'Physicalisation': A pedagogy of body-mind cultivation for liberation in modern yoga and meditation methods

Asian Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 303-337

  Leledaki, Aspasia ^a   Brown, David ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Domination; Liberation; Mind body; Modern meditation and yoga; Somatic pedagogy; Spatiotemporal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951824407     PISSN: 1573420X     EISSN: 15734218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157342009X12526658783538     Document Type: Article

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