Sensing yoga experiences of India
Author
Karnauhova, Anastasija
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2017
Submitted on
2017-05-31
Pages
172
Abstract
This thesis examines yoga tourism as a branch of special interest tourism and asks how yoga tourists’ experiences in India are shaped by the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Adopting a pragmatic research stance that acknowledges multiple realities and values triangulated evidence, the study focuses on two destinations—Rishikesh and Goa—and uses a mixed-methods design combining semi-structured interviews and an online survey with audio-visual ethnography, field notes, and the author’s practitioner-researcher perspective, including photographs from 2016 field trips. The analysis is organized by sense and draws on non-representational and embodied tourism frameworks. Findings highlight the inherently multisensory, bodily character of yoga travel and suggest that continued growth in yoga tourism will be accompanied by greater attention to complex “sensescapes” in both destinations and practice. The thesis addresses a gap in the literature on the multisensory dimensions of yoga tourism and outlines avenues for future research.
Denne afhandling undersøger yogaturisme som en gren af special interest-turisme og spørger, hvordan yogaturisters oplevelser i Indien formes gennem de fem sanser: syn, hørelse, berøring, lugt og smag. Med en pragmatisk videnskabsteoretisk position, der anerkender flere virkeligheder og værdsætter metodetriangulering, fokuserer studiet på to destinationer—Rishikesh og Goa—og anvender et mixed methods-design med semistrukturerede interviews, et online spørgeskema, lyd- og visuel etnografi, feltnoter samt forfatterens praktiker-forskerperspektiv, herunder egne fotos fra feltrejser i 2016. Analysen er struktureret efter hver sans og trækker på ikke-repræsentationelle og kropslige turismeteorier. Resultaterne fremhæver yogaturismens iboende multisensoriske og kropslige karakter og peger på, at den fortsatte vækst i yoga rejser vil ledsages af øget opmærksomhed på komplekse sanselandskaber i både destination og praksis. Afhandlingen adresserer et hul i litteraturen om yogaturismens multisensoriske dimensioner og skitserer retninger for videre forskning.
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