The role of sensous flow and sensing the ground in movement skill experiences-a reflection using the practice of yoga as an example.
Gunn Helene Engelsrud
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2023.1217607 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Case report Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Yoga |
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Keywords | Bodily resonance Letting be Passivity Yoga |
| Key points | Argues that movement experiences in yoga depend on bodily awareness toward the ground, involving listening and sensing with and from the body rather than conscious willpower or force. Using Husserl's passive synthesis, Fuchs and Koch's bodily resonance, and Maclaren's "letting be," the author contends that passivity and sensuous flow are available in practice and that first-person movement experience illuminates the reciprocal, intertwined relation between self, others, and world. |
Abstract
This contribution takes a phenomenological approach to explore the sensuous flow and perceived experiences in practicing movement skills, using the practice of yoga as a case study. The article focuses on the role of perception and the anonymous aspect of the body's responses in practicing skills and capabilities to move, with yoga as an example. The author uses a phenomenological framework, highlighting how passivity and sensuous flow is available in the practice of yoga. Edmund Husserl's concepts of passive synthesis and Thomas Fuch & Sabine Koch interpretation of bodily resonance and Kym Maclaren's "letting be" are used as analytic frames to illuminate how movement experiences are dependent on bodily awareness towards the ground, without demanding conscious willpower or focus on force, but listening and sensing with and from the body. The article aims to illuminate the ambiguous character of how movement experienced from a first-person perspective gains importance by understanding oneself, others, and the world as reciprocal and intertwined phenomena.
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Citations in the library
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