Somatic exercises focus on awareness or perception of physical movements and tap into the mind-body connection to help improve mental health and relieve physical tension. Many of us have felt that ...

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In the popular childhood song, “The Skeleton Dance,” we may recall singing about different body parts being connected, such as, “The backbone’s connected to the neck bone.” However, the more abstract ...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. It is late at ...

We talk about mind and body, as if they were two different things that we are dealing with. There’s the thinker, and there’s the mover. And then comes the twist, it’s always chatting. Each thought ...

In 2015, Lesley Paterson broke her shoulder during a practice run the day before the Costa Rica XTERRA triathlon that caused her to lose the ability to use her arm. Not only did Paterson compete in ...

Somatics is the process of building a better mind-body connection. This can help develop a deeper understanding of both physical and mental cues, such as hunger and satiation, in people who want to ...

True professional success doesn’t just come from intelligence or ambition; it starts with how we care for and connect with ourselves. Tuning into the body’s signals and aligning them with the mind’s ...

Science is more aware than ever of the myriad complex links between our physical and the mental worlds; from the strange effects of placebos and nocebos, to the explosion of research into ...