Episode · Huberman Lab · 2026-02-05
Books mentioned on Essentials: The Science & Practice of Movement | Ido Portal
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Ido Portal, a movement coach and world expert on human movement.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Yoga Body
Yoga Body by Mark Singleton is a meticulously researched historical study that investigates the origins of modern postural yoga, revealing how contemporary practice was heavily shaped by nineteenth-century bodybuilding, gymnastics, and transnational physical culture rather than ancient ascetic traditions.
Recommended“For example, yoga there is a good book called the yoga body and which will destroy a lot of people's yoga practice and it goes into how did we get to this yoga?”
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