Podcasts about meditation programs

Before we look into meditation techniques and philosophy, it can be beneficial to get an understanding of why we even meditate at all. In today's episode, Brandt will be sharing the different reasons we might start a meditation practice through the birth of spiritual desire. Listen to this episode to orientate to this reasoning as a practitioner or a meditation teacher. This was a clip taken from our Meditation Mentor Certification Program. Our next training begins soon, join the waitlist: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Don't forget to let us know in the comments why you practice! Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Why we meditate according to Yogic Texts 05:02 - The birth of spiritual desire 09:50 - The different reasons people meditate 11:00 - What it means to be ‘on the path' 12:38 - An inquiry: why do you practice? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, we are sharing a clip from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply Meditation Mentor Certification Program. In this episode, Brandt's discussion covers how philosophical texts and personal practice work together, studying meditation philosophy, advice on approaching students' questions, how to deal with a student who is very restless and the intake process for new mentees. This episode is full of golden nuggets for anyone wanting to guide others through their personal evolution using meditation as a tool! Brandt facilitates live Q&A sessions for all members of our meditation certification program! Join us and begin your journey to becoming a certified Breathing Deeply Meditation Teacher: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Not ready to teach but want to deepen your personal practice with Brandt? Join our meditation community, free for 30 days! https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo Om Shanthi Timestamps podcast: 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - How much personal practice vs study of philosophical texts is needed as a meditation mentor? 04:25 - Will we ever fully understand all of the meditation philosophy? 04:54 - What should I do if I don't know the answer to a student's question? 08:53 - What feedback can I give a student who wants to move a lot during meditation? 13:28 - What is the intake process for meditation mentorship? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, Joe Simek, Breathing Deeply assistant teacher, sits down with Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua to talk about yoga therapy and mental health. With mental health, it is not a one size fits all approach. At Breathing Deeply, we teach our students how to create individualized practices that empower their clients to take their health into their own hands! Listen in as Brandt shares with us how yoga therapy's approach to mental health is different yet complementary to mainstream western medicine. Find out what the process is for assessing someone's mental health as a yoga therapist and developing specific yoga practices that work the best for an individual to help them reach their mental health goals. Each person lands at their mental state depending on their own personal journey and their specific imbalances, meaning with yoga therapy two people who are both suffering from anxiety may be given completely different practices. Brandt discusses the multiple assessment models taught at Breathing Deeply which are used to come up with an individualized practice that unfolds in relationship with each client. He then walks us through his process for assessing & curating a practice for a client with anxiety. Breathing Deeply's goal is to bring balance back to the entire system of all of our clients to lessen their suffering. Discover what sets Breathing Deeply from other yoga therapy schools! Om Shanthi This episode covers: The difference between yoga therapy's approach to mental health & the traditional standard of care given in western medicine What does the assessment of someone's mental health look like in yoga therapy? The difference between going to a yoga class for mental health benefits and seeing a yoga therapist The most important distinction between Breathing Deeply and other yoga therapy schools Seeing our yoga therapy clients as people, not conditions The models we use to teach our students to individualize yoga therapy practices for their clients The process for a new yoga therapy client who comes in with anxiety Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: bit.ly/2WX1HGc

The Manomaya kosha is the layer of our being that represents the intellect and the conscious mind. This is the level of our conscious thoughts. The Manomaya kosha is one of the most important koshas, because of the huge effect it has on us. Because the mind is so powerful, it can affect all the other 4 koshas dramatically. We can think of the Manomaya kosha as the pivotal centerpiece in the 5 kosha model. This is why, as yoga therapists, it is important to ensure the Manomaya kosha is healthy and balanced through specific practices. In this episode, Brandt shares the role the Manomaya Kosha plays in our mental and physical health and the two ways we work with the Manomaya Kosha as yoga therapists. Brandt then takes us on an exploration of chapter one of the yoga sutras and how we can apply the teachings in the yoga sutras to the Manomaya kosha personally and in a therapeutic context. This was a clip taken from inside the Manomaya Kosha Module of our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program. Our next class starts on the 16th of November 2023: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Om Shanthi This episode covers: The role the Manomaya kosha plays How we can take our health back in our hands The placebo effect & the power of the mind and disease The two ways we work with the Manomaya kosha The shame people feel around mental health Chapter one of The Yoga Sutras Chapter One: Higher Samadhi The yoga sutras from a therapeutic point of view Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's Q&A, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua sits down with his students to ask their yoga therapy questions. Brandt answers questions covering advice on how to work with teenagers struggling with body image issues, ways to approach hormone imbalances in women and dosha assessments in yoga therapy and our advanced program. This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share it with someone you think it may benefit! Our next Yoga Therapy Course starts on November 16 2023. Find out more information here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: How can I help a young client struggling with body image and mental health? How would you approach working with hormonal imbalances as a yoga therapist? Will I be able to assess someone based on their doshas after this course? Is doshic assessment covered in the advanced program? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Read the full transcript here. Is enlightenment the same as being happy all the time? Or being at peace all the time? Or something else? What is "fundamental wellbeing"? What are the "locations" within fundamental wellbeing? What is "persistent non-symbolic experience"? How effective is the Finders Course? Are control groups necessary when researching enlightenment?Jeffery Martin is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness (nonsymbolic.org) and a research professor and director of the Transformative Technology Lab (transtechlab.org). Prior to his current affiliation with Stanford University, he was Distinguished University Professor, William James Professor of Consciousness, and Dean of Research at Sofia University. He spent the last 15+ years conducting the largest international study on persistent non-symbolic experience (PNSE) — or as it's publicly known, Fundamental Wellbeing — which includes the types of consciousness commonly known as: persistent awakening, enlightenment, nonduality, the peace that passeth understanding, unitive experience, and hundreds of others. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited over 20 books and numerous other publications. Learn more about him at his website, drjefferymartin.com.Further reading:"Effects of Two Online Positive Psychology and Meditation Programs on Persistent Self-Transcendence" by Martin et al. [Read more]

When we achieve balance throughout all 5 of our koshas (physical, energetic, mental, intuitive and spiritual) we are put into union with our own nature. Very few people (even spiritual yogis) put in the effort in their daily practice to touch on regulating each of the 5 koshas. However, without a practice that incorporates radical balance of all aspects of our being, we may miss out on the alleviation of suffering, and obtaining a wider perspective and connection to our spiritual nature. When we find radical balance and maintain, life truly does become sweeter. In this episode, learn how you can achieve and maintain balance throughout all of the koshas, examples of how your practice can incorporate all of the koshas, our motivations for practising and also what it means to be a ‘householder' practitioner. Learn more about how to balance each kosha by watching this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotz2nKktM7X5R2Y8ohFQ6DzcWce2uOtX This episode was taken as an excerpt from our FREE 6-week course the Radically Balanced Yogi! Sign up to receive access to practices and techniques to balance each of the 5 koshas: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc This episode covers: Achieving radical balance Using the koshas as a map to radical balance Maintaining the balance of the koshas Examples of how to balance the koshas as part of a daily practice: 3 options 3 stages of our motivation to practice Practising as a household (not a monk) How these practices can help us manage duality Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

As a meditation teacher or mentor, we need to develop our own personal meditation practice in order to guide others with theirs. In this episode, learn about what a personal practice is, the two distinct aspects of a spiritual practice as well as the 3 part process to construct a meditation practice plus so much more! This was a clip taken from our Meditation Mentor Certification Program. Our next training begins soon, join the waitlist: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh This episode covers: The definition of personal practice The personal aspect of practice Karma & dharma The universal aspect of practice Combining the universal & personal The 3 parts of a meditation practice The commitment of a meditation teacher in this process Different paths to the same place in the yoga tradition Constructing a personal practice Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Prana is the infinite life-force energy that runs through us and is all around us. As yoga therapists, we primarily work with the breath (pranayama) and asana to influence the currents of prana through the system which can have therapeutic effects on many diseases, particularly emotional and mental imbalances. In this episode, learn about the pranamaya kosha, what prana is, our interpretation of the nadis and how yoga therapists use pranayama and other yogic practices to influence the pranic body to bring about healing to our clients. This was a clip taken from inside the Prana Module of our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program. Our next class starts on the 14th of September 2023: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc This episode covers: What is the pranayama kosha Prana & the nadis Ida, Pingala & Sushumna Nadis How to working on the pranic body with pranayama Regulating disease through the 5 pranas The Bhandas Breath isn't the only way to influence prana The benefits of pranayama in yoga therapy Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's Q&A, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua sits down with his students to ask their yoga therapy questions. Brandt answers questions covering how to balance pitta in young men, applying yoga therapy principles to children, how to safely get into pigeon pose for various levels of flexibility, a basic protocol for working with osteoporosis and advice on how to approach clients with conditions you don't know about. This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share it with someone you think it may benefit! Our next Yoga Therapy Course starts on September 14th. Find out more information here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: Advice on what practices to give a 25-year-old male with pitta imbalance How can I apply yoga therapy to children What is a therapeutic way to cue Pigeon pose? What is the yoga therapy protocol for working with Osteoporosis? How do I approach conditions I don't know much about? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this episode, Brandt dives deep into an exploration of the Vijnanamaya kosha, also known as our intuition body or our unconscious mind. Learn what the Vijnanamaya kosha is and how it may look or feel for you when it is imbalanced. Discover the four stages or goals of meditation and how meditation works to balance the Vijnanamaya kosha. We look at the Vijnanamaya kosha through the lens of the three doshas and offer three meditation practices to bring balance to the Vijnanamaya kosha. This episode was taken as an excerpt from our FREE 6-week course the Radically Balanced Yogi! Sign up to receive access to the 3 meditations mentioned in this video along with in-depth information on how to balance all of your other koshas: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc Are you interested in deepening your meditation practice with us? *Join our meditation community (30-day free trial): https://breathingdeeply.com/courses/meditation/ *Register for our waitlist for our meditation mentor certification program: https://breathingdeeply.com/courses/meditation/mentor-certification/ This episode covers: The Vijnanamaya Kosha & signs it is balanced Practices to balance the Vijnanamaya kosha with meditation The four stages of meditation Imbalances in each dosha in the Vijnanamaya kosha Breath meditation for Vata & Pitta Imbalance Meditation on thoughts for vata & kapha imbalance Japa meditation for pitta & kapha imbalance Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, we are sharing a clip from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply Meditation Mentor Certification Program. In this episode, Brandt's discussion covers how to guide people when teaching yoga philosophy, desire and non-duality, whether non-dual philosophy can help people suffering from addiction and what the different goals of our practice may be. Brandt facilitates live Q&A sessions for all members of our meditation certification program! Join us and begin your journey to becoming a certified Breathing Deeply Meditation Teacher: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Not ready to teach but want to deepen your personal practice with Brandt? Join our meditation community, free for 30 days! https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo Om Shanthi This episode covers: How do you guide people on dual vs non-dual yoga philosophy as a meditation mentor? How can I reconcile desire with the non-dualistic point of view? Is the philosophy of the Spanda Karika helpful for addiction? Is it better to study one yoga text at a time or study different philosophies together? What is the goal of practice if it isn't enlightenment? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Working with the pranic body through pranayama can often have really amazing results for yoga therapy clients. Whether is it yoga therapy for mental health or yoga therapy for chronic pain or any other imbalance in the doshas. In this episode, learn about the different doshic imbalances that can be addressed through pranayama as well as the art of balancing the doshas. We also cover 2 case studies for the successful treatment of health conditions using pranayama therapeutically. This episode covers: Why pranayama is so powerful Vata imbalances Pitta Imbalances Kapha Imbalances The art of balancing the doshas Pranayama for physical conditions Therapeutic pranayama case studies Breathing Deeply is an Online Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Programs and Certifications and IAYT accredited Advanced Yoga Therapy Programs. We also offer a Meditation Mentor Certification a meditation program and a specialised holistic weight loss yoga therapy program. On this podcast, we share information about yoga therapy, and online yoga therapy training and we answer our yoga therapy and meditation student's questions with the intention of creating a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this Q&A Brandt covers yoga therapy for hip replacements, the koshic framework, the differences between acupuncture and yoga therapy, how chronic pain influences neural pathways, how yoga therapists work with mental health and using asana to balance the doshas. We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share it with someone you think it may benefit! Our next Yoga Therapy class starts on June 30th. Find out more information here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: How can yoga therapy help someone who just had a hip replacement? Can you have an imbalance in more than one kosha at the same time? The benefit of using a framework like the koshas in yoga therapy Are the koshas in opposition to any other framework? Acupuncture vs yoga therapy Where did yoga therapy come from? A discussion about evidence-based studies in yoga therapy vs Western medicine How chronic pain works in the brain How do yoga therapists work with mental health? Where can I go to get a deeper understanding of the doshas for Asana? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

The Anandamaya kosha is the part of ourselves that is pure bliss. In this episode, we explore the Anandamaya kasha or Bliss body, which is the innermost kosha in the 5 kosha system we teach here at Breathing Deeply. Learn more about the Anandamaya Kosha and tools to balance this layer of our being through devotion and ritual. Discover a devotional deity yoga practice to balance this kosha and learn why yoga nidra can also help us access the bliss body. This recording is an excerpt from our free 6-week course the Radically Balanced Yogi! Learn how to balance all other layers of yourself and receive the philosophy readings, poems and sutras to contemplate alongside the chanting practice, sign up now for free! https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc This episode covers; What is the Anandamaya Kosha/the Bliss Body Balancing this kosha with Bhakti/devotion & love Inner peace & connection and our birthright to access it Devotional practices for ananda maya Kosha Ritualising your practice & samadhi A deity practice for Anandamaya kosha Yoga Nidra for the Anadamaya kosha Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, we are sharing a clip from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply Meditation Mentor Certification Program. In this Q&A, Brandt's discussion focuses on the distinction between dualism and non-dualism is the context of the yoga tradition. He discusses whether we can do a spiritual practice wrong, the concept of dualism vs non-dualism, the purpose of the namas and niyamas and ethics from a non-dual perspective. Brandt facilitates live Q&A sessions for all members of our meditation certification program! Join us and begin your journey to becoming a certified Breathing Deeply Meditation Teacher: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Not ready to teach but want to deepen your personal practice with Brandt? Join our meditation community, free for 30 days! https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo Om Shanthi This episode covers: Is it okay to listen to a mantra instead of reciting it myself? Dualism vs Non-dualism The Namas and Niyamas in the yoga sutras vs non-dual yoga traditions The journey from the dual teachings to the non-dual teachings in yoga Ethics in non-dual yoga traditions Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Yoga Therapy Programs: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc Meditation Mentor Certification Program: https://bit.ly/3YqrqAh Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Pain is something that many of us have to learn how to work with effectively as yoga therapists! Most of our clients will struggle with some sort of physical pain! In this video, Brandt outlines the type of pain that we work with as yoga therapists, the difference between muscle and nerve pain and also the system and methods we can use to help our clients find remedies for their chronic pain. This video is a clip taken from ‘The Physical Body' module inside our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program. To dive even deeper into this subject and many, many more alongside expert mentorship with Brandt so that you can start helping people heal from specific health conditions through the power of yoga, consider enrolling for our next intake. The next class starts on April 25th, 2023. For more information & to begin the enrolment process, click here: https://breathingdeeply.com/yoga-therapy/foundations-details/ *a minimum of a 200 hour yoga teacher training is a prerequisite to take this course. This episode covers: Working with someone in physical pain Acute pain vs chronic pain Muscle tears & spasms Nerve pain How yoga therapists work with nerve pain The medical model vs the yoga therapy model for pain Realignment through regular asana The remedy for pain Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. In today's Q&A, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua sits down with his students to ask their yoga therapy questions. The floor is open to all kinds of questions! They can relate to their personal practice, the yoga therapy foundations program, their course practicum, clients and more. In this Q&A Brandt offers advice on identifying & working with doshic imbalances, helping clients evaluate their results accurately, recommendations for coping with anxiety attacks and tips on working with neuromas. This Q&A ends with an interesting discussion on the science of nutrition and diseases such as cancer and diabetes. We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share it with someone you think it may benefit! Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: How to assess imbalances in the pitta dosha What if my client's mental health problems aren't fixed in a month Do you have recommendations for someone having a panic attack How do I know when to change the practices I've given a client? What would be your recommendations for helping someone with Neuromas (painful benign small tumors between the toes)? A discussion on the science of nutrition & disease A discussion on oils and our health Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Today we're going to be looking at the mental body. This is the conscious and, also known as the Manomaya kosha in the koshic model that we work with at Breathing Deeply. This is one of the more important layers of our being as the way we think makes up so much of how we think about ourselves and has a big impact on our everyday life. This is also the kosha we use to perceive our experiences and therefore having a balanced conscious mind is extremely important in terms of living a full life. In this episode,, Brandt shares two ways we can feed the conscious mind to bring it into balance and peace and how we can use these ways to balance the mind as a practice. You will also learn a simple grounding chanting practice that will condition the mind to turn inwards and find deep balance. This episode was taken as an excerpt from our free 6-week course the Radically Balanced Yogi! Learn how to balance all other layers of yourself and receive the philosophy readings, poems and sutras to contemplate alongside the chanting practice, sign up now for free! https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc To learn about radical balance in the other aspects of the body, check out this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotz2nKktM7X5R2Y8ohFQ6DzcWce2uOtX This episode covers: What is the Manomaya kosha and how it works Jnana yoga and the yoga sutras How to feed the conscious mind Philosophy and poetry Chanting Grounding chanting practice - Om Aim Hreem Kreem Namaha Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this interview, Breathing Deeply Director & Lead Teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with Melissa Russell who is one of our advanced program graduates and a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist to talk about Yoga therapy for depression. In this conversation, Melissa shares how she helped a client with depression by using the tools and techniques she learned inside the Breathing Deeply Advanced Yoga Therapy Program. This episode covers: Background info on Melissa's client What practices Melissa gave her client with depression The results Melissa's client received after working with her Melissa's experience in the Advanced Yoga Therapy program Connect with Melissa: Website: evolveyogatherapystudio.com Are you ready to begin your yoga therapy studies, deepen your own practice and begin a pathway to start helping others with their mental health? Our next intake for our advanced and foundations yoga therapy programs begin on April 25th 2023. Find out more here: https://breathingdeeply.com/yoga-therapy/ Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this episode, Joe Simek, Breathing Deeply teacher, sits down with Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua to talk about meditation in the context of yoga therapy. In this episode, you'll learn how yoga therapists can use meditation as a tool for therapy with their clients. This conversation covers the difference between meditation in the context of yoga therapy and learning from a meditation teacher or lineage, research into the healing powers of meditation, different types of meditation techniques yoga therapists use and what conditions meditation is effective at treating. Grab a hot drink or a snack and sit back to enjoy this super interesting conversation with Brandt and Joe! This episode covers: How is a yoga therapist who uses meditation different from a meditation teacher? How do yoga therapists prove that meditation can help with chronic pain? How do yoga therapists assess what meditation techniques to prescribe? What conditions can meditation really help with? How you can meditate with Breathing Deeply How to learn meditation with Breathing Deeply: Inside the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy school, we will teach you all of these meditation techniques mentioned during this video inside our Yoga Therapy Foundations & Advanced Programs. Our next class starts on April 25 2023 - for more information and to begin the application process click here: https://breathingdeeply.com/yoga-therapy/ We also have a Meditation Teacher Training now available for enrolment. This training is more like learning from a lineage that also includes a module on meditations for health conditions. Our first certification commences on March 22nd 2023! Click here for more information & to enrol: https://breathingdeeply.com/courses/meditation/mentor-certification/ If you just want to dip your toes into meditation and join a thriving community that's all about meditation, we have our meditation program which consists of our meditation course, live Q&As and virtual retreats with Brandt for just $29.99 per month (your first month is free!). Sign up here: https://breathingdeeply.com/courses/meditation). Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, we are sharing a clip from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply meditation program. Brandt discusses the practice of becoming aware of our central channel and how a practice like this can help us understand the limitless nature of our desires. Brandt discusses the ego desires, vs our actual desires from the perspective of classical tantra. Tune in to learn about the problem with gripping onto certain desires such as money or relationships and how through practice we can learn to expand beyond the limitations of the ego. Brandt facilitates weekly live Q&A sessions for all members of our meditation program. Our meditation program offers a direct pathway to help you implement a regular meditation practice to find more tranquility and expanded states of awareness in your everyday life with the guidance of Brandt as your teacher. To learn more and to start your free 30-day trial, click here: https://bit.ly/3yllE71 Om Shanthi Find Brandt's central channel guided meditation on Insight Timer here: https://insighttimer.com/brandtpassalacqua This episode covers: What is the central channel? The benefits of being aware of the Sushumna The ego & our desires Practicing expanding from our ego's desires from a Tantrik perspective & a traditional yogic perspective The problem with gripping onto our desires Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

The Vijnanamaya Kosha, the wisdom body or the kosha of discrimination. It is the layer of our consciousness that sits underneath the conscious mind. It is often associated with intuition because the wisdom we are receiving comes from the universal. In this episode, learn what the symptoms of an imbalanced Vijnanamaya Kosha are, what it looks and feels like to have a balanced Vijnanamaya Kosha and how we can balance this kosha with meditation, specifically Patajanli's meditation method. Brandt then finishes by discussing how yoga therapists can approach teaching meditation to their clients. This episode is a clip taken from the ‘Intuitive Mind' module inside our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program. To dive even deeper into this subject and many, many more alongside expert mentorship with Brandt so that you can start helping people heal from specific health conditions through the power of yoga, consider enrolling for our next intake. Next class starts February 16th 2023. For more information & to begin the enrolment process, click here: https://breathingdeeply.com/yoga-therapy/foundations-details/ *a minimum of 200-hours of yoga teacher training is a prerequisite to taking this course. This episode covers: The Vijnanamaya Kosha Imbalances in the Vijnanamaya Kosha Meditation for balancing Vijnanamaya Kosha Patanjali's method for meditation Different meditation techniques we can teach as yoga therapists What does it look like when this kosha is balanced? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. In today's Q&A, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with his students to ask their yoga therapy questions. The floor is open for all kinds of questions! They can relate to their personal practice, the yoga therapy foundations program, their course practicum, clients and more. In this Q&A Brandt offers advice on how to approach parents when working with their children as a yoga therapist, the best way to help heal neuropathy and how to work with an elderly person with PTSD in a trauma-informed way. We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share it with someone you think it may benefit! Ready to train to become a yoga therapist and get in on these intimate Q&As with Brandt, where all of your yoga and yoga therapy questions are answered? Apply for our next yoga therapy class starting on February 16, 2023. https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: How can I approach issues at home when working with children in yoga therapy for mental health? What are some tips to help a client struggling with Neuropathy & a loss of balance? How can I ethically use language when working with an elderly client with PTSD? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Prana is the life force that animates everything. This includes everything external to us and everything within ourselves. It is infinite and it's all about flow throughout the body. Since prana is infinite and it's everywhere, we don't need to generate more of it, we just need to let it flow through our energetic and physical system. Breath is one way we interact with prana outside our body and depending on how we breathe we can change the way prana moves in, out, and around our own body. There are specific pranayama exercises that one can practice to influence the way that prana moves through our system in different ways. It is through these breathing practices that we can balance energies in our system which may have become out of balance. Listen to this episode to learn about the pranic body, pranayama and three specific practices to balance and sensitize us to each of the three doshas: Vata, pitta and kapha. This episode was taken as an excerpt from our free 6-week course the Radically Balanced Yogi! To receive the specific pranayama practices for each dosa from Brandt as mentioned in the video, sign up now for free! https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc Inside the Radically Balanced Yogi, we dive deep into finding balance in all aspects of the self! To learn about radical balance in the physical body through asana, check out episode 41 “How To Balance The Doshas In The Physical Body”. This episode covers: What is prana? The nadis & kundalini energy Breath regulation and the mastery of pranayama Pranayama for kapha Pranayama for pitta Pranayama for vata How to use the three pranayamas for the doshas Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Today, Brandt is talking all about the 5 pranas, also known as the Prana Vayus. Each of the 5 pranas moves in a different direction, is primarily located in different areas in or around the physical body, and is inherently linked to the breath. It's important to have a strong connection to the 5 pranas when we work with prana or the breath. Following these energetic currents is a practice in itself that can bring us great insight into the nature of our relationship with the outer pranic world, which is the same as the inner pranic world. Brandt shares important information about what each of the 5 pranas is, how they move with the breath, what each prana governs, and what their uses are in the context of the energetic and physical body and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy. Brandt will then guide you through a quick breathing practice which will take you through all 5 pranas. This will help you start to cultivate an awareness of the pranas and increase your sensitivity to the different energetic currents moving through your system. This podcast is a clip taken from the ‘Pranic Body' module inside our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program. To dive even deeper into this subject and many, many more alongside expert mentorship with Brandt so that you can start helping people heal from specific health conditions through the power of yoga, consider enrolling for our next intake. The next class starts on February 16th, 2023. For more information & to begin the enrolment process, click here: https://breathingdeeply.com/yoga-therapy/foundations-details/ This episode covers: Introduction to the 5 pranas Adya prana (also known as just prana) Samana prana Udana Prana Apana Prana Vyana Prana How to consciously manipulate and work with the pranas therapeutically Breathing Exercise for the 5 pranas How cultivating awareness of the 5 pranas can make us better healers Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this episode, Breathing Deeply Founder, Brandt Passalacqua is sharing information about our 2 inner koshas - the Vijnanamaya kosha (our unconscious mind) and the Anandamaya kosha (our spirit body or bliss body) in the context of yoga therapy. We have 5 koshas in total which represent the different layers of our being from our physical (outermost layer) body to our spiritual body (innermost layer). In this episode, learn about the importance of the innermost koshas for working with clients and in particular mental health clients as a yoga therapist. This episode covers: Overview of the 5 koshas The koshas and yoga therapy for mental health The Vijnanamaya kosha & samskaras The Anandamaya kosha and contentment Contacting Anadamaya kosha through ritual Contacting the Anandamaya kosha through connection Working with the inner koshas is where yoga therapists shine ——— Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

In today's episode, we are sharing clips from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply meditation program. Topics covered in this Q&A include the power of simple daily practices, how to read spiritual texts properly, getting to the root of our desire for humanity for change and how we can do the work to contribute to global enlightenment by working through our samskaras. Use the timestamps below to navigate through this Q&A to a particular topic. We'd love to know how you found this conversation! Share your thoughts with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Brandt facilitates weekly live Q&A sessions for all members of our meditation program. Our meditation program offers a direct pathway to help you implement a regular meditation practice to find more tranquility and expanded states of awareness in your everyday life with the guidance of Brandt as your teacher. To learn more and to start your free 30-day trial, click here: https://bit.ly/3yllE71 Om Shanthi This episode covers: The Simplicity of Spiritual Practice The art of reading spiritual texts Getting to the root of our desire for a change in humanity Doing the ‘work' to contribute to global enlightenment What are samskaras? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's Q&A, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with his students to ask their yoga therapy questions. The floor is open for all kinds of questions! They can relate to their personal practice, the yoga therapy foundations program, their course practicum, clients and more. In this Q&A Brandt offers advice for overcoming anxiety after practicing a specific meditation designed to help release Samskaras, using yoga therapy workshops as a marketing strategy and dealing with imposter syndrome. Brandt finishes up the Q&A with a discussion on enlightenment from the Yoga Sutras and why there isn't that much neuroscience in the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy curriculum. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share it with someone you think it may benefit! If you're interested in our meditation course mentioned during the Q&A and learning more about the Samskara Release Meditation, start your 30-day free trial here: https://breathingdeeply.com/courses/meditation/ Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: Advice for overcoming anxiety with the Samskara Release Meditation Marketing strategy tips for running mental health yoga therapy workshops Advice for dealing with imposter syndrome as a yoga therapist Is a habit change workshop a good idea? The yoga sutras on enlightenment Why isn't there more neuroscience in the yoga therapy course? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, Brandt Passalacqua, Breathing Deeply Founder & lead teacher for our meditation program, sits down to share his thoughts on accessing witness consciousness versus accessing higher states during our meditation practice. Brandt covers the benefits and limitations of each type of practice and why as meditators it is important to practice both. Brandt then guides us through a 10-minute meditation for witness consciousness and higher states, allowing you to practice both ways of meditating. Are you ready to go even deeper into your meditation practice? Our meditation offers a straightforward approach to the divine, with practical meditation teachings in our course, weekly Q&As, and a thriving online community of meditators. Join us now! Your first month is free. https://bit.ly/3Ar6xJy Om Shanthi This episode covers: Witness consciousness from Vedanta Bring in higher states of consciousness Putting witness consciousness & higher states together The two sides to a spiritual practice Witness consciousness & higher states guided meditation Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

This week we are sharing a podcast episode on how to find radical balance in the physical body by balancing the three doshas with yoga asana. In this episode, Brandt covers what role asana plays in our yoga practice and why it is important to find balance in the body through the lens of the doshas. Brandt then covers each dosha individually and what types of yoga asana practices you can do for each dosha, to bring it back into balance. When the dosas are balanced in the physical body we can experience what it is like to have the pranayama moving correctly in the body, increased clarity and insight and the love and juice of life! This episode was taken as an excerpt from our free 6-week course the Radically Balanced Yogi! To receive the specific asana sequences for each dosa from Brandt as mentioned in the video, sign up now for free! https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc Inside the Radically Balanced Yogi we dive deep into finding balance in all aspects of the self! This episode covers: What is asana and what role does it play in our practice? Balancing the doshas and the physical body How to balance vata in the physical body How to balance pitta in the physical body How to balance kapha in the physical body How to work with these practices Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this episode, Brandt shares the basics of yoga anatomy through the lens of a yoga therapist. By the end of this episode you will have a basic understanding of the anatomy of muscles, fascia, nerves and the spine. Brandt also covers how the energetic body and physical body are intricately tied, the way yoga therapists look at the body holistically and why training yoga therapists only need a basic understanding of anatomy. We hope you enjoyed this video! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways or questions about anatomy. This episode is an excerpt from the course content from our Yoga Therapy Foundations program. Are you ready to study to become a yoga therapist and learn highly effective yogic tools for the breath to help people heal and suffer less? Our next class starts on the 27th of September. For more information and to apply, click here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK This episode covers: How much yoga anatomy knowledge do you need? Anatomy of muscles Anatomy of fascia & how to reshape it Working with muscles & fascia as a yoga therapist How the physical body is tied to the energetic body Anatomy of nerves & the spine Why it's not necessary to memorize anatomy Thinking of the body holistically Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this episode, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with his students to ask their burning yoga therapy questions. The floor is open for all kinds of questions! They can relate to their personal practice, the yoga therapy foundations program, their course practicum, clients and so on. This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. In this Q&A Brandt gives advice on how to charge daily rates to work at conferences, fibromyalgia and how it relates to cold sensitivity, how to approach working with a challenging client with a history of trauma and how karmic principles in relation to being a yoga therapist. We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share it with someone you think it may benefit! Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: How to charge corporate clients for yoga and yoga therapy services Is cold sensitivity related to fibromyalgia Working with a challenging trauma client Karmic patterning as a yoga therapist Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS

In this episode, Being at Peace with food instructor, Joe Simek and Breathing Deeply founder, Brandt Passalaquca are sitting down to talk about eating habits and difficult behaviors with yoga therapy clients whose goal is to lose weight. As we go through the yoga therapy process with our clients we help them in many different ways with yoga practices, increased awareness and improved lifestyles. There are specific things that tend to come up a lot as pain points with our yoga therapy for weight loss clients. Today we are diving into some specific hurdles and difficult behaviors that people need to move past in order to live a healthy and fulfilling life. This audio has been taken from our Being at Peace with Food program and offers a snapshot of what you will learn inside the program. Being at Peace with food is a specialized yoga therapy program for holistic weight loss, rooted in yoga. If you are a yoga teacher or therapist, mental health professional, integrative medicine practitioner, or work with clients in health and wellness, this training is for you! Being At Peace With Food is a 30-hour self-paced online training that is designed to take approximately 6 months to complete. For more information & to apply click here: https://bit.ly/3AwonLr This episode covers: Eating in the middle of the night Eating while watching TV Rewarding ourselves with food after reaching a goal Emotional eating Going on vacation Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, we are sharing clips from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply meditation program. Topics covered in this Q&A include finding serenity in the mind, coping with anxious thoughts through yoga and meditation, the way good and evil are understood through a yogic lens, how our disconnection from nature is numbing us out and how we can understand our desires in order to feel freedom and love. We'd love to know how you found this conversation! Share your thoughts with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Brandt facilitates weekly live Q&A sessions for all members of our meditation program. Our meditation program offers a direct pathway to help you implement a regular meditation practice to find more tranquility and expanded states of awareness in your everyday life with the guidance of Brandt as your teacher. To learn more and to start your free 30-day trial, click here: https://bit.ly/3yllE71 Om Shanthi This episode covers: Using water as an analogy for finding serenity in our mind & the Tao Should we meditate when we're sick? What is the difference between blocking out anxious thoughts and panning out to have an expanded awareness of those thoughts? The notion of good and evil in yoga & Buddhist philosophy Having a shift in consciousness & our disconnection from nature Understanding the nature of desire from Tantra Freedom vs love in yogic teachings Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Did you know yoga therapy can help ease tinnitus? Well, it most certainly can! Today, Breathing Deeply founder, Brandt Passalacqua is sitting down with Marta Gil, a graduate of the Breathing Deeply Advanced Yoga Therapy program and an IAYT accredited yoga therapist. In this episode, Marta is sharing a client she worked with inside the practicum who suffered from tinnitus which is a persistent ringing in the ears. For those who suffer from tinnitus, it can be very irritating and distracting to their daily life and can interfere with your hearing in your environment. This can bring on a lot of stress and anxiety for those who are suffering which can lead to a loss of quality of life and increase risks for other health conditions. In this episode, discover the practices that Marta prescribed to her client for tinnitus and the incredible results that her client received after seeing Marta just 3 times and practicing yoga herself for 6 weeks. Are you ready to start your yoga therapy journey and help others improve their health and quality of life just like Marta? Our next class starts on September 29. Apply for our next in-take now! Om Shanthi This episode covers: Information about the client & their condition The chronic pain approach Marta took with tinnitus Yoga practices for tinnitus The results of yoga therapy on the tinnitus What Marta loved the most about studying with Brandt & the Breathing Deeply community Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this episode, Brandt covers chanting and the chakras through the lens of the manomaya kosha (the mind). This is another way to educate the mind as we do with yoga philosophy. We can chant with the chakras to bring balance to the manomaya kosha. If you look at the charka model, we could say that if our minds aren't properly connected, disharmony and disease result. One doesn't have to do chakra work & chanting to have a harmonious system, it is simply another way to work with disharmony and disease. This is why we work with the chakra system in yoga therapy. During this episode, Brandt covers the purpose of chanting with the chakras, the basics of the energy body & what the chakras are, and the benefits of harmonizing the chakras. Brandt also goes over each of the 7 chakras individually, covering their function, seed sound, and how to visualize them. Find Brandt's chakra balancing meditation over on Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/brandtpassalacqua/guided-meditations/chakra-balancing-mantra-meditation This episode is a clip that has been taken directly from our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program. If you join, not only will you receive the full training to become a yoga therapist but you will also receive live access to Brandt for weekly Q&As where you can ask him any questions you may have about yoga therapy and starting a yoga therapy business! Are you ready to start your journey to becoming a yoga therapist? For more information and to apply for our next intake, click here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK Om Shanthi This episode covers: The purpose of chanting The chakra model When chakras are imbalanced What the chakras are in general How to visualize each chakra The seed bija mantra for each chakra What each chakra relates to What happens if each chakra is in or out of balance Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. In today's Q&A, Breathing Deepl founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with his students to ask their burning yoga therapy questions. The floor is open for all kinds of questions! They can relate to their personal practice, the yoga therapy foundations program, their course practicum, clients, and so on. In this Q&A Brandt covers why the Breathing Deeply Program doesn't cover the 5 prana Vayu practices in great detail, the benefits of pranayama and when it may not be needed energetically, and how we can use yoga therapy techniques to lower our blood pressure and maybe even get off medication. Brandt shares his personal story about healing his high blood pressure as well! Brandt also answers questions about muscle testing during client intakes to pinpoint weaknesses and how this is more challenging to teach online. Brandt also dives into the somewhat controversial topic in yoga therapy of strengthening over stretching and why you may not need to actually do any stretching in your practice at all! We hope you enjoy this Q&A. Let us know in the comments any key takeaways you had and share them with someone you think it may benefit! Om Shanthi, Om Peace This episode covers: Why don't we use the 5 pranas much in yoga therapy? Can I use my breath to ease hyperawareness during my practice? How can I use yoga therapy techniques to lower blood pressure? What are some tips for learning how to muscle test? What are some tips for doing muscle testing virtually? Why do we focus more on strengthening over stretching in yoga therapy? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Today, Breathing Deeply founder & lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua is sitting down with Tiffany Johnson, a CAYT accredited yoga therapist and a graduate of the Breathy Deeply Advanced Yoga Therapy Program to talk about Yoga Therapy & Complex PTSD. Tiffany is going to speak about a client she worked with as part of the Advanced Program Practicum. Tiffany used the tools & models of yoga therapy that she learned inside the Breathing Deeply program to help her client struggling with complex PTSD and anxiety. If you are interested in helping people struggling with PTSD and other mental health issues and are curious to know how yoga therapy can work as a healing modality then this podcast episode is for you! In this episode Tiffany covers: Some information about her client and why they were seeking yoga therapy Information about what complex PTSD is and how it affected her client Things to be aware of and establish when working with PTSD & trauma The types of yoga therapy practices Tiffany offered her client The benefits and results her client received after practicing the yoga therapy tools prescribed How she utilized the Breathing Deeply program & practicum to help her client Are you ready to dive into our upcoming yoga therapy program and start creating a new paradigm in wellness with us? Apply now: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK The next class starts on June 16th, 2022! Connect with Tiffany! Website: https://www.bluecatyogatherapy.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlueCatYogaTherapy Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's episode, we are sharing clips from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply meditation program. During this Q&A Brandt covers what it means if we aren't having ‘experiences' during meditation, whether the effects of meditation happen even after we've stopped actively meditating, how to discern our role as a ‘teacher' with our friends and other people we know and also how we can embody forgiveness and letting go of the fear of death through pranic practices. Brandt touches on why overcoming the fear of death is an important piece of our practice, our dharma and life path and the power of panic practices over cognitive practices. You will also learn about some of the powerful pranic practices inside our meditation program. We'd love to know how you found this conversation! Share your thoughts with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Brandt facilitates weekly live Q&A sessions for all members of our meditation program. Our meditation program offers a direct pathway to help you implement a regular meditation practice to find more tranquillity and expanded states awareness in your everyday life with the guidance of Brandt as your teacher. To learn more and to start your free 30-day trial, click here: https://bit.ly/3yllE71 Om Shanthi This episode covers: Am I evolving in my practice even if I am not having experiences during meditation? Do the effects of a meditation practice work when we aren't sitting or engaged in a meditation technique? How can we discern the limit of our role as a teacher/educator with the people in our lives? How can we embody forgiveness and do the work to forgive people? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

​​In today's episode, Breathing Deeply teacher, Joe Simek, sits down with our co-founder Brandt Passalaqua to tap into his expertise around weight loss, obesity and eating disorders. Brandt has seen many people change their lives through weight loss after working with him and become much happier and healthier. Taking people on a weight loss journey helps them to realize who they are and live happier and more productive lives. Discover Brandt's journey to becoming a yoga therapist who specializes in weight loss and creating Being at Peace with Food, a specialized yoga therapy training for weight loss. The work we do with weight loss is different from a conventional weight loss program which is purely focused on weight loss. Our goal is to have people become more present, regulated and aware of their situation and be empowered to make the right choices for themselves. This episode covers the following questions: How do we know who is a good candidate for the work we teach inside Being at Peace with Food? What should we consider when looking to take on clients with severe obesity? What should we consider before taking on a client who is suffering from an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia? Brandt covers what is within the scope of our practice as yoga therapists and what kind of person struggling with their weight is a good candidate to work with. He also goes over in-depth in what instances a yoga therapist can safely take on a client who is suffering from an eating disorder such as bulimia and anorexia. Discover the most important things you need to know about these conditions and in what cases you are in a position to really help them with the tools of yoga! This clip has been taken directly from our program, Being at Peace with Food! Being At Peace with Food is a specialized yoga therapy training that takes a holistic approach to weight loss rooted in yoga. If you are a yoga teacher or therapist, mental health professional, integrative medicine practitioner, or work with clients in health and wellness, this training is for you! Our next class starts on May 17th, 2022. For more information and to apply click here: https://breathingdeeply.com/being-at-peace-with-food/ Om Shanti Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. Many of our students who join us come from a background of years of yoga asana practice. When they start training with us, they learn a completely new set of tools, techniques, and models to help them refine and change their personal practice. This often leads to many of our students making big changes to the way they practice and teach their yoga classes as they go on this journey to become yoga therapists. This can have a profound impact on their life. Brandt is always there for his students to guide them through what they are encountering not only as a training yoga therapist but also in their own personal practice. In today's Q&A Brandt discusses using a personal practice to overcome personal struggles and using contemplation to see them through a new lens. He also covers the issue of not being able to sit in sukhasana (seated cross leg position) for extended periods of time, why this is okay, and some alternatives. Other topics covered include creating safe sequences that help strengthen muscles and why stretching feels so good, the question of whether to work with someone who has a substance addiction and has relapsed as well as a discussion around ratio breathing and the purpose of extending exhales versus inhales in the context of yoga therapy. We hope you enjoyed this episode! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways that you have. This episode covers: How can I move through family struggles with contemplation as a practice? What are alternatives to sukhasana (easy pose) for long periods of time? How can I structure an asana sequence to strengthen muscle groups in a safe & balanced way? How should I go about working with someone with an addiction who has relapsed? Why do we focus on the exhalation in certain postures? What is a balanced breath ratio count? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 29 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! As a yoga therapy school, we get asked questions about running a yoga therapy business all the time. Breathing Deeply director and lead teacher Brandt Passalacqua has been running his own successful yoga therapy private practice alongside the school for many years and so can share a lot of advice and information with students about how to start a yoga therapy practice when you finish your training! Inside this episode, Brandt covers the basics such as how to set up your practice space and all of the little details you need to think about to ensure all of your clients feel safe and taken care of. Brandt also shares advice on how to find your first workplace to rent which can be a challenging first step for new yoga therapists! Pricing, different pricing models and how to find the right rate to charge is also covered along with an ethical sales process that Brandt recommends for all yoga therapists to do when trying to onboard new clients. This episode is full of invaluable information that Brandt shares from his own personal experience and is relevant to anyone who is studying to become a yoga therapist or is thinking about becoming one in the future! This episode is a clip that has been taken directly from our Yoga. Therapy Foundations Program. If you join, not only will you receive the full training to become a yoga therapist but you will also receive live access to Brandt for Q&As where you can ask him any questions you may have about yoga therapy and starting a yoga therapy business! Are you ready to start your journey to becoming a yoga therapist? For more information and to apply, click here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK We have new intakes starting every few months. The next intake starts April 12 2022! This episode covers: The basics of a yoga therapy business Finding a workspace as a new yoga therapist Insurance for yoga therapists How to price your yoga therapy sessions An ethical sales process for yoga therapists Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Lida Husik is a graduate of our Breathing Deeply advanced program. In this episode, Brandt Passalaqua sits down to talk with Lida about working with a client with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a case study during her practicum. Lisa has been working with this particular client, who has ASD and also suffers from severe depression, for over a year. Since they have been working together he has seen a vast improvement in his physical flexibility and strength as well as his verbal communication and tics, social and community engagement and how he is now starting to find himself! Listen in to learn about how Lida works as a yoga therapist with ASD and more about the work we do here at Breathing Deeply. During this episode we cover: An overview of Lida's client and how she started working with them The practices offered to them for autism How the yoga therapy sessions were structured Why it is easier working in the context of the koshas over doshas with ASD Lida's client's personal experience of practicing yoga with her The progress that Lida's client made physically as well as mentally and emotionally Visit Lida's website here: https://www.abendintheriveryogatherapy.com/ Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this episode, Joe Simek, our lead teacher for our 200-hour teacher training, will guide you through the full timeline of yoga history. There is a lot of information that one could present when talking about this topic so this is going to be a brief yet comprehensive introduction as we dig into the various time periods of yoga. To study the history of yoga is to study the philosophy of yoga. There are 5 major time periods that we cover in this episode: Vedic Preclassical Classical period The tantric age (post-classical) Modern yoga For each section, Joe gives a brief introduction and the main philosophical takeaways for each of the eras in yoga history. What we've come to know in the west as ‘yoga', these exercise classes that have risen in popularity in the last 20-30 years, is a drop in the bucket of the history and knowledge of yoga. Hopefully, this acts as an introduction and charts you on your own course of discovery. This video has been taken directly from our 200-hour therapeutic yoga teacher training. Are you ready to start your journey to becoming a yoga teacher or yoga therapist? For more information and to find out when our next intake starts, click here: https://bit.ly/30Nvyma Om Shanthi Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 26 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. Many of our students come to yoga therapy from a more scientific and analytical background and therefore can struggle to wrap their heads around the more intangible aspects that we learn about in yoga therapy such as the koshas. In this Q&A Brandt goes over what is considered the more esoteric side of yoga such as the pranic body and how this relates to yoga therapy as well as some book recommendations to help students understand the spiritual roots of yoga. Brandt also gives advice on how to approach clients who have both trauma and obesity through the holistic and interconnected lens of yoga therapy. We hope you enjoyed this episode! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways that you have. This episode covers: How can I understand more about the esoteric side of yoga therapy such as the pranic body & the koshas? What are some books to help me understand the spiritual roots of yoga? How important is mental health for making healthy diet changes? How can I approach a client who has a trauma history and is also struggling with obesity? What are the protocols for working with clients who want to lose weight but are also suffering from other issues? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 25 of the Breathing Deeply podcast and our meditation sangha with Brandt! The aim of this meditation sangha is to meditate in a way that allows us to experience the love that is the nature of all things. This is our spiritual heart, the place where we connect to consciousness and love itself. Brandt firstly shares with us some words about love and the heart from the yoga tradition and how we can use meditation as a process to access our spiritual heart and come to a natural state of bliss and connection to all that is. Striving to reach this place of pure consciousness and bliss is a powerful way to help us keep our momentum up when it comes to our meditation practice! Brandt then guides us through a 40 minute meditation (starts at 8:35 mins) where we will be meditating on Om while visualizing a clear blue sky. Many traditions use this meditation technique and the reason for that is it creates space in the mind and it trains us to see the blue sky and helps us to push everything else to the side. The Oms help us to vibrate our consciousness into something more peaceful and clean. This talk and meditation were taken directly from our virtual retreat as part of our online meditation program. If you loved this video and are interested in joining our Meditation Program & attending our next live meditation retreat to meditate as a group where you will receive a new talk and be guided through three 40 minute meditations by Brandt, head to the link below to receive a free 30 day trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo Om Shanthi This episode covers: Talk about creating space & finding our heart Om meditation explanation Guided meditation (starts at 8:35 mins) Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 24 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In today's episode, Brandt shares with us the basics of the anatomy of the breath for yoga practitioners, teachers and therapists. There is so much information out there about the breath and the importance of breathing properly as well as how to influence the physical and pranic body with the breath which has been known and taught by yogis for centuries. In this episode, you will learn the basic concepts that we definitely need to know to be able to breathe effectively in a natural way and also during asana practice. Brandt discusses the physical anatomy of the body when we are breathing as well as how the natural breath differs from how we manipulate the breath consciously when practicing yoga. Learn how to most effectively use the inhale and the exhale when practicing yoga as well as the most common problems we see with people's breath such as reverse breathing and chest breathing. We hope you enjoyed this episode! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways or questions about the breath and yoga therapy.. This episode is an excerpt from the course content from our Yoga Therapy Foundations program. Are you ready to study to become a yoga therapist and learn highly effective yogic tools for the breath to help people heal and suffer less? Our next class starts on the 15th of February. For more information and to apply, click here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK This episode covers: The breath in the yoga sutras What goes on in the body when we breathe? What is free breathing vs pranayama? How to use the breath for asana Common problems with breathing Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 23 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In today's episode, Breathing Deeply Meditation Program Coordinator, Sara Bowman sits down with Brandt for an interview about meditation and how meditation can help us understand our life path and ourselves better and make decisions that are in line with who we really are. “One of the great gifts of meditating is being more sensitive to ourselves and more intuitive in terms of knowing what's important to us and being open and clear enough to follow that advice from ourselves.” Brandt covers questions around how long we should meditate for to start seeing effects, why it's not a one-fits-all approach as well as how meditation can increase our intuitive abilities when it comes to listening to our own guidance and how this can support us in making big life decisions and creating better habits. We hope you enjoyed this episode! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways or questions about becoming a meditator. If you'd like to meditate with us, you can! Sign up for a free 30-day trial of our meditation program here: https://bit.ly/3Ar6xJy Meditate with us for free on Insight Timer here: https://insighttimer.com/brandtpassalacqua Om Shanthi This episode covers the following questions: Is it worth starting a meditation practice even if I don't have much time to meditate? How long do I have to meditate to feel the effects of meditation? Will I see any changes right away? How can meditation help me understand what my life path is and make big decisions? How does sitting still or using a meditation technique lead to us knowing ourselves better? Will mediation support me in changing habits that are no longer benefiting me? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 22 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In today's episode, Being at Peace with Food course instructor, shares with us the four foundational principles needed to find peace with food and reach our health and weight goals. The four principles are letting go, awareness, effort, and sustainability. Joe then sits down with Anna Passalacqua, Breathing Deeply director & yoga therapist to dive even deeper into these four foundational principles and how to work with them and with clients. Anna has offered yoga therapy since 2006 with an emphasis on weight, body image & eating disorders. This episode has been taken from our Being at Peace with Food program and offers a snapshot of what you will learn inside the program. Being at Peace with food is a specialized yoga therapy program for holistic weight loss, rooted in yoga. If you are a yoga teacher or therapist, mental health professional, integrative medicine practitioner, or work with clients in health and wellness, this training is for you! Being At Peace With Food is a 30-hour self-paced online training that is designed to take approximately 6 months to complete. Our next course starts on the 17th Feb 2022! For more information & to apply click here: https://bit.ly/3AwonLr This episode covers: Letting Go Awareness Effort Sustainability The four principles with Breathing Deeply co-founder, Anna Passalacqua Do we work with the four principles in a linear fashion? Do you need to become a yoga teacher at the end of this program? How do we get our clients to hone in on what the right amount of effort is? Finding sustainability through incremental changes Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 21 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast In today's episode, Brandt sits down to answer some of the most common questions we receive about being a practicing yoga therapist. We receive these kinds of questions all the time from our students. This episode covers the type of employment that yoga therapists can expect to have in the current market, what types of people come to Breathing Deeply to learn yoga therapy throughout their stages in life, how a typical session will look as well as the types of conditions that we can treat and how that differs to different health practitioner's modalities. We hope you enjoyed this episode! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways or questions about becoming a yoga therapist that you have. Om Shanthi This episode covers: What type of employment can a Breathing Deeply graduate expect to have? Who is a typical Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy student through the stages of life? What does a typical yoga therapy session look like? What conditions can Breathing Deeply yoga therapists treat? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In today's podcast, we discuss unwanted habits, addictions, and what the difference is.   I mention A Course in Miracles, here is a link to the lessons (you may need to navigate to Lesson 243)A Course in Miracles Lesson 243What's the difference between a bad habit and an addiction?  Moreover, if you are dealing with addiction, please reach out for help:SAMSHA Hotline   We discuss how the Autonomic Nervous System plays an important role in learning to reduce unwanted habits:What is the Autonomic Nervous SystemParasympathetic vs. Sympathetic Nervous SystemDuring this podcast, I mention my favorite meditation apps, which are:Insight TimerYou can check out Meditation Programs at Healing Arts here:Meditation for Complete Beginners21 Day Meditation ChallengeWelcome to the Art of Healing Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you connect with you mind, body and spirit to live your best life.Please check out my disclaimers at the following site:Website and Podcast Disclaimer Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Art of Healing Podcast.You can learn more about Healing Arts here:www.healingartshealthandwellness.com

In today's episode, Joe Simek, Breathing Deeply assistant teacher, sits down with Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua to talk about yoga therapy and mental health. With mental health, it is not a one size fits all approach. At Breathing Deeply, we teach our students how to create individualized practices that empower their clients to take their health into their own hands! Listen in as Brandt shares with us how yoga therapy's approach to mental health is different yet complementary to mainstream western medicine. Find out what the process is for assessing someone's mental health as a yoga therapist and developing specific yoga practices that work the best for an individual to help them reach their mental health goals. Each person lands at their mental state depending on their own personal journey and their specific imbalances, meaning with yoga therapy two people who are both suffering from anxiety may be given completely different practices. Brandt discusses the multiple assessment models taught at Breathing Deeply which are used to come up with an individualized practice that unfolds in relationship with each client. He then walks us through his process for assessing & curating a practice for a client with anxiety. Breathing Deeply's goal is to bring balance back to the entire system of all of our clients to lessen their suffering. Discover what sets Breathing Deeply from other yoga therapy schools! Om Shanthi This episode covers: The difference between yoga therapy's approach to mental health & the traditional standard of care given in western medicine What does the assessment of someone's mental health look like in yoga therapy? The difference between going to a yoga class for mental health benefits and seeing a yoga therapist The most important distinction between Breathing Deeply and other yoga therapy schools Seeing our yoga therapy clients as people, not conditions The models we use to teach our students to individualize yoga therapy practices for their clients The process for a new yoga therapy client who comes in with anxiety Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 19 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with lead teacher, Brandt, and his yoga therapy students. In this Yoga Therapy Q&A session, Brandt focuses on the topic of being trauma sensitive with all clients as a yoga therapist, even if you don't know all of their trauma history. Brandt offers advice on how to gauge whether someone may have some trauma, how to approach people by always giving options. Brandt also covers consent in the context of yoga therapy as well as how to allow clients & students the space to give honest feedback. Other topics covered include optimal transition times when you're seeing multiple clients in a day, tips for meeting with clients over zoom instead of in person, the importance of strengthening muscles and why the Breathing Deeply curriculum focuses on strengthening over Iyengar style alignment! This Q&A is full of incredible information & advice especially if you are interested in approaching people in a trauma sensitive way, whether you are a yoga teacher, yoga therapist or a practitioner of any other type of modality working with the body. We hope you enjoyed this video! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways that you have! Om Shanthi Timestamps: 00:35 - How much time should I leave to transition between yoga therapy clients? 03:51 - What are the best methods to approach clients in a trauma sensitive way when you aren't sure if they have any trauma? 11:00 - What is consent in yoga therapy? 15:03 - Giving people permission to give feedback on things that make them uncomfortable 16:33 - How can I do muscle testing with a client over zoom? 18:28 - What is the benefit of strengthening muscles over focusing on alignment? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 18 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast. In today's episode, our co-founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua shares his personal health journey through a life-threatening autoimmune disease and how the healing power of yoga helped to make a full recovery that defied the odds! Brandt then shares with us how this led him to embark on a journey to becoming a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and to eventually the creation of Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy. Brandt's aim when creating Breathing Deeply was to create an accessible place with an online element and an abundance of live teaching guidance to learn yoga therapy. The intention is that through our trainings and programs people can benefit from the therapeutic tools of yoga therapy to reduce their suffering and the suffering of others. Do you want to become a yoga therapist? We'd love to hear from you! To learn more about our range of yoga therapy and yoga teacher training programs and to apply for our next cohort, click here: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS This episode covers: Brandt's story How Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy came to be Yoga therapy & relieving suffering What it's like to be a Breathing Deeply yoga therapist Training to become a yoga therapist with Breathing Deeply Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Welcome to episode 17 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast. In today's episode, Joe Simek, Breathing Deeply Teaching Assistant, sits down for a conversation with Breathing Deeply's co-founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, about our specialized yoga therapy program for weight loss, Being At Peace With Food. Brandt shares with us his own weight loss journey and how he came to doing this work which has led to the Being At Peace With Food Program. Being at Peace with Food offers a holistic approach to weight loss rooted in yoga with the intention of helping people achieve a more healthier, happier and fulfilled life. This program is not only for yoga teachers and therapists but mental health professionals or anyone involved in the health and wellness industry, including health coaches and Ayurvedic specialists. There's so much work in this area because there are so many people suffering and who need help with their weight and with eating disorders. It is so empowering for people to feel like they have some control over food and their weight. If you're looking to share this kind of information with people, you want to have gone through a process where you really understand how to help people ease their suffering in this way. Being At Peace With Food is an excellent choice to achieve that. By the end of the course, you will earn your Being At Peace With Food Certification and receive 30 APD credits towards C-IAYT (if applicable).⁠ ⁠ Our next class for Being at Peace with Food starts on December 2, 2021!⁠ ⁠ For more information & to apply, click here: https://bit.ly/3AwonLr⁠ ⁠ Om Shanthi⁠ This episode covers: Brandt's personal weight loss & health journey The unique yoga therapy approach to weight loss & eating disorders Which types of professionals might benefit from adding this program How successful this model has been in Brandt's experience working with clients The power of following a defined pathway for individuals seeking weight loss How this program can give you a unique niche to market yourself with Why it is so important for us to do this work to help more people Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Welcome to episode 16 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast For this episode, our Meditation Community Coordinator, Sara Bowman, sat down with our founder & lead meditation teacher, Brandt Passalacqua to talk about meditation, anxiety and much more. A regular meditation practice can lead to an expanded state of consciousness, through the retraining of the mind. This allows us to perceive and react to reality in a totally different way, through a wider lens. In this discussion, Brandt tells us why meditation is a useful tool to help us reduce feelings of stress and anxiety in our everyday life by changing the way we react to experiences that happen to us. Brandt also covers how much we should meditate and how long it tends to take for people to see the benefits of their meditation practice. We'd love to know how you found this episode! Share your experiences as a teacher with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Our meditation program offers a direct pathway to help you implement a regular meditation practice to find more tranquillity and expanded states awareness in your everyday life with the guidance of Brandt as your teacher. To learn more and to start your free 30-day trial, click here: https://bit.ly/3yllE71 Om Shanthi Questions covered: Would it be useful to meditate if you are experiencing the effects of anxiety? Does that mean you are becoming less anxious or you feel different about your anxiety? How long does it take to retrain the mind? How often and how long do I need to meditate to see the benefits? Do I have to meditate for a long time to feel the benefits? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Welcome to episode 15 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. In this Q&A Brandt covers a range of topics including practices for someone recovering from COVID, the difference between the energies in the left and right nostrils in alternate nostril breathing and breathing exercises that people can do at work when dealing with stress. This Q&A also includes a discussion on marma points from Ayurveda and how they relate to acupressure points found in Chinese medicine as well as the length & complexity of yoga therapy sequences vs regular yoga class sequences and Brandt's take on working towards a ‘peak pose' during a yoga class. We'd love to know how you found this episode! Share your experiences as a teacher with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Om Shanthi Questions covered: What practices can I give someone recovering from covid? How does alternate nostril breathing affect the left & right energetic channels? Which pranayama exercises are good for dealing with stress at work? What is the difference between marma points and acupressure points? How long should my yoga therapy sequences be? What is the issue with classes focused on a peak pose? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Joe Simek is a graduate of the Breathing Deeply Advanced Yoga Therapy program and teaches the 200 hour online yoga teacher training course and the Being at Peace with Food course at Breathing Deeply. In this video, our founder, Brandt Passalacqua, talks with Joe about the work he did with plantar fasciitis, which is a very popular condition that yoga therapists help to treat. Joe worked with a number of women who all suffered with plantar fasciitis in a group class format over a period of 4 weeks. Joe shares with us what he learned when studying this condition during his intakes as part of our yoga therapy training and what he did in his sessions with people who were suffering from plantar fasciitis. Joe discusses how the treatment of plantar fasciitis can be broken down into 4 buckets which each are covered in a sequence given to clients to do at home. The mentorship that Joe received as part of the Breathing Deeply yoga therapy course for this condition is also covered during this conversation. If you are interested in studying towards receiving a C-IAYT certification with us, check out our 875 hour Advanced Yoga Therapy Program. For more information & to apply, click here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK Next class starts November 18! Om Shanthi Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 13 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and students inside the Breathing Deeply Meditation Program. In this episode, Brandt covers two students' questions which address the topics of why we dream about the past more after we start meditating and whether following our desires is beneficial for our evolution. Sometimes when we have an active dream time we can wake up feeling like we haven't really slept. In our dreams, we may also have recurring themes of things that happened in our past that keep coming up which we have already moved on from. Brandt explains why this happens within our conscious and unconscious minds. When it comes to desires, there are many different yogic paths that have rules about what you can and can't do with your desires. Brandt explains why this is unrealistic as our root desires, such as connection, will continue to manifest in many different ways. Brandt shares how we can follow our desires in a conscious way that is beneficial to all. We'd love to know how you found this episode! Share your experiences as a teacher with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Weekly live Q&As with Brandt are included inside our meditation program. To learn more and to start your free 30 day trial, click here: https://bit.ly/3yllE71 Om Shanthi Questions covered: Why do we dream about the past a lot when we start a meditation practice? Can following my desires be beneficial to my personal evolution? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 12 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. As we start working as yoga therapists, one of the best things that can happen is when the practices we offer to our clients are effective. But how should we go about giving more practices to clients who are seeing great results? In this Q&A Brandt covers this question plus so much more. Brandt discusses applying the principles of yoga therapy to yourself as you are training and also how we look at the doshas and yoga practices through the different stages of life. Brandt also shares his personal advice on how to build relationships and trust with new yoga therapy clients, We'd love to know how you found this episode! Share your experiences as a teacher with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Om Shanthi Timestamps: 00:36 - When should I give clients more practices for their toolbox? 05:05 - Is it important to use yoga therapy on yourself as a yoga therapy student? 07:15 - How do we change how we apply doshas in yoga therapy as people age? 14:04 - How can we earn the trust of our clients as yoga therapists? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 11 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation Podcast. In this episode, Breathing Deeply Founder, Brandt Passalacqua offers foundational information to help us understand the koshas, which are the 5 aspects of the self, and the doshas, which are the 3 elemental energies that we are constituted from. Learn about the koshas and the doshas and discover why it is so important for each of us to determine which of these are imbalanced within us and how to bring them back into balance through the practices that the yoga tradition offers us. This clip was taken from the introductory video to prepare students for our free 6-week course, The Radically Balanced Yogi. To dig deeper into the koshas & doshas and learn which koshas and doshas may be out of balance for you, along with practices to bring them back into harmony, sign up for our free 6-week course, The Radically Balanced Yogi. Each week we cover a different kosha & offer practices to help you tailor a personal yoga practice for yourself and find radical balance on every layer of your being. Sign up for free here: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc Om Shanthi This episode covers: What the five different koshas are Why it is important to balance each kosha What the three doshas are Signs each dosha is in balance & out of balance Balancing the doshas within each kosha Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

In this conversation with yoga therapist Joe Simek and Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua, Brandt discusses trauma and yoga therapy. There are a lot of schools of thought about how to approach trauma through yoga and the more common one is a more passive, slower approach, allowing the practitioner to explore movement and breath while giving lots of natural cueing. Although this technique can be really effective, there are other ways to approach trauma. Brandt shares with us what those other approaches are so we can go beyond what we most commonly know as ‘trauma-informed yoga'. We'd love to know your thoughts on using yoga as a means to recover from trauma. Share your experiences as a teacher with us in the comments or over on our Instagram or Facebook page (linked below)! Om Shanthi Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome back to episode 9 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. During this episode, Brandt talks about his background with yoga and yoga therapy and how he got to be where he is today. He also helps one of his students with a client who is suffering from insomnia and PTSD who are reluctant to do the practices during their session and would rather talk it out. Brandt also gives his advice on what muscle tics are and how to approach a client who suffers from them. We hope you enjoy this episode! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways that you have. Om Shanthi Questions covered: How did you get to where you are today with Breathing Deeply? How can I help a client suffering from insomnia & PTSD to do yoga therapy practices during sessions? How can I approach a client with uncontrollable muscle tics? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 8 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In this episode, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua discusses the importance of cultivating softness and openness as part of our meditation practice. Softening and opening allow us to move through our emotional states, even very tough ones, quickly and more effortlessly. With practice, we being to be able to soften into all of it more easily. Every moment, every breath, and every thought is an opportunity for up to be more open, to soften, and to surrender. Brandt also discusses why we may feel resistance to this practice of opening and softening to all of our experiences and emotional states which is resistance to change. By softening and opening to all emotional states, we are doing something different which will change us, perhaps it will radically change us! This is of course the very reason we practice, we don't meditate to stay the same, but as humans, we inherently want to control the way that change looks. This episode will inspire you to invite more openness and surrender into whatever you are experiencing in life as part of your practice to help you move through whatever life throws your way. Topics Covered: The act of softening Our root desire Attachment Resistance to uncomfortable thoughts and feelings Dealing with difficult emotional states by softening Resistance to change Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome back to episode 7 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. In this eye-opening Q&A Brandt answers students' questions regarding the doshas and koshas with children, conditioning children, working with people who have just finished chemotherapy, and also how you can help people struggling with survivors guilt from a yogic perspective. Brandt covers ancestral karma, the doshas, and koshas versus chakras, how to help people recovering from cancer, the importance of surrendering to the universe as part of your practice, and how practices can enhance our capacity to be with difficult states. We hope you enjoy this episode! Let us know in the comments or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook any key takeaways that you have. Om Shanthi Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - How are dosha and koshas developed in children versus chakras? 07:05 - Are doshas conditioned in children by their parents? 10:29 - Are cancer patients who have just finished chemotherapy good candidates for yoga therapy 14:23 - How can I help people who are struggling with survivor's guilt? Extra Links & Resources: Brandts metta meditation on Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/brandtpassalacqua/guided-meditations/metta-meditation-30 Our advanced IAYT program: https://bit.ly/37kQTTB Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo 6 Week Free Course - Radically Balanced Yogi: https://bit.ly/2WX1HGc

Welcome to episode 6 of The Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and meditation podcast. Is pigeon pose always grounding? Is cobra pose always good for digestion? No, not necessarily! Listen in to this quick episode as Brandt Passalacqua, founder of Breathing Deeply, tells us why YOUR yoga manuals are not useful if they don't include variation, intention and assessment when thinking about the effects of yoga asana. Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Welcome to episode 5 of The Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and meditation podcast. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. One of the biggest challenges that new yoga teachers and therapists face is how to properly sequence warm-ups and classes that are safe, effective, and tailored to their students' needs. In this episode, Brandt helps demystify these questions for his yoga therapy students. Brandt covers how to sequence different aspects and styles of practice, guiding students to stretch safely, whether or not teachers should always follow prescribed rules and formats and also the importance of keeping it simple as a yoga therapist. Timestamps: 00:35 - How important is it to format a yoga therapy sequence with moving, breathing, strengthening & stretching in a prescribed order? 02:18 - Should yin-style stretches come before standing and vinyasa-style sequences as a rule? 05:32 - Keeping yoga therapy practices & warm-ups simple 08:07 - How can I guide clients to do static stretches safely & effectively? 11:20 - Should we do joint warm-ups in a prescribed order? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Welcome to episode 4 of The Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and meditation podcast. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. If our clients don't implement the practices we give them as yoga therapists into their daily lives, the tools we provide simply won't work. As yoga therapists, it can be a challenge to help our clients change their habits and stick to the practices offered to them. In this episode Brandt discusses this issue with his students, offering them advice on how to approach clients who are non-compliant and how we can help people to trust themselves to actually make changes and see results. Brandt also discusses taking baby steps and whether or not we can use practices for the manomaya kosha to help clients shift. Timestamps: 00:34 - How do you approach clients who aren't doing the practices you offer them? 06:54 - How do I deal with non-compliance as a yoga therapist? 10:40 - How can I help people trust themselves to be able to change their habits? 13:36 - Motivating people to regularly incorporate yoga into their lives by taking baby steps 15:56 - Can we use practices for the manomaya kosha to help clients shift their state of mind? Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

We'd love to hear from you (feedback@breakingbadscience.com)Look us up on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/385282925919540Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breakingbadsciencepodcast/Website: http://www.breakingbadscience.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/breakingbadscienceTurns out looking into information that centers around the brain is a complete nightmare. Even for a biology focused person like me. When considering meditation it's unsurprising that this is the path we were led down. So what did we find? What is the truth about meditation and the brain and how deep does the research go? Join hosts Shanti and Danny as we explore meditation and how it affects the brain. ReferencesWalsh, R., Shapiro, S.; The Meeting of Meditative Disciplines and Western Psychology. American Psychologist. Apr-2006. 61:3 (227 - 239). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037%2F0003-066X.61.3.227Goyal, M., et. al.; Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of the American Medical Association. 01-Mar-2015. 174:3 (357 - 368). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018Konjedi, S., Maleeh, R.; Sleep and Mindfulness Meditation as They Relate to False Memory. Psychological Research. 22-Sep-2018. 84 (1084 - 1111). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1098-0Lutterveld, R., et. al.; Meditation is Associated with Increased Brain Network Integration. Neuroimage. 01-Sep-2018.158 (18 - 25). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.071Pokorski, M., Suchorzynske, A.; Psychobehavioral Effects of Meditation. Pulmonary Disorders and Therapy. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 25-Jun-2017.  1023. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2017_52Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/breakingbadscience?fan_landing=true)

In this episode, Breathing Deeply Founder & Lead Teacher, Brandt Passalacqua shares a lecture on reality re-examined as part of the Breathing Deeply Online Meditation Retreat. The reality that we can perceive with our senses is incomplete, there is more to this reality and through philosophical study and meditation, we can expand our awareness to encompass more aspects of reality. Brandt boils down our perception of reality by examining reality through the lens of non-dual yogic traditions and why we feel there is a void to be filled when we can't perceive the totality of our reality. This episode covers the view of reality according to dual and non-dual traditions, the goal of reaching expanded states of awareness, how experiencing reality more fully can help us feel free, and why it is useful to understand these philosophical concepts. We hope that you enjoy it! If you loved this episode and are interested in joining our Meditation Program & attending our next live meditation retreat, head to the link below to receive a free 30-day trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo Om Shanti Topics covered: Why yogic philosophical texts don't make sense The reality most of us perceive is incomplete How our misidentification of reality causes suffering The path of seeing everything as an illusion (Maya) The Tantrik non-dual understanding of the nature of reality Seeking expanded states of awareness The importance of meditation for accessing the fullness of reality Why we study philosophical concepts Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

​​Welcome to episode 2 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and Meditation Podcast! At Breathing Deeply we offer Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT Advanced teacher training programs. Inside these programs, we have weekly Q&A sessions with students and Breathing Deeply founder & lead teacher. Brandt Passalacqua. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. Brandt covers a number of questions, including tips for mastering pranayama, Yoga Nidra, dealing with serious health conditions, and more. Brandt offers practical advice, tips, and valuable information about yoga therapy and practicing as a yoga therapist. This episode covers: 0:00 - Intro 0:34 - Do you have tips for breathing exercises with extended exhales? 05:15 - Why don't we use visualizations when learning Yoga Nidra for yoga therapy (versus iRest Yoga Nidra)? 11:05 - Should I give my clients a variety of yoga therapy practices? - 11.28 13:15 - How to work with clients struggling with serious health conditions such as Lupus - 13.29 16:13 - Why people struggle to have faith that yoga therapy is effective Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Today's episode is a recording taken directly from a live Q&A session with Breathing Deeply founder, Brandt Passalacqua and students of our Yoga therapy foundations program. ​​Brandt covers how a yoga therapy session usually flows, whether you need to specialize as a yoga therapist, the difference between depression and anxiety and how you can approach these mental health conditions through the lens of yoga therapy. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:33 - What does a yoga therapy session look like? 06:42 - Is it important to specialize as a yoga therapist? 12:20 - Approaching depression & anxiety from a yoga therapy perspective Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

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Dr Madhav Goyal, lead author of a new analysis of research on meditation, recently published his study: 'Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis' in JAMA Internal Medicine. In this podcast, Dr Goyal discusses his findings from the study and some surprising conclusions about the effectiveness of meditation with Dr Raj Persaud.

Interview with Madhav Goyal, MD, MPH, author of Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Our guest is harm reduction therapist Pamela Smithbell who is the author of the paper From New Age to Neuroscience; Creating New Narratives with Meditation Programs and Guided Imagery in Addiction Treatment.