Are you interested in understanding how everyday communication affects embodiment, health, and healing over and across time?

The UA Embodiment, Communication, and Health Open (Co-)Lab (ECHO) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative space focused on the study of embodiment, communication and health in the past, present, and possible future(s). 

​We are inspired, in this endeavor by scholars such as bell hooks and William James, among others, who have centered the embodied intimacy of language in and across contexts.

Quote from bell hooks 1994 “ Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries. It speaks itself against our will, in words and thoughts that intrude, even violate the most private spaces of mind and body.”Quote from William James 1892: “ Our heart-beats, our breathing, the pulses of our attention, fragments of words or sentences that pass through our imagination….all of these processes are rhythmical, and are apprehended by us, as they occur, in their totality; the breathing and the pulses of attention as coherent successions, each with its rise and fall; the heart-beats similarly, only relatively far more brief; the words not separately, but in connected groups.”

We meet weekly in a hybrid, inclusive format that is open to all interested academic researchers, students, artists, and community stakeholders. It is also always open to anyone curious about research on language, embodiment, emotion, and health or healing.Interested in learning more? The tabs above contain further information about us, our meetings, and how to get in touch. We look forward to seeing you!