Dança circular como prática integrativa e complementar: contribuições para a promoção da saúde

Abstract

Concerning the Brazilian health reform, which institutionalized, through the Unified Health System (SUS), the full healthcare assistance, the ordinance GM/MS Nº 971/2006, which implemented the integrative and complementary practices (PICs) into SUS, and the need of SUS users, health professionals, and managers, this paper, as a PAE (Existential Action Research), aims at analyze and describe through the Sociopoetic approach (how Circle Dance workshops for health professionals can provide health, and contribute to the divulgation and development of this practice. The present research was conducted in Natal-RN, involving 15 health professionals who work for SUS. Data were collected using three methodological tools: surveys, daily notes and focal group. Aimed to know the feelings, thoughts, emotions expressed by health professionals participating in the Circle Dance workshops, identifying its influences in the participant’s health, and evaluating how their experiences during the dance perhaps contributes to the divulgation and development of this practice as a PIC in Natal. Studies about the Circle Dance, The Salutogenesis Paradigm, Health Promotion Politics, Integrative Practices, and Worker Health were used as theoretical background. This work concludes that Circle Dance workshops led to a health environment, which improved health, besides providing moments of consciousness expansion that deepened the understanding of important human values for a healthy daily living, such as equality, cooperation, unity, peace and respect for diversity. Moreover, it expanded the use and recognition of Circle Dance as an Integrative and Complementary Practice in the Unified Health System (SUS), enabling the continued with the establishment of permanent Circle Dance of the SMS - Natal / RN: Roda Mandala de Luz.