The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.
Ido Portal: The Science & Practice of Movement | Huberman Lab Episode 77
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.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Ido Portal, Movement & Movement Practice
(00:03:30) AG1 (Athletic Greens), ROKA, Helix Sleep
(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