Paper short abstract:

What does it mean to be a yoga and Vedanta student whose classes and learning processes are produced through the Internet? I seek to contribute to the understanding of the ethics and values constructed and performed around these students' relationship with their guru.

Paper long abstract:

This paper analyzes the meanings of being a yoga practitioner and student, according to the Vedanta tradition, and some implications arising from this type of experience lived by the informants. It is based upon fieldwork of a group of Non-dualism Vedanta students that live in Brazil and have classes with their guru mostly through the Internet. The meanings of this learning process will be portrayed, as well as its implications on the lifestyle of the group. Furthermore, matters such as ethical relationships and the reproduction of yoga's values constructed via the platform will be discussed from the perspective of the trajectories of these students. The main purpose is to observe the kind of religious beliefs practiced by the group, thus contributing to the understanding of the meanings of being "ethical" today.