Yoga For Living Productions

David Life
www.jivamuktiyoga.com

David Life was born in a small town in Michigan. His undergraduate degree is in art, with minors in poetry and psychology. Throughout his life, David has been interested in metaphysics and spirituality. His Catholic upbringing inspired devotion to Christian mystics like St. John of The Cross and Theresa of Avila. He spent several years as an initiate of a lineage of yogic monks, and has received initiation by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
David has lived in New York City since 1979, where he pursued his art career while creating, owning and operating Life Café, a Manhattan hot-spot for music, art and poetry. Life Café is featured in the current smash hit Broadway play "Rent." During his café years, David had close association with Latino poets, old-guard Beats like Allen Ginsberg, Julien Beck, and Judith Malina of the Living Theater, and was an influential performer, painter and poet in the 1980s Lower East Side of New York. He has studied yoga around the world with many teachers since 1984, including Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, from whom he received certification in the advanced Ashtanga Yoga series. His interest in yoga is supported by his artistic, literary and metaphysical studies. He imbues his classes with metaphor, musicality and spirituality, spiced with humor, vigor and spontaneity.

Above Photograph of David Life by Martin Brading from The Art of Yoga

6-DAY AFTERNOON INTENSIVE

"The Yogi As Cultural Hero" - Teaching Yoga As a Spiritual Path: How to Inspire While They Perspire

Set and setting. What is the right physical and psychological backdrop for yoga practice? Practical tools for getting the mood right.

Inspiration. Where to look for the right inspiration and modeling for our yoga lifestyles. How to re-invent the liberated life in this time through the study of the past lives of saints and sages.

Getting the point across. What is the difference between teaching and preaching. Where do we start in our effort to teach the techniques of Self realization and Liberation?

Harmony and Flow. Ksana krama is the sequence of events that unfold moment by moment. With the proper attention to sequencing and intention, a yoga class can be a revolution in daily living.

God is Always Watching. We all know the potency of thought, and yet we believe that we can perform actions with any thought on our mind and the outcome will be the same. Our thoughts determine the quality of our actions so let's purify our thoughts first.

Give up and Get Going. Giving students permission to surrender the smallness; the fear, judgment, anxiety, and hatred, so that they can become larger. Create situations which reveal the inner Self by peeling away the layers of resistance in the form of habit, unconsciousness, and misknowing.

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MORNING ASANA CLASSES

Jivamukti Yoga integrates chanting, asanas, music, meditation and practices of devotion into a vigorous physical practice with a foundation in the ancient mystic philosophies of the East. Jivamukti incorporates these yoga practices into the modern lifestyle, without losing sight of the universal goal of the practices - liberation. It is a blueprint for incorporating the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga into our modern lives and awakens in the practitioner a need to protect the earth, the environment and all the animals and plants that share the planet with us.

Track 1 (Gentle Focus)

"A Little Bit Goes a Long Way"

A basic Jivamukti Yoga class. Enjoy all the benefits of a deep yoga practice through a very simply structured class containing breath awareness, asana practice, meditation, and a theme of making each action count - Kriya Yoga as the perfection of action

Track 2 (Challenging)

"You Look Like You're Moving, But You're Holding Still"-

Enjoy a challenging Jivamukti Yoga Class incorporating breath awareness, asana practice, with extra time for meditation. Discovering the age-old techniques to nurture inner stillness while witnessing outer changes with equanimity and poise.

Track 3 (Advanced)

"This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life"-

Don't wait for the world around you to change before you can be happy. YOU are the one who can make a difference today. See if you can pass the ultimate challenge of difficult actions devoid of selfish intentions. Enjoy a challenging Jivamukti Yoga Class for mixed levels including meditation, asana, and breath awareness

KEYNOTE

The Spiritual Path of Social and Political Activism
History is filled with activists who have pursued their goals using ethical and morally sound guidelines. People like Martin Luther King, and Mahatma Gandhi have shown us the power inherent in a life forged in the fire of non-harming, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence and non-hoarding. What each of us does individually is important in determining the future. Hear how modern activists like John Robbins and Ingrid Newkirk work diligently in the background of today's headlines to do the clean-up work of a messy society.