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‘Physicalisation’: A Pedagogy of Body-Mind Cultivation for Liberation in Modern Yoga and Meditation Methods

In: Asian Medicine
Authors:
Aspasia Leledaki
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Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2008
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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 body-mind unity and de-identification before exploring the three dimensions of the practitioners' embodied spatiotemporal transformations that we have termed: empowerment, mustery and negating domination.

Title:
‘Physicalisation’: A Pedagogy of Body-Mind Cultivation for Liberation in Modern Yoga and Meditation Methods
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/157342009X12526658783538
Language:
English
Pages:
303–337
Keywords:
domination; modern meditation and yoga; somatic pedagogy; liberation; spatiotemporal; mind-body
In:
Asian Medicine
In:
Volume 4: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1573-4218
Print ISSN:
1573-420X
Subjects:
General, Asian Studies, History of Medicine, History

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