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 ...

After a long day, many people experience that tight sensation in their neck or shoulders that slowly creeps in. If you feel these sensations more often than not, you may be holding excess stress and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somatic yoga combines traditional yoga postures and breathing with somatic movement therapy, a type of mindful exercise. This type of yoga focuses on increasing mind-body awareness by prioritizing ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to Practice a Body Scan, Step by Step Body scan meditation involves slowing down and tuning into the sensations in your body without judgment. It doesn’t require a lot of time out of your day or ...