Show notes
Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode

I certainly wasn’t taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating.
We feel and think better when we move.
I try to get students moving or engaged with sensory textures as much as possible to spark learning.
How we feel absolutely shapes if and how we learn. And many of us feel this in our bodies.
Learning is incredibly hard work. It’s one of the things that does drain the body of energy.
Resources
- Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield
- Katy Bowman
- Episode 505: How Role Clarity and Boundaries Can Help Us Thrive with Karen Costa
- Scope of Practice Template, developed by Karen Costa
- An Educator’s Scope of Practice: How Do I Know What’s Mine?, Karen Costa’s Chapter in Trauma-Informed Pedagogies
- Bend App
- 15 Minute Gentle Morning Yoga
- Catalina: A Novel, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters, by Bonnie Tsui


