Yoga and the promotion of health Nelson Filice de Barros; Siegel, Pamela; de Moura, Soraia Maria ...
Ciência & saude coletiva,
04/2014, Letnik:
19, Številka:
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The scope of this paper is to analyze the self-declared symptoms and state of well-being of participants in the "Yoga and Promotion of Health" program, which consisted of hatha yoga lessons. It ...includes body exercises and breathing techniques, as well as ethical and philosophical content, administered 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 out the adapted version of the Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile form at the beginning and end of the program. Of the 20 participants in Group 1, eight filled out the form and half of them reported the improvement of self-declared symptoms; as regards the state of well being, three of them felt they had improved. In Group 2, which also had 20 participants, nine completed 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 self care. However, it should be noted that it doesn't achieve the same positive effect for all practitioners as some yoga traditions advocate.
Créer un espace avec le patient Cannou, Emmanuel
Psychothérapies (Geneva, Switzerland),
11/2015, Letnik:
35, Številka:
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Le yoga, discipline du corps et de l’esprit, est désormais intégré par le champ des prises en charge psychothérapeutiques proposant des médiations corporelles. Bien qu’originaire d’un espace culturel ...différent des conceptions scientifiques qui soutiennent la psychopathologie, son utilisation, dans un cadre raisonné, doit pouvoir œuvrer en faveur d’un processus créateur. En ce sens, il s’agit d’une pratique humaniste qui partage avec les théories psychosomatiques l’idée d’une indissociable union entre le corps et la psyché. Le cas de G., ici rapporté, permettra d’éclairer comment l’utilisation d’une telle médiation s’envisage dans la relation avec des patients dont la symptomatologie s’énonce par un trop-plein de pensées et une régression vers des états corporels en attente d’appropriation.
Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed ...to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the equation in the context of public-school curricula. An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of "Vedic victory" or "stealth Buddhism" for public-school children. The legal challenges are fruitful cases for Brown's analysis of the concepts of religious and secular. While notions of what makes something religious or secular are crucial to those who study religion, they have special significance in the realm of public and legal norms. They affect how people experience their lives, raise their children, and navigate educational systems. The question of religion in public education, Brown shows, is no longer a matter of jurisprudence focused largely on the establishment of a Protestant Bible or nonsectarian prayer. Instead, it now reflects an increasingly diverse American religious landscape. Reconceptualizing secularization as transparency and religious voluntarism, Brown argues for an opt-in model for public-school programs.
Health and wellness have become key considerations in human resource management in the context of stressful world of work in a highly globalized, technology-intensive and 24/7 work environment. ...Holistic development through Yoga, a ‘science of body, mind, consciousness and soul’, has been a part of the Indian culture for thousands of years, and the popularity of yoga as a means of physical and psychological well-being has been recently globally recognized with the United Nations (UN) declaring International Day of Yoga on 21 June 2015. According to Harvard Medical School, “available reviews of a wide range of yoga practices suggest they can reduce the impact of exaggerated stress responses and may be helpful for both anxiety and depression” (HMS ( 2015 ). Yoga for anxiety and depression. Boston: Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School).
En este artículo se presentan los resultados de una entrevista con referencia al uso del sánscrito en la práctica del yoga en instructores costarricenses. Además, se lleva a cabo una reflexión sobre ...la lengua sánscrita y se dividen sus estudios en dos tipos: lingüísticos e impresionistas. Adicionalmente, se recopila el conocimiento existente sobre la historia del yoga en Costa Rica. Palabras clave: lengua sánscrita, yoga y sánscrito, lengua sánscrita en Costa Rica, lingüística. The results of a survey regarding the use of Sanskrit in the practice of yoga instructors in Costa Rica are presented in this article. Furthermore, it reflects on the Sanskrit language and divides its study into linguistic and impressionists themes. Additionally, this article compiles the existing knowledge on the history of yoga in Costa Rica. Key Words: Sanskrit, yoga and Sanskrit language, Sanskrit language in Costa Rica, linguistics.
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