Perceptions of a Yoga Intervention at a Brazilian University: Self-Knowledge, Wellbeing, Mind-Body Balance, Relaxation, Thoughtfulness, and Body Awareness

Abstract

Although narratives are not a simple reflection of reality, but a representation of it, the importance of what the author calls autobiographic narrative resides in the fact that it reveals trajectories and processes of metamorphosis. Germano and Castro [16] maintain that subjectivities are constructed in the daily discursive practice and that narratives can be approached from different perspectives, especially in the field of health/ illness. In thematic analysis, the exclusive focus is on the context, the events and cognitions to which language refers, what is said, more than how, to whom or with which intentions. The thematic approach can serve an extensive array of narrative texts as stories that turn into interviews and group meetings, and those found in written documents