Philosophy
Green Yoga
By Georg Feuerstein & Brenda Feuerstein
Green
Yoga, is tough love at its best. We are consuming,
polluting and basically destroying our planet and we in
America worst of all. This book lays out clearly how bad
the problem is and challenges all of us, and yogis in particular,
to make the changes necessary to reverse this trend. I
look forward to this ethos taking hold throughout the yoga
community. I remember, 30 years ago, when doing yoga marked
you as an oddball. Similarly, today many of the prescriptions
for living in this book will seem "too extreme".
I hope I will live long enough to see them become
as popular or moreso than yoga is today. This
book is a call to a new Yoga Life Style. I hope we as a
community and a world can embrace it in time.
High Praise for Green Yoga :
“ My
heart was bleeding when reading Green Yoga. I
pray that everyone will read this book and start to serve Mother
Earth, so that she may survive. I hope that at least Yoga practitioners,
who have faith in the evolution of humankind, make it their mission
to bring about the necessary transformation.” - B.
K. S. Iyengar
"This is the perfect book for yoga teacher training
programs. I wish that every yoga center in the world would purchase Green
Yoga for each of their students, in honor of Earth Day and
all year around!" -Suza Francina, former mayor
of Ojai (California), spokesperson for sustainable lifestyles,
certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher.
"Concise and clear, this is an invaluable book
for those who want to add Green to their yoga path." - Prof.
Alan Drengson, editor of The Trumpeter and Ecoforestry.
"We live in the midst of an unprecedented
ecological crisis in which the fate of our entire planet hangs
in the balance. The philosophy of Yoga, with its reverence for
all life and its recognition of universal consciousness as the root
of all existence, provides us with the spiritual wisdom that
can help us solve this problem in a conclusive and enduring manner.
Unfortunately, most modern Yoga practitioners approach Yoga mainly
as a physical or personal discipline and do not look into its
ecological relevance and help unfold its transformative power
for the benefit of the planet as a whole. Georg and Brenda
Feuerstein provide a call, an inspiration and a blueprint how
to bring the insight and energy of Yoga to help us deal with
this looming ecological crisis. Their book Green Yoga reflects
what is likely to become one of the most important movements
in modern Yoga that can only grow dramatically in the crucial
years to come. The book is significant not only for all those
who practice Yoga but also for all those who value ecology and
are concerned for the future of the Earth." - David Frawley,
director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies.
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