Hoyez Anne-Cécile
Department of Geography, Université de Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne, Campus Villejean, Place du Recteur Henri Le Moal, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France.
Soc Sci Med. 2007 Jul;65(1):112-24. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.02.050. Epub 2007 Apr 10.
Yoga is becoming more and more fashionable all around the world. This activity, partly considered as therapeutic, reveals contemporary ways of producing global practices. Via a questionnaire completed by individuals at yoga centres in India and France, the paper analyses this phenomenon using the concept of therapeutic landscapes. Furthermore, it examines how these therapeutic landscapes are influenced by globalisation. Bringing together the concepts of therapeutic landscapes, globalisation and the practice of yoga, the paper analyses the production and reproduction of yogic therapeutic landscapes in the world's space. Constituted of natural physical elements and built structures, these therapeutic landscapes are also strongly linked to emotional qualities and intimate feelings evoked by the place and related to health and well-being. The paper also underlines that the emergence of internationally recognised therapeutic landscapes demands a cultural and social geographical approach that could help to examine the repercussions of local and global phenomena on therapeutic landscapes. Indeed, very often, yogis, all around the world, refer to ideal places where they rarely go. Consequently, they create an imagined therapeutic environment that the paper describes.
瑜伽在全球正变得越来越流行。这项活动，部分被视为具有治疗作用，揭示了产生全球实践的当代方式。通过印度和法国瑜伽中心的个人填写的问卷，本文运用治疗景观的概念分析这一现象。此外，它还研究了这些治疗景观是如何受到全球化影响的。本文将治疗景观、全球化和瑜伽实践的概念结合起来，分析了全球空间中瑜伽治疗景观的产生和再现。这些治疗景观由自然物理元素和建筑结构构成，也与场所唤起的情感特质和亲密感受紧密相连，且与健康和幸福相关。本文还强调，国际认可的治疗景观的出现需要一种文化和社会地理学方法，这种方法有助于研究地方和全球现象对治疗景观的影响。事实上，世界各地的瑜伽修行者常常提及他们很少前往的理想之地。因此，他们创造了本文所描述的一种想象中的治疗环境。
