We don’t talk about vision the way we talk about proprioception, as something you only notice once it fails. This post imagines a world where people never needed to look, and asks what that says about how we talk about the body.
Baseworks director of research Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova will present a poster at the 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) in Ottawa, October 1 to 3, 2026. The poster is titled “Perceptual Skills in Movement Education: Discrimination as a Prerequisite for Appraisal and Behavioural Change.” Baseworks founder Patrick
Eight sessions of guided Baseworks practice. Saturdays, October 3 through November 21, at Proto Studio in Mile End. For Baseworks alumni and people who already work seriously with their body. 70 minutes per session.
We presented a poster and participated in an early-career researcher panel at the 8th Annual Body Representation Network Meeting in Padova, Italy. This report covers the poster’s core findings, observations from the conference program, and reflections on where Baseworks sits within body representation research
When I searched for positive first-person accounts of sensorimotor experience, AI did better than the humans. That is the triple irony — and it says something uncomfortable about what happens when perceptual capacity becomes tribal identity.
Most physical practice is oriented outward — what the practice looks like, what it accomplishes. The internal experience of doing the movement is rarely on the curriculum. This article describes the skill of attending inward, beginning with muscular sensation at rest, and how that sensitivity carries into every domain that depends on noticing what isn’t asking to be noticed.
Join us at the 8th Annual BRNet Meeting in Padova, Italy, where Asia will present research on three trainable components of body representation, drawn from reverse-engineering a decade of naturalistic perceptual skills training with over 10,000 learners
Your capacity to act is bounded by your capacity to perceive. This article explores the perception gap in body awareness: why understanding a movement instruction is not the same as being able to act on it, and how sensory resolution develops through structured practice.
Sixteen sessions of guided Baseworks practice. Saturdays, March 15 through June 27, at Proto Studio in Mile End. For Baseworks alumni and people who already work seriously with their body. 70 minutes per session, from $19 CAD.
In these two lectures, we explored topics inspired by our research for Baseworks – the mechanisms underlying decision-making, the notion and types of body awareness, and the approaches to developing self-care skills.
