Before birth: what the body begins to learn in the womb
A baby is born already knowing her mother’s voice and the melody of her language. Here is what the body learns before birth, and where the evidence stops.
Akhil Singh
Three breaths before beginning
Children sit down long before they are ready to learn. Three slow breaths, taken together at the start of a lesson, give the body time to arrive.
Gandhi’s Nai Talim: education through the hand
Gandhi’s Nai Talim put the hand at the centre of school. It saw the body as a way of knowing, and then asked that body to produce.
The threshold: how children cross into the classroom
Every child who crosses the classroom door is making a small journey. Here is a five-minute doorway routine that turns arrival into the first lesson of the day.
Embodied cognition: why thinking is not only in the head
A girl’s fingers gather two numbers before she can say the answer, and her teacher tells her to keep her hands on the desk. Embodied cognition asks what we stop when we stop the body.
Using AI in Your Research Without Risking Your Career
A three-hour, hands-on online workshop for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, with AIRnD Lab. Sunday 1 November 2026, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM IST.