Learning with the whole body in the

The PNEPS-SUS was instituted to reinforce the principles of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS), having as strategy a popular health education course for workers of the SUS and social movements. The objective of this study was to analyze the subject of learning with the whole body that emerged in the formative process of the course' educators related to the production of autonomy. The formation of educators acted following a logic of prerogatives to be followed. Instead, popular education proposes learning as an exercise of autonomy for political responsibility. In this exploratory study, based on the qualitative approach, anchored in the case study, we produced the data with in-depth interviews and participant observation. The course proved to be interwoven by whole-body learning that singled out innovations in health education, by including the corporeity, spirituality, histories and vulnerabilities of the educators, enabling their (trans) formation.