1. Good Workout
Attending a Jivamukti class will result in breaking a sweat. These classes, in addition to many other benefits, will offer a vigorous, intense yoga sequence of the Vinyasa style. Jivamukti teachers have highly specialized training. In addition to vigorous poses, the teachers often concentrate on correct form and proper breathing techniques known as prana. Each class has a theme and incorporates chanting, meditation, scripture and music in the practice.
2. Fashionable Yoga
Jivamukti yoga has become quite popular in recent years. There are only a handful of studios that offer classes and not many Jivamukti yogis are out there. Many celebrities practice this type of yoga. Attend a class and you may be practicing sun salutation next to Christy Turlington, Gwyneth Paltrow or Sting.
3. Love of Animals
A key philosophy of Jivamukti yoga is the love of all living species. To fully practice this yoga, it is essential to give up meat and many follow a vegan lifestyle. Vegans do not use animal products at all, in shampoo or lipstick or in leather shoes, bags or belts. This is a very practical way to apply Jivamukti yoga ideas to everyday life. Practicing this lifestyle can be quite a change for the typical American. Novices should commit to at least eating a vegetarian diet in the beginning.
4. Community Yoga
An important concept in Jivamukti yoga is the idea of community. Jivamukti yoga is supposed to bring those together with like minds and ideas. The classes bring a sense of unity to those that participate in them. The people that practice Jivamukti yoga care about the world in which we live and the people that populate the world.
5. Political Yoga
The principles and philosophies of Jivamukti yoga lend themselves to the idea of world peace and the message of love and unity. The idea is not only peace and unity among people, but peace and unity among all living things on the earth. This includes all plants, animals and insects. One of the most important principles of this type of yoga is the idea that the world and the animals that inhabit the world do not belong to us to use and abuse as we'd like.
