Frontiers in Psychology
March 18, 2026
Christopher Gutland, Selenia Di Fronso, Stephan Schleim
If meditative practice can durably transform experience, and if phenomenology can refine how conscious experience becomes describable, then the interface between transformation and description becomes a shared research problem-philosophical, psychological, and methodological. Addressing it requires the traditions to move beyond conventional self-descriptions. Phenomenology is challenged to ask...
Healthcare
August 10, 2025
Selenia Di Fronso
This opinion article aims to highlight the potential mechanisms behind a specific stage of Yoga Nidra (YN) practice, i.e., the formulation and repetition of Sankalpa, encouraging scholars to further study it and providing athletes with suggestions on how to use it for their sport and health. YN can be defined as a meditation practice encompassing a sequence of breathing, guided body awareness,...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
June 10, 2022
Selenia Di Fronso, Claudio Robazza, Réka Zsanett Bondár et al.
The mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programme is gaining increasing attention in sport and physical activity domains. This programme comprises three meditation practices: mindful yoga, body scan, and sitting meditation. In this study, we aimed to examine the effects of a dynamic (mindful yoga) strategy and a static (a combination of body scan/sitting meditation) strategy on...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 21, 2021
Selenia Di Fronso, Maurizio Bertollo
Yoga is an umbrella term that refers to a series of activities including different holistic exercises (e.g., balance, stretching, breathing exercises) and diverse styles of practice (Cramer et al., 2016). Regarding styles, yoga can vary from a more physical practice, such as ashtanga yoga, to a more meditation-based practice, such as Yoga Nidra (YN; literally yoga sleep). YN was developed in...