Mindfulness-based interventions, such as the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR), have shown mindfulness to be an effective intervention for treating psychological and physical symptoms of ill-being ( Gardner & Moore, 2012 ; Kabat-Zinn, 2003 ; Toneatto & Ngyuen, 2007 ). This
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General Mindfulness Differentially Predicted by Male and Female Exercisers’ Perceptions of Motivational Climate and Goal Orientations
Kristen Lucas and E. Whitney G. Moore
“Tuning into One’s Self:” Foucault’s Technologies of the Self and Mindful Fitness
Pirkko Markula
This article explores the application of Michel Foucault’s technologies of the self—practices of freedom that are characterized by ethics of self-care, critical awareness, and aesthetic self-stylization. Foucault’s argument states that the technologies of self can act as practices of freedom from disciplinary, discursive body practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this study examines the intersections of Foucault’s theory with commercial fitness practices to identify possibilities for changing the dominant, feminine body discourse. The focus is on fitness practices collectively defined as mindful fitness and specifically one hybrid mindfulfitness form that combines Pilates, yoga, and Tai Chi with western strength training. Through in-depth interviews with the instructors of this hybrid form, this study analyzes the possibilities for mindful fitness to act as a practice of freedom by detailing what can be meant by critically aware, self-stylized fitness professionals for whom ethical care of the self translates to ethical care of the others.
Modern Pain Science and Alexander Technique: How Might Alexander Technique Reduce Pain?
Mari Hodges, Rajal G. Cohen, and Timothy W. Cacciatore
toward nonprovocative aspects of motion by prioritizing other senses have been shown to reduce pain ( Wand et al., 2023 ). Brain imaging shows that diverting attention to cognitive tasks unrelated to pain activates pain inhibitory systems ( Torta et al., 2017 ). In general, mindful awareness is
Counseling Injured Female Student-Athletes: A Discussion of Clinical Interventions
Mildred Mary Witt
Sustaining an injury can be traumatic for a collegiate student-athlete. Serious injuries are often accompanied by complex emotional and psychological responses that warrant a mental health consultation and clinical intervention. Anxiety and stress-related concerns are increasingly prevalent in the student-athlete population, particularly among female student-athletes. This paper reviews the relevant injury, sports psychology, and counseling literature pertaining to student-athletes, with a focus on female collegiate athletes. Utilizing a hypothetical case illustration, the counseling needs of the injured female student-athlete are discussed. Three therapeutic interventions: expressive writing, cognitive processing therapy, and Koru Meditation, an evidencedbased curriculum for teaching mindfulness skills, are proposed to reduce anxiety, injury-related stress, and other mental health concerns in this population.
Jiu-Jitsu and Society: Male Mental Health on the Mats
Jack Thomas Sugden
of coherence and the confidence to engage with our environment. Continued learning and development, the ability to cope with stress, and engagement with mindfulness are all strategic resources that appear as strong themes in this research. They each speak to a degree of empowerment and self
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes
Wendy O’Brien, Caroline Riot, and Clare Minahan
culture are also deeply entangled with the impacts of colonialism. We therefore were mindful of the socio-cultural context or milieu and perceived peripheral status of the postcolonial countries invited to participate. Developing and working with a cultural sensibility was a process of recognizing the
Anishinaabekweg Dibaajimowinan (Stories) of Decolonization Through Running
Tricia D. McGuire-Adams and Audrey R. Giles
wellbeing. Certainly, the processes of decolonization requires that Indigenous peoples consciously—or mindfully—reconnect to our respective Indigenous values, ethics, and teachings while simultaneously challenging the effects of colonialism in our lives and bodies. Recent literature that has focussed on
Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure
Stanley Thangaraj
challenge the need to quantify pleasure, thus allowing for the fluidity of pleasure whereby stressing that “there exists a need for scholars to become mindful of examples , types and degrees of pleasure.” (15) He explodes singular and fixed concepts of pleasure. In that respect, Richard Pringle then
Exploring Empowerment and Gender Relations in a Sport for Development Program in Papua New Guinea
Emma Seal and Emma Sherry
their work ( Darnell, Whitley, & Massey, 2016 ; Thorpe, 2016 ). With these debates in mind, we design and undertake SFD research that attends to these issues and holistically examines program interventions, while remaining mindful of the wider political and ethical landscape (as researchers from an HIC
The Complexity of Sport: Universal Challenges and Their Impact on Women in Sport
Gwendolyn M. Weatherford, Betty A. Block, and Fredrick L. Wagner
for kinesiology scholars to become more mindful of and respond directly to the social realities of Barnett’s ( 2004 ) age of supercomplexity. Likewise, we call for a parallel mindfulness of Barnett’s ( 2004 ) universal challenges of complexity for women’s sport experiences. We also call for an
