with my self belief in competition to know I was physically prepped and ready.

Emma Nedov, 2024 Australian Gymnastics Olympic Team Member
It’s no secret that attempting to reach the pinnacle of your sport takes everything that you have. Winning gold at the Paris Olympics took just that. I came to Yuka at LevelUp Neuroperformance looking for the last 1% of help to achieve Olympic success. Specifically I was looking for ways to build focus, aggression, and short term immediate flexibility. Yuka gave me a list of exercises to try out, and what really worked for me was the lunging hip tilt iso holds, the arabesque leg circles, and the red glasses. The glasses were my favorite because they were the easiest to use, made me more alert, results were nearly instant, and honestly…they just looked cool. I am super grateful for the help I received from Yuka in my pursuits of excellence.

Thea LaFond, 2024 Olympic Triple Jump Champion
I looked forward to the work I did with Yuka to help my flexibility. It allowed me to stretch muscles I wouldn’t normally think to stretch and even stretch the muscles I stretched on a normal basis but in new ways. I always felt more mobile after working with Yuka. She also helped me fix slight inconsistencies with my training, giving me different suggestions to adjust body position, or tips on how to hold my balance, and she helped me reduce aches and pains which in turn helped my training. Yuka is so great to work with as she understands that we are more than just gymnasts and will get to know you on a personal level, which makes working with her extremely easy. She is always looking out for our best interests.

Ciena Alipio, 4x USA Gymnastics National Team Member, UCLA ‘26