New online course starts January 2021
Enhance your wellbeing and sports performance through whole-body sensory perception. Boost your brain power through smell. Learn how to view the world in a way that's less stressful. Restore balance so you have less risk of injury. Practice reacting less so you stay calm under pressure, eat less and breathe effectively.
Join us for 6 weeks of one hour online classes every Saturday morning @10am 1. Sight and proprioception (balance) 2. Sound, breath and brain waves 3. Smell, mood and alertness 4. Hot and cold 5. Vision and stress management 6. Taste, sound and exercise Starts: Saturday 9 January 10am LIVE Or watch on replay Suitable for: any level of yoga or sports ability. Some parts of a session may have particular cautions with medical conditions such as pregnancy. |
More ways to restore your human senses
Effective breathingSlow breathing - through the nose - hold your breath sometimes
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Foot foundationsDaily joint movement - go barefoot - challenge your balance
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Rest & recoverLet go of tensions - relax deeply - restorative yoga - meditation
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Things you might not know about your senses
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The five popular senses (or 'outward wits' as they were once known) are what we'd now call exteroceptive... sensing things that are outside of ourselves.
Interestingly the 'inward wits' described by medieval authors such as Chaucer, Hawes and Shakespeare were common sense, fantasy, imagination, estimation and memory. As you'll see below, that's not quite how we see it now! |
Interoception (your inner world)
References
How many senses do we have? 5, 9, 21, 33? Find out more in this short article
On Smell:
Smellosophy (2020) - Ann-Sophie Barwich (book)
Being Human in Conversation: Returning to Our Senses (YouTube video)
Huberman 'laymans' guide to neuroscience on Instagram
On Taste:
The combination of taste with smell - article
Effect of mouth-breathing on taste - science paper
On Sight:
Huberman Lab virtual reality studies (5 mins) video
Deconcentration of attention - article
On Music:
Cymatics video: science vs. music
SOMA isochronic tones (similar but better than binaural) here - one of many
Bernardi paper on music and rhythm
On Touch
A popular science article in Psychology Today
Review of scientific studies on the efficacy of sports massage - science paper
Team sports (baseball) abstract and summary article
Huberman 'laymans' guide to neuroscience on Instagram
Interoception
Kelly Mahler - what is interoception?
The role of interoception in physical exercise - science paper (2020)
Proprioception
A sports physio point of view - article
A deep dive into the science and practical training tools in the gym - article
On Smell:
Smellosophy (2020) - Ann-Sophie Barwich (book)
Being Human in Conversation: Returning to Our Senses (YouTube video)
Huberman 'laymans' guide to neuroscience on Instagram
On Taste:
The combination of taste with smell - article
Effect of mouth-breathing on taste - science paper
On Sight:
Huberman Lab virtual reality studies (5 mins) video
Deconcentration of attention - article
On Music:
Cymatics video: science vs. music
SOMA isochronic tones (similar but better than binaural) here - one of many
Bernardi paper on music and rhythm
On Touch
A popular science article in Psychology Today
Review of scientific studies on the efficacy of sports massage - science paper
Team sports (baseball) abstract and summary article
Huberman 'laymans' guide to neuroscience on Instagram
Interoception
Kelly Mahler - what is interoception?
The role of interoception in physical exercise - science paper (2020)
Proprioception
A sports physio point of view - article
A deep dive into the science and practical training tools in the gym - article