What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body and not just brains on sticks Starting from new research on the bodyaptly summarized as sitting is the new smokingMinding Bodies aims to help instructors improve their students knowledge and skills through physical movement attention to the spatial environment and sensitivity to humans as more than brains on sticks. It shifts the focus of adult learning from an exclusively mental effort toward an embodied sensoryrich experience offering new strategies to maximize the effectiveness of time spent learning together on campus as well as remotely.Minding Bodies draws from a wide range of bodymind research in cognitive psychology kinesiology and phenomenology to bring a holistic perspective to teaching and learning. The embodied learning approaches described by Susan Hrach are inclusive lowtech lowcost strategies that deepen the development of disciplinary knowledge and skills.