by Sharon Gannon | Jul 12, 2012 | General
1. Q: Why do you teach yoga? SHARON: To teach provides me with an opportunity to purify my perception of others—to practice seeing others as holy beings. 2. Q: What is Yoga? SHARON: Yoga is Enlightenment—the ecstatic realization of the Oneness of being. Yogash Chitta...
by Sharon Gannon | Jul 12, 2012 | General
1. Q: What does inspiration mean to you? SHARON: Inspiration means encouragement, motivation and stimulation. Inspiration moves me out of the habitual narrow confines of who I thought I was and into the unknown. Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual...
by Sharon Gannon | Jul 12, 2012 | General
1. Q: In your opinion, what is the future of Yoga? SHARON: There is no future for yoga. Yoga has no future. Yoga always exists in the present. Yoga is eternal and timeless. 

OM is the sacred sound for the yogi. OM is the pranava. Pranava is a Sanskrit word which...
by David Life | Jul 9, 2012 | General
1. Q: Can you provide a brief description of what Jivamukti Yoga is? SHARON: Jivamukti Yoga is a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. The method, developed by Sharon Gannon and David Life in 1986, is taught as spiritual activation/activism and...
by Sharon Gannon | Jul 9, 2012 | General
1. Q: When and where did you first start to get interested in yoga? SHARON: When I was 16 I moved with my family to Seattle Washington, a city in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. I lived there until moving to New York City when I was 32. When I was 18 I...
by Jivamukti Web Editor | Jun 26, 2012 | General
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3 million members and supporters. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely...
by Jivamukti Web Editor | Jun 24, 2012 | General
Founded by Sharon Gannon and David Life, together with Janet Rienstra of Meta Records, Animal Mukti is a free spay and neuter program of the Humane Society of New York. Prior to the founding of Animal Mukti in 1999, approximately 100,000 cats and dogs in New York City...
by Jivamukti Web Editor | May 26, 2012 | General
We can’t help but to be political. Everything each of us does as individuals affects the whole. The word politic refers to the greater body or the community in which one lives. To be politically active is to be conscious of how your actions affect the community and to...
by Jivamukti Web Editor | May 26, 2012 | General
Meditation: connecting to that eternal unchanging reality within.
by Jivamukti Web Editor | May 26, 2012 | General
Acknowledgment that God/Self-realization is the goal of all yoga practices; can be expressed through chanting, the setting of a high intention for the practice or other devotional practices.
by Jivamukti Web Editor | May 26, 2012 | General
Study of the ancient yogic teachings, including Sanskrit chanting, drawn from the Focus of the Month to the extent possible.
by Jivamukti Web Editor | May 26, 2012 | General
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.
by Jivamukti Web Editor | May 25, 2012 | General
I am at home in the entire universe. — Swami Nirmalananda Whatever spiritual practice we are engaged in, it must address the environmental issues that our planet faces, or else our practice is irrelevant. The yogi strives to live in harmony with nature and to perceive...
by Jivamukti Web Editor | May 24, 2012 | General
The fork can be an instrument of world peace or a weapon of mass destruction. If we ourselves want to be happy and free, then how can we attain that goal if we cause others unhappiness or deprive them of their freedom…or their lives? Animals that we raise for food are...
by David Life | Oct 14, 2005 | General
Maybe if you don’t mind we could start with a few minutes of silence. Just a quiet meditation. Sit straight for one or two minutes. Just to begin to see your way through the clutter that might be there and allow some spaciousness to come. Let’s OM first....
by David Life | Sep 6, 2005 | General
First we’re going to do Om three times call and response the way I was taught to do it before I met Brahmananda Sarasvati, who if you don’t know is the guy wearing orange with the beret up there on the left (photograph on altar). OK this is how I did it...
