At the end of my three year training in Pedagogy of Perception in France, I researched stillness from a feminist perspective. In an ethnographic manner, I explored how, in my experience, the Full Presence meditation practice contributed to unearthing certain patriarchal representations internalised throughout life and accumulated in the weave of my body-language-relational behaviours - imagination - dreams and desires.

This specific form of meditation derives from fasciatherapy and sensorial awareness (according to Phd Danis Bois research) and leans on a vital force animating the connective tissues throughout the whole body as well as proprioceptive awareness. The practice is often referred to as the Sensible practice and can eventually affect one’s relational understanding of the world. In touch with a new form of sensorial agency and interconnectedness that did not resemble any of the constructed forms of knowledge, power or binary constructions that run the patriarchal and capitalistic world, I experienced a different possibility of relating to oneself and others, permeable rather than fixed. Agency thus became something shared.

Ultimately, this research suggests that Full Presence as a sensorial contemplative practice may offer a pathway towards developing a relationship with the world beyond patriarchal gender dichotomies and other body hierarchies.

This research was conducted during my studies as a Perceptual Pedagogy Practitioner (Pédagogie Perceptive), supervised by Karine Grenier and validated by the Cerap.org and Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal in 2024.