When YUJMU first began it was called MU Yoga and provided Yin Yoga workshops to local venues. I was trying to figure out what this whole new embracing of Yoga as a lifestyle was for me, what drew me to it and would keep me inspired to continue sharing it. The truth is I have never really gone to Yoga classes or connected with the culture of Yoga hehe. That sounds blasphemous and it doesn’t mean I didn’t connect with or practice many aspects of Yoga as it is popularly known. It simply came from a desire to teach myself how to understand things rather than be told. It also was in part due to my deep interest in Eastern philosophy from China, Japan and Tibet (among others) which kind of hijacked my contemplative activities from other traditions. It is from those two seeds, self-teaching and Eastern Asian Philosophy that MU Yoga was born.
“Mu” is a Japanese word used in Zen for contemplating emptiness, a very important concept in that tradition.
Not too many months after this I realized what I wanted to create was a platform and programs for enlightening people, cracking them open, which is essentially empowering them from their own side. This needed to transcend “Yoga” so bringing it back to its root word “Yuj” felt right. YUJMU is not just symbolic of a program of finding one’s potential but its parts literally mean “merge with” and “emptiness” or as I like to think of it; merging with your potential.
