This research project aims to collect and analyse the experiences of Jains on religious bodily practices. Jainism, with its emphasis on non-violence (ahiṃsā) and purification of the self (jīva), offers distinct bodily practices oriented towards cultivation, control and liberation from the body. Important bodily practices include worship, singing, mantra, study, yoga, meditation and fasting. This project focus on such ‘technologies of the body’ that are based on ideas and beliefs about reproduction and non-reproduction, and bodily practices motivated by celibacy and menstruation management. The objective of this project is to conduct participant interviews with Jain practitioners or practitioners inspired by Jainism, whether renunciant or lay, male, female or third gender, and whether current or former practitioners. These discussions will be analysed alongside Jain texts instructing and theorising bodily practices. By combining textual analysis with participant interviews this project aims to bridge historical perspectives with current practices, offering a comprehensive view of Jain approaches to bodily control and liberation.