Yoga Matrix: The Body As a Gateway to Freedom

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Summary: Intelligent, Grounded, Well Rounded, Extremely Valueable
Review: Richard's well well rounded, broad based, super grounded presentation is invaluable to anyone interested in a deeper understanding and meaning of yoga. The material is spiritual without new age fluff or ego getting in the way. Priceless.

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Summary: Change Your World View (for the better)
Review: These tapes are simply as good as it gets. To have some human being with the most intimate knowledge (from practice and academics) of the myriad of yoga forms commit to media his insights is truly a gift from the yogic Gods. Thank you O unknowable One.
He is the king of metaphors. This allows the inducement of one's own imagination to embrace what is largely un-embraceable subject due to its variagated, misquoted, misunderstood and paradoxical nature. He reads Sanskirt so this is not the hearsay one might get from 99.9% of Western teachers. He has studied the major texts and minor texts so he understands the context from which he imparts his wisdom and commentaries. He also has a firm grip of our Western socio-cultural perspective from which most of us will listen to these words. And yet there is an informal tone that comes from someone who speaks from the heart, from terse notes, from years of Dharma talk experience.
Not since Alan Watts have we had an East West translator as compelling as Richard Freeman. One need not be labled "yogi" or "student of yoga" to appreciate and gain from these talks.
After listening over and over when learns to approach the world with "fresh eyes" and the art of letting paradox be.