O Yoga como mediador de aprendizagens para a promoção da saúde: entre cuidado, práticas e experiências de si

Abstract

The interest in yoga has increased in the last decades. In modernity, this practice lies in a field of power between a hegemonic medical discourse and health promotion practices aimed at the invention of new modes of subjectivation. The objective of the study was to analyze the learning of the practitioners of Yoga for health promotion. It was assumed that Yoga is an educational practice that allows a relation of the subject with himself and with this the practitioners develop the care of themselves. A qualitative research was carried out, taking as a scenario the core of the Association of Municipal Servants of Belo Horizonte (ASSEMP). The data were obtained through 62 hours of observation of the Yoga classes, interviews with 15 Yoga practitioners of the institution and analysis of the letters written by them in which they were asked to advise a friend about care. The data were worked from the perspective of a post-critical analytical discourse. The results revealed that Yoga is a field of transition between the ideas of freedom of health promotion and, at the same time, constitutes an instrument of biopower, reproducing hegemonic discourses in the field of health. Participants use Yoga to take care of their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Their behaviors also transpose normative practices and practices of self-care. Self-care has revealed itself with the following meanings: Meet with you and recognize the need for change; Be active in relation to yourself and to life; Equilibrium - Temperance; The question of truth; Knowledge of self; Beware of each other; Reconnection body, soul / spirit. One learns with Yoga to reflect on oneself and in this one to reflect to make the connection with itself, to pay attention to the body and, in this one to pay attention, to take care of itself. There are different devices that seem to produce self-experience through Yoga.Yoga as the mediator of the experience of self develops the body consciousness in which the body also becomes a vehicle of learning by way other than reason. It is concluded that Yoga has the potential to provoke practices of freedom in education and health and, thus, reaches the promotion of health among care, practices and experiences of self.