Integrating yoga philosophy and tourism research: A reflexive methodological framework
提出一个四步反思框架，将瑜伽哲学融入解释主义旅游研究方法，通过定位研究者立场、阐明本体论、应用认识论工具和互惠诠释对话，深化数据收集与解释，适用于原住民、跨文化或小众旅游研究。
This research note offers a four-step reflexive framework for integrating yoga darśana (loosely translated as philosophy) into interpretivist tourism methodologies by situating researcher's positionality, articulating yoga's dvaita /dualist ontology, applying epistemic tools typically associated with yoga philosophy in data collection, and engaging in reciprocal hermeneutic dialogue. Based on reflection on an in-depth study of yoga tourism in Rishikesh, India, using insider-outsider positioning, multilingual interviews, and cultural tokens of reciprocity, the framework demonstrates how dialogical discourse deepens data collection and interpretation. This note offers transferable insights for scholars working in Indigenous, cross-cultural, or niche tourism contexts, ensuring research outcomes are meaningful, reflexive, and relevant to the lived realities of yoga tourism participants.