Listening Through Contact: Ting Jin and the Sensing Body
How ting jin develops listening through contact, viewed alongside touch, proprioception and learned sensorimotor sensitivity.
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The Breath at the Centre: Dantian Breathing and the Vagus Nerve
How dantian breathing coordinates breath, pressure and structure—and where vagal regulation may illuminate part of the process.
Yi: How Intention Organises Movement
Yi describes how directed intention can organise attention and movement before force is expressed, offering a traditional practice concept that can be examined alongside modern motor science.
Moving from the Centre: The Lower Dantian
The lower dantian is best approached as a cultivated centre for coordinating breath, balance, weight and whole-body movement—not as a single anatomical point.
Internal Martial Arts: Refining Force
Internal martial arts explore how structure, timing, attention and whole-body coordination can refine force while reducing unnecessary effort.
Interoception: How the Body Senses Itself
How the nervous system senses and interprets the body’s internal condition—and why this matters for embodied practice.
What Counts as Evidence in Embodied Practice?
A practical framework for judging first-person experience, teacher expertise, performance, measurement and scientific research on their own terms.
Practice and Science: Exploring Shared Questions
A five-stage method for moving from practice and observation to interpretation, possible mechanism, testing and renewed practice.
Different Maps, Shared Terrain: Traditional Practice and Contemporary Science
How traditional practice and contemporary science can meet through disciplined comparison while preserving the meaning and purpose of each.
Start Here: How to Explore Mindxbody
A reader’s guide to Mindxbody: where to begin, how the four connected areas relate, and how to distinguish observation, interpretation, evidence and hypothesis.
What Is Mind-Body Integration?
An introduction to Mindxbody’s central proposition: human capability emerges through one integrated process of attention, sensation, regulation and action.
Vagal Tone and Sung: Relaxed Power
Exploring understandings of sung, the cultivated release in practice, and vagal tone
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The Vagus Nerve: A Pathway of Sensing and Regulation
How the vagus nerve carries signals between brain and body, supports flexible regulation, and works within wider systems of sensing and adaptation.