Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I certainly wasn’t taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating.

We feel and think better when we move.

I try to get students moving or engaged with sensory textures as much as possible to spark learning.

How we feel absolutely shapes if and how we learn. And many of us feel this in our bodies.

Learning is incredibly hard work. It’s one of the things that does drain the body of energy.