International audienceThe cognitive comprehension of touch varies from one social context to another, but also from one era to another. The techniques described in this article have their source in the cultural conceptions and practices of pre-Islamic Javanese people. These people have adapted themselves to modernity by focusing their breathing practice; the concentration and attention they focus on proprioceptive and skin perception having brought their sense of touch to a high degree of refinement, placing it beyond the field of causes and interests, in a divine dimension. In parallel, physiology and Western cognitive sciences allow us to understand the extreme sensitivity of touch – a sense nonetheless devalorised in European traditions....