Potenciais da epistemologia védica para a prática de yoga no SUS
The growing medicalization and Westernization of yoga, which increasingly reduces it to a measurable physical exercise, is the starting point for this theoretical-hermeneutic essay on Vedic epistemology. The authors explore Sanskrit concepts such as śabda and pramāṇa, found in the Bhagavad Gītā and the Upaniṣads, to propose pedagogical improvements for yoga practice offered within Brazil's Unified Health System (SUS), recovering its ethical, relational, and soteriological dimensions that are often lost in this process of scientification.
Prevenção de lesões para estudantes universitários praticantes de ioga
An experimental study with Chinese university students who practice yoga investigates how limited awareness of risk and inadequate warm-up contribute to sports injuries in the practice. Comparing a group that followed the traditional training with another that added ten minutes of warm-up and stretching before classes, the author finds a significant improvement in the experimental group's functional movement screen (FMS) scores, concluding that this simple routine can reduce the occurrence of injuries among college students.
Peregrinação, devoção e individualismo: o contexto do yoga e Vedanta no Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian pilgrims linked to Vedanta and yoga groups in Rio de Janeiro, who travel to India in spiritual search, are the starting point of this anthropological research on the meanings attributed to devotion (bhakti) and conversion. Drawing on participant observation and interviewees' accounts, the author questions the prevailing reading that ties contemporary spirituality to an individualism detached from social bonds, arguing that devotional experiences in India reveal a search for belonging and connection with others and the cosmos rather than an isolated assertion of the self.
Primórdios da ioga no Brasil, c. 1910-1920
Drawing on newspapers and magazines from the digital collection of Rio de Janeiro's National Library, the authors revisit the history of yoga in Brazil and challenge the common narrative that places the practice's beginnings around 1950, crediting figures such as Sevananda, Caio Miranda, or José Hermógenes as pioneers. The sources analyzed reveal a set of initiatives spreading yoga as early as 1910 to 1920, decades before these more celebrated pioneers, uncovering a forgotten history that helped shape the practice's vocabulary and repertoire in the country.
Sofrimento no Discernimento
This article examines the relationship between discernment (viveka) and suffering pointed to by a sutra in Patañjali's Yoga Sutras, comparing different translations and interpretations of the text (such as those by Iyengar and Gulmini) to understand how these two concepts connect within the Yoga tradition. Based on this comparative analysis, the paper concludes that suffering should not be understood as an inevitable condemnation, but rather as a reflection of how prepared we are to deal with the experiences of the material world.
Yoga: um objeto de fronteira?
Born in India as an initiatory tradition passed from master to disciple, yoga today moves between Science and Religion, tradition and research, occupying what the authors, drawing on the concept of a "boundary object," describe as contact zones between different fields of knowledge. The essay surveys how the practice has been approached in the fields of Health, Religion, Philosophy, Art, Education, Anthropology, and Sociology, discussing the symbolic boundaries that form as yoga gains visibility and becomes professionalized in the contemporary world.
Qualidade de vida em mulheres praticantes de Hatha Ioga
Women who had practiced Hatha Yoga for at least six months were compared with sedentary women in this controlled cross-sectional study on quality of life, based on the SF-36 questionnaire. The results show that the yoga practitioners' group scored significantly better on the pain domain and overall physical score, leading the authors to conclude that regular Hatha Yoga practice can positively influence aspects of quality of life in healthy women.