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The Embodiment Podcast


Host Mark Walsh and guest hosts offer a weekly podcast for everyone who is interested in Embodiment and the body. The podcast contains in-depth explorations of embodiment topics with expert guests from around the globe. Diverse speakers and practitioners of embodied areas such as academia, yoga, meditation, martial arts, psychology, medical, somatic, therapy, dance, and bodywork. The podcast is full of practical tips and experiential exercises.

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Sep 14, 2017

This episode eco-psychologist and counsellor Dr Adrian Harris joins Mark to discuss the power of place and the science of this.

Links to relevant sites:

Eco-therapy research:

http://www.adrianharris.org/ecotherapy/research.htm

Bodymind Place:

http://www.bodymindplace.org

Eco-psychology UK

https://www.ecopsychology.org.uk/

Review: 'The Body Knows Its Mind. The surprising power of the physical environment to influence how you think and feel'.

(Recommended book I mentioned in podcast - includes reference to the research literally thinking 'outside the box’):

http://www.embodiment.org.uk/beilock.htm

A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain (good introduction to Lakoff and Johnson, whose work I mentioned in podcast):

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guide-to-embodied-cognition-why-you-are-not-your-brain/

Embodied Situated Cognition (more academic notes on Lakoff and Johnson, Clark etc. all mentioned in Pod cast):

http://www.embodiment.org.uk/topics/esc.htm

Richard Louv - 'Last Child in the Woods':

http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/

I'm not sure if you think it's relevant, but this is my latest site:

http://mindfulnessinnature.uk/