Lucy Woodham

Dancing is a gift for the body: exploring embodied mindfulness and influences of dance on wellbeing.

Arts & Health September 15, 2025 Lucy Woodham, Jazmín Cevasco

Dance offers a unique lens for exploring mental well-being via the 4E cognition framework-embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive perspectives. Research has focused on embodied mindfulness, but broader cognitive potential remains underexplored. Using a mixed-methods online design, 64 adult dancers (aged 21-45) from ten countries and diverse genres completed the Embodied Mindfulness...