Title: The effect of yogic relaxation on muscle tone Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to present a technique of yogic relaxation, yoga nidra, as one of the possible methods for releasing mental and physical tension. The aim of the practical part of this thesis is to evaluate the effect of yoga nidra on muscle tone. Methods: The practical part of this thesis is a pilot study with six participants. For objective assessment of muscle tone the method of myotonometry was used. M. soleus was selected as the muscle to be measured. First, the original muscle tone of m. soleus on the dominant lower limb of the participants was measured. Then the group of participants was instructed about the practice of yoga nidra and was asked to practice it every day in the following 14 days at home using a given audio recording. After the two-week training, the muscle tone of m. soleus was measured again in order to determine the long-term effect of yoga nidra on muscle tone. Finally, the participants participated in a group lesson of yoga nidra guided by a yoga teacher. Then, the muscle tone of m. soleus was measured again in order to determine the instant effect of yoga nidra on muscle tone. Results: After the two-week training of yoga nidra the research found a decrease in muscle tone of m. soleus in 5 out of 6...

Title: Selected exercise trends and its effect on trunk stabilization function in dialysed patients - overview of the literature. Objective: Objective of this diploma thesis was to obtain and compare available studies dealing with exercise trends such as yoga, pilates, tai chi and balance training devices and to evaluate their effect on musculature which participates on trunk stabilization system of dialysed patients. Methods: This diploma thesis has descriptively-analytical character and is structured in a form of literary review. Results: Issue of dialysis in connection with trunk stabilization system has not been sufficiently explored yet in literary sources.In conclusion, there were no studies found dealing with effects of particular exercise trends on spine stabilization system of dialysed patients.In order to comprehend this issue an overview was written to define the effect of such trends on dialysed patients. Also, complications arising from renal failure and dialysis were mentioned such as hypertension, diabetes melitus and obesity.The effect of these trends on trunk stabilization system of healthy population as well as patients suffering from chronic back pain was described too. Conclusion: Some extent of coherence was found between strengthening musculature which plays an important role...

Title of the master thesis: The evaluation of the effect of yoga asanas on the position of the pelvis Abstract in English language: The aim of this paper is to verify the influence of exercise-specific assemblies of yogic asanas on the position of the pelvis in the sagittal plane, as another parameter, we chose the change in extension of the spine in a plane sagittal. The two-month exercise program is compiled so that it can affect the length and tension of the major muscles, having an effect on the position of the pelvis and correct its excessive anteversion, or retroversion. The content of the exercise program is supported by the theoretical background from the fields of anatomy, kinesiology, biomechanics, and also from the field of yogic theory and practice. The exercise was conducted once a week in groups (90 minutes), under the guidance of a physiotherapist and on the form of autotherapy in an abbreviated version (about 16 minutes) six times a week. The exercise group comprised young people (n=12) aged 20-30 years without any known structural deformities axial body or a serious functional deficit of the locomotive body. The measurements have been carried out in the laboratory of biomechanics using 3D kinematic analysis system Qualisys. The results indicate that the exercise of yoga asanas has...

Title: Discrepancy of extention positions used in physiotherapy Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to describe in detail selected extinction position (bhudžangásána, úrdhvamukhašvanásána, McKenzie extension, extension from developmental kinesiology) and then using surface electromyography to verify the similarity and difference of selected muscle involvement in these positions. From these detection then conclude whether this practice often confused position brings the same or different therapeutic effect. Methods: It is the type of quantitative research to theoretical and empirical character. The research method is observing (intra experiment). Using surface electromyography was sensed electrical activity m. trapezius (superior et inferior), m. erector spinae, mm. oblique, m. gluteus maximus and m. semitendinosus in 7 subjects in the implementation of extension positions. Results: It was confirmed that for each of these positions was dominant differnt of the measured muscles. It was confirmed that the position bhudžangásána and úrdhvamukhašvanásána are described in the literature differently than is shown practical experiment. Other positions didn't confirm this statement. It was confirmed that each of mentioned positions has a different therapeutic effect. Keywords: extention position,...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:37:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carine Mendonca de Farias.pdf: 555263 bytes, checksum: 194620603743b44f92a8e830bee9c49c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / 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 / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar os elementos constitutivos do estilo de vida de praticantes e estudiosos de Yoga residentes em capitais brasileiras. Visando explorar também se há ou não a inserção dos ensinamentos desta filosofia no seu dia-a-dia e como elas percebem sua qualidade de vida. O conceito de estilo de vida adotado provém da Psicologia Ambiental, área que estuda as inter-relações pessoa-ambiente físico, natural ou construído (Bassani, 2004) e se refere ao conjunto de valores, hábitos e ações que se fazem presentes no dia-a-dia das pessoas. O Yoga é concebido como complexo sistema filosófico-religioso que aponta para um conjunto de crenças e valores, cuja finalidade é nortear as atitudes e condutas de seus estudiosos e praticantes. A pesquisa foi realizada com dois participantes do sexo masculino e dois do sexo feminino, moradores das cidades do Rio de Janeiro, Aracaju e São Paulo. Para coleta dos dados, foram utilizados um questionário aberto com seis perguntas abordando temas como rotina, valores e influência do Yoga em suas vidas e o Instrumento de Auto-Avaliação de Qualidade de Vida (Bassani, Corrêa e Eisenstadt, 2002) que permitiu aos sujeitos refletirem e pontuarem, de acordo com seu grau de satisfação, dez âmbitos de suas vidas. A partir da análise conjunta dos dados obtidos nos dois instrumentos, foram observados, entre os participantes, diversos hábitos e valores em comum como, por exemplo, praticar diariamente Yoga e meditação e preocupar-se com o meio ambiente. Foi possível identificar a presença de quatro elementos principais na constituição do estilo de vida dessas pessoas: (1) auto-cuidado (prática de atividade física e alimentação adequada); (2) respeito nas relações (valorizam harmonia e paz); (3) busca por aprimoramento pessoal (estudo da filosofia, auto-conhecimento e prática da espiritualidade) e (4) sustentabilidade nas ações (condutas próambientais). Todos estes elementos se relacionam com ensinamentos presentes nos milenares textos do Yoga. Observou-se, portanto, que a dedicação ao estudo e prática desta filosofia pode influenciar o modo de pensar e, consequentemente, os valores e o modo de agir das pessoas, resultando na construção de estilos de vida saudáveis e refletindo positivamente na auto-percepção da qualidade de vida

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-09-28T12:24:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Jennifer Giusti.pdf: 1181778 bytes, checksum: 45606094b9cef9e0cb8016013ce72e3e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-28T12:24:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jennifer Giusti.pdf: 1181778 bytes, checksum: 45606094b9cef9e0cb8016013ce72e3e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The proposal of this research is to understand the state of presence provoked by the practice of Yoga, with the objective of developing this understanding by adopting a method that is based on the phenomenological-existential thought proposed by the philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). This piece of work originated from questions that emerged from the experience of the researcher, who has been a Yoga practitioner and teacher for approximately ten years. The main questions related to a possible phenomenological-existential reading of the phenomenon of presence in Yoga, questions such as: Is it possible to speak of a state of presence? Can anyone feel more present because of the practice of Yoga? What is the importance of the body in this perception? Therefore, we sought to unveil the phenomenon of presence in Yoga through the researcher's own experience as a practitioner and as a teacher. The construction of this study was developed based on records of the practice, which were transformed into personal reports and then used as a way of unveiling the phenomenon and method of investigation. To transform the experiences lived in the classes into narratives for the research, a class diary was produced. The diary consisted of 17 classes from which the analysis of the possible meanings and the meaning of the experience for reflection on the phenomenon of presence in yoga was carried out. The phenomenon was revealed as a connection with bodily sensations, perception of one’s own thoughts and relationship with time, which configured openness to oneself, to the world and to the meaning of life of Dasein, that, from this experience of contact with itself, understands how it reacts to life. (Research Support - Capes) / Esta pesquisa se propõe a compreender o estado de presença suscitado pela prática do Yoga, com o objetivo de desenvolver essa compreensão a partir de um método baseado no pensamento fenomenológico-existencial, proposto pelo filósofo Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). Este trabalho teve origem em questões que emergiram da vivência da pesquisadora com o Yoga, como praticante e professora por aproximadamente dez anos. As questões principais relacionavam-se a uma possível leitura fenomenológico-existencial do fenômeno presença no Yoga, tais como: é possível falar de um estado de presença? Ou sentir-se mais presente a partir da prática de Yoga? Qual é a importância do corpo nesta percepção? Dessa forma, buscou-se desvelar o fenômeno da presença no Yoga por meio da experiência da própria pesquisadora como praticante e como professora. A construção deste estudo se desenvolveu a partir de registros fáticos da prática, transformados em relatos pessoais, utilizados como forma de desvelamento do fenômeno e método de investigação. A fim de transformar as experiências de aulas praticadas em narrativas para a pesquisa, produziu-se um diário de aulas. O diário constituiu-se por 17 aulas a partir das quais se passou à análise dos possíveis significados e o sentido da experiência para reflexão sobre o fenômeno presença no Yoga. O fenômeno se desvelou como conexão com as sensações corpóreas, percepção dos próprios pensamentos e da relação com o transcorrer do tempo, o que se configurou em abertura para si, para o mundo e para o sentido de vida do Dasein, que a partir desta experiência de contato consigo compreende como reage adiante da vida. (Apoio Capes)

Submitted by Marlene Aparecida de Souza Cardozo (mcardozo@pucsp.br) on 2016-08-16T11:36:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Carine Mendonça de Farias.pdf: 1225147 bytes, checksum: 028aa55356aea4647b1612b039c429f3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-16T11:36:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carine Mendonça de Farias.pdf: 1225147 bytes, checksum: 028aa55356aea4647b1612b039c429f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / More than half the world's population currently live in big citties and they have to deal with some of their physical and social characteristics, They can be considered as stressor factors, hindering the well-being of its population. Yoga is considered in this context, often as a body practice, but in fact, it is a complex philosophy focused on self-knowledge and human development. This study was based on knowledge of Environmental Psychology and Yoga to understand the lifestyle in relation to beliefs and values of people living in big cities and who went to India to study any discipline related to Yoga. It is a qualitative research conducted through semi-structured interviews that began with the choice of a significant object, symbol of the personal experience in India. Two men and three women living in São Paulo aged between 32 and 54 years and were searching the knowledge source about this philosophy attended this research. It was possible to observe differences between participants regarding the impressions they had of India and its culture and also in impressions and affective bonds that each of them has in the urban environment. However, common elements were described by all participants, the development or strengthening of spirituality after the travel to India, the activation of biospheric values that promote pro-environmental behavior and the search for alternative spaces into the nature, out of the city. Yoga has proved to be a tool that allows its practitioners to experience and recognition of the unity of all things, promoting values geared to the common good and performing as a strategy for adaptation and transformation in the urban environment / O ambiente urbano abriga atualmente mais da metade da população mundial e, devido a algumas de suas características físicas e sociais, pode ser considerado causador de estresse, comprometendo o bem-estar de sua população. O Yoga se apresenta nesse contexto, muitas vezes, como uma prática corporal, mas na verdade, trata-se de uma filosofia complexa voltada para o autoconhecimento e desenvolvimento humano. O presente trabalho teve como base conhecimentos da Psicologia Ambiental e do Yoga para compreender o estilo de vida em relação a crenças e valores de pessoas que vivem em grandes cidades e que foram à Índia estudar alguma disciplina relacionada ao Yoga. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa realizada por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas que se iniciaram com a escolha de um objeto significativo da experiência na Índia. Participaram dois homens e três mulheres que vivem em São Paulo com idades entre 34 e 54 anos e que foram buscar na fonte conhecimentos acerca desta filosofia. Foi possível notar diferenças entre os participantes em relação a impressões que tiveram da Índia e sua cultura e também nas impressões e vínculos afetivos que cada um deles tem no ambiente urbano. No entanto, elementos em comum foram descritos por todos os participantes, como o desenvolvimento ou fortalecimento da espiritualidade após a ida à Índia, a ativação de valores biosféricos que promovem comportamentos pró-ambientais e a busca por espaços alternativos junto a Natureza, fora da cidade. O Yoga se revelou como uma ferramenta que permite a seus praticantes a experiência e o reconhecimento da unidade entre todas as coisas, promovendo valores voltados ao bem comum e se apresentando como estratégia para adaptação e transformação no ambiente urbano

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-29T19:34:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliana Meduri.pdf: 2056993 bytes, checksum: ee2a7b2a90824c3903aec090feb924f9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-29T19:34:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliana Meduri.pdf: 2056993 bytes, checksum: ee2a7b2a90824c3903aec090feb924f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-07 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / 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 / O objetivo do trabalho de mestrado A construção de si a partir do Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga é discutir a ideia de cuidado de si, trazida com clareza pelos gregos como epiméleia heautoû desde o século V a.C., em diálogo com as bases filosóficas indianas, que tiveram seu fundamento a partir de textos antigos hindus que datam de 1.500 a.C. até o século 4 d.C. Tal cruzamento teórico tem o sentido de traçar um paralelo entre o cuidado de si trazido por Michel Foucault e os princípios éticos que atravessam a ética ascética hindu. O êthos só é possível em um corpo livre: de suas paixões, da escravidão da mente, do governo da mente sobre si, de fatores externos em geral, que geram distúrbios à percepção. A pesquisa investigou de que técnicas e mecanismos, os Gurus do Ashtanga Yoga, em específico, lançaram mão, para que tantas pessoas, de tantos lugares, compartilhando o paradigma cartesiano de corpo e “si”, fossem à sua procura e se aproximassem de modo contundente a uma prática que estabelece outra percepção de si e outra relação com o corpo. As etapas para a compreensão destas questões consistiram em pesquisa de campo com doze praticantes atuais de yoga, na leitura e análise dos textos antigos do yoga e a articulação da pesquisa de campo e da análise dos textos antigos à visão de ética apresentada por autores contemporâneos como Michel Foucault, Francisco Varela e Edgar Morin, seguidos pela análise iconográfica relacionada à genealogia do yoga, que envolve diversas transformações no nível técnico, simbólico e político

This dissertation sheds new light on the nature and development of Hindu devotional religiosity (bhakti) by drawing attention to bhakti's understudied historical relationships with Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism. Specifically, this thesis explains the phenomenal rise of bhakti in early modern north India as a process of identity and community formation fundamentally connected to Sufi-inflected critiques of tantric and yogic religiosity. With the advent of the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century, new alliances--most notably Akbar's with the Kacchvaha royal clan of Amer--led to the development of a joint Mughal-Rajput court culture and religio-political idiom in which Vaishnava bhakti institutional forms became key symbols of power and deportment, and thus bhakti communities became beneficiaries of extensive patronage. Through a study of the life and works of the important but little-known bhakti poet-saint Agradas, this thesis offers insight into how these bhakti communities competed for patronage and followers. If the rise of bhakti was inseparable from Mughal socio-political developments, it was also contingent upon the successful formation of a new bhakti identity. This thesis centers on the Ramanandi community at Galta, comparing them with the Nath yogis to show the development of this bhakti identity, one defined especially in opposition to the "other" of the tantric yogi and shakta. It also contributes a broad study of early modern bhakti poetry and hagiography demonstrating the rise of new, Sufi-inflected, exclusivist bhakti attitudes that stigmatized key aspects of tantric and yogic religiosity, and that therein prefigured orientalist-colonialist depictions of bhakti as "religion" and Tantra as "magic."

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Larissa Zanelato Campagnone.pdf: 909483 bytes, checksum: d87ec467eadb3fe75dc66f16de75187e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-03 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This study aimed to understand the connection between yoga and psychotherapy. This work wants to comprehend the relationship between these two areas, there are few studies addressing this approach. It was organized in two stages: ( a) theoretical and empirical literature review and ( b ) qualitative research , resulting in analysis of great authors works of psychology, including , Jung (1996 ) and Lowen (1977 .) This methodology was chosen because the literature review opens the possibility of studying to understand what other authors present on the subject matter and explain theoretically the results of the analysis. Moreover, qualitative research enables understanding subjective and affective aspects of each participant. Participated in the survey, six therapists yoga practitioners. Questionnaires were open, trying to understand what they perceived approaches between these two areas. From the questionnaires, it was found that all participants believe that: yoga teachers would benefit greatly if they learned some techniques of psychotherapy to thus be more efficient in accommodating their students when they come in contact with some feeling in their yoga classes. All participants reported changes in their behavior after beginning to practice yoga, thus showing that this philosophy has helped them feel: more tolerant, less anxious, healthy and in balance. Through this study, it was realized that yoga techniques such as meditation, physical postures, breathing and some can be a tool used by psychotherapists. Suggest to discussions in forums about the study of professional associations on psychotherapeutic practice. Supported by CNPq / O presente trabalho se propôs a compreender aproximações entre a psicoterapia e a ioga. Tal trabalho visa contribuir para a compreensão da relação entre essas duas áreas, uma vez que existem poucos trabalhos na literatura. Para isso, foi organizado em duas etapas: (a) revisão bibliográfica teórica e empírica, resultando em análise de trabalhos de grandes autores da psicologia que abordam esse tema, dentre eles, Jung (1996) e Lowen (1977) e (b) pesquisa qualitativa. Essa metodologia foi escolhida, pois a revisão teórica abre a possibilidade de o estudo compreender o que outros autores apresentam sobre este tema e fundamentar teoricamente os resultados da análise. Além disso, a pesquisa qualitativa possibilita entender aspectos subjetivos e afetivos de cada participante. Participaram da pesquisa, seis psicoterapeutas, praticantes de ioga. Foram aplicados questionários abertos, buscando entender o que percebiam de aproximações entre essas duas áreas. A partir dos questionários, analisou-se que todas as participantes acreditam que: professores de ioga se beneficiariam muito se aprendessem algumas técnicas da psicoterapia para, assim, serem mais eficientes no acolhimento de seus alunos quando estes entrarem em contato com algum sentimento durante suas aulas. Todas as participantes relatam mudanças em seus comportamentos depois que passaram a praticar ioga, mostrando assim que essa filosofia as ajudou a se sentirem: mais tolerantes, menos ansiosas, mais saudáveis e em equilíbrio. Por meio deste estudo, percebeu-se que técnicas de ioga, como, meditação, respiração e algumas posturas físicas podem ser uma ferramenta usada por psicoterapeutas. Sugerem-se discussões a respeito em fóruns de estudo de associações profissionais sobre a prática psicoterapêutica. Apoio CNPq