The Unfolding of Yoga: the integrative construction of health from collective experiences and practices

Abstract

Yoga is an ancient and diverse practice whose philosophy seeks to transcend the body-mind dichotomy
and build itself as integrative. The objective of this work is to reflect on the field experience from the
interaction between yoga classes, body and therapeutic agencies. Pedagogical interventions with yoga
were carried out in a gymnasium, in which I worked as instructor and researcher. From an ethnographic
insertion, we reflect about the body with the concepts of articulation and being affected written by Bruno
Latour, embodiment in the sense of Annemarie Mol and we dialogue with Tim Ingold’s concept of
attentions education; we also used Fátima Tavares’ concept of therapeutic agencies. The yogi body learns
to be affected in the process of blooming of the bodies, learning to be affected in order to observe itself,
its movements, its spiritualities, its health and disease processes, thus expanding the body’s perceptions
and sensitivities in the world.