David Life is a co-founder (with Sharon Gannon) of the Jivamukti School of Yoga and co-director of the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York. Born in a small town in[…]
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Yoga is the process of self-discovery.
David Life: Yoga is the discovery of who I am – really who I am, and the firm rooting in that . . . in that identity. Not who I am on a personality level, but who I am on a more essential level; who I am that is the same as you rather than different than you. It’s a way of looking for sameness. The word yoga means “to yoke”. It means “to bring things together”; things that . . . In a rational approach to living, you take things apart to find out about them. In the yogic approach, you put things back together and you find their essential sameness. Recorded on: 10/31/07
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