Yoga and gendered wellbeing: exploring new ontologies of wellbeing and gendered body shame through innovative and ethnographic studies of yoga practic

瑜伽和性别幸福：通过瑜伽实践的创新和人种学研究探索幸福和性别身体羞耻的新本体论

• 批准号: 2253873
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2253873
• 关键词: Yoga; gendered; wellbeing; exploring; new

This multi-sited ethnography of diverse yoga practices and spaces will deploy a novel 'moving interview' method to contribute to debates on gendered and embodied geographies of health and wellbeing. Modern postural yoga has rapidly gained popularity in the West (Singleton, 2010), and this research will foreground practitioners' lived experiences of the body in contemporary yoga spaces, enabling an exploration of new ontologies of wellbeing and gendered body shame. This will open up novel analytical lines towards understanding wellness outside of consumerist, neoliberal and medico-scientific discourses (Dolezal, 2012).Gendered body shame is underpinned by normative gendered body expectations and has been linked to increased rates of mental health illnesses amongst women (Tiggermann & Slater, 2015; Dolezal, 2016). There is evidence that yoga can reduce stress, anxiety, depression and enhance wellbeing (Woodyard, 2011; Bussing et al., 2012), and my previous research found that yoga can help women to develop 'alternative' modes of bodily awareness which allow them to positively reconceptualise their bodies outside normative gendered expectations (Lucas 2018). I will extend this research in two important ways:1. Exploring feminine and masculine identities in yoga;2. Exploring the extent to which yoga has the potential to shape experiences of 'body shame'. Feminist geographical research has highlighted the complex tensions within practices like yoga which centralise both the discipline and care of the body. Such disciplining tendencies can increase 'corporeal anxiety' (Little, 2013), however an inward facing imperative can also foster a more caring, less shameful relationship with the body. The encouragement of relationality and connection in yoga classes can also impact upon wellbeing and embodied experiences (Perrson, 2007; Lucas, 2018).

这种多地点的不同瑜伽练习和空间的民族志将部署一种新颖的“移动访谈”方法，以促进对健康和福祉的性别和具体地理的辩论。现代姿势瑜伽在西方迅速流行（Singleton，2010），这项研究将在当代瑜伽空间中突出练习者对身体的生活体验，从而探索健康和性别身体羞耻的新本体论。这将开辟新的分析路线，以了解消费主义，新自由主义和医学科学话语之外的健康（Dolezal，2012）。性别身体羞耻是由规范的性别身体期望支撑的，并与女性心理健康疾病的发病率增加有关（Tiggermann &斯莱特，2015; Dolezal，2016）。有证据表明，瑜伽可以减轻压力，焦虑，抑郁和增强健康（Woodyard，2011; Bussing等人，2012），我以前的研究发现，瑜伽可以帮助女性发展身体意识的“替代”模式，使她们能够在规范的性别期望之外积极地重新概念化自己的身体（卢卡斯2018）。我将在两个重要方面扩展这项研究：1。探索瑜伽中的女性和男性身份;2。探索瑜伽在多大程度上有潜力塑造“身体健康”的体验。女权主义地理学研究强调了瑜伽等练习中的复杂紧张关系，这些练习集中了对身体的纪律和护理。这种纪律倾向会增加“身体焦虑”（Little，2013），然而，一个面向内心的命令也可以培养一种更关心，与身体的关系不那么可耻。瑜伽课程中对关系和联系的鼓励也会影响健康和体验（Perrson，2007;卢卡斯，2018）。