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Rewilding

Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature

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Reconnect with your wild essence as you awaken your innate bond with the natural world
"Rewilding is a return to our essential nature. It is an attempt to reclaim something of what we were before we used words like 'civilized' to define ourselves." —Micah Mortali
In his long-awaited book Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energy—your undomesticated true self—and deepening your connection with the living earth.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban lives—and our vital wildness has gone dormant. As a result, we're more isolated, unhealthy, anxious, and depressed than ever, and our planet has suffered alongside us.
With Rewilding, Mortali invites us to shed the effects of over-civilization and explore an inner wisdom that is primal, ancient, and profound. Whether you live in the middle of a city or alongside the woods, the insights and practices on these pages will bring you home to your wild, wise, and alive self.
Highlights include:

  • Practice-rich content—mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama, inward sensing, forest bathing, and much more
  • The "life-force deficit"—explore how our separation from nature affects us physiologically and spiritually
  • Ancestral skills—such as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelter
  • Develop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoors
  • What you can learn from nature's teachers—lessons from mountains, rivers, trees, and our animal kin
  • Rewild in the wild—guidelines around safety, preparedness, appropriate gear, and packing lists
  • A mindful rewilding flow—put everything together in an immersive, step-by-step rewilding experience
  • Awaken your authentic spiritual connection with the natural world as you come home to your true self
  • Understand the relationship between our health and the health of our planet—and how we can begin to heal both
    Part celebration of the natural world, part spiritual memoir, and part how-to guide, Rewilding is a must-read for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        September 30, 2019
        Mortali, director of the Kripalu Schools for yoga-based education, argues in this mystical work that connecting to nature has inherent benefits. “Rewilding is... a journey of self-realization,” Mortali writes, and “the practice of mindfulness is essential” to it. Mortali offers projects aimed at getting readers to get outside to “BRFWA”—breathe, relax, feel, watch, allow—the core methods of how he believes one can truly “awaken to nature”; included among them are walking meditations, listening exercises, and day hikes. However, some of the ideas he proposes, such as building and sleeping in a debris hut (“both a shelter and a sleeping bag in one”), may be more than some readers wish to take on. Mortali draws on personal experience, an eclectic mix of spiritual traditions (though primarily Buddhism), and modern research into the positive effects of exposure to natural environments (particularly its stress- and anxiety-reduction benefits) to make his case. While focused primarily on how the natural world benefits human beings, Mortali’s conclusion turns to how nature also fosters “dedicated care-takers” and “active ambassador for the more-than-human world.” Those looking to bring more intention or spiritual connection to their engagement with nature will enjoy this actionable guide.

      • Library Journal

        November 15, 2019

        According to Mortali (founder, Kripalu Sch. of Mindful Outdoor Leadership), both individuals and the planet itself will benefit if people can connect with their wild primal energy and awaken their innate bonds with nature. The author presents recipes for doing this through an array of meditations (e.g., guided smoke meditation, fire meditation, and entering the wild meditation), in addition to simpler practices such as walking with awareness and giving thanks. Mortali harkens back to Henry David Thoreau and his search for meaning in the human experience, similarly finding it in nature.

        VERDICT A helpful resource for anyone looking to activate their primal self. Also an excellent companion to Gary Ferguson's The Eight Master Lessons of Nature.--Deborah Bigelow, Director Emerita, Leonia P.L., NJ

        Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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