A juggly mummys life history of teaching yoga: embodied postfeminism and neoliberal spirituality.

Peticca-Harris, Amanda, Navazhylava, Kseniya and Shanahan, Genevieve 2020. A juggly mummys life history of teaching yoga: embodied postfeminism and neoliberal spirituality. Bell, Emma, Gog, Sorin, Simionca, Anca and Taylor, Scott, eds. Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 67-86. (10.4337/9781788973304.00009)

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Abstract

In this chapter, we unpack the embodied and economic precarity that envelops spiritual body work, such as yoga teaching, in neoliberal economies. Using a life history approach, we illustrate how Maria – a part-time yoga teacher and single mum of two – navigates acute experiences of embodiment (ill health, childbearing and childrearing) and the economic precarity of supporting herself and her family. We theorize how the mobilization of spirituality through doing and teaching yoga represents a reprieve and health-management tool, but also produces and reinforces neoliberal, postmaternal and postfeminist discourses. This ultimately results in the individualization of responsibility in terms of work, but also personal health and family demands.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
ISBN:	9781788973298
Last Modified:	08 Sep 2022 13:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/151700

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