Postural Yoga and the sense of earth
(The plan? To try one new philosophical exercise each month. This article is thus part of a series. January was all about Anti-Curiosity Exercises ) I saw an amazing academic talk, which renewed my enthusiasm for Yoga, and which prompted me to try out a different way of going about my Yoga practice (which I had mostly abandoned, like I do regularly). The talk in question was given by Hayden Kee and was called “Embodiment, Disembodiment, Reembodiment: Insights from Phenomenology and Postural Yoga” 1 (available on Youtube, see footnote). I also read the corresponding article 2 , which I thought was worth it to go slightly more in depth with some ideas. Now, to be fair, I was already enthusiastic about Yoga. Mostly because it does me a lot of good whenever I go back to it. Yoga allows me to break through the false sense that I am a little homunculus living inside my skull and piloting a machine of limbs, as a puppeteer would a puppet. As a practice, it cures m...