About Jivamukti Yoga
Jivamukti Yoga is a path to enlightenment through compassion for all being.
The Jivamukti Yoga Method is grounded in the original meaning of the Sanskrit Word Asana
as “Seat, connection” – relationship to the Earth. Earth implies all of Life .
Jivamukti yoga is base on five tenets:
A non-violent, compassionate lifestyle extending to other animals, the environment, and all living beings.
Acknowledgment that God/Self-realization is the goal of all yoga practices.
Meditation
The development of a sound body and mind through deep listening; can be incorporated in a class using recorded music, spoken word, silence or even the teacher’s voice.
Study of the ancient yogic teachings, including Sanskrit chanting.
Why Jivamukti Yoga method
Yoga transforms your life, but in my opinion Jivamukti yoga transforms your consciousness. What I love about the Jivamukti method is its completeness. I have never found any method so complete and so sewn on tradition and at the same time declined on our contemporaneity.
Jivamukti yoga speaks to me like no other. When I have to describe it to those who do not know it, I always say that it is like an ancient text translated into a modern language, without losing any passage, even hidden meaning. Jivamukti yoga is not only an effective asana practice, but it is primarily a spiritual practice through the body, breath, chanting, meditation, devotion. Nothing is excluded.
The Jivamukti method opens up to a perception that is sometimes difficult to describe, but it is not to be seen as a defect, if the purpose of yoga is enlightenment, the recognition of God in us and outside of us, this happens in a language that is sound and silence.
This method was founded by Sharon Gannon and David Life in NYC in 1984. Now Jivamukti yoga is a world community, having studios and teachers all over the world.
Jivamukti yoga is a integrated yoga method, integrating the mind, the body and the spirit, based on ancien yoga tradition and modern way to perceive the world. It is a vigorous style of yoga that takes its basic moves from traditional Hatha yoga and Ashtanga Yoga.
In Jivamukti class we try to elevate our practice by intention and moving through asanas as a meditation flow.
Practicing Jivamukti Yoga improve
- your strength, balance and flexibility
- detoxify your whole body;
- realease the stress and tention;
- connect with your inner Self;
- shift your point of view;
- live in harmony with yourself and with all other forms of holy beings;
Jivamukti is a word made up from two words: jiva that means individual soul and mukti(a), that means liberation. So a Jivamukti means “liberation while (you are) living”.