Inspiration and Expiration: Yoga Practice Through Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body

Morley, James

doi:10.1353/pew.2001.0013

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“…Participants also noted their levels of fitness during rehabilitation in terms of their proprioceptive feelings of 'hidden' subcutaneous processes (Morley 2001) such as kinaesthesis and feeling the blood 'flow'. This re-emphasises the incompatibility with some elements of these data with approaches that focus upon the mask, or outwards appearance of the ageing body (Featherstone and Hepworth 2005); in this case, ageing and illness were considered subcutaneous and invisible.…”

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‘Some of these people aren’t as fit as us …’: experiencing the ageing, physically active body in cardiac rehabilitation

Evans

Crust

2014

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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There is a dearth of research on how the physically active body is experienced during rehabilitation from serious illness. The present study investigated older adults’ embodied experiences and changing perceptions of self in one cardiac rehabilitation (CR) scheme in the East of England. Fourteen interviews were completed with participants in a CR scheme. A figurational approach was utilised which emphasised the need for participants to delineate their own logic of experience from the perspective of their active body during CR. Data were thematically analysed and individual experiences were situated in wider power relationships within and beyond the exercise class. Recurring themes emerged including participants’ perceptions of lost control during illness, the centrality of embodied sensations during rehabilitation and the interdependence of their embodied experiences with those of other bodies through overt and covert monitoring of physiological, emotional and psychological responses to rehabilitation. During rehabilitation, participants negotiated a complex interweaving of identities which centred upon their changing sense of embodied ‘I’ in relation to other bodies in the rehabilitation figuration, who were conceptualised according to fluid ‘we’ and ‘them’ relationships. Self-images were socially produced and moderated by health and exercise professionals and other participants. The extent to which participants were empowered within the exercise setting was highly heterogeneous. Findings suggest that the messages participants receive about CR must reflect the heterogeneity of recovery trajectories that could be experienced

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‘Some of these people aren’t as fit as us …’: experiencing the ageing, physically active body in cardiac rehabilitation

Evans

Crust

2014

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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“…Samudra (2008) portrays kinaesthetic experiences in Silat Bangau Putih, a Chinese-Indonesian self-defense and health system. Morley (2001) examines yoga practice utilising Merleau-Pontian constructs and drawing comparisons between the practice of yoga and phenomenology itself, including epochē/bracketing (see below). Addressing sports and physical activity more generally, Hockey and AllenCollinson (2007) explore the sensory dimension of the sporting body, applying Merleau-…”

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Feminist Phenomenology and the Woman in the Running Body

Allen‐Collinson

2011

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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Modern phenomenology, with its roots in Husserlian philosophy, has been taken up and utilised in a myriad of ways within different disciplines, but until recently has remained relatively under-used within sports studies. A corpus of sociological-phenomenological work is now beginning to develop in this domain, alongside a longer standing literature in feminist phenomenology. These specific social-phenomenological forms explore the situatedness of lived-body experience within a particular social structure. After providing a brief overview of key strands of phenomenology, this article considers some of the ways in which sociological, and particularly feminist phenomenology, might be used to analyse female sporting embodiment. For illustrative purposes, data from an autophenomenographic project on female distance running are also included, in order briefly to demonstrate the application of phenomenology within sociology, as both theoretical framework and methodological approach.3

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“…It is therefore not only our eyes, ears, noses, and our taste buds which connect our inside bodies and minds to the outside world but also our lungs, adding breathing as an important focus for sensorial anthropology. While Morley (2001) frames breathing as a medium, Ingold (2010) frames air as a medium. I consider, in line with Ingold, that air is the medium and breathing the mechanism through which the outside environment is embodied.…”

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Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay

Wainwright

2017

Medical Anthropology

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Inspiration and Expiration: Yoga Practice Through Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body

Cited by 48 publications

References 8 publications

‘Some of these people aren’t as fit as us …’: experiencing the ageing, physically active body in cardiac rehabilitation

‘Some of these people aren’t as fit as us …’: experiencing the ageing, physically active body in cardiac rehabilitation

Feminist Phenomenology and the Woman in the Running Body

Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay

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