Empowerment and using the body in modern postural yoga

Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 119-139

  Nevrin, Klas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85105656794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (58)

1. Alter, J. (2004) Yoga in Modem India: The Body Between Philosophy and Science, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2. Anton, C. (2001) Selfhood and Authenticity, Albany: SUNY Press.
3. Bartenieff, I. (1980) Body movement: coping with the environment, Langhorne: Gordon & Breach.
4. Beck, G. (1993) Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
5. Bourdieu, P. (1977) Outline of a Theory of Practice, trans R. Nice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Burkitt, I. (1999) Bodies of Thought: Embodiment, Identity and Modernity, London: Sage Publications.
7. Carpenter, D. (2003) Practice Makes Perfect, in I. Whicher and D. Carpenter (eds) Yoga: The Indian Tradition, London: Routledge/Curzon.
8. Carrette, J. and R. King (2005) Selling Spirituality. The Silent Takeover of Religion, London: Routledge.
9. Classen, C. (1997) Foundations for an anthropology of the senses, UNESCO 153: 401-12.
10. Coney, J. (1999) Sahaja Yoga: socializing processes in a South Asian new religious movement, Richmond: Curzon.
11. Collins, R. (2004) Interaction Ritual Chains, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
12. Crouch, D. (2003) Spacing, performing, and becoming: Tangles in the mundane, Environment and Planning A, 35: 1945-60.
13. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, New York: Harper & Row.
14. De Michelis, E. (2004) A History of Modern Yoga: Patahjali and Western Esotericism, London: Continuum.
15. Desikachar, T.K.V. (1995) Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, Bombay: Inner Traditions India.
16. Etlin, R. (1998) Aesthetics and the spatial sense of self, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 56 (1): 1-19
17. Featherstone, M. (1982) The body in consumer culture, Theory, Culture and Society, 1: 1833.
18. Freund, P. (1990) The expressive body: A common ground for the sociology of emotions and health and illness, Sociology of Health & Illness, 12 (4): 452-77.
19. Gallagher, S. (2002) Bodily self-awareness and object-perception, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum: International Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, 7 (1): 53-68 [special issue: Embodiment and awareness. Perspectives from phenomenology and cognitive science].
20. Gendlin, E. (1987) A Philosophical Critique of the Concept of Narcissism: The Significance of the Awareness Movement, in D.M. Levin (ed) Pathologies of the Modern Self, New York: New York University Press, 251-304.
21. Glassner, B. (1989) Fitness and the postmodern self, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 30: 180-91.
22. Hankin, T. (1984) Laban Movement Analysis in dance education, Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 55 (9): 65-6.
23. Holloway, J. (2003) Make-believe: Spiritual practice, embodiment, and sacred space, Environment and Planning, 35: 1961-74.
24. Ingold, T. (2000) The Perception of the Environment, London: Routledge.
25. Iyengar, B.K.S. (1995) Light on Yoga, New York: Schocken Books.
26. Jois, P. (2002) Yoga Mala, New York: North Point Press.
27. Kovach, J. (2002) The body as the ground of religion, science, and self, Zygon, 37 (4): 94161.
28. Leavitt, J. (1996) Meaning and feeling in the anthropology of the emotions, American Ethnologist, 23: 514-39.
29. Leder, D. (1990) The Absent Body, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
30. Leigh Foster, S. (1997) Dancing Bodies, in J. Desmond (ed.) Meaning in Motion, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
31. Levin, D.M. (ed.) (1997) Language Beyond Postmodernism: Saying and Thinking in Gendlin’s Philosophy, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
32. Levin, D.M. (ed.) (2003) The Body’s Recollection of Being: Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
33. Lingis, A. (1998) The Imperative, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
34. Maffesoli, M. (1996) The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society, London: Sage.
35. Malbon, B. (1999) Clubbing: Dancing, Ecstasy and Vitality, London: Routledge.
36. Mazis, G. (1993) Emotion and Embodiment: Fragile Ontology, New York: Peter Lang.
37. McKean, L. (1996) Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalisit Movement, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
38. Mellor, P. and C. Shilling (1997) Re-forming the Body: Religion, Community, and Modernity, London: Sage Publications.
39. Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962) Phenomenology of Perception, trans C. Smith, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
40. Morley, J. (2001) Inspiration and expiration: Yoga practice through Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body, Philosophy East & West, 51 (1): 73-82.
41. Ness, S.A. (1992) Body, Movement, and Culture: Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
42. Nevrin, K. (2004) Från frälsning till kroppsligt välbefinnande, Chakra, 2: 70-84.
43. Nevrin, K. (2005) Krishnamacharya’s Viniyoga: On modern yoga and Sri Vaisnavism, Journal of Vaisnava Studies, 14: 65-94.
44. Nevrin, K. (forthcoming) Performing the Yogasutra: Toward a methodology for studying recitation in modern Hatha Yoga, Chakra.
45. Ratcliffe, M. (2005) The feeling of being, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12 (8-10): 43-60.
46. Sarukkai, S. (2002) Inside/outside: Merleau-Ponty/yoga, Philosophy East & West, 52 (4): 459-78.
47. Shilling, C. (1993) The Body and Social Theory, London: Sage Publications.
48. Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1999a) The Primacy of Movement, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
49. Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1999b) Emotion and movement, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6 (11-12): 259-77.
50. Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1998) Consciousness: A natural history, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5 (3): 260-94.
51. Shusterman, R. (1999) Somaesthetics: A disciplinary proposal, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57 (3): 299-313.
52. Singleton, M. (2005) Salvation through relaxation: Proprioceptive therapy and its relationship to yoga, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 20 (3): 289-304
53. Smith, M.L. (2002) Moving self: The thread which bridges dance and theatre, in Research in Dance Education, 3 (2).
54. Strauss, S. (1997) Re-orienting Yoga: Transnational Flows from an Indian Center [unpublished thesis], University of Pennsylvania.
55. Thrift, N. (2000) Still life in nearly present time: The object of nature, Body & Society, 6 (3-4): 34-57.
56. Thrift, N. (2004) Bare life, in H. Thomas and J. Ahmed (eds) Cultural Bodies, Malden, MA: Blackwell.
57. Turner, T. (1994) Bodies and antibodies, in T. Csordas (ed) Embodiment and Experience, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
58. Zarrilli, P. (2004) Toward a phenomenological model of the actor’s embodied modes of experience, Theatre Journal 56: 653-66.