Dance Medicine

Taking listeners on an in-depth exploration of movement and music, from early humans up until today, the authors show the proven benefits of dance for our heart, lungs, bones, nervous system, and brain. Listeners will come away with a wide range of dances to try and a scientific understanding of how dance benefits almost every aspect of our lives.

Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of development, as a simple fertilized egg becomes a complex human being of 40 trillion cells. Zernicka-Goetz's work is both incredibly practical and astonishingly vast.

How do we apply spirituality to our lives? What does the energy of the universe have to do with us? This is something that a lot of people find simply mind-boggling. There is information everywhere on mindfulness or being positive, but how on earth do you apply these things to real life and keep positive when you are going through the dark or sad periods of your life that we all go through? How you cope with it and how you go forward will shape your future.

From the suburbs of Washington, DC, and northern Virginia to the bat-infested caves of Wuhan, China, Dr. Ravi Iyer traces the myriad networks of the virus that brought the entire world to its knees for 24 months and decimated the lives of millions in its path.

These are no ordinary mantras! These are mantras that will help you attract your desires, align you with your higher self, and create tonal frequencies through which you can manifest the life you prefer. Sound is the primal source of energy. Its power and effects have been widely studied in the scientific community. For instance, do you feel uplifted when you sing? There’s a reason for that - we attract what we desire when we are in this state.