O estilo de vida de praticantes e estudiosos de Yoga

• Autor(a) principal: Farias, Carine Mendonça de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15071
• topic: Estilo de vida; Qualidade de vida; Yoga; Psicologia ambiental; Lifestyle; Quality of life; Enviromental psychology; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The aim of this research was to investigate the lifestyle constitutive elements of Yoga practioners and students who live in brazilian capitals. Looking forward to explore if there is some influence of this philosophy teachings in their daily lives and also investigate how do they perceive their quality or life. The lifestyle concept adopted in this research comes from the Enviromental Psychology, area of the Psychology that studies the relation between people and fisical environment, natural or built (Bassani, 2004). It refers to the set of values, habits and actions on people daily lives. Yoga is understood as a complex philosophical-religious system, that contain a set of belives and values, whose purpose is to guide the practioners actitudes and behaviors. Participants were four people, two of them, male and two, female, who live in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Aracaju. For data colection, it was used two instruments: (1) an open questionnaire with six questions about their routine, values and the Yoga teachings influence in their lives and (2) the Quality of Life Self-Evaluation Instrument (Bassani, Corrêa e Eisenstadt, 2002) that allowed the participants to think and rate ten different aspects of their lives acording to their satisfaction level. By analysing both instruments data, we observed some habits and values shared by them, for exemple, to practice Yoga and meditation daily and to worry about environment. It was possible to identify four principal elements in the participans lifestyle constitution: (1) self-care (practice of physical activity and a appropriate feed); (2) respect on the relations (they value harmony and peace); (3) longing for personal improvement (philosophy studies, self knoledge and practice of spirituality) and (4) actions based on sustaintability (pro environment behavior). All of those elements are related on Yoga s teachings. We observed that the practice and study of this philosophy can influence the way of thinking, and as consequence, people values and way of act, resulting in the built of healthable lifestyles and positive reflects on their quality of life self evaluation