• Andrea V. Gonçalves - Gonçalves, A.V. - DSC/FCM/UNICAMP - <avgft@hotmail.com>
Área Temática:
Ciências Sociais
Resumo:
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar os sintomas e o estado de bem-estar autodeclarados dos participantes do programa "Yoga e Promoção da Saúde", que consistiu em aulas de hatha yoga, utilizando técnicas corporais, respiratórias e conteúdo ético-filosófico, ministradas a dois grupos de docentes, funcionários e alunos, de uma universidade pública do Estado de São Paulo, entre agosto/dezembro de 2011 e março/junho de 2012. Os participantes preencheram um instrumento adaptado do Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (Mymop) nos momentos iniciais e finais do programa. Dos 20 participantes do Grupo 1, oito preencheram o instrumento e a metade apresentou melhora do sintoma declarado; concernente ao estado de bem-estar houve uma melhora para três deles. No Grupo 2, também com 20 participantes, nove completaram o programa e todos tiveram melhoras nos sintomas autodeclarados e melhora da percepção de bem-estar. Conclui-se que o yoga é uma prática mente-corpo que atua como importante terapêutica para a maior parte das pessoas, bem como promove saúde para a maioria dos praticantes, inclusive ampliando sua capacidade de autopercepção e autocuidado corporal. Porém, destaca-se que não alcança o mesmo efeito positivo para todos aqueles que a praticam, como preconizam algumas tradições de yoga.
Palavras-chave:
Promoção da Saúde
Yoga
Práticas mente-corpo
Medicina Integrativa
Estilo de vida
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to present the analysis of the self declared symptoms and scores of well-being of a group of subjects enrolled in the program “Yoga and Health Promotion”, which consisted of hatha yoga lessons, using body and breathing techniques, as well as ethic-philosophical content taught to two groups of lecturers, workers and students of a public university in the State of São Paulo from August to December 2011 and March to June 2012. The participants filled in the Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (Mymop) form at the beginning and end of the program. In Group 1 eight out of 20 participants filled in the form and half of them reported the improvement of symptoms; as regards the state of well being, three of them felt they improved. In Group 2, nine out of 20 participants finished the program and all of them reported improvements of self declared symptoms and well-being. In conclusion, yoga is a mind-body practice which exerts an important therapeutic effect on most practitioners and also promotes health for the majority of them, expanding their capacity of self perception and body self care. However, it should be noted that it doesn’t achieve the same positive effect for all practitioners as some yoga traditions advocate.
Keywords:
health promotion
yoga
mind-body practices
integrative medicine
life style
The purpose of this paper is to present the analysis of the self declared symptoms and scores of well-being of a group of subjects enrolled in the program “Yoga and Health Promotion”, which consisted of hatha yoga lessons, using body and breathing techniques, as well as ethic-philosophical content taught to two groups of lecturers, workers and students of a public university in the State of São Paulo from August to December 2011 and March to June 2012. The participants filled in the Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (Mymop) form at the beginning and end of the program. In Group 1 eight out of 20 participants filled in the form and half of them reported the improvement of symptoms; as regards the state of well being, three of them felt they improved. In Group 2, nine out of 20 participants finished the program and all of them reported improvements of self declared symptoms and well-being. In conclusion, yoga is a mind-body practice which exerts an important therapeutic effect on most practitioners and also promotes health for the majority of them, expanding their capacity of self perception and body self care. However, it should be noted that it doesn’t achieve the same positive effect for all practitioners as some yoga traditions advocate.
Palavras-chave (keywords):
health promotion
yoga
mind-body practices
integrative medicine
life style
