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Sounds True: Pranayama

A six-session online pranayama course with Richard Freeman, exploring the history, principles, and practice of yogic breathwork. Covers seated and reclined techniques, internal channel awareness, and how pranayama bridges asana with meditation. Best suited for students with existing yoga experience.

Modules: 6 Modules
Lessons: 6 Lessons
Certification: non-certification course
Format: self-paced
Skill level: advanced
Career pathway: interest

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Pranayama by Sounds True is a self-paced online course on yogic breathwork taught by Richard Freeman, a longtime student of Ashtanga yoga under K. Pattabhi Jois. The course frames pranayama as a central practice that bridges yoga’s outward asana work and its inner meditative dimensions.

This course is intended for students who already have a working yoga practice. Sounds True states on the page that experience in yoga is highly recommended before enrolling. It suits ongoing practitioners who want to add a structured pranayama component to an existing asana or meditation routine rather than complete beginners.

The course is built around six 75-minute video sessions with Richard Freeman. The curriculum covers the history and essential principles of pranayama, and how to open the internal channels of flow and awareness that allow the full spectrum of the breath to manifest. Sessions explore the role of pranayama as a bridge between yoga’s active practices, like asana, and its internal meditative or philosophical facets, and look at how the practice soothes and revitalizes the body, mind, and spirit. Students receive demonstrations offering specific guidance in pranayama while seated or lying down, and study how pranayama awakens and strengthens the body’s natural intelligence. Each enrollment includes a month-by-month practice plan, an online glossary of terms, additional resources, and anatomical images to support an evolving practice.

The course is led by Richard Freeman, who studied and lived for nearly nine years in India and Asia and is widely considered one of the foremost Western instructors of Ashtanga yoga. His principal teacher was K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore. Freeman’s background also draws on Bhakti and Hatha yoga, Iyengar yoga, Sufism, and Zen and Vipassana Buddhist practice.

The format is self-paced online. Students work through six 75-minute video sessions on their own schedule, paired with a month-by-month practice plan, supplemental written materials, an online glossary, and anatomical images. Complete course materials are downloadable and available to keep, so the program can be revisited as a personal practice deepens. There are no live sessions, cohort dates, or required submissions.

Meet your teacher

Richard Freeman

Richard Freeman is widely considered one of the foremost Western instructors of Ashtanga yoga. He studied for nearly nine years in India and Asia under K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, and directs the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado.

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