O imaginário do Hatha-Yoga: um caminho de volta para o centro

Abstract

Yoga is a millenary practice attached which is linked to behaviors and, especially, the ways of living the Hindu´s culture that was transposed to the West, and it is finding space, especially, in the middle of Brazilian urban. The Hath-Yoga is one of more recent schools of Yoga. We have met one´s objectives in this analysis, to identify which Hath Yoga dominant imaginary of the gestures; through survey of the repertoire of gestures images ( asanas were chosen like a cross sample), and verbal expressed by practiced people during the classes period; and if the mythology is presented a asanas influences the production of Hatha-Yoga`s practiced people. The mythology that we use in this method of analysis was a symbolical hermeneutic based on assumption of Duran´s Imaginary General Theory (2002). It can be understand like a method or a technique turning toward the interpretation of the archetypes and symbols from the imaginary. To seek oneself to outline the constellation images following its movement, that is, its convergence. By way of organization, we selected some asanas in the Hath- Yoga practice that they can be expressive to broach the convergence of the mythological images. We have noticed that the practice of The Hath-Yoga encourages the mythological operational images, transforming them in metaphor of the practice people´s psycho-physique that allowed them finding a line of stabilization. This was possible because the imaginary is the creator of the reality, indeed where form the human representations that precede the materialism of the actions and objects. The modification in the practice people´s mental attitudes has brought both self-knowledge and positive behavior consequences which reflected themselves on their interrelated relationships, giving them a balance.