1st Edition
A Philosophy of Mindful Movement Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, and the Kinesthetic Imagination
By Steven Geisz
Copyright 2026
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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This novel volume examines Chinese and Indian mindful movements (such as tai chi, qigong, Daoist meditation, and hatha yoga) to demonstrate how the contemplative practices of the body and mind can amount to a form of transformative philosophy through ways of thinking, knowing, and doing.
The book explains how these body practices use kinesthetic imagination, repetition, and slowness... Read more
Introduction
1. Mindful Movement and the Promise of Transformation
2. What Are Mindful Movements?
3. Philosophy, in Words and Through the Body
4. Kinesthetic Earworms and Mindful Movements
5. Kinesthetic Fables and the Transient Diaphanes of Experience
6. Internal Martial Arts as Slow Looking
7. Repeat, Forget, Remember: Satiation, Familiarization, and Seed Movements
8. Symbols, Seeing-as, and Patterns Made of Qi
9. Teachers Everywhere: At the Edge of Observation and Make-Believe
Biography
Steven Geisz is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Tampa. He practices and teaches qigong, meditation, and yoga.
