中文译者：Jade

理查德·弗里曼（Richard Freeman）

理查德·弗里曼 (Richard Freeman) 自1968 年从禅宗修行的一种简单坐姿开始接触瑜伽。他在亚洲花了九年时间研究瑜伽体式、苏菲主义、梵语和印度哲学，将这些与理查德生活的那个思潮动荡混乱年代联系在一起是一件很玄妙的事情。 1974 年，理查德跟随 B.K.S.艾扬格 (Iyengar)，学习了艾扬格瑜伽的精准序列原理，并将其应用于他自己内在修行的练习中。传统冥想和佛教经典，激发了理查德对瑜伽的浓厚兴趣，并遇到了另一位最重要的瑜伽老师—— Sri K. Pattabhi Jois，在跟随这位已故的印度迈索尔的阿斯汤加瑜伽大师后，理查德开始了教授阿斯汤加瑜伽。

理查德妙趣横生的教学风格吸引了来自不同背景和国籍的学生。他受邀在世界各地开设瑜伽工作坊，同时，理查德至今还保有痴迷学习不同传统文化的热情。理查德·弗里曼 (Richard Freeman) 与玛丽·泰勒（Mary Talylor）共同创办了位于科罗拉多州博尔德的瑜伽工作室；他们合作制作了多部备受推崇的瑜伽音频和视频记录，理查德是《瑜伽之镜（The Mirror of Yoga）》一书的作者，同时他和玛丽合著了《串联艺术（The Art of Vinyasa）》（Shambhala出版社）一书。

玛丽·泰勒 (Mary Taylor)

玛丽·泰勒 (Mary Taylor) 于 1971 年开始学习瑜伽，当时她刚从法国获得了朱莉娅·柴尔德 (Julia Child) 烹饪学校 L’Ecole des Trois Gourmandes 的高级文凭后回国。起初，玛丽只是将瑜伽作为一种在大学压力下寻找平静的方式，这种压力下的平衡令她着迷。但是直到 1988 年，她遇到了她的主要老师 Sri K. Pattabhi Jois后，从Ashtanga Vinyasa 体系练习，她才体会到专注的日常练习可以对生活的各个方面产生深远的变革性影响。她抱以极大的热情和好奇心，继续着自己瑜伽和禅宗佛学的学习，并通过瑜伽垫上的练习着眼于瑜伽和禅宗的教义积极影响日常生活的方方面面。

作为禅宗众生接引计划（Upaya Zen Center，大乘禅宗中心）和 “城市禅”综合治疗培训（Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Trainings） 的一部分，Mary 与 Richard 一起旅修，并在医院和居家护理中心进行教学。 1988年，玛丽与理查德共同创立了位于科罗拉多州博尔德的瑜伽工作室。玛丽出版过三本烹饪书籍，同时是《你渴望什么？（What Are You Hungry For?）》和《女性食物和灵性（Women Food and Spirituality）》（圣马丁出版社）两书的合著者之一，玛丽和理查德合著了《串联的艺术（The Art of Vinyasa）》（Shambhala 出版社）。

英文部分

Richard Freeman 

Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968, beginning with one simple sitting posture in the Zen tradition. He spent nine years in Asia studying yoga asana, Sufism, Sanskrit language, and Indian philosophical texts, contextualizing them within the turbulent political times of that period in history. In 1974 Richard began working with B.K.S. Iyengar, with whom he studied precise alignment principles, applying them to his own internally rooted experience of the forms. Drawing from this variety of contemplative traditions, and from Buddhism, in which he cultivates a deep interest, Richard teaches the Ashtanga Vinyasa method of yoga as taught by his principal teacher, the late Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India.

Richard’s metaphorical, often humorous, teaching style appeals to students of many backgrounds and nationalities. He teaches workshops and trainings throughout the world and remains an avid student fascinated by the linking points between different traditions and cultures. With Mary, he is the co-founder of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado; has produced several highly regarded yoga audio and video recordings, and is the author of The Mirror of Yoga and co-author of The Art of Vinyasa (Shambhala Publications).

Mary Taylor

Mary Taylor began studying yoga in 1971, soon after she came home from France with a grande diplôme from Julia Child’s cooking school, L’Ecole des Trois Gourmandes. She found yoga at first a means of finding equanimity during the stress of University, and it was that thread of balance that got her hooked. It was not until 1988 and finding her primary teacher, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and the Ashtanga Vinyasa system that she experienced the profound and transformative impact that a dedicated and daily practice can have on all aspects of life. She continues to study and practice yoga and Buddhist teachings with great enthusiasm and inquisitiveness, with an eye on how the residue that is produced on the mat (and cushion) through these teachings informs and supports all aspects of everyday life.

Mary travels and teaches with Richard and within the caregiver and hospital setting as part of the Being with Dying program (Upaya Zen Center) and the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Trainings. In 1988 she co-founded with Richard the Yoga Workshop. Mary is also the author of three cookbooks and the co-author of What Are You Hungry For? Women Food and Spirituality (St. Martins Press) and The Art of Vinyasa (Shambhala Publications).

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