Essays about: "Embodiment of intimacy"

Found 2 essays containing the words Embodiment of intimacy.

  1. 1. Deep Breath - An auto-reflexive account of a collective journey into the healing practices of shared, embodied, breathing meditation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap

    Author : Michel Starco; [2023]
    Keywords : Quality of safety; Belly2Belly; Liminality; Interpretive drift; Embodiment of intimacy; Embodiment; Lived religion; Intimacy; Co-regulation; Intercorporeity; Ritual; Auto-reflexive ethnography; Negotiating somatic consent; Habitus; Socialization; Polyvagal theory.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : When we first encounter past traumatic experiences in ourselves, we are left with a conundrum; how are we to move forward in our everyday lives and thrive, rather than just cope and survive? By participating in the Belly2Belly ritual, providing analytical reflections and a detailed account from an auto-reflexive perspective, I attempt in this thesis to show, through the Belly2Belly ritual, how participants progress from a state of ill-being into a state of well-being, a form of evolution of well-being. This, it can be argued, takes form when the ritual participants are provided with the opportunity to engage with their unconscious habitus and autonomous physiological reactions through embodiment of intimacy. READ MORE

  3. 2. A little story about big issues : an introspective account of FEMEN

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Yelena Myshko; [2018]
    Keywords : FEMEN; Yelena Myshko; sextremism; embodiment; feminist activism; feminist snap; feminist polemic; body image; militant feminism; sweaty concept; autophenomenography; autoethnography; feminist writing; evocative storytelling; retrospective diary; dialogic meaning; censorship; national politics; police persecution; generational feminism; Resistance; protest technology; Ukraine; Netherlands; Sara Ahmed; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Elizabeth Grosz; Mikhail Bakhtin; Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson; Carolyn Ellis; Laurel Richardson; Rosemarie Buikema; Marta Zarzycka; Steven Pressfield;

    Abstract : This research contributes a detailed personal account of a FEMEN activist. It presents an autophenomenographic analysis of cultural artefacts, including a Retrospective Diary, resulting from the activity of Yelena Myshko in FEMEN between 2012 and 2014. READ MORE