About Michael Schwartz | The Music Recovery Coach

Michael, founder of The Music Recovery Coach

Since 2006 I've had a foot in two worlds: the music industry and the fitness industry. I've always been a touring musician, and I've always been a coach. Stage lights at night, the training floor by day, learning from the best of the best in both worlds.

On the coaching side, I went deep. Holistic lifestyle coaching through the CHEK Institute. A Precision Nutrition certification. CanFit Pro specialist. The Cert IV out of Australia. Strength, conditioning and nutrition, studied from every angle I could find, so I could read what a client's body is really asking for .

Then I got to study under Dr. Jeffrey Thompson and learn neuroacoustics. Sound, built with intent, speaks straight to the nervous system. For a musician who coaches, that was the missing piece.

The shift

Then the two worlds folded into one. I started making bioambient music with plants. It's art rock with roots in the ground, built to meet the brain where it is.

From there I turned that music into neuroacoustic protocols with living soundscapes. Every track has a job: sleep deep, focus, flow. Headphones on, and the nervous system gets a chance to come back down.

Now music is my recovery tool for performance, sleep and focus. I teach coaches to use it too, so their clients recover, get results and keep training with them.

Trained through

Chek HLC Precision Nutrition ACE-PTS CFP-PTS Cert IV-Fitness Neuroacoustic Science Entrainment

Where I stand

Lazy is the easy read. Burnout is the accurate one.

A client who skips sessions is usually running a nervous system stuck switched on. A hard session, a hard conversation, a bad night and a screen at midnight all land in the same pile. Capacity runs dry long before effort does, and an empty system needs a charge before it can take more load.

Breathwork, yoga and meditation ask for juice in the battery. Music asks for headphones. Your client sits, presses play, and the music does the work. Picture one client who stalled this month. Lazy, or running on empty?

I SPEAK MUSICIAN. I SPEAK COACH.

PICTURE THE CLIENT WHO KEEPS SKIPPING. FAILING, OR FRIED?