While in Hong Kong back in September, Richard gave a talk to a group of yoga practitioners and teachers on the subject of “nada” or sacred sound. He discussed “doing dristi through our ears” and the art of absorption into the immediate senses as a means of waking up from a disembodied state. At this […]
If you’ve participated in a training with Richard, you know the drill. Before-hand there’s the anticipation and worry: maybe this time he’ll require us to hover in adho mukha padmasana or have us listen to lectures while sitting in yogadandasana. This leads to confusion after the first asana class: what was he was trying to […]
The lecture Richard gave a couple of Sundays back was entitled “The Supreme Ego” which had me, for one, worried. How could he do the talk without giving me a pre-lecture interview? And wouldn’t it be embarrassing to be the center of a public talk? Fortunately, I kept my egocentric fears to myself, and the […]
In Richard’s second talk in the series about obstacles, entitled “Loose Ends and Stinky Mats” he expanded on the idea of the five kleshas as obstacles and also explained the classic obstacles of mind described in the Yoga Sutra Samadhi Pada verse 30.
Second in a series of Sunday Studio Talks by Richard Freeman about the “Obstacles to Yoga” we can encounter on the path. Recorded on October 28th at the Yoga Workshop in Boulder.