This qualitative pilot study employs interpretative phenomenological analysis and group discussions to examine how Czech yoga instructors navigate the tension between yoga as a spiritual discipline and yoga as a predominantly physical or fitness-oriented practice. The findings reveal that instructors increasingly perceive yoga as an individualized practice, selectively incorporating spiritual elements according to personal orientation, market demand, and perceived instructor responsibility. Participants expressed ambivalence toward the proliferation of yoga styles and questioned the adequacy of professional training. Ultimately, the study illustrates how instructors negotiate authenticity, spirituality, and professional identity in a context shaped by globalization, consumer culture, and institutionalized instructor training.
This article examines the twentieth-century patristic renewal through a comparative study of Placide Deseille, Jean Dani & eacute;lou, and Olivier Cl & eacute;ment. While often presented as a unified movement of ressourcement, the study argues that it unfolds through distinct interpretive trajectories with differing implications for spiritual practice. It identifies three methodological paradigms corresponding to the patristic tradition as spiritual transformation, doctrinal continuity, and symbolic mediation. The article proposes an integrative framework that situates patristic theology within lived Christian practice, demonstrating how the patristic heritage functions simultaneously as spiritual praxis, doctrinal memory, and symbolic imagination, thereby contributing to a renewed theology of ecclesial communion.
The article offers a process-oriented interpretation of Sufi spirituality through an analysis of the classical concepts of maq & amacr;m, h & amacr;l, fan & amacr;', and baq & amacr;'. Moving beyond teleological and psychologizing models, it conceptualizes the spiritual path as a configuration of practice, event, and ethical verification. Methodologically, the study employs a process-sensitive analytical lens that sustains the tension between structure and openness without reducing Sufism to either subjective experience or discursive construction. Processual spirituality is operationalized through two criteria: temporality as the way of spiritual transformation that structured in the texts (patterns of linear, cyclical, or recursive transformation indicated by instability and renewal) and repetition as a structural mechanism of transformation, (the role of sustained practices, such as dhikr and muh & amacr;saba, in maintaining spiritual development).
In this article, the author focuses on the third dimension of perception corresponding to the third cakra, and the process of clearing the mind of thoughts during the Kundalin & imacr; rising experience. Drawing on both traditional and contemporary perspectives, as well as the author's personal experience and interpretation, the study proposes a step-by-step approach to self-transcendence, highlighting the potential for humans to evolve beyond the boundaries of the ego. This paper contributes to current scholarship by examining detailed information about the phenomena accompanying transit of Kundalin & imacr; through the third cakra, the dissolution of the ego, and by clarifying the final outcomes of the process.
This feasibility study examined the acceptability of a two day Wellness Program of Right Mindfulness retreat and estimated immediate pre-post changes in burnout and well being among Vietnamese employees residing in Japan. The program was developed through expert consultation and implemented as a single arm retreat (N = 60). Participants completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI GS) and the WHO 5 Well Being Index before and immediately after the retreat; brief post retreat debrief reflections provided exploratory contextual insights. Retention, adherence, and satisfaction indicated high feasibility and acceptability. Pre-post analyses showed substantial reductions in Exhaustion and Cynicism and increases in Professional Efficacy, alongside improved WHO 5 well being. Given the single arm design without a control group and immediate posttest timing, changes should be interpreted as preliminary associations rather than causal effects. These findings support feasibility and justify replication using randomized controlled designs with longer term follow up and adequately powered analyses to examine moderators of response.
