A somatic workout may be the answer to finding calm and restoration in a chaotic world filled with stress and everyday hurry. Requiring you to tune into your inner experience, it's a mind-body ...

As the popularity of Pilates—and those oh-so-Instagram-able reformer classes—has increased over the past few years, so too has the hype surrounding the method’s benefits. (Build long and ...

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Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset Richard Fausset reported ...

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Pilates is often mistaken for a glorified stretching session, but that misconception couldn’t be further from the truth. With celebrities like Jeremy Clarkson and David Beckham recently becoming ...

A selection of some of the most striking sports photographs taken around the world over the past seven days: Florian Schieder of Italy prepares at the start for the first Men's Downhill training ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians moved north on Monday after Israeli forces withdrew from ...

Peck explains a somatic exercise as "any exercise or technique using the body as the primary tool or instrument for healing, building resilience or self-expression" and gives the examples of ...

Complemented by international loans, the exhibition showcases, for the first time, the museum's own collection of American images, which it has been busy expanding since 2007. America and ...