Mental Skills for Dancers – Introduction
Mental Skills for Dancers - an Introduction £49 + tax Learn online, at your own pace, in your own time. Enroll...
Dancing with cancer, from diagnosis to rehab
“For what lies ahead, you need to be as fit and strong as possible”, said the doctor, after telling me I had a malignant tumour. Being diagnosed with stage 3 cancer was a shock. Receiving the diagnosis during a national lockdown was terrifying. I was a wreck, both physically and...
Essential Conversations with Rabbi Rami and Dr Peter Lovatt
Spirituality & Health. In this episode, Rabbi Rami and Dr. Lovatt discuss the universality of dancing within the human condition. Later Lovatt explains how dancing is scientifically proven to improve your mood, alter your state of being, and even positively impact a number of mental and physical health...
Want to boost your creativity, increase your empathy, and kick stress to the curb?
There's a dance for that! Sprirituality & Health, a magazine which provides inspiration for conscious living, healthy diet and lifestyle, social action, spiritual wisdom, and sustainability, sent Andrea Perkins to interview Peter Lovatt for a feature on The Dance...
Why don’t we act on our knowledge of the link between physical activity and health?
One of the most shocking things about the work presented in The Miracle Pill by Peter Walker is the relationship between three things.1 – there has been a known positive link...
How does movement help people learn?
In their book, “Brain-based Learning – Teaching the Way Students Really Learn”, Eric Jensen and Liesl McConchie describe research which shows a link between physical movement and...
Four books you should read about movement and learning
We have an old-fashioned relationship with movement and learning.We rarely allow them to happen at the same time. In schools and universities around the world we fill lecture...
Five books you should read about human movement
People have understood the importance of human movement for centuries – it’s great for our mind, our body and our social relationships.Yet we live in a sedentary world, which wastes...
A Movement Manifesto by Caroline Williams
In her 2021 book MOVE! The New Science of Body Over Mind – Caroline Williams puts forward a Movement Manifesto.Caroline’s Movement Manifesto recognises that while there is ample...