‘Physicalisation’

A Pedagogy of Body-Mind Cultivation for Liberation in Modern Yoga and Meditation Methods

Bibliographic Data

ID20237169
AuthorsAspasia Leledaki, David Brown (0000-0003-0275-8723), David H K Brown (0000-0002-1669-4751)
Year2008
Volume4
Issue2
Pages303-337
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1573-420X • E-ISSN: 1573-4218
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157342009x12526658783538
OpenAlexW1974347864
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited27

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

Aesthetics · Buddhism · Embodied cognition · Empowerment · Epistemology · Meditation · Mind–body problem · Political science · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Law · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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