ABSTRACT
This chapter explores being and becoming through our very different corporeal, emplaced kinaesthesia largely on the sea or river. Each of us has considerable and long-term involvement with the water in diverse ways. The chapter focuses on the 'central means through which a culture seeks to transmit its main corporeal techniques, skills and dispositions, the embodied experiences associated with acquiring or failing to acquire these attributes, and the actual embodied changes resulting from this process'. It expresses that lived experiences of practicing and performing in sea and/or waterscapes attends to sensuous, embodied knowledge through which we learn to feel, sense and come to understand our complex relations with moving water. Adapting Snowber's analysis of dance and senses, we would concur that experiences of sailing and kayaking facilitate reflexive praxis whereby 'we can uncover the questions underneath the questions and open up a deep listening to the body's knowledge'.
