Mastering Skiing
The Mountain Dance.
Seven BrainTap® sessions to sync your mind with the mountain — so every turn, every carve, and every run flows from a calm, organized nervous system instead of effort and tension.
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The Mountain Dance program
The mountain principle
Great skiing doesn’t start with technique. It starts with state.
Watch an expert skier and you’ll notice one thing that no amount of instruction creates: they look effortless. Their body isn’t fighting the mountain — it’s dancing with it. Turns happen almost automatically. They read terrain before they reach it. They’re calm when the run gets steep.
That quality isn’t technique. It’s a neurological state — one where the brain is organized, the nervous system is relaxed, and movement flows from the body’s intelligence rather than conscious effort. And unlike technique, you can train it before you ever click into your bindings.
Mastering Skiing: The Mountain Dance is seven BrainTap® sessions that build that state from the inside out — session by session, from Mountain Flow to Skiing, A Joyful Celebration.
How BrainTap works
Your brain follows. Your skiing flows.
BrainTap uses precisely calibrated audio beats and light pulses to guide your brain into specific performance states. When you listen before a run, you arrive on the mountain in a state your body already knows how to use.
Most skiers arrive at the chairlift carrying the noise of their morning — logistics, family, work, temperature. BrainTap clears the slate and primes the calm focus that expert skiers access automatically.
A calm nervous system processes balance and terrain feedback faster. You stop reacting to where your skis are and start anticipating the terrain ahead — the same quality that separates intermediate skiers from advanced ones.
Each session activates the parasympathetic nervous system. Consistent BrainTap use between and after ski days accelerates physical recovery — so you feel as strong on day three as you did on day one.
The program
Seven sessions. One mountain dance.
Each session is 20–30 minutes. Listen in the morning before you head to the mountain — it sets the neurological conditions before your boots go on. You can also use them the night before or after a run. The sessions build on one another — work through them in order, then return to the ones that serve you most.
Your guide
Dr. Tom Lankering, DC
Doctor of Chiropractic • BrainTap Certified • 42 Years in Practice • Basalt, Colorado
I live in the Roaring Fork Valley at the foot of some of the finest skiing in Colorado. Snowmass, Aspen, Buttermilk, Highlands — these mountains have been my classroom and my playground for decades. With 42 years of practice behind me, I think about skiing the way I think about everything else: not as a sport you manage around your age, but as something you can continue to do with more skill and more joy as long as you give your brain and body the right conditions.
Mastering Skiing came from a simple observation: the best skiers I know aren’t necessarily the most technically trained. They’re the ones whose nervous system is the most organized — the most calm, the most present, the most in-flow. I partnered with Dr. Patrick Porter to build a program that trains exactly that, using the same BrainTap technology I use in my own practice every day.
If you ski the Colorado mountains and you want to show up on the hill feeling ready rather than stiff, reactive rather than cautious, joyful rather than careful — this program was built for you.
Get the program
Available on BrainTap.
Mastering Skiing: The Mountain Dance lives inside the BrainTap® app — alongside Dr. Tom’s Pickleball Flow Mastery and over 2,000 additional brain fitness sessions. A single BrainTap membership gives you access to both programs, on any device, anytime.
If you ski Aspen, Snowmass, Buttermilk, Highlands, or anywhere in the Roaring Fork Valley — and you want to arrive on the mountain in a different state than you left the house in — this is the program.
- All seven Mastering Skiing sessions
- Pickleball Flow Mastery — all six sessions, included
- 2,000+ additional BrainTap brain fitness sessions
- Monthly or annual membership — or the full headset bundle
- Optional: integrate your skiing brain training with in-office care at Lankering Chiropractic
Pricing on BrainTap
You’ll be taken to Dr. Tom’s official BrainTap page to complete your purchase and access both programs.