Yoga-scapes, Embodiment and Imagined Spiritual Tourism

I have a new chapter in the book “Tourism and Embodiment”

The book is edited by Catherine Palmer and Hazel Andrews.

The chapter is on #yoga and #tourism, and is titled:

“Yoga-scapes, Embodiment and Imagined Spiritual Tourism”

The blurb in the book says that:

Here is the first page:

Introduction

In relation to the anthropology of tourism and the tourist’s body, this chapter explores how subjective, embodied experience is mediated through one’s expectations, goals, and imagination. It challenges us to reflect on the different ways yoga-inflected lifestyles embody tourism, both within and beyond one’s self; and, how through pilgrimage, one’s own body is potentially transformed through this imaginative consumption. In the two main parts that follow, we explore the imaginative consumption of both physical and metaphysical ‘pilgrimage’ within the global wellness industry; not only in relation to global yoga and spiritual tourism, but, also, through the idea of how divine presence represents civilisational embodiment through the incarnation of cultural essence as the vehicle of civilisation and the process of cultural reterritorialisation (Jain, 2007, p. 93).