Paper short abstract:

The paper explores how the theoretical concept form phenomenology 'the moving lived body' can challenge how the body has been constituted as a constructed, and scientific (analytical) phenomenon. We ask; What can phenomenological methodology contribute with regrading understanding the 'the moving living body' across political and disciplinary contexts?

Paper long abstract:

> he moving body is constituted as a social, political and experiential phenomenon. Moving bodies are both represented as problems and solutions in public and political discourses. However, moving bodies are lived and expressive and challenge political ideas about them. The paper "try out" how the lived body; understood in its own right, as subjective and intersubjective and ambiguous, can contribute to knowledge production across political and disciplinary contexts. We use a dance and yoga context to challenge the view that bodied are defined and constructed as problematic. Through data from an experiential context of yoga and dance we regard the body weight, instability, senses and affects as productive meaning-making, ambiguous and affected by - and affect others with and through movement. Bodily affectivity operate in the practice and need to be regarded as more than body image and exercise used as solutions to health issues. We give attention towards lived experience, proprioceptive senses and intensities of affect that might enhance increased vitalities, joy and belonging. Based on an analysis of these ambiguities, the paper address how theoretical and methodological creativity can contribute to grasp and challenge the complexities of moving lived bodies in the context of yoga and dance. The paper reflect also how our findings can contribute with knowledge of the lived body to other fields and subjects.