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Modern research on Embodied Cognition hits upon something that shows up from a different and much older scientific perspective. I’m talking about a science that’s 5000 years old.. far older than western science, but both talk about the same things.

“So why do we think that all our thinking and knowing takes place in the head? Oversimplification and old, outdated, incomplete science.[emphasis AK].What science is now telling us is that the overwhelming majority of information (over 95% of data) that we receive is processed in our bodies. Unfortunately, as a culture, we’ve largely stopped paying attention to what that data and our associated experiences are telling us.- Golder Goldstein”

We as humans used to understand a wealth of information that arrived through our senses, touch, taste, hearing, sound, intuition (i.e. our gut feeling), all of these added up to us being able to navigate the world in some amazing ways. They also allowed us to connect with other humans in meaningful ways- ways that created community and collaboration. Ways that included rather than excluded or conquered other people.

I’m not saying that people never tried to beat out someone else, but I’m saying that the culture that arose in many places where the traditional science of Hatha Yoga was practiced and taught, were more…