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

这个多地点的不同瑜伽练习和空间的民族志将采用一种新颖的“移动访谈”方法，促进关于性别和健康和幸福的具体地理的辩论。现代姿势瑜伽在西方迅速流行起来（Singleton, 2010），本研究将突出练习者在当代瑜伽空间中对身体的生活体验，从而探索健康和性别身体羞耻的新本体论。这将为理解消费主义、新自由主义和医学科学话语之外的健康开辟新的分析路线（Dolezal, 2012）。性别身体羞耻感是由规范的性别身体期望所支撑的，并且与女性心理健康疾病的发病率上升有关（Tiggermann & Slater, 2015; Dolezal, 2016）。有证据表明，瑜伽可以减轻压力、焦虑、抑郁并增强幸福感（Woodyard, 2011; Bussing et al., 2012），我之前的研究发现，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定义自己的身体（Lucas 2018）。我将从两个重要方面扩展这项研究：1。1 .探索瑜伽中的女性与男性身份；探索瑜伽在多大程度上有可能塑造“身体羞耻”的体验。女权主义地理学研究强调了瑜伽等练习中复杂的紧张关系，这些练习既集中了对身体的训练，也集中了对身体的护理。这种约束倾向会增加“身体焦虑”（Little, 2013），然而，内向的要求也可以培养一种更关心、更少羞耻的与身体的关系。在瑜伽课上鼓励关系和联系也会影响幸福感和具体化体验（perperson, 2007; Lucas, 2018）。

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).