David Life 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 the1980's Lower East Side of New York City. In New York City he created Life Café - an artists/poets café 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 have created since 1986. The Jivamukti Yoga School and Jivamuktea Cafe are located on Broadway at Union Square in New York City, and a 125 acre wildlife sanctuary and ashram in the mountains of upstate New York.Students of Shri Brahmananda Saraswati, Swami Nirmalanda and Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, David Life and Sharon Gannon are the co-creators of the Jivamukti Yoga method recognized by TIME magazine as one of the nine forms of Hatha yoga practiced in the world today and one of the fastest growing and most highly regarded modern approaches to the ancient art of yoga. YOGA JOURNAL has called them "innovators" and VANITY FAIR gives them credit for making yoga "cool and hip". Since 1984 they have been pioneers in teaching yoga as spiritual activation integrating environmentalism and animal rights into the practice of asana. Their flagship center in NYC was the largest and first major green yoga center of its kind making compassionate, sustainable living do-able, fun and fashionable. The popularity of the method has spread internationally and is taught worldwide at Jivamukti Yoga Schools, and over 30 affiliated centers, in NYC, Charleston, Washington, DC, Toronto, London, Munich, Berlin and Sydney and many other locations. With his extensive touring schedule, Yoga DVDs and the books, Jivamukti Yoga, forward by Sting, (also translated into German, Russian & Italian) The Art of Yoga, with forward by Ravi and Anushka Shankar, and Yoga Assists, Life and Gannon are changing the way that people view, spirituality, life, themselves, each other, animals and the environment. Their hi-profile students include Sting, Trudie Styler, Madonna, Christy Turlington, Donna Karan, Russell Simmons, and Michael Franti.Read more at www.jivamuktiyoga.com