“You Are Not the Body”: (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga
Policy Press eBooks July 28, 2023 Erin F. Johnston
Based on one year of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and enactive immersion, the author argues in this chapter that “becoming” an Integral Yoga practitioner is intimately bound up with a cognitive and perceptual reframing of the body—one marked by the cultivation of a sense of separation or “bodily detachment.” In the findings, the author highlights several key areas in which bodily...