The work results from an investigation about how education in the Single Healthcare System (SUS -Sistema Único de Saúde) guides the actions of Health Promotion in the Health Gym Program (PAS -Programa Academia da Saúde). The objectives are: to analyse how the Health Gym Program consist in na element of Health promotion in SUS; identify, describe and ascertain their contituent links; perceive and examine the documents referring to bases of creation and structuring; execute the maping and description of the current conditions of the irimplementation in the country; and construe their theoretical bases, identifying their mediations with education. Trying to make a meticulous analysis, carefully and committed with the object, avoiding what was immediate, searching to understand its movement, essence, complexity, totality and history, was chosen the historical-dialetical materialism method. In it the analysis are guided by the knowlegde that what is put in the reality only can be understood without risk of reducionism through compreention of the materials relations that gave origins, observing in the object all its socio-historical dynamics, of the historical conditioning that influenced it. Contributing to the study, a documentary research of public health policies and ordinance was carried out on the program and a bibliographical research in database, magazines articles, Banks of theses and others. The results showed that the actions of the Health Program needs of educational practices based on the Collective Health paradigm, in order to not incurreproducing in the PAS health education activities based on the biomedical paradigm. The Health education from PAS has its fundamental theoretical bases based on popular education, fundamental in the process of consolidation of SUS.