Achieving a Sensing Body: Visualization and Bodily Attention in Alternative Spiritual Practices
This article explores the learning process to develop a sensing body through visualization and bodily attention in alternative spiritual practices held at Brittany’s megaliths, located in northwest France. Drawing on the sensory ethnography approach, this article argues that participants achieve the...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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MDPI
2022
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Religions
Année: 2022, Volume: 13, Numéro: 8 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
holistic practices
B visualization B Reflexivity B bodily attention B alternative spirituality B sensuous body B Brittany B France B Embodiment |
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| Résumé: | This article explores the learning process to develop a sensing body through visualization and bodily attention in alternative spiritual practices held at Brittany’s megaliths, located in northwest France. Drawing on the sensory ethnography approach, this article argues that participants achieve the experience of their sensing body following four main actions: Practicing visualization techniques to interact with summoned entities, learning another sensory language, establishing relationships between bodily techniques and somatic imagery, and cultivating and verbalizing bodily sensations. Collected data provide an understanding of practitioners’ elaboration of a meaningful experience, while also suggesting how meditative and bodily techniques partake in these activities. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel13080714 |