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Volume 11, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 2051-7068
  • E-ISSN: 2051-7076

Abstract

This article explores the notion of spirituality based on the author’s embedded experiences of practising the Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), a somatic movement method. The spirituality of corporeality in movement unfolds unexpectedly, in a ghostly manner through ecstasy-like experiences that writing seeks to express but never fully captures. Some of the author’s lived experiences with SRT in which self-determined subjectivity has disappeared through the process of letting go and allowing spaciousness to emerge as an uncharted sphere that can be entered are presented. The absence of a willing self opens a way to spirituality and transformation. Alongside spirituality, the intertwined notions of the sacred, of attention, waiting and breathing, and their phenomenological underpinnings, are discussed. Writings on spirituality, especially those by Simone Weil and St Teresa of Ávila, offer a resonance board, since they resemble the theory of SRT which unfolds through its practice.

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