Poprzez ciało w ruchu. Pomiędzy tożsamością instruktorki fitness a tożsamością badaczki

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This article focuses on the problems on the frontier of identity of the female researcher and the female fitness instructor. The frontier here is understood metaphorically as a ‘space’ of contact of at least two identities belonging to the same subject. The particular aspect of the frontier understood in such a way is to connect both perspectives: of the instructor and the researcher. The combination of these two perspectives reveals specific experience of movement and corporeality. It also influences the research methods and the reflexive experience. The aim of this article is to present similarities and differences in experiencing movement and corporeality by the researcher and the fitness instructor, to describe the meanings attributed in this process to the body, to consider the relations between the embodied activities of the fitness instructor and the researcher, and finally to touch upon the problems of experiencing movement and corporeality in the process of transition between the two identities. The boundaries between the identity of the fitness instructor and the researcher are transferred at various stages of body work and research. The transition is not always smooth, but ultimately it develops the consciousness and enriches the experience of the subject.