"I'm always interested in how various nonhuman animals (animals) make their presence known in activities that seem far removed from who they are and what they do. This happened when I learned about Alison Zak's book Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World and this past week when I learned about Dr. Kenneth Valpey's new highly acclaimed open access book Yoga and Animal Ethics."
"In his eclectic and eye- and heart-opening work, Kenneth "reorients our understanding of yoga by placing animals and the environment at the heart of the tradition's ethical teachings." All in all, "By decentering our anthropocentric presuppositions on horizons of continuity across divine, human, and animal domains, we may yet be able to recover our fundamental kinship with the presence of personality in the world." I envision yoga as playing a large role in rewilding each of our hearts in highly unexpected ways."
Yoga can reorient human self-understanding by placing animals and the environment at the center of ethical thought. Decentering anthropocentric presuppositions reveals continuities across divine, human, and animal domains and recovers a fundamental kinship with personality in the world. An ontology of yoga opens access to depth psychology and the experiential dimension of who people are and their potential for being with others. Devotional practices cultivated through yoga can foster communities that extend care to all beings. Growing environmental awareness and the rising popularity of yoga reflect a desire to connect with nature in mutually beneficial ways. Such practice supports rewilding of the heart.
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