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You’ve heard of “hot yoga,” “power yoga,” and “Ashtanga Yoga,” but what about “Green Yoga”? More and more arts and crafts are taking Green Trails these days, because so many of us realize that to be mature involves being responsible on many levels of life. To be a well integrated, fully developed person with balance and poise in our technological society requires cultivation of our many capacities in balanced and deep ways. We are attracted to many Ways which offer these benefits, and as we practice we began to be more in touch with our own natural energies.
In practicing yoga we pursue an ancient whole art that brings us into touch with our multidimensional nature, and our practice also connects us with our inborn feelings for wild Nature and other beings. As complete systems, yogas lead us to reflect on our relations to the natural world, and on our personal lifestyle as it impacts on the ecological communities we live within.
As we know from the media today, our planet is under serious stress for a number of reasons, and we are now challenged to act in ecologically and socially responsible ways. Even those who have been deeply involved in environmental education know how difficult it is to get a concise sense for the problems as a whole, and what we as individuals and organizations can do about them at a local and personal level.
Green Yoga by Georg and Brenda Feuerstein provides a valuable overview of the state of the world, the human role in the crises we now face, and what we as individuals and groups can do about them. It is especially valuable to all those who practice unifying arts such as yoga, since it communicates in a language they understand. Concise and clear, this is an invaluable book for those who want to add Green to their yoga path.
Dr. Alan Drengson, Emeritus Professor, University of Victoria, Canada, where he was a Director of Environmental Studies and a member of the Philosophy Department. He is the author of numerous publications, including Beyond Environmental Crisis (1989), Doc Forest and Blue Mountain Ecostery (1993), The Practice of Technology (1995), co-editor of The Philosophy of Society (1978), The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology (1995), and Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use (1997), and also founding editor of two quarterlies The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, and the journal Ecoforestry. He is also an Aikidoist, a musician, consultant, and wild journeyer.
He can be contacted at: ecosophy@islandnet.com, or Box 5853 Stn B, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8R 6S8. The Trumpeter is now an online journal available at: http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/. Ecoforestry information is available at website: http://ecoforestry.ca/