Miscellaneous
This month we discuss the effect of the body on the brain. Hannah Adams talks about the the breath and tuning into the body for postures such as handstand, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry the effect of the heart on the brain. Hannah Adams is an international yoga teacher and handstand enthusiast based in Boston. As a teacher, Hannah aims to facilitate her students’ gain of a greater somatic understanding of themselves, and a more refined sense of presence through the practice of movement and breath. Web: www.hannahadams.fit Instagram: @hannahadamsyoga Catherine Tallon-Baudry is a CNRS senior researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She examines links between the viscera and the brain, and how these connections may encode a sense of self.