Yogas no Brasil: Biografia, influências, repercussão e legado de cinco experiências

Roberto Serafim

doi:10.34019/2236-6296.2025.v28.45703

Authors

Roberto Serafim Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2589-1404

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-6296.2025.v28.45703

Keywords:

yoga, hibridismo, contemporâneo, religião, sociologia

Abstract

New yogic schools have emerged since the transnationalization of Indian yoga in the 20th century, being called Modern Yoga. They are spiritual movements that, although they contain "traditional" beliefs and innovative practices, are deviations from their previous religious matrices. This article intends to investigate five Brazilian yogas as examples of spiritual perspectives that do not belong to Indian traditions. These arise from singular syncretisms and hybridisms between modern Indian yogas transplanted to Brazilian culture and religiosity. We investigated their biographies, influences and legacies and concluded that they may belong to a possible new yogic spiritual movement called Post or Without Lineage, which differ from modern yogas, as they are organized by beliefs and practices much closer to Brazilian social reality, generating their own metaphysics. .

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Author Biography

Roberto Serafim, Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Mestre e Doutor em Ciência da Religião pela PUC-SP. Graduado em Educação Física e especialista em Psicologia, Fisiologia e Yoga. Atualmente faz parte do CERAL (grupo de estudos da PUC-SP) coord. pelo prof. Frank Usarski.

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