Abstract
This paper explores the transformation of a dualistic mind-body relationship as reported by participants in a recent qualitative study involving modern yoga and meditation practitioners. The stories of the practitioners focused strongly on transforming a body-self that was configured as a result of living a life in Western cultural contexts where philosophies of mind-body dualisms were taken to underpin daily practices. The practitioners described a well-trodden somatic pedagogical pathway towards liberation from domination that they called 'physicalisation'. The paper illustrates physicalisation as cultivation of bodymind unity and de-identification before exploring the three dimensions of the practitioners' embodied spatiotemporal transformations that we have termed: empowerment, mustery and negating domination.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 303-337 |
| Number of pages | 35 |
| Journal | Asian Medicine |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2008 |
Keywords
- Domination
- Liberation
- Mind-body
- Modern meditation and yoga
- Somatic pedagogy
- Spatiotemporal