Jivamukti Yoga Quotes

“Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.”
― Sharon Gannon, Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul

“No one can “do yoga.” Yoga means union with God. Yoga means eternal happiness, bliss, joy, and unconditional love. Yoga is who you are. It is your natural state. What we can do are practices that, by revealing to us our resistance to existing in our natural state, may lead us to it. But”
― Sharon Gannon, Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul

“Our goal as yoga practitioners is to free ourselves from selfishness and strengthen our connection to this Self. Yoga is the joining of the separate self with the universal Self; it is a process of synthesis.”
― Sharon Gannon, Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul

“The life of the jivanmukta is not normal. A normal life is one spent trying to avoid pain and seek pleasure. The jivanmukta, on the other hand, experiences pain and pleasure with equanimity, understanding that everything we experience is the karmic result of past actions.”
― Sharon Gannon, Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul