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This chapter defines and reviews the concepts of embodiment, yoga and then more specifically yoga as embodied mindfulness. This review includes the philosophical roots of embodiment, the notion of embodiment as a human right, geopolitical influences on embodiment, sensorimotor implications of embodiment, and phenomenology and embodiment. Next, recent theories of embodiment are reviewed including Niva Piran’s Developmental Theory of Embodiment, Jessie Menzel and Michael Levine’s Embodiment Model of Positive Body Image, Mihaela Launeanu and Janelle L. Kwee’s Existential Analysis of Embodiment, and The Embodied Self Model by Catherine Cook-Cottone. An overview of yoga and its historical roots precedes an overview of the eight limbs of yoga. Finally, the chapter closes with a rationale for conceptualizing yoga as embodied mindfulness.

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Defining Embodiment, Yoga, and Yoga as Embodied Mindfulness

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    2025年

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  • Catherine Cook-Cottone,
  • Iris Perey

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This chapter defines and reviews the concepts of embodiment, yoga and then more specifically yoga as embodied mindfulness. This review includes the philosophical roots of embodiment, the notion of embodiment as a human right, geopolitical influences on embodiment, sensorimotor implications of embodiment, and phenomenology and embodiment. Next, recent theories of embodiment are reviewed including Niva Piran’s Developmental Theory of Embodiment, Jessie Menzel and Michael Levine’s Embodiment Model of Positive Body Image, Mihaela Launeanu and Janelle L. Kwee’s Existential Analysis of Embodiment, and The Embodied Self Model by Catherine Cook-Cottone. An overview of yoga and its historical roots precedes an overview of the eight limbs of yoga. Finally, the chapter closes with a rationale for conceptualizing yoga as embodied mindfulness.