What to do if you disagree with your teacher? Here is Richard Freeman answering that question.
I start people with subtleties of the breath with many other teachers would wait 20 years to teach, I kind of work backwards and I hope is helpful, says Richard Freeman in this video posted by Ashtanga Yoga New York.
Thanks to Grimmly for the transcript of highlights of Freeman's Workshop during the Confluence called: Back-Bending on the Current of the Breath. It works! Grimmly says!
It all comes in four videos, all from Studioactive8 (thank you!). Here is the second, third and fourth. A delight to listen to and watch (sort of as the camera moves quite a bit, but who can blame the person recording the video? it is a class after all! What a blessing to have this resource)
Richard Freeman is in my opinion one of the best yoga teachers the world has to offer these days, he has put out some incredible materials like: Mirror of Yoga, or its sister CD "Yoga Matrix" which has the same contents except you listen to him and to the chants (priceless!) He also offers studio talks which you can download from his page, like this one on the practice of Ashtanga Yoga.
The more I practice the more I realize the simplicity of it, this is about the breath, says Nancy Gilgoff in this post by Rose (she links to many more she wrote on the Confluence)
Would you let your airline pull your info from Facebook/Linked in so they can sit you next to someone suited for conversation? KLM is trying it. What do you think?
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I start people with subtleties of the breath with many other teachers would wait 20 years to teach, I kind of work backwards and I hope is helpful, says Richard Freeman in this video posted by Ashtanga Yoga New York.
Thanks to Grimmly for the transcript of highlights of Freeman's Workshop during the Confluence called: Back-Bending on the Current of the Breath. It works! Grimmly says!
It all comes in four videos, all from Studioactive8 (thank you!). Here is the second, third and fourth. A delight to listen to and watch (sort of as the camera moves quite a bit, but who can blame the person recording the video? it is a class after all! What a blessing to have this resource)
Richard Freeman is in my opinion one of the best yoga teachers the world has to offer these days, he has put out some incredible materials like: Mirror of Yoga, or its sister CD "Yoga Matrix" which has the same contents except you listen to him and to the chants (priceless!) He also offers studio talks which you can download from his page, like this one on the practice of Ashtanga Yoga.
The more I practice the more I realize the simplicity of it, this is about the breath, says Nancy Gilgoff in this post by Rose (she links to many more she wrote on the Confluence)
Can my fingers please touch my toes?! Oh, how I can relate...
Check out all the amazing giant eggs she sees as she makes her way to yoga in London.
And on another note:
Would you let your airline pull your info from Facebook/Linked in so they can sit you next to someone suited for conversation? KLM is trying it. What do you think?
Yes Richard Freeman, can't get to Boulder for a month so I'm having my own RF month intensive here instead, practicing along with his Primary and 2nd ( had these for years but only really ready for them now personally it seems), just got Mirror of Yoga for my iPad and fished out the old Yoga Matrix cd's. Still prefer how Ramaswami taught pranayama but getting a lot out of RF's Yoga breathing CD too(great that he doesn't wait 20 years to teach it). Oh and yes the studio talks, was listening to one yesterday.
ReplyDeleteWondering if there was tension between him and Nancy back in the day (even of the good natured constructive kind), she mentions a couple of times in her Intro to Ashtanga that 'X changed when Richard came', plus they seem almost polar opposite in how they teach, love that we're free to benefit from them both as we develop and expand our own approach to the practice.
Thanks for the mention but a little depressed to hear about KLM (usually one of the cheapest and, until now, most pleasant airlines to fly- they brought Nietzsche, my chinchilla, a little plate of carrots when I took him to J span). I don't want to end up on a plane where the person thinks they can talk to me because they passed on their Facebook details, best bit about flying is that you don't have to talk to anyone for 13 hours or so (M. sleeps all the way back to Japan).
Hm, did not get that bit, I have read very little about Nancy so I am not very familiar yet with how she teaches, but I guess it is interesting they have such different styles, and yes, we can all benefit
ReplyDeleteI took a workshop in NYC with Richard a few years ago and loved it..
As per the airplane thing... just had this image of Nietzche sipping wine... I think the world is divided into two people, those who like to chat in airplanes and those like me who want to hide and sleep in airplanes... I am with M, in a long trip like all the way to Japan I just would want to zzzz all tha way!