Jivamukti Yoga

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The Jivamukti Yoga method is the exclusive yoga style created by David Life and Sharon Gannon in 1984.

Jivamukti is a physical, ethical, and spiritual exercise, combining powerful hatha yoga, vinyasa-based physical style with adherence to five main principles: shastra (holy book), devotional, ahim? (nonviolence, not hurt), n? da (music), and dhyana (meditation). Animal rights, veganism, environmentalism, and social activism are also emphasized. Jivamukti Yoga has developed a reputation as the preferred yoga style of celebrities.

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Histori

Jivamukti Yoga was founded in New York in 1984 by dancer and musician Sharon Gannon and her partner, artist and cafe owner David Life. Gannon and Life met in 1982 in Manhattan. In 1986 they traveled together to India and took the Sivananda teacher training program and met Swami Nirmalananda. Upon their return, they opened the first Jivamukti Yoga Community in East Village New York City. In 1990 they started practicing Ashtanga Yoga with Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India. In 1993, in northern New York, they met with yoga and ashram experts, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati. In 1998, the yoga center moved to Lafayette Street, and in 2000, Jivamukti opened its second center on the Upper East Side. In 2003, senior Jivamukti students Patrick Broome and Gabriela Bozic opened Jivamukti Munich, the first Jivamukti Yoga Center outside New York City. In 2006, Jivamukti Yoga School NYC moved their headquarters to a studio built with neighborhoods in Union Square.

The name Jivamukti is an adaptation of the Sanskrit jivanmuktih , where jiva is a living individual soul, and mukti - like moksa - is the release of the cycle of death and rebirth. So Jivamukti's method is "temporary liberation".

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Primary teaching

There are five main principles of the Jivamukti method. This is:

Shastra

Shastra, or scripture, refers to the study and exploration of the four main texts of yoga as well as the study of Sanskrit in which they were first written. The four texts are Yoga Sutra Patanjali , Hatha Yoga Pradipika , Bhagavad Gita , and Upanishad.

Bhakti

Bhakti, literally "devotion to God", is a practice of devotion and humility. Jivamukti Yoga argues that "the realization of God" is the goal of the practice of yoga, and that it does not matter to what kind of a person's love and devotion is directed; The important thing is that devotion must be directed to something higher than the self or the ego itself. Interfaith understanding and tolerance is a significant natural consequence of this practice, and altars in Jivamukti centers are usually decorated with images of various religious and moral authorities: Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Ingrid Newkirk mix with Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna.

Ahimsa

Ahimsa is a practice of nonviolence, or harmless. Ahimsa is informed by compassion, and is defined in the Patanjali Yoga Sutra as the first of the five yamas. Yamas determines the size of how yogis relate to others and the outside world. The Jivamukti method teaches that ahimsa practice not only extends to other human beings but also to all animal life and supports ethical vegetarianism as a means to resolve human karma and as an environmental imperative for the health of the planet in the future. The Jivamukti method further teaches that ahimsa practices include promoting and providing educational information about animal rights, environmental issues, and the need to take social/political action.

N? da

N? Da yoga centers on deepening inner, singing, and exalted music. The theoretical and practical aspects are based on the premise that everything that exists, including humans, consists of vibration of sound, called n? Da. The goal of hatha yoga is to hear nadam - a silent voice, Om - by first perfecting the ability to listen. Jivamukti Yoga practiced this through inspirational songs and music.

Jivamukti classes usually include Sanskrit songs that integrate scripture study and devotional practice with n? Da yoga.

Contrary to many other yoga schools, Jivamukti teachers generally do not posture when they teach in the classroom. It encourages students to learn by listening, rather than by watching, and in this way develops their ability to listen effectively. Sharon Gannon sums up the intent of this approach as follows: "Through listening, hearing arises, through hearing knowing, through knowing to be, by being there is possible."

Dhyana

Dhyana, or meditation, as taught in the Jivamukti method is the practice of silence and observing one's mind. This practice is meant to allow one to stop identifying with their mind and realize that they are more than their mind. All Jivamukti Yoga classes include meditation practice.

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Classroom experience

There are six types of special classes for Jivamukti:

• Open

Jivamukti An open class centered on themes based on the globally written "Focus of the Month" essay, usually written by Sharon Gannon or David Life. This theme is explored through "dharma talks", Sanskrit songs, reflections on the modern relevance of yoga scriptures, music, asanas (postures or poses), pranayama (breathing), and meditation. The largest part of the class consists of an asana that is practiced as vinyasa. In vinyasa (movement synchronized with breath and intention), the teacher guides the students through a series of powerful poses. The exact sequence is left to the wisdom of the teacher, but always involves inversion, such as headstand and shoulderstand. During the vinyasa phase, teachers assist practitioners with direct adjustments. Classes end with a period of deep relaxation and meditation.

• Basic

The Jivamukti Basic Class is structured as a four-week basic course exploring different aspects of yoga each week. Beginning with the standing asanas, it further includes asan-asana curved forward, then the asana-asana upside down, and ends with inversion and meditation. While in Vinyasa Beginner and Open class vinyasa is emphasized, Basic class emphasizes alignment. Students are taught "how to do" asanas and the use of props. The Basic Class laid the foundation for its eventual development into the Open or Spiritual Soldier class.

• Vinyasa Starter

Jivamukti Vinyasa Starter Class is designed to provide novice students with the underlying basics of how vinyasa works. Classes follow a series of asana sequences but are presented at a slower pace, more relaxed than in Spiritual Warrior or Open classes. The novice Vinyasa classes give budding beginner students from the Basic to an Open classes, and students are more adept with the opportunity to filter their skills through deeper, slower explorations.

• Warrior Spiritual

The Jivamukti Spiritual Warrior class is designed with busy people who only have an hour to practice. The structure is a sequence, a vinyasa style that includes chanting, warm asanas, sun greetings, standing pose, bend forward, bend, back, inversion, relaxation, and meditation. In the Spiritual Warrior class, teachers focus on maintaining pace, rather than giving spiritual lectures.

• Private In Class

Traditionally, yoga is taught one on one - one teacher teaches one student at a time. In modern times, yoga is more often taught in group classes. The Jivamukti In-Class Private (or ICP) allows students to experience both teaching methods simultaneously: students and teachers of certified private Jivamukti Yoga attend regular group classes. From start to finish, students practice with the guidance and direct assistance of private tutors. ICP always ends with a special relaxation yoga massage in a shavasana, or a corpse pose. ICP can be adapted to almost all Jivamukti Yoga classes, but is most commonly given in the Open class.

• Meditation

The meditation method of Jivamukti Yoga is a form of meditation mantra, and follows a three-step procedure: select seating, silence, and focus. The "Let-Go" Mantra is taught to all Jivamukti students, and gives focus. Practitioners are instructed to align the silent repetition of spells with incoming and outgoing breaths. By watching the continuous movement of breath through the body and thinking through the mind, Jivamukti teaches that practitioners can finally unleash the identification with the body and mind and then realize the true Self. The Jivamukti method embodies the ultimate self-manifestation or enlightenment to become the ultimate goal of yoga. Classes usually begin with Sanskrit singing; this is followed by detailed meditation instruction and then about 20 minutes of actual sitting practice. After that there is a Q & A session with the teacher, and final closing.

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Branding and ownership

Jivamukti Yoga is a branded and proprietary yoga method. The trade names and trademarks Jivamukti are owned by Jivamukti, Inc., a nonprofit company based in Shady, New York, USA, and have been continuously used in connection with the company's business since 1984. Jivamukti, Inc. operates Jivamukti branded yoga centers in New York City, Toronto, Berlin, Munich, London and Schloss Elmau in Bavaria, Germany and provides Jivamukti branded yoga instruction (yoga classes, workshops, retreats, teacher training and certification classes), clothing, products body treatments, and instructional materials (books, audio, and video recordings). Jivamukti, Inc. also holds trademarks at Jivamukti Yoga , Jivamuktea , Jivamuktea Cafe , and Private In Class . Chief Operating Officer of Jivamukti, Inc. is David Life's nephew, Jules Febre.

Prior to this, the trade names and trademarks of Jivamukti Yoga were registered by the company, Jivamukti Yoga Center, Inc. , which lists Sharon Gannon as Chief Executive Officer and President, and David Kirkpatrick (official name of David Life) and Ana Maria Velasco as corporate officers (both are now inactive).

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Books

• Jivamukti Yoga: Practice for Freeing Body and Soul (Sharon Gannon, David Life; 2002; ISBNÃ, 0-345-44208-3)
• Yoga Art (Sharon Gannon, David Life, Martin Brading; 2002; ISBNÃ, 1-58479-207-8)
• Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Diet of Enlightenment (Sharon Gannon; 2008; ISBNÃ, 1-60109-021-8)
• "Yoga Assist: A Complete Visual & Inspirational Guide For Asanas Yoga Helps" (Sharon Gannon, David Life; 2012; ISBNÃ, 1-624-67054-7)

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Central

Jivamukti Yoga is the main method taught in eleven yoga centers ("complete program centers") and is also officially recognized as being taught in over thirty other people ("affiliate centers"). The instructions in these centers are based on a philosophy developed by Gannon and Life, which in turn is based on their teacher's guidance and on classical yoga as described in Yoga S? Tras of PataÃÆ' Â ± jali , Bhagavad Gita , and Hatha Yoga Pradipika . To teach the Jivamukti Yoga method at one of its centers, an instructor must first go through rigorous training and pass a series of exams.

The complete program center of Jivamukti Yoga is located in the United States (New York City, Jersey City, and Washington D.C.), Germany (Munich, Berlin, and Schloss Elmau), the United Kingdom (London), and Mexico (Puebla). Its affiliated centers are located in Australia, Germany, Greece, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United States.

Jivamukti Yoga School NYC, the Jivamukti Yoga School located at Union Square in Manhattan, has been featured on BBC, ABC, PBS, and in the New York Times and New York Magazine.

In 2003, Jivamukti Yoga School NYC established a 125 acre nature reserve in the Catskill Mountains, near Woodstock, New York. Known as the Wild Woodstock Jivamukti Forest Sanctuary, it serves as a state ashram for the Jivamukti Yoga School and a safe haven and unpolluted habitat for diverse plant and animal species.

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Criticism

In 2016, the allegations of sexual harassment were published to one of Jivamukti Yoga School's most senior teachers, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, by one of his female students. Students file a lawsuit, which has been settled for an undisclosed amount. Michelle Goldberg, writing about the case for Slate magazine, questioned whether Jivamukti was a workplace, ashram, or cult, with a culture of spiritual abuse and secrecy.

Writer Matthew Remski reports, based on interviews with former Jivamukti employees, that Jivamukti Yoga School uses non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to "facilitate student complaints against teachers, or teacher complaints against management", and to prevent former students and employees from discussing school culture. Instead, Remski writes, departing personnel and students receive cash payments or refund fees.

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Famous practitioner

Some of the celebrities who practice or have practiced Yoga Jivamukti are:

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References

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External links

• Jivamukti Yoga School
• Sharon Gannon explains the five principles of Jivamukti Yoga

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