Peter’s Bodymind Blog

Watching  positive, healthy  movement  engages 'mirror neurons',   producing more healthful states for body and mind. Maybe you have seen our Moving Meditations app, or watched one of our videos? Here is how they work. There are two things to understand:...

Our new App, Moving Meditations for Autism (available for Android and Apple devices), offers 18 short videos to help kids (and their families) find peace and balance. The videos are fun and engaging, and effortless to use—all you have to do is...

“Martial arts” is a very broad category, with various aims—some incompatible with each other! Sport martial arts operate under specific rules, and offer excellent recreation and exercise for the reasonably fit. Self-defense is a claim often made, but there is a lot of...

I would like to explain as clearly as I can the core ideas of the system I call Bodymind Training (BmT).  These concepts also apply to many other forms of Somatic education and therapy. Bodymind Training shows you simple and easy ways to feel better and be more...

The more awake you are, the more connected the brain is.

Neuroscience—the word itself carries an air of authenticity an esoteric & authoritative flavour which (seems to) legitimise any cultural dish to which it is added. Science, the arbiter of truth & reality, focused on the brain itself, the organ of...

Just back from the National Qigong Association East Coast conference. Overall, an enjoyable and productive time! Mardi and I gave a presentation, early in the conference, based on the sequence of our published papers; you can see the Power Point here. We were...

All my life I have been fascinated by the Bodymind arts. I started when I was 11 with Judo. I was living in Geneva at the time, and as a precociously intelligent and bookish child, I was picked on at school. My half-brother Kenny, 10 years older than me,...