MindBody Studies Managing Editor, LeTonia Jones, interviews neurologist and Ayurvedic practitioner Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary about the Ayurvedic practice of sound…

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It was a hot summer evening in rural Garrard County, Kentucky. I watched as what appeared to be an elderly…

In this article, I’ll use somatics, radical embodied cognition, ecological psychology, and my personal practice of nondual animism to root out the unexamined use of dualistic philosophical paradigms including Cartesian dualism, traditional cognitive science, and the ideas that underpin popular interpretations of the simulation argument.

In this article we build on these frameworks, and propose a model of yoga therapy that converges with Polyvagal Theory (PVT). PVT links the evolution of the autonomic nervous system to the emergence of prosocial behaviors and posits that the neural platforms supporting social behavior are involved in maintaining health, growth and restoration.

The latest research showed that changes in gut microbiota could affect the brain’s physiological, behavioral, and cognitive functions.