Name: LIGIA RIBEIRO E SILVA GOMES
Type: PhD thesis
Publication date: 15/12/2018
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FELIPE QUINTÃO DE ALMEIDA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FELIPE QUINTÃO DE ALMEIDA | Advisor * |
| LIANA ABRÃO ROMERA | Internal Examiner * |
| MARIANA ZUANETI MARTINS | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: This research study is based on the theme of Hatha Yoga in the
Exercise Guidance Service (Serviço de Orientação ao Exercício) in the public service of Vitória (Espírito Santo, Brazil). The general aim is to analyze the meanings attributed by teachers and users to Hatha Yoga in the Exercise Guidance Service (SOE) in the city of Vitória. It is a qualitative research based on field research carried out during one year and seven months, from March 2016 to September 2017. The sample was collected in two yoga classes, one in the morning and the other in the evening. In the morning, the classes were taught by a female teacher, and in the evening, by a male teacher, who were Physical Education professionals. The service users from the two groups and their teachers were the research collaborators. The following methodological strategies were used: participant observation, by using a field diary for making notes of the rituals and main events of the classes; semi-structured interviews with the collaborators who proposed to participate in the study; and, finally, questionnaires applied to the collaborators. The data analyzed showed that the SOE yoga is a hybrid practice, with its own characteristics, which did not resemble the yoga practiced in gyms and yoga institutes. The SOE yoga has proved to be updated and re-signified, being identified as an exemplary practice of global culture, which carries the traces of its own tradition. It was marked as a symbolic system that was constituted by a peculiar religiosity, with Christian traits, in this sense ambivalent, because it was neither a yoga that carries aspects of Eastern culture nor a corporal practice of the fitness culture, but it served to strengthen the contemporary identities based on the objectivations and motivations of the two groups. Therefore, the study identified the development of a habitus that structures the space and conforms what has been named the SOE yoga. Yoga served as a tool to cure some symptoms inherent to contemporary life, namely: anxiety, depression, insomnia, low self-steem. It was identified as a kind of contemporary ascesis that sacralizes the body and mind in a reflexive and collective relationship.
Keywords: Yoga. SUS. Habitus. Ascesis.
