When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement.

In “The Body Holds the Healing,” I described a concept that is central to expressive arts and somatic therapies—restorative embodiment. In contrast to other somatic therapies, restorative embodiment ...

As part of the 2026 Showers Lecture Series, the University of Indianapolis Shaheen College of Arts & Sciences will host a March 30 event on body image, body shame and spiritual well-being, beginning ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Ginny Whitelaw covers Zen Leadership and the science of resonance. Embodiment is trending. At a time of deep divisions and ...

“Let me begin by saying that I came to theory because I was hurting,” writes bell hooks, who died recently, at the beginning of “Theory as Liberatory Practice,” her groundbreaking essay that became a ...

Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of “my body.” When this process of integrating different sensory ...