Yoga in Brazil and the National Health System

Published in Complementary Health Practice Review (2009, 14, no. 2: 93-107) this article "explores the perceptions of yoga leaders regarding the potential contributions of yoga to the Brazilian National Health System (BNHS)," and concludes that "Yoga is seen as a group of useful physical, social, and philosophical practices for the health field. However, challenges to its integration into the BNHS include its maintenance as an alternative culture practice and its distance from the epistemological bases of present complementary and integrative medicine."  Abstract: at journal site.