Nora Navas recommends "stepping away from fiction and reading to learn."

BarcelonaIn Cesc Gay's new comedy, My friend Eva, which premieres on September 19, Nora Navas (Barcelona, 1975) plays a married literary agent with two children who, during a business trip to Rome, meets a writer who awakens in her the desire to once again get entangled in the games of love. After reading so many scripts and the stories that we actors tell in our profession, I need to distance myself from fiction and read to learn."

One of Navas's latest readings is the latest book by theoretical physicist and doctor in neuroscience Nazareth Castellanos (Madrid, 1 The bridge where butterflies live. Biosophy of Breathing (La Granada). In an essay that interweaves science and personal experiences, Castellanos proposes various breathing techniques to strengthen areas of the brain and preserve our mental health. Navas is greatly enjoying the book, which helps her "see how our brain works from a scientific perspective," but always "from a very humanistic perspective." Through Castellanos' examples, the actress explains, it's easy to understand "that the brain can be shaped from the outside through experiences and human contact, and from the inside by emphasizing breathing and meditation."

With more than twenty years of experience as a researcher, Castellanos combines research with scientific dissemination and has published the books The mirror of the brain (La Huerta Grande, 2021) and Neuroscience of the body (Kairós, 2022). For Navas, the way Castellanos communicates his knowledge is "very enjoyable and vivid." "These are the kind of books in which you feel how the author enjoys transmitting and sharing his knowledge," Navas notes.