Movement Practice to Strengthen Your Mind-Body Connection | Ido Portal
6/29/20263 hr
Ido Portal is a world-renowned movement coach who has developed specific practices anyone can use to greatly evolve their mental and physical health, and even gain clearer self-understanding. We discuss the effects of playful movement versus exercise, discipline versus willpower, and how approaching friction points in your practice with relaxed awareness can rewire your default reactions to stress and fear. Ido explains how to leverage transition states, such as the state between sleep and waking, to gain heightened bodily awareness and new insights. He also explains specific movement patterns. This is a highly practical conversation about integrating movement, embracing uncertainty and bringing awareness into everyday life to expand your brain-body connection and deepen your sense of self.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Ido Portal
(00:03:18) Waking Up, Transitional States, Sleep, Lucid Dreaming
(00:10:30) Meditation, Tool: Micro-Meditation
(00:13:55) Sponsors: Rorra & ROKA
(00:17:05) Meditation, Anxiety
(00:19:54) Mind-Body States
(00:24:41) Play vs Discipline, Motivation & Will, Awe
(00:37:25) Willpower vs Discipline, Developing Will; Physical Practice
(00:47:20) Sponsor: AG1
(00:49:06) Power of Play, Rigidity
(00:54:41) Playful Restraint, Softness
(01:00:57) Subtle Ripples of Consciousness, Granularity, Bodily Resolution
(01:09:36) Language, Ambiguity, Dance; Psychedelics
(01:15:19) Sponsor: LMNT
(01:16:51) Paying Attention to Everyday Movement, Exercise
(01:24:57) Challenging the System, Life as a Practice
(01:32:37) Awareness & Time; Emotional, Mental & Physical Nutrients
(01:38:41) Social Media, Importance of Granularity
(01:43:41) Noticing Transition, Kumbhaka Practice; Antagonism
(01:53:56) Sponsor: Function
(01:55:37) Cowardice, Remorse; Sensory Desensitization
(02:03:53) Relationships, Dynamic Practice
(02:10:59) Music, Movement
(02:16:21) Art; Movement Models; Awareness Through Movement
(02:27:24) Fresh Moments & Growth, Noticing Subtlety
(02:35:23) Air Sense, Skateboarding, Confidence; Meta-Movement
(02:49:32) Beauty of Imperfection, Embracing Uncertainty
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First 90 secondsIdo Portal· Guest0:00
Discipline is very important, but it's similar to the wall in learning to do a handstand. If you use the wall one way, where you're all the time pushing yourself off of the wall, try to catch your handstand, you become reliant on the wall. But there is a different approach. We can use the wall, but pull off of it, which comes from the other end, from our hands, from the connection to the ground. That does not necessitate the wall. This is the correct way to use discipline. You should use it as a scaffolding, as a way to get things going, like write that book. But inside the process, you must make sure you don't lean hard into it. You don't leave everything for it to dictate, and you bring some playfulness, some relaxation, some deep choice. I want to do this.
Andrew Huberman· Host0:52
[upbeat music] Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Ido Portal. Ido Portal is a world-renowned movement teacher and the founder of Movement Culture, which is an integrative practice for developing the self that combines physical and mental practice. Today, we discuss how anyone can practice movement, deliberate awareness, and even language and other forms of communication in ways that explore and expand your capabilities