David Life was born on the 1980 summer solstice in New York
City after living for thirty years with a different identity. He
has a university degree in fine arts and became an influential
performer, artist, and spokesperson in the political and social
foment and lively arts community in the 1980s on the Lower East
Side of New York City. In New York, he created Life CafÉ—an
artists’ and poets’ space featured in Newsweek, various
international arts and literary magazines, and in the Broadway
play Rent as the setting for “La Vie Boheme.” Near Life
CafÉ, on Avenue B, the Jivamukti Yoga Society was the first of many
yoga schools that he and Sharon Gannon created since 1986, with the
current amazing school and cafÉ located on Broadway, and a
one-hundred-twenty-fve-acre wild sanctuary and ashram in the
mountains of upstate New York.
Together with Sharon Gannon, and through the blessings of his gurus
Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, Shri Swami Nirmalananda, and Shri K.
Pattabhi Jois, Life has participated in the creation of Jivamukti
Yoga. He has taught Jivamukti Yoga throughout the world since his
first trip to India in 1986.
Sharon Gannon is changing the way people view spirituality, life,
themselves, one another, animals, and the environment. Along with
David Life, she is the creator of the Jivamukti Yoga method, a path
to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. Blessed by her
teachers, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, Swami Nirmalananda, Sri K.
Pattabhi Jois, Shyamdas, and Shri Milan Goswami, she is a pioneer
in teaching yoga as spiritual activism. Veganism is a core
principle of the Jivamukti Yoga method. The Jivamukti method has
been recognized as one of the nine forms of hatha yoga practiced in
the world today. Yoga Journal magazine has called her an innovator,
and Vanity Fair gives her credit for making yoga cool and hip.
Gannon has authored many books and produced numerous yoga-related
DVDs and music CDs. She is the recipient of the 2008 Compassionate
Living Award and the 2013 PETA Compassionate Action Award. She
resides in a wild forest sanctuary in upstate New York. For more
information about the author, visit www.jivamuktiyoga.com and
www.simplerecipesforjoy.com.
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