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 conditions.
They close out their conversation by exploring how...
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 Cure.
S&H: You write that your number one take-home message is that “if you want to make changes...
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 between physical activity and health for over 2,000 years.
2 – the link between physical activity and health is so widely known that it is, essentially, part of our society’s canon of common-sense...
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 learning.
Their take-home message is that physical movement leads to changes in the mind and brain which optimise conditions for learning.
Here’s a flavour of the evidence they report, showing a...
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 theatres and classrooms with tables and chairs and expect learners to sit still while they learn.
But what if we introduced movement into the learning experience of subjects such as physics,...
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 human lives and human potential more.
Here are five fabulous books, from older to newer, full of wonderful reasons to move.
Please make suggestions for additions to this list in the comments...