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In October 2021, MENPA published a position statement on yoga and other holistic movement practices (Taylor et al., 2021), along with a commissioned commentary (Vergeer & Biddle, 2021). Holistic movement practices (HMPs) can be defined as physical practices embedded within holistic philosophies of well-being (Vergeer, Johansson, & Cagas, 2021), implying such practices go beyond the physical to deliberately include other ingredients–mental, emotional, social, and/or spiritual. Vergeer et al.(2021) therefore argued that it is useful to treat HMPs as a category of physical activity. Typically, HMPs include longestablished and traditionally Asian practices such as yoga, tai chi, and qigong, but a range of more modern HMPs also exist, including various free movement-based practices sometimes referred to as “conscious dance”(Laird, Vergeer, Hennelly, & Siddarth, 2021). In their position statement, Taylor et al.(2021) indicated that manuscripts on HMPs “including a substantial amount of physical activity (gross motor movement)” would be considered for peer review by MENPA. The position was not that HMPs may or may not be effective but that as a scientific journal MENPA wished to clearly indicate the boundaries