A construção de si a partir do Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Meduri, Juliana
• Orientador(a): Oliveira, Rita de Cássia Alves
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ioga; Corpo; Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Ética; Ethic; Self-care; Body
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20062

The main objective of the masters thesis A Construção de si a partir do Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is to discuss the idea of self care, first conceived in ancient Greece in the 5th century B.C. as epiméleia heautoû, within Indian philosophical constructs, which had their foundation built upon sacred texts that date from 1500 B.C, to the 4th Century A.D. This theoretical crossing is used within this thesis to trace a parallel between the concept of self care proposed by Michel Foucault and the hindu ascetic ethic. This ethos is only achieved within a free body: free from passion, psychological disturbance, self-imposed physical binds, and external factors that disturb perception. The research within investigates which techniques and mechanisms were used by Ashtanga Yoga Gurus, specifically, resulting in their being sought out by so many people, from so many different places, sharing the cartesian paradigm of “body” and “self”, and being brought together through this practice that allows one to establish another perception of onself and one’s relation to one’s body. The different stages that build up the comprehension of the main points of this theses include field research with twelve current practitioners of yoga; reading and analysis of ancient yoga texts; insertion of the previously mentioned research within the context of ethical views expressed by contemporary authors such as Michel Foucault, Francisco Varela and Edgar Morin; followed finally by iconographic analysis related to yoga’s genealogy, involving transformations on a technical, symbolical and political level