Abstract

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.