Word: jivamukti
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...When she's in New York, where she lives in a lovely, tasteful townhouse in the West Village, she goes to the celebrity-studded Jivamukti Yoga Center. Owners Sharon Gannon and David Life teach an eclectic style of yoga, described on the center's web site as "a vigorous physical practice with equally strong foundation in the ancient Yogic texts...
...Turlington was reluctant to go to Jivamukti classes at first, in part because she's so frequently recognized. "It was fear, really," she says. "I didn't want to stand out." But celebrities are so common there, Turlington found, that she wasn't the object of undue attention, and that in fact, yoga teachings challenged that fear. "In yoga, you need to get beyond yourself. So I just went to the front row. It was the same thing when I went to NYU. I sat in the front row, very visible. And it was fine...