Founder of Academia NeuEra. He helps health, movement and performance professionals decide on a measurement, not on an impression.
At a glance
- Founded the Institut Neuro Performance in 2016, which became Academia NeuEra in 2020: an international continuing-education school for health, movement and performance professionals.
- More than 9,000 hours of training, taken in eleven countries. More than seventeen years of practice, in clinic and in the gym.
- Has taught for eight schools, in Canada, the United States and Europe. Teaching internationally since 2016, for more than ten years.
- At the school: more than five hundred practitioners trained, forty courses, some twenty contributing experts.
- Ph.D in Natural Medicine, DBA (c.), Master's in Neuroscience (in progress).
He started on the other side of the table
At five, Nicolas was already wearing foot orthoses. At seventeen, a wheelchair was being considered. At twenty-five, he could no longer turn his head. Neither medication nor surgery had an answer for his joint problems.
He looked elsewhere, without turning his back on modern medicine: osteopathy, chiropractic, orthotherapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, applied kinesiology, naturopathy. None of these practices was the solution on its own. Each one opened a door onto the human body. Being treated so often, he learned anatomy. On January 7, 2010, he became a certified massage practitioner.
One question never left him: why did joints always slip back, when massage relaxed the muscles? It led him to functional training, to posturology in 2013, then to functional neurology from 2014. From 2012 to 2015, he ran his own training centre. In 2016, he was teaching for AMN Academy in Canada and the United States, and founding the Institut Neuro Performance.
From that path he kept one rule, the one he teaches today: never trust an approach on its reputation. Test. Intervene. Retest. Then decide from what actually changed.
He stands for collaboration between conventional medicine and holistic approaches. Side by side, never one against the other.
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What he teaches
At the heart of his teaching is the Neuro-Tissue Triage: a hands-on, in-session test that tells a neurological cause from a tissue cause, with one measurement before and one after.
Three possible outcomes: neuro, tissue, or another system. Always the same order: observe, test, intervene, retest, decide from what changes. The measurement comes before belief, his own included.
Academia NeuEra teaches physiotherapists and osteopaths to determine, in session and in front of their patient/client, whether a case that resists comes from sensorimotor control or from the tissue — using a before/after measurement.
Where he has taught
- Applied Movement Neurology Academy (school based in England): Senior Lecturer from 2016, teaching in Canada and the United States.
- Centre d'étude Équilibre (Ce2) (France): teacher and content developer from 2016. He also presented one of his courses at Kiné Lille Formation.
- Institut AAT (Canada): trainer and content developer, 2014 to 2016.
- PosturePro: co-author and trainer of a course on advanced foot re-education (2019).
- LaboRNP: several presentations in 2023.
Where he has spoken
- International Conference on Central Nervous System & Therapeutics, Paris, 2018: "Posture and mobility as markers of the central nervous system".
- Virtual Neurology Summit, 2018.
- HOLOLIFE Summit, Tallinn (Estonia), 2025: neurophysiological and postural optimisation.
- Staying Relevant: The Future of Rehab and Performance podcast.
- Columnist for the FD Fitness web magazine, 2016 to 2019.
What he founded
- Academia NeuEra: the Institut Neuro Performance, founded in 2016, which became Academia NeuEra in 2020.
- Buddy Hackr (2023): the school's in-person seminars, and the map of the practitioners it has trained.
- Q-Technology (2024): the testers' network and its technology, presented in more than thirty countries.
What he created
- Methods: the Myonik System™, the Maillon Method™ (testing of myofascial chains), the Meta Method™, Nick's Technique and the Body Hacking method.
- Working tools: the Proprioception Enhancer (2018) and the INP Fascia Tool (2020).
- A model: four biophysical profiles, at the centre of his DBA thesis and the origin of the Q-Technology range. It is a working model, a hypothesis that research has yet to test.
Education
- Ph.D in Natural Medicine (2026), after a Master's in Natural Medicine (2026) and a Bachelor's in Holistic Health Sciences (2018).
- DBA (c.): Doctorate in Business Administration, applied science and innovation in human performance; thesis submitted in May 2026, in Switzerland.
- Master's in Neuroscience (in progress).
- Certified Postural Neurologist (American Posture Institute). Certified posturologist in postural reprogramming, level 4 (PosturePro). AMN level 3. Z-Health Movement Reeducation Specialist.
- School titles: PON, NAT1, CMA, NBH.
"Technique doesn't make the therapist. Life makes the therapist."
Where to start
The free guide "Neuro or Tissue?" shows the move: observe, measure, retest.
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Online courses one at a time, then the full programmes.
See the courses →
The Body Hackers map shows trained practitioners, by city.
Find a practitioner →
Nicolas Desjardins is not a medical doctor. His teaching makes no medical diagnosis and does not replace any medical follow-up. The PON, CMA, NAT1 and NBH titles are private school certifications: they are not regulated titles and confer no reserved act.