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| Kurzbeschreibung: | | |  | ?Jivamukti has been a big influence in my life. I?ve read this book twice and expect to read it many more times. It?s the bible of my spiritual practice.?
?RUSSELL SIMMONS
?David and Sharon are great teachers in the fullest sense of the word?as guides and mentors they challenge and inspire. Their book gives readers a glimpse of the power of yoga to transform lives.?
?TRUDIE STYLER
Cofounder of the Rainforest Foundation
?Sharon and David sing the essence of yoga in their new book Jivamukti Yoga. Their book is amazingly accessible without being compromising to the tradition of yoga. In the same breath I applaud them for their courage to be creative and daring in expressing their unique and gifted voices.?
?RODNEY YEE | | | The long-awaited,complete guide to the popular, vigorous American method of yoga that is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom and scriptures
?In this day and age of health and fitness trends, it is assuring to know that Sharon and David encourage their students to draw inspiration from the classical texts of Yoga and timeless scriptural sources. What I appreciate so much about David and Sharon is how they help their Yoga students to understand and appreciate the wisdom of all the great saints and jivamuktas who have contributed to raising consciousness. Ultimately, it is Self-Realization, that is the true goal of Yoga.?
?SRI SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Creators of the extremely popular Jivamukti Yoga method and cofounders of the New York City studios where it is taught, Sharon Gannon and David Life present their unique style of yoga for the first time in book form. As they explain their intensely physical and spiritual system of flowing postures, they provide inspiring expert instruction to guide you in your practice.
Unlike many books about yoga, Jivamukti Yoga focuses not only on the physical postures but also on how they evolved?the origins of the practices in yoga?s ancient sacred texts and five-thousand-year-old traditions?the psychotherapeutic benefits that accrue with a steady practice, and the spiritual power that is set free when energy flows throughout the mind and body. Jivamukti Yoga, which means ?soul liberation,? guides your body and soul into spiritual freedom, physical strength, peace of mind, better health, and Self-realization?the ultimate goal of any practice. Gannon and Life help you understand each of the practices that comprise the yoga path to enlightenment:
AHIMSA?The Way of Compassion: choosing nonviolence, respecting all life, practicing vegetarianism, living free of prejudice
ASANA?The Way of Connection to the Earth: postures and sequences, breathing, transforming energy, understanding the bandhas
KARMA?The Way of Action: creating good karma, giving thanks
NADAM?The Way of Sacred Music: appreciating the sacred sounds of yoga
MEDITATION?The Way of the Witness: how to sit still and move inward
BHAKTI?The Way of Devotion to God: living with love, grace, and peace
Whatever yoga you practice, Jivamukti Yoga will help you to strengthen and deepen that practice and lead you onto a path of spiritual clarity and self-discovery.
?If there is only one book you read about the practice of Yoga, this should be the one. Sharon and David are deeply dedicated students and teachers of Yoga who have the rare capacity to translate their profound understanding to the reader. This book is for anyone who wishes to find transformation through Yoga. I?m grateful for their work and teaching.?
?STEPHAN RECHTSCHAFFEN, MD
Co-founder & CEO, Omega Institute
| | | Jivamukti Yoga: Putting Yoga Together in the West
The jivanmukta is not transformed by pleasure or pain. Joy does not exalt the mukta, nor is the mukta depressed by pain. The jivanmukta no longer regards the world as real. . . . The jivanmukta is pure like akasha. . . . The jivanmukta is neither subject to attachment, nor to egoism. The jivanmukta does not fear the world, Nor does the world fear the jivanmukta The jivanmukta is at peace with the ways of the world. The mukta is free from worldly-mindedness . . . Finally, the jivanmukta maintains a cool head.
?Vidyaranya, The Jivan-Mukti-Viveka
Jivamukti Yoga incorporates traditional yoga practices into a modern lifestyle without losing sight of the ancient, universal goal of liberation. We believe that liberation is possible even while living a modern urban lifestyle anywhere in the world. We believe that the ancient teachings and techniques of yoga, as laid out in Patanjali?s Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, are as valid and exciting today as they were over five thousand years ago.
If you explore yoga yourself by reading the texts, chanting, practicing asanas, and meditating, you will begin to feel that it?s not foreign or separate from you. It is not not of you or of your culture. You do not have to be Hindu to read the scriptures or practice yoga, although familiarity with Hinduism and the history of Indian philosophy is certainly helpful.
Hinduism is a religion, based on a way of life called Sanatana Dharma, or the Universal Way. It includes four pillars: (1) vegetarianism, (2) an acknowledgment of the law of karma (the law of cause and effect), (3) a belief in reincarnation, and (4) a belief in the possibility of moksha, or liberation from all forms of suffering. True Hinduism incorporates all religions, because it recognizes that if you have a way that works for you, it is valid?it comes under the umbrella of the Universal Way. Certainly there are many religious, racial, and class divisions in India, but what we came away with from our travels there was this essence of universality.
Yoga is not a religion; it is a school of practical philosophy. Yoga practices, however, are inextricably linked to the development of both Hinduism and the philosophical schools, including Yoga, Vedanta, Samkhya, Jainism, and Buddhism, which developed in ancient India. Their codevelopment in the modern era has commonality in language, myth, root teachings, practices, and beliefs.
When we began teaching yoga, we set ourselves this challenge: to relate the ancient teachings to modern experience without dumbing down the yoga practices or sacrificing their original aim, which was always and only to experience union with the Divine Self. We also asked ourselves: Is there anything in our own culture that could help us in our quest for enlightenment? Let?s look at the lyrics in the Beatles? music; let?s listen to what Van Morrison is singing about; let?s be inspired by the fusion of Eastern and Western influences in the music of John Coltrane and Bill Laswell. What about the essential, idealist nature of the United States? Freedom, liberation through unity in diversity?that?s what the Founding Fathers were all about. Teaching yoga based on ancient Indian scriptures to New Yorkers began to seem not only possible, but exciting.
Purusha [pure spirit] without Prakriti [nature] is lame, Prakriti without Purusha is blind.
?Ishvarakrishna, Samkhyakarika1
We had both been drawn to the East Village by our artistic pursuits. Along the way, we had inadvertently crossed paths with each other and with some of our greatest future influences.
In the late 1970s, a Seattle radio station broadcast a serial drama produced by Meatball Fulton, called The Fourth Tower of Inverness, which used recordings of Bhagavan Das singing Sanskrit names for God. This singing captivated Sharon, who was at that time a busy dancer and musician with a strong interest in Indian philosophy. She had a feeling that she would meet Bhagavan Das some day.
David, meanwhile, was traveling around the country with his portfolio of drawings, trying on cities. As his old Chevy Suburban slid into Seattle he caught the last few minutes of The Fourth Tower of Inverness. Seattle didn?t grab him, so he headed toward San Francisco. San Francisco, L.A., Palm Springs, Portland, Houston, Austin, New Orleans . . . eventually David limped back to Michigan with a broken trailer filled with soapstone and serpentine rock. A friend invited him to New York City. It didn?t take long for him to see that it was the city he had been searching for.
David moved into a dilapidated storefront on 10th Street and Avenue B. The neighborhood?s cheap rents were a by-product of rampant drug dealing. To cover holes in his walls, David wheat-pasted covers from old Life magazines over them. He opened the Life Café in 1980.
Back in Seattle, Sharon was dancing, reading poetry, and playing violin and singing for the band Audio Letter. At a sound check she slipped and fell hard on her lower spine. By the time the band left to perform at Life Café in New York, Sharon was in terrible pain.
A New York gig meant a lot, though, and the Life Café audience seemed to really enjoy the show. Afterward, Sharon sat near the piano with a cup of tea. She grimaced as pain shot through her back. Tara, a waitress, noticed and was concerned, so Sharon explained that she had fallen months before and was still in pain. Tara, who also taught a yoga class, said that maybe yoga could help. Sharon had always been curious about yoga; she had studied classical Indian dance and philosophy while earning her dance degree from the University of Washington.
David, meanwhile, was pleasantly surprised by Audio Letter. Sharon?s lyrics, some in Sanskrit, were like mystical riddles: ?Freedom is a psychokinetic skill.? When Sharon and the guitar player, Sue Ann Harkey, moved to New York, David began playing with Audio Letter, too.
Soon neighborhood jazz musicians such as drummer Denis Charles and trumpeter Don Cherry began showing up to jam at Sharon and Sue Ann?s apartment on East 7th Street. Charles and Cherry played on Audio Letter?s 1988 album, It Is This, It Is Not This.
Sharon was still in a lot of pain though. When she went to a doctor, he diagnosed a broken vertebra and recommended surgery to fuse it. Tara gently urged Sharon to try yoga, explaining that yoga had helped her regain mobility after she had broken her pelvis in a car accident. Sharon was afraid at first, because the yoga postures were painful for her, but she trusted Tara, who was a very sensitive teacher.
Yoga?s mysticism intrigued David, too, and, at thirty-four, he wanted to stave off the aches and pains of growing older. As he investigated yoga he realized that it was a physically challenging, deeply mystical practice with an intellectually advanced philosophical base.
Sharon and David tried different yoga teachers in New York but were frustrated with the focus on physical exercise and the exclusion of the spiritual and philosophical aspects of yoga. Meanwhile, they had begun incorporating asana, pranayama, and yogic teachings into dance and musical performances, which they performed everywhere, from vacant lots in the East Village to downtown clubs. They actually began teaching the audience Sanksrit chants and simple asanas.
Knowing that Sharon and David practiced yoga, friends in the audience began asking them to teach. Sharon and David brought the same elements from their performances into the yoga classes they began teaching: music, Sanskrit, yogic scriptures, and an open desire to connect with the sacred.
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| | Auch aus diesem Buch habe ich nicht gelernt, was eigentlich das "Andere" an Jivamukti Yoga ist, das noch keiner vorher gewußt haben soll. Gibt es ein religiöses oder anderes ethisches System, in dem Lügen, Stehlen und Horten Tugenden sind? Können Bilder von Promis mir die eigene Practice ersetzen? Übe ich Yoga, weil Madonna es auch tut? Sehen wir hier verhältnismäßig normales Hatha-Yoga, das durch eine "well-oiled machine" gedreht wird? Yoga is Yoga, and business is business ....
| | the wild child of yoga strikes back | |
| | Wow, hier ist sie: die Verkörperung der lebendigen Weisheit zwei der größten zeitgenössischen Yogalehrer! Sharon Gannon und David Leben haben das Yoga in den USA geprägt wie kaum ein anderer. Ihr Ansatz, dass Yoga weit mehr ist Asanas, die körperlichen Übungen wird bereits beim Lesen des Inhaltverzeichnis des Buches deutlich. So legt dieses Buch keinen Schwerpunkt auf die ausführliche Beschreibung einzelner Körperhaltungen - das tun bereits genug andere Bücher. Hier wird Yoga dargestellt als eine Lebenshaltung, eine Philosophie, die lehrt, wie man in diesem Leben dauerhaft glücklich und wirklich zufrieden sein kann - unabhängig von äußeren Umständen. Die beiden Autoren zeigen, wie eine bewusste Yoga-Praxis den Übenden langsam dazu bringen kann Verantwortung für seine Gedanken und Taten zu übernehmen. Durch das regelmäßige Üben der in diesem Buch dargestellten Übungseinheiten wird zunächst eine sehr tiefgreifende, körperliche Psychotherapie angestoßen. Im Körper und im organischen System verfestigte Enttäuschungen, Schmerz, Wut, Ängste und ungelöste Konflikte werden sanft durch heilsame Bewegungsabläufe gelöst und bewusst gemacht. Doch anstatt auf die freiwerdenden negativen Emotionen zu fokussieren, raten die Autoren sich auf die eigene Beziehung zum Göttlichen rückzubesinnen. Die Asanas, die körperlichen Übungen, sind somit nur ein kleiner Teil der Yoga-Lehre. Insgesamt geht es darum, sich im Leben 24 Stunden am Tag mehr und mehr so zu verhalten, dass man sich und andere möglichst glücklich macht. Folgt man den Autoren, so gilt dies unabhängig von Rasse oder Gattung für alle Lebewesen. Verändert sich dann mit der Zeit die eigene innere Einstellung wird man ausgeglichener und verantwortungsbewusster. Man beginnt die Regeln des Yoga zu verstehen und zu leben. Die Yamas (nicht töten, lügen, stehlen, unkeusch leben und Horden) und Niyamas (Reinheit, Zufriedenheit, Disziplin, Hingabe an Gott und Versenkung) werden fester Bestandteil des täglichen Denkens, Handelns und Verhaltens. Die Übungen und Texte in diesem Buch machen die Yoga-Philosophie für den modernen Menschen auf wunderbare Weise sinnlich erlebbar. Denn: ? Die Welt, Freund Govinda, ist nicht unvollkommen, oder auf einem langsamen Wege zur Vollkommenheit begriffen: nein, sie ist in jedem Augenblick vollkommen".
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