Such a great article on interoceptive awareness, and how the brain constantly listens to the bodily signals like heart rate, breathing, gut functions etc and understanding how these signals arrive in the 🧠 is an important research area! www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/12/1...

Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

Researchers are decoding how signals move between body and brain, with implications for how we understand and treat conditions from obesity to anxiety.

technologyreview.com

Happy International Yoga Day. Yoga is often seen as stretching, flexibility, or posture. But in its deeper meaning, yoga is a path of integration, wholeness, and awareness.

It was an absolute pleasure attending, presenting and learning at the @cshlnews.bsky.social Brain–Body Physiology meeting, organized by @karalmarshall.bsky.social , @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, and Asya Rolls. An amazing conference bringing science of brain–organ interactions together in one place.

Super-excited to attend and present at the @cshlnews.bsky.social Brain Body Physiology meeting organized by @karalmarshall.bsky.social, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, and Asya Rolls. Such amazing line up of talks and posters for this meeting! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp... #brainbody

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Thank you Wendy Suzuki for bringing such connection, joy, and flow to our @sinaibrain.bsky.social retreat this year. Sometimes what scientists need most is to get out of our heads and back into the body. The smiles say it all. 🙏✨

The @sinaibrain.bsky.social retreat on Friday brought amazing speakers working on the brain and the body at the historic Riverside Church! Thank you to our keynote speakers @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social and Wendy Suzuki!

Retreat Organizers, Abha Rajbhandari, PhD @brainbodylab.bsky.social and Sarah Stanley, MBBCh, PhD have done an amazing job. Don't Miss Keynote Speakers Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social, PhD and Wendy Suzuki, PhD.

Looking forward to hosting the 18th @sinaibrain.bsky.social retreat along with Sarah Stanley tomorrow! ✨

The Friedman Brain Institute@sinaibrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On Friday, May 8, we can't wait to see you at the #FriedmanBrainInstitute's 18th Annual Neuroscience Retreat. Hosted by @brainbodylab.bsky.social & Sarah Stanley, we are super excited to celebrate our remarkable #MountSinai #Faculty #Postdocs #Students & #Staff at NYC's Historic Riverside Church🧠🔬🎉

William James 1884 Essay-What is an emotion? -“We feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble, because we are sorry, angry, or fearful."-#brainbody

Metabolically, the 🧠 uses the most energy than any organ from foods we eat and oxygen we breathe to regulate stress, emotions, or any cognitive function. So how can nutritional aspects and breathing practices not be key to holistic health, healing and longevity?

Such great conversations bridging basic and translational aspects of brain-body interactions with Sahib Khalsa, Laura A. Berner and Rita Z. Goldstein. @sinaibrain.bsky.social!

FOUR DAYS AWAY ❤️ On Tues, 4/28, 10am, Host @brainbodylab.bsky.social & the #BrainBodyResearchInstitute are EXCITED to welcome UCLA's @skhalsa.bsky.social 👉 "Interoceptive Neuroscience as a Catalyst for the Next Era of Translational Neurobiology" Register Now ➡️ mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Understanding of the fight, flight, freeze response is evolving from a stress response to neuro-metabolic state. The 🧠 detects threat and allows response. Body reallocates energy to mobilize energy/conserve. The vagus nerve signals from the body to the brain for recovery+ restore balance.

On April 15th, United Nations General Assembly launched International Wellness Day initiated by Nepal and some thoughts on this great initiative. Health isn’t just absence of disease, healing isn’t just fixing dysfunction, longevity isn’t just adding years.

Aren’t scientists naturally philosophers first? Science often begins with wonder and questions about life, mind, matter, and meaning. But somewhere along the way, curiosity gets replaced by a race for publications, funding, titles, and survival. How can we stay connected to that same wonder?

Super-excited to have @skhalsa.bsky.social from UCLA for our brain-body seminar series on April 28th! Join us in the link below 👇

The Friedman Brain Institute@sinaibrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On Tues, 4/28, 10am, Host Dr. @brainbodylab.bsky.social & the #BrainBodyResearchInstitute are EXCITED to welcome UCLA's Dr. @skhalsa.bsky.social 👉 "Interoceptive Neuroscience as a Catalyst for the Next Era of Translational Neurobiology" Register Here ➡️ mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Why is understanding who we are through yoga, contemplation, awareness, meditation practices dismissed as philosophy, spirituality, subjectivity, or pseudoscience when science depends on the one who asks the questions? These practices allow to move from fragmentation to wholeness! 🙏✨

Such an incredible night filled with personal, emotional, and deeply moving stories of science and beyond. Grateful to everyone who came, supported and shared, and to @sinaibrain.bsky.social for supporting this event!

Tonight won't be just any night! JOIN @brainbodylab.bsky.social and Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of the challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey through the brain and beyond! GET YOUR🎟️NOW! checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Join us tomorrow evening if you are in NY or visiting for an amazing night of stories of science and more!

The Friedman Brain Institute@sinaibrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

TOMORROW NIGHT! On Wednesday, JOIN @brainbodylab.bsky.social and Pamela Toh as they host six #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of the challenges they've overcome & the triumphs they've experienced in their journey through the brain… and beyond! 🎟️ checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Thoughts lately 💭: Who experiences the pain signals in organoids? Is experience separate from experiencer? Who is the experiencer? 🤔

IN 2 DAYS! On Wednesday, JOIN the #FriedmanBrainInstitute's @brainbodylab.bsky.social & Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey thru the brain…and beyond!🎟️ checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

#NeuroStories! On 3/25, JOIN The #FriedmanBrainInstitute 's @brainbodylab.bsky.social & Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey thru the brain...& beyond!🎟️ checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Another amazing Brain Awareness Week by @sinaibrain.bsky.social, with our lab members representing the Brain–Body Research Institute and the CEYE program. It is always inspiring to engage with students and the broader community, especially during these difficult times!

#NeuroStories! On 3/25, JOIN The #FriedmanBrainInstitute's @brainbodylab.bsky.social & Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey thru the brain… and beyond!🎟️ checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Duality is part of life! For every bad person, there is a good person; for every evil, there is goodness. The question is where we place our non-dualistic awareness? In outrage, numbness, despair or in actions grounded in truth, non-harm, conscience and humanity itself? 🙏

Unchecked desire for power, status, money, control on full display as endless pit, a hedonic treadmill. Chasing, never arriving! Fulfilled desire=greed; Unfulfilled= anger/resentment. Yoga wisdom: desires are transient ripples in awareness and redirecting toward deeper Self-knowledge instead!

How much are our hearts craving peace in this time/moment? The monks walking for peace are following Buddha’s path (≠ religion). When humanity seems to be lost, this is quite a contrast reminder of peace, clarity, compassion, non-harm within ourselves and others as a choice! 🙏

A contemplation: If medicine is described as science and practice of health, then aren’t wellness practices also medicine for health? Or is it just 💊. 🤔

Just as stress affects the whole brain+body, nutrition, exercise, connection (self and others) and rest (sleep and meditation) affects the whole brain and body even under dis-ease! #holistichealth #brainbody