Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials,

where we revisit past episodes

for the most potent and actionable science-based tools

for mental health, physical health, and performance.

I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor

of neurobiology and ophthalmology

at Stanford School of Medicine.

And now for my discussion with Ido Portal.

Ido, thank you for coming here today. Over the years, we've been in communication and I've come to realize that you're a true intellectual of the topic of movement. And I define an intellectual

as somebody who can understand a topic at multiple levels of granularity. To start off,

could you inform us how people should think about

approaching a movement practice? What is the first layer of any good movement practice?

It's an open system. It has no center. It's decentralized. And it can be approached from anywhere.

And that's its magic. And that's the benefit of it.

Some people find the body a good entry point.

And then playfulness can be an entry point, an attribute or, and this is so open.

So I don't want to limit people and limit their minds in the way that they engage with a practice, but I also want to encourage the self-inquiry.

So when people enter movement practice, it is about education, bringing some awareness to the fact that they are living in a body,

that they are living in motion, that their mind is a type of movement,

that their life is a type of movement,

bringing attention to the movement of the emotions as well,

bringing just attention to the fact that things are in motion.

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