健身運動中的新寵：瑜珈的運動社會學分析

New Lover of Healthy Fitness: Analysis of Yoga Exercise through Sports Sociology

本文以運動俱樂部的瑜珈課程為例，探討運動的價值觀與社會的定位對當今瑜珈的影響與改變，或者又有什麼是難以撼動的層面？當跳離追求速度與力量展現的健身魔咒後，瑜珈是否重新界定了運動在社會中的價值與地位？經由一些相關文獻的分析，首先了解現代人對靈性的渴望是一種追求更高層次需求的本能，原是印度古老的身心修行法之ㄧ的瑜珈，席捲全球，成了耳熟能詳的養生與健身運動，開啟人們身心靈合一的另一扇門。再者，當瑜珈與運動結合後，人們對於健康形象與自我要求，不再僅限於充滿速度與力量的體能展現，而是另一種由內而外的超越，因此潮流下的瑜珈課程，容易融合東西身體訓練形式與觀念並加以包裝行銷，結果成了熱門運動項目之ㄧ。然而運動本身就是很社會化的產品，因此身體長期內化的認知與尋求認同的標準，往往影響運動形式的選擇，如運動給人情感交流、陽光活力的形象，這就是追求體能與塑身的瑜珈受到眾人青睞的原因；又或者運動之於男性與女性的形象依然有差異，所以韻律教室的瑜珈仍以女性居多。所以說，人們對於身體的價值，從瑜珈進入健身房，可感受到除了尋求自我的肯定與認同之外，不同的文化背景與認知也影響了人們的選擇與接受的程度。

This research exampled yoga curriculum in sports clubs to assess what affects of exercise give the values and social position to the public of today's yoga. What kind of impacts? How much would it change? What level does it shake? When one jump off the pursuit of speed and strength after a curse to show fitness, is yoga a movement to redefine the value and status in society? Through the analysis of some relevant literature, this research firstly understands that busy modern people's desire for pursuing a higher level of demand in spirituality is a kind of instinct. Yoga is originally an ancient Indian spiritual practice of physical and spread through the world. Moreover, it becomes a health and fitness movement and opens the unity of body and soul. Furthermore, when combined yoga and exercise, people with healthy self-image requirements no longer limited to full speed and strength fitness, but another kind of transcendence from the inside out. Thus, because yoga is integrated into Eastern and Western forms of physical training and is packaged with the concept of marketing, yoga has become one of the hot sports. Exercise itself is a very social product. People’s standards for identity and self-redefined often affect the choice of forms of sports. Yoga, the pursuit of physical fitness and body sculpting, provides the image of self-assurance and assertion, which is very popular. However, there are more women practicing yoga than men in the yoga room because men pursuit different image than women. In summary, self-affirmation and recognition, moreover, the recognition of different cultural backgrounds would affect people’s choice of sports and their acceptable level of sports.