The Yoga Matrix: The Body as a Gateway to Freedom

This is an outstanding purchase, without artifice and jargon. Highly recommended for the ever-expanding Yoga community and other seekers as well.

The Yoga Matrix is an excellent and in depth study of yoga from many different angles. It is an invaluable aid for serious students of yoga of all traditions. I will listen to it again and again as each time one discovers more subtle aspects of this fascinating discipline.

3 Years ago a yoga teacher told me to buy the Yogamatrix and listen to it. Because Richard Freemann teaches Ashtange Vinyasa Yoga I didn't buy the item. Now that I bought the item I can only applaude and bow in deep respect to Richard Freemann. During the whole audio book he does not mention Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga once or for that matter any other specific Hatha Yoga system. He has a beautiful voice and I listen to his different chapters over and over again. I'm a Yogateacher and have practised Yoga for 10 years and tought it for 3 years now. I've been to India many times. This audio book is abundant with truth and knowledge about Yoga in a simple, compact way. If every teacher of yoga and ever student of yoga would listen to this book the Yogaworld would be an even better place.

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.

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.