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Imagine that you have obtained a guidebook for exploring a vast, mysterious forest that you have heard of, but have never known how to approach-a forest so intricate and lush that most people feel reluctant to enter it without an experienced guide, and yet so alluring that you long to wander its paths, follow its streams to their source, gain access to its panoramic views of terrains that have barely begun to be mapped. What makes this terrain so alluring is that it enfolds largely untold knowledge of the processes through which humans grow, develop, learn. And as explorers understand these processes more fully, they also begin to see how they have been unnecessarily hampered by assumptions and practices endemic to their culture. Then, seeing those blockages, explorers can gather the means to dissolve them, allowing growth, development, and learning to proceed more freely and naturally. The vast, forested terrain in this metaphor is the embodied human brain, and its processes underlie not only growth, development and learning, but the mystery of consciousness itself. We authors offer this guidebook to assist you in entering and exploring that terrain.

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Anatomy of Embodied Education: Creating Pathways to Brain-Mind Evolution is an artful piece of work that condenses the past 70 years of literature from the fields of neuroscience, learning, psychology and human wellbeing. This is a resource that integrates centuries of bright minds, a collage of perspectives and rich discussion leading to optimizing human potential. The authors have unpacked the imperative beyond the growth of a healthy, functioning brain toward developing an inquisitive, creative and intelligent mind. This accumulation of comprehensive knowledge interwoven with keen perspectives engages the reader in an in-depth discussion of a path to access human potentials across many levels. The journey begins with simple brain- body physiology, articulating the essentials of healthy development through early and ongoing extension of the brain-mind that drives purposeful thought and character. Comprehensive as any work on the brain as it relates to mind, the focus encompasses a span from individual achievement to species potential. The gestalt of this work eclipses an amassing of scientific knowledge, applying such to living life well, as one learns and lives in accordance with nature's agenda. Burns and Brown have done a spectacular reflection of the essence of the body/brain and the mind/spirit of human potential. They have left no stone unturned in the pursuit of human growth and possibility. - Robert K Greenleaf, Ed.D, President, Greenleaf Learning, Former public education teacher, principal, superintendent and faculty development coordinator, University System of New Hampshire In this treasure of a book, Burns and Brown weave a tapestry from the collective threads of their lineage traditions, experience and wisdom as veteran educators in human development and consciousness. The reader is invited on a learning adventure integrating theory, philosophy, and offering practical tools grounded in biology and contemporary relational neuroscience. The eclectic array of chapters tickle the reader's curiosity and orient us toward a future where learning is accessible to and inclusive of diverse learning styles. As illuminated here, mindful, embodied education offers pathways that foster deep intelligence and consciousness rooted in the senses, the earth and the inherent values of Goodness, Truth and Beauty. - Kate Cook, M.A., LPCC, TEP, Director of the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program Southwestern College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Anatomy of Embodied Education: Creating Pathways to Brain-Mind Evolution is a well done and courageous book dedicated to propelling us into creative thinking on how to develop optimally functioning mind-body consciousness through our lifetimes, beginning in childhood. Burns and Brown skillfully weave classical and current neuroscience theories that allow the reader flexibility to reimagine our minds in new ways. It is a special joy to elevate cosmic consciousness of the numinous in education. - Ernest Rossi PhD and Kathryn Lane Rossi PhD Psychotherapists, authors, editors, The Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson, MD (16 Volumes) In their new book Anatomy of Embodied Education: Creating Pathways to Brain- Mind Evolution, Burns and Brown draw our attention to the process of exploring human potential as an evolutionary trend that leads us towards a more positive future. Through a thoughtful analysis of neuroscientific research, coupled with the authors' mindful and highly engaging insights, the reader is challenged to rethink the narrow, utilitarian paradigm of education that many of our schools have adopted for too long. Any parent, educator or education leader who seeks to better understand the nature and importance of lifelong learning should read this book. - Peter Bateman, PhD, Executive Director, African International Scho

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