Le yoga dans la ville

Abstract

An unprecedented craze for complementary or alternative medicines emerges in major cities. This medical field is defined by WHO, but is constituted by various practices, including yoga. This article studies the situation in cities like Paris, Rouen or New Delhi, where specific places are produced to practice and promote this type of healthcare. It appears that these practices are reserved to a certain category of the population. As a result, this situation implies the transformation of therapeutic discourses that turn into discourses on well-being. This article aims to observe what happens and what is said in these new therapeutic places, it questions the renewal of urban health territoriality, and it uses social and cultural health geography.

Keywords

• city
• complementary medicine
• France/India
• well-being
• yoga