Environmental perception studies: approaches to the philosophy and practice of yoga as hermeneutical tools

Abstract

In these pages we display some headings of a research linked to environmental perception and social sensibilities. The aim is to understand the social modes of configuration of sensibilities, being constituents of perception. Particularly, we deal here with some considerations of yoga bodily practices increasingly extended in urban societies, observing in which ways this generates a specific perception, both of the body (flesh) and the environment, so as to amplify our views of the “green” issue, the perception and consciousness, in order to observe how they connect to the “surroundings”. As a background, there is the question of the limits and boundaries between body, environment and their mutual configurations. Aiming at constructing a perspective that goes from global south, we revise these from a critical view of a colonised modernity.