Huset i Pilestredet 90 er kunstnerhjemmet etter Åsa og Frans Widerberg. I dag rommer det atelier og kreative arbeidsrom for blant annet Nico Widerberg og Camilla Coucheron. Og ikke minst fantastisk og høyst inspirerende kunst, som undrer og viser oss noe om kompleksiteten i vår egen tilværelse og menneskelighet. Vi mener og kunne kalle det Oslos mest spektakulære yogashala, og tenker at det passer så fint i ånden til Jivamukti Yoga, Sharon Gannon & David Life.

Sharon og David møtte hverandre gjennom interessen for kunst og kreativt arbeid. I boken deres ‘Jivamukti Yoga – practices for liberating body and soul’ skriver de:

“We opened the first Jivamukti Yoga Center in a creative hot spot, in Manhattan on 2nd Avenue and 9th street (down the street from Saint Mark’s Church, where great neighborhood poets like Allen Ginsberg read). We were inspired not only by our teachers in India but also by our friends, the tattooed, pierced, blue- and green-haired nonconformist artists, poets, and musicians who lived in our neighborhood. We remembered how the Beatles had come back from India and made the colors, sights, and sounds of India so hip that they had soaked into Western culture. We wanted to create a place that would turn everyone on like that to the richness of yoga. What didn’t turn us on were the white walls and potted plants of other yoga centers we visited in New York. So we painted the walls all kinds of beautiful colors, put up pictures of Indian deities and rolled out huge Oriental rugs on the floor”

Vi føler den underliggende, pulserende, kreative drivkraften er helt essensiell for Jivamukti Yoga. Derfor kunne vi ikke vært mer takknemlig for og få lov til å vokse, og ta form som LOKAH OSLO i disse unike og kreative omgivelsene av vakker kunst i Widerberghuset.

@Karina Eline Kibsgaard