Hi. My name is Irena Castle. I am an eyesight development coach, the founder and CEO of Overbound, and the company’s Director of Program Development. I have been fortunate to have done a lot of great stuff in my life and always work from the point of deep passion for what I was creating. Little did I know that my passion could reach a whole new level, until the day I kicked-off my vision improvement and development coaching journey. 

I literally stumbled upon it when my husband and I looked for ways to expand our son’s peripheral awareness during soccer. My search for the right program took me to existing sports eyesight development practices, vision therapy, and natural vision improvement methods. I learned many different approaches, principles and techniques. I earned my certification with Bates International in London. I took mentorship with the best Bates method teachers and those who have practiced holistic vision improvement for decades to become one of the very few individuals who coach people how to bring their eyesight to proficiency. It was when I trained the first athletes and taught my first students when I knew there was no way back. I saw their vision expand, saw them seeing the field. I saw myopia disappear and clear vision take its place. The passion turned into my life purpose and I became an eyesight coach by heart.

Along the way the innovator in me took over. I started seeing inefficiency and inconsistency in the way some vision development tools have been used and responded to the problem by creating Overbound Eyesight Trainer - a pair of specialty goggles that respects all principles of natural vision development. The trainer is the first tool of its kind that features 360° peripheral openness and is designed for all eyesight practices that benefit from selective vision obstruction.

I founded Overbound in 2019 and took two years to bring the Eyesight Trainer to life. The trainer, accompanied by several specialized practice programs for you to choose from, is now used by students in nearly 30 countries around the world. This is where the journey begins for you.

We teach athletes, and all people with common eye conditions to expand their visual field and maximize their visual skills, so they can see well without corrective devices, perform at the highest level and reach their goals. 

WHAT DOES OVERBOUND MEAN?

Overbound stands for “overcoming boundaries”, such as those of limited vision.

In old British English the word (overbound) means beyond a boundary; to exceed the bounds or limits of (something).

Overbound Eyesight therefore stands for vision without limits.

AND WHAT’S UP WITH THE GOAT?

The “O” in the Overbound logo is in the shape of a goat/ram’s horn. We also use goats across our products' packaging and training materials. Why?

The Alpine Ibex (mountain goat) is an animal that can overcome unbelievable obstacles to get to its food, minerals, or to otherwise fulfill its needs. Additionally, mountain goats (and goats in general) have the gift of an enormous visual field of 320-340 degrees horizontally. Given peripheral vision lacks in most humans with limited vision (and even in many who can see clearly without glasses), and despite the fact that people cannot physically reach such level of visual field due to the front facing position of our eyes on the face, we take the goat as an inspiration.