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Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice presents the application of a contemplative way of thinking and proceeding in qualitative social research and a first-person perspective, focusing on experiencing lived body and knowledge transfer in hatha yoga.
List of contents
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
About the author
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 P¿aczek 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.
Summary
Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice presents the application of a contemplative way of thinking and proceeding in qualitative social research and a first-person perspective, focusing on experiencing lived body and knowledge transfer in hatha yoga.
