Lecture 'Spirituality and Self-Care: Resisting Optimization through Womb Yoga'

For whom
Press , Employees , Private individuals , Students
When
18-02-2026 from 15:00 to 16:00
Where
Livestream
Language
English
Organizer
Department of Languages and Cultures - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Contact
chia.longman@ugent.be
Website
https://www.crcg.ugent.be

Lecture by Carine Plancke as part of the 2026 webinar series "Care in Academia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" , organized by the GRACE-ETN.

Self-care and spiritual wellbeing practices are increasingly shaped by neoliberal ideals of productivity. Yet when enacted as forms of radical self-love and self-recovery, they can also operate as sites of resistance.

This webinar explores this tension through an ethnographic study of womb yoga, a women-centred alternative therapy developed in the UK.

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