Ido Portal: The Science & Practice of Movement | Episode 77

Huberman Lab

Scicomm Media

Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.8 • 26.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

My guest is Ido Portal, the world’s foremost expert on human movement. Ido has spent a lifetime studying, combining and evolving elements from an enormous range of martial arts, dance genres, athletic endeavors, and science, to develop a unified theory and practice of movement called “The Ido Portal Method.” Here we discuss all things movement, including the role of the nervous system, reflexive versus deliberate movement patterns, and the link between emotions and awareness in movement. We also discuss learning and neuroplasticity, the mind-body connection and how movement itself can be leveraged toward expanding other types of skills- cognitive, creative and otherwise. As one of the most sought out teachers of movement alive today, the knowledge Ido shares in this conversation can benefit everyone—children, adults, athletes, dancers, clinicians and trainers and the everyday person. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Maui Nui: https://mauinuivenison.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Timestamps (00:00:00) Ido Portal, Movement & Movement Practice (00:03:30) AG1 (Athletic Greens), InsideTracker, Thesis (00:07:49) What is Movement? (00:10:56) Movement & the Body-Mind Connection (00:14:47) Entry Points to Movement (00:18:08) Early Education in Movement: Awareness, Play & Examination (00:21:19) Stillness, Movement & the Environment, Playfulness (00:31:34) Unique Postures, Types of Movement, Contents vs. Containers (00:40:50) Discomfort: Marker of Movement, Failures & Learning (00:47:05) Movement Diversity, Squat Challenge, Injury, Movement Evolution (00:56:36) Animal & Human Movements, Gain & Change (01:02:04) Core Movement, Emotion & Memory, Spinal Waves, Evolution (01:12:39) Song, Dance & Complex Language, Movement as Language, Consilience (01:21:39) Movement Culture, Community, Collective Knowledge, Wild & Wise (01:26:36) Potential for Movement, “Humming” (01:32:18) Instructiveness vs Permissiveness, Degrees of Freedom (01:35:50) Variety, Diversity & Virtuosity (01:38:06) Vision & Movement, Focus & Awareness, Panoramic Awareness (01:48:28) Hearing & Movement (01:52:43) Walking Gaits (01:56:55) Playful Variability & Evolution, Improvisation & Openness (02:03:05) Reactivity & Personal Space, Touch & Proximity to Others, Play & Discomfort (02:18:13) Visualization & Experience, Feedback (02:20:14) Linear Movement & Movement Investigation, Examination (02:31:45) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous Supplements, Instagram, Twitter, Neural Network Newsletter Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Hubertman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
0:08.9	I'm Andrew Hubertman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and
0:12.5	Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today my guest is Edoportal.
0:17.3	Edoportal is somebody who truly defies formal definition.
0:21.5	He is however credited by many to be the world expert in all things movement.
0:27.0	Movement is one of the more fascinating and important aspects of our nervous system.
0:31.0	In fact, it was the great Nobel Prize winner,
0:33.8	Sherrington, that said movement is the final common path.
0:37.0	And what he was referring to is the fact that so much of our nervous system is dedicated to movement.
0:42.8	And in particular, that the human nervous system can generate the greatest variety of forms of movement.
0:48.9	We can run, we can jump, we can crawl, we can move at different speeds.
0:52.5	Far more variation in movement and different types and speeds of movement than any other animal in the animal kingdom can perform.
1:01.1	My interest in bringing Edoportal onto this podcast stemmed from a discussion about just that,
1:05.7	about Sherrington and the enormous range of movements that humans can engage in.
1:09.9	Edop is both a practitioner and an intellectual.
1:13.2	We all know what a practitioner is. It's somebody who walks the walk, who actually performs the thing that they are knowledgeable about.
1:19.6	And indeed, Edop has studied capoeira, a number of other martial arts dance, gymnastics, various forms of sport.
1:27.1	He's trained top athletes like Conor McGregor, and he has many, many other credits to his name as a practitioner and teacher.
1:34.8	However, he is also a true intellectual of movement.
1:38.5	I define an intellectual as somebody who can both think about and talk about a subject at multiple levels of granularity.
1:46.1	That is, with exquisite detail and with its, was it simplicity, depending on their audience and depending on the topic at hand.
1:53.4	And as you'll soon hear from my discussion with Edop, he is both a practitioner and a true intellectual of all things movement.
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