1st Edition

Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice Meanings and Knowledge Transfer

328 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice: Meanings and Knowledge Transfer inspires more mindful and contemplative qualitative research on body and knowledge transfer in bodily practices in hatha yoga. The book explores the work of the mind, as well as the role of emotions and body sensations in perceiving reality and in reflecting on it. Procedures and research methods are an extension of our... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Experiencing the Body and Transfer of Knowledge 

1. Experiencing the Body in the Process of Transferring Bodily Knowledge. Linguistic Cultural Formulas

2. Producing Knowledge Together. Dialogue of Bodies in the Practice of Hatha Yoga.

3. Body in Space, Space in Body. Experiencing Bodily Knowledge at a Place and Time of Hatha Practice.

Part II: Recognizing Emotions and Their Role in Reconstructing the Definition of Self

4. Experiencing Emotions in Hatha Yoga Practice.

5. Experiencing the Body in Therapeutic Sessions of Hatha Yoga. 

PART III: Hatha Yoga as a Reality  

6. Concentration as a Problem of the Socialized Mind. The Practice of Hatha Yoga as a Laboratory of the Concentration of the Mind.

7. Hatha Yoga Practice as the Finite Province of Meaning. Phenomenological Explicitation from the First-Person and Third-Person Perspectives.

8. Savasana as a Sub-province of Meaning

Conclusions

Methodological Appendix  

Bibliography 

Biography

Krzysztof T. Konecki is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland. He is the editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review and is president of the Polish Sociological Association.

Aleksandra Płaczek is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Lodz, Poland.

Dagmara Tarasiuk is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Lodz, Poland.