{"title":"Learning to feel: on practice and precarity in an Amsterdam yoga studio","authors":"Alexandra Brown","doi":"10.1057/s41286-022-00126-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article articulates the practice of learning to feel taught in an Amsterdam yoga studio. Tattva Yoga constitutes one localized manifestation of postural yoga practices flourishing within neoliberal systems worldwide. As a scene of adjustment (Berlant, in Cruel optimism, Duke University Press, Durham, 2011) to conditions of precarity which shape the everyday lives of participants, Tattva Yoga encourages students to cultivate feelings of flexibility, openness, and balance. A close reading of Tattva Yoga practices identifies a performative logic to feeling, through which embodied action constitutes a form of subject cultivation. The case study, thus, offers an exploration of feeling as the intersection of body, subject, affect, and discourse, and as one means through which individuals enact subjectivities both continuous with and alternate to the demands of precarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Subjectivity","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-022-00126-7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article articulates the practice of learning to feel taught in an Amsterdam yoga studio. Tattva Yoga constitutes one localized manifestation of postural yoga practices flourishing within neoliberal systems worldwide. As a scene of adjustment (Berlant, in Cruel optimism, Duke University Press, Durham, 2011) to conditions of precarity which shape the everyday lives of participants, Tattva Yoga encourages students to cultivate feelings of flexibility, openness, and balance. A close reading of Tattva Yoga practices identifies a performative logic to feeling, through which embodied action constitutes a form of subject cultivation. The case study, thus, offers an exploration of feeling as the intersection of body, subject, affect, and discourse, and as one means through which individuals enact subjectivities both continuous with and alternate to the demands of precarity.
期刊介绍：
Subjectivity is an international, transdisciplinary journal examining the social, cultural, historical and material processes, dynamics and structures of human experience. As topic, problem and resource, notions of subjectivity are relevant to many disciplines, including cultural studies, sociology, social theory, geography, anthropology and psychology. The journal brings together scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities, publishing high-quality theoretical and empirical papers that address the processes by which subjectivities are produced, explore subjectivity as a locus of social change, and examine how emerging subjectivities remake our social worlds.
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