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Titel: Learning to Stand on Your Head: How Yoga Demonstrates the Psychosomatic Value of Perspective, Flexibility and Strength
Autor: Chapman, Pete
Mediengruppe: journal article
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Zeitschrift: Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals, Groups and Organisations
Jahr: 2010
Band: 16
Heft: 3
Seiten: 305-312
Sprache: English
Abstract: Rather like psychotherapy, yoga is a demanding practice that (amongst other things) encourages its devotees to think about the complex interdependence of body and mind. This paper considers how the real world relationships in the yoga room provoke, or crystallize, a variety of developmental crises. In short, how the possibility of bodily transformation, the acquisition of flexibility, necessitates a thoroughgoing negotiation with internal states and objects. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)