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Welcome to the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and Meditation Podcast. 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 weightloss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teache ...
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Our next Yoga Therapy class starts on the 19th of November 2024: https://bit.ly/40TyxmcLearn about yoga therapy and depression from the Breathing Deeply yoga therapy framework. Brand discusses interesting stats around depression, Western medicine, and how we use the koshas and doshas to treat depression. Om Shanthi#yogatherapy #mentalhealth #depres…
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Warning: This episode discusses topics relating to violence, substance use and mental health. Viewer discretion is advised. Apply to become a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapist: https://bit.ly/40TyxmcHealing of our deepest traumas is possible with yoga therapy.Join Brandt Passalacqua and Breathing Deeply Advanced Graduate and C-IAYT, Deb Selm for this…
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Discover what is truly possible through yoga therapy!Apply to become a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapist: https://bit.ly/40TyxmcJoin Brandt Passalacqua and Breathing Deeply Advanced Graduate Steve Bader for this conversation about how Steve’s client successfully started to ween herself off one of the medications for depression after a long battle wit…
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Discover what is truly possible through yoga therapy!Join Brandt Passalacqua and Breathing Deeply Advanced Graduate Steve Bader for this conversation about how Steve helped his client with Lupus go into remission. This is a remarkable case of the healing powers of yoga therapy and how we can take our health into our own hands!Lupus is an autoimmune…
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Join our free meditation community: https://breathingdeeply.com/courses/meditation/Managing our emotions, is one of the main reasons people choose to meditate. And it is a very good reason indeed!Through a meditation practice, we can open to relax into challenging emotions and through this process we can obtain valuable insight into ourselves and t…
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Yoga therapy heals ❤️‍🩹Today Brandt sits down with Breathing Deeply Advanced Program graduate and C-IAYT, Meena to talk about how yoga therapy helped one of her clients recover from a serious car accident. In this discussion, Meena shares how she helped her clients see significant results in recovery from her car accident in just 8 weeks. Not only …
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In this episode, Brandt sits down with Fiona Janiloos, C-IAYT therapist and Breathing Deeply graduate to talk about yoga therapy and menopause.Menopause will affect all women at some stage in their life and so this subject is very important! There isn’t a massive amount of research going into menopause in traditional medicine and so it is really ex…
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In this dharma talk, Brandt shares how we can use meditation to find clarity. Brandt discusses what clarity is and how through practice we can find a sense of lightness in our body and use this as a way to float towards these states of tranquility.Brandt also shares some tips and advice on how to prepare your body and mind to sit for extended perio…
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In this episode, our director and lead teacher, Brandt Passalcqua sits down with C-IAYT accredited yoga therapist and Advanced Program Graduate, Christine Saari to discuss her case study with medication resistant depression.Christine shares with us the different types of pranayama, asana and devotional practices prescribed to her client and the inc…
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Anxiety is the most common complaint we work with as yoga therapists! Therefore, this area of mental health is crucial for us to understand and help our students and clients with.In this epsiode, Brand discusses anxiety and how it can arise in different ways through each of the 5 koshas. Learn about the two different types of anxiety people experie…
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In this episode, our director and lead teacher, Brandt Passalcqua sits down with C-IAYT accredited yoga therapist and Advanced Program Graduate, Sara Merrick-Albano to discuss her work with a client with Crohn’s Disease as a yoga therapist.Learn what practices were prescribed to ease the symptoms of Crohn’s disease and the results that Sara’s clien…
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JOIN OUR FREE MEDITATION COMMUNITY: https://breathingdeeply.com/courses/meditation/In today’s episode, Breathing Deeply Lead teacher, Brandt, discusses duality and non-duality in the yoga tradition. Learn the conceptual difference between non-duality and duality in yoga philosophy and how to can be applied to guide our practice and meditators and m…
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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 offers tips on how to memorize the muscles, the various energetic effects of breathing in different directions, the doshas in relation to the Anandamaya kosha, and the therapeutic application of the c…
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In this episode, our director and lead teacher, Brandt Passalcqua its down with C-IAYT accredited yoga therapist and Advanced Program Graduate, Fiona Jalinoos to discuss her work on dealing with menopause symptoms with yoga therapy.Fiona shares with us her project as part of her studies which was to run a series a small group classes for women stru…
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This episode is about the framework of Ayurveda and how it relates to the Vijnanamaya Kosha, which is the wisdom body or the unconscious mind.One way to balance this kosha is with different meditation techniques. We use these meditation techniques differently based on imbalanced doshas from the Ayurvedic system.Imbalances in the doshas, will cause …
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In this episode, learn about 3 very important spiritual texts that can help to propel us forward on our journey of spiritual evolution as meditators and meditation teachers. Learn the key differences between the texts and how we can use them together to get out of our own way, find our orientation on the path and effectively progress to where we wa…
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In today’s Q&A, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with his students to ask their yoga therapy questions. In today’s session, Brandt addresses questions that cover ways to help a client process and release trauma in a safe way, what somatic experience work is and it is helpful for trauma and tips and advice on …
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Today, Brandt talks about a popular yet very powerful mantra which is a great addition to your meditation practice. This is a short mantra that has been chanted in the yoga tradition for a very long time. It is a lovely chant that is easy to learn and practice, we love to refer to it as a ‘greatest hit’. This chant is an ask, a prayer and instructi…
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Do you struggle with getting your clients to actually do the yoga therapy practices you give to them at home? Maybe you yourself struggle to implement new habits that you KNOW will bring you so many benefits.You’re not alone and it’s also not your fault. Forming new habits is HARD - it has been proven. However, there is one habit-forming hack that …
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In this episode, learn about the 4th kosha, the vijnanamaya in the 5 kosha system. This layer of ourselves is usually referred to as our body of wisdom.This is the layer of our consciousness that sits underneath what we think of as our conscious mind. Often this kosha is associated with our intuition because the wisdom that we receive comes from a …
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In today’s Q&A, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua sits down with his students to ask their yoga therapy questions. This Q&A has a special emphasis on working with grief, depression and women who have had major surgeries. Brandt answers questions covering breathing techniques to support grief, and tips on how to help clie…
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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 …
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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…
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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 th…
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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 Manoma…
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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 p…
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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 asp…
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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 M…
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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 pranam…
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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 w…
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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 …
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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 addictio…
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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 b…
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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 …
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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 d…
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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 wron…
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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 cl…
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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 foundation…
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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 t…
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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 …
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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 conte…
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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 …
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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 fe…
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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 foundati…
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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…
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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.Followin…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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 prac…
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