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As human being damage the environment Mother Nature is protesting outside with diverse disasters and inside the human being with a growing problem in our internal psychological environment as for example with the growing epidemic of depression that affects us nowadays.

This economy is not proper because it is based on a non - sustainable consumerism and such an economy out of harmony with the environment may lead us towards disaster.

If yoga is Samadhi and Samadhi is complete union with all in contemplation as by the word "samadhi" (from sam+a+dha, joining in one); to care for the environment by understanding the relation of our inner nature with the nature outside is the reason of the yoga ecology.

If yoga is a connection with our inner nature, by yoga we can treat ourselves better reducing the environmental pollution first in our internal rivers (nadi) and in the same way into the rivers on our planet earth.

To re - establish the connection with all in order to become the caretakers and protectors of all other kinds of existence by observing the first yoga principals as "ahimsa".

Inside our human body, we are containing all the same elements that are part of the external world.

The yoga practices are related with control and balance of nature manifestaions inside as: fire (speech), wind (breath), water (emotions), earth (body) and space (silence)

Yoga postures are related with the earth, yogic breathing practices are related with the air and yogic silence is related with the space.

A yogic lifestyle may minimize our negative impact upon the environment.

For example the yogic emphasis on a vegetarian diet greatly reduces water pollution, cruelty to animals and wrong exploitation of natural environments.

Yogic values as simplicity and self - contentment have their outer ramifications as well, helping us to be aware of the danger of the consumism and its excesses.

Yoga life denotes nature respect and helps us to care for ourselves now and for the future generations.

"Nothing originates in a spot where there is no sentient, vegetable and rational life; feathers grow upon birds and are changed every year; hairs grow upon animals and are changed every year, excepting some parts, like the hairs of the beard in lions, cats and their like. The grass grows in the fields, and the leaves on the trees, and every year they are, in great part, renewed. So that we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

The pool of blood which lies round the heart is the ocean. Its breathing, and the increase and decrease of the blood in the pulses, is represented in the earth by the flow and ebb of the sea; and the heat of the spirit of the world is the fire which pervades the earth, and the seat of the vegetative soul is in the fires, which in many parts of the earth find vent in baths and mines of sulphur, and in volcanoes, as at Mount Etna in Sicily, and in many other places"

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Note 1000

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