Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature

Rewilding brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to help readers reconnect with their primal nature and deepen their connection with the natural world. The book explores how humans once lived intimately with the earth, but modern urban life has left our vital wildness dormant, contributing to isolation, poor health, anxiety, and depression. Mortali invites readers to shed the effects of over-civilization and access an inner wisdom that is primal and ancient. The book includes mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama practices, forest bathing, and inward sensing techniques. It covers the "life-force deficit"—how separation from nature affects us physiologically and spiritually—and teaches ancestral skills such as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelter. Additional content addresses lessons from natural elements like mountains, rivers, and trees; safety guidelines and preparedness for outdoor rewilding; and the relationship between human health and planetary health. The book combines celebration of the natural world, spiritual memoir, and practical instruction.