Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation

This episode explains the fundamental difference between yoga teaching and yoga therapy, including why experienced yoga teachers can still feel completely lost with complex clients, what clinical reasoning actually is, and why having a structured framework is what separates confident yoga therapists from knowledgeable ones.

🔗 Pathway Assessment: https://breathingdeeply.net/quiz?utm_source=youtube

🔗 BDYT Clinical Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

01:00 - The biggest difference between a yoga teacher and a yoga therapist

01:41 - Addressing back pain as a yoga teacher vs yoga therapist

02:48 - The number one central skill to becoming a good yoga therapist

03:43 - How we developed our school to teach this skill

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing.

https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

This episode explains how long it actually takes to become a yoga therapist, including the three stages most students move through, what each level of training involves, and how the timeline varies depending on your background, schedule, and professional goals.

🔗 Pathway Assessment: https://breathingdeeply.net/quiz?utm_source=youtube

🔗 BDYT Clinical Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:54 - Stage 1: Foundations level of training

02:20 - Stage 2: Advanced Yoga Therapy Training

03:34 - Stage 3: IAYT Certification

05:14 - The pathway at Breathing Deeply

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing.

https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

Get an inside look into what it is like to be a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy student in this mentoring session with Breathing Deeply Director and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua.

Questions covered in this episode cover how to heal Meniere’s Disease with yoga therapy and proven techniques to improve vagal nerve tone.

Pathway Assessment: https://breathingdeeply.net/quiz?utm_source=youtube

BDYT Clinical Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

Timestamps:

00:00 - My client has Meniere's Disease, what can I do to help them?

05:13 - Does sticking your tongue out really improve vagus nerve tone?

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

BDYT Clinical Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

This episode gives an honest answer to one of the most common questions prospective yoga therapy students ask: how much does a yoga therapist actually make.

In this conversation, Breathing Deeply co-directors Brandt Passalacqua and Anna Passalacqua give an honest answer to this question. They cover how yoga therapy income is actually structured, the range of professional paths graduates build, what realistic growth looks like over time, and why the depth of clinical training is the single biggest factor in long-term professional success.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:17 - Is yoga therapy a real profession?

01:41 - How a yoga therapist's income can be structured

02:59 - The income structure of private yoga therapy practices

03:38 - Professional pathways we are seeing with our graduates

04:45 - The most common background of yoga therapists

05:38 - Career development as a yoga therapist

06:43 - An important factor for professional success

08:01 - The evolution of students to yoga therapists

09:33 - The clinical success of our practicum students

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing.

https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

In this episode, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Shelby Caffery, Breathing Deeply graduate about a 79 year old client who came in presenting knee & hip pain but revealed her real concern was severe depression that left her housebound and isolated.

After 21 sessions over one summer that had a special focus on meditation techniques, Shelby’s client was able to reclaim her life and her freedom. Tune in to hear her story.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:42 - About Shelby's client suffering with depression

03:07 - What yoga therapy tools Shelby gave her client for depression

05:43 - The importance of meditation for Shelby's client

07:09 - How Shelby's client is doing now

09:52 - The power of chanting meditations for Shelby's client

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

This epsiode explains how yoga therapy approaches balance dysfunction and neurological symptoms through a real client case study, including the specific practices used, how quickly results appeared, and what made this approach different from everything Bill had already tried.

In this conversation, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Sophie, a certified yoga therapist and Breathing Deeply graduate, and her client Bill, who had been experiencing severe balance dysfunction for several months and restored his balance completely within two months using a 15-minute daily yoga therapy practice.

🔗 Work with a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapist: https://breathingdeeply.com/work-with-a-yoga-therapist/

🔗 Join the Breathing Deeply Wellness Program: https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

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Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

This episode explains the difference between yoga therapy and physical therapy, including what each does exceptionally well, where they overlap, when to choose one over the other, and why some of the best healing outcomes happen when both approaches work together.

🔗 Learn more about becoming a yoga therapist: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

00:42 - The similarities and differences between yoga therapy and physical therapy

03:27 - When you should see a physical therapist vs when to see a yoga therapist

05:23 - Combining yoga therapy and physical therapy: An example

06:15 - Clinical maturity for yoga therapists

06:50 - How you can use yoga therapy to complement your physical therapy career

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

This episode explains what actually happens inside a yoga therapy session, including the intake process, how assessment works, how a practice is built for an individual, why yoga therapy is fundamentally different from private yoga, restorative yoga, or modified group classes and the type of training that is required.

🔗 Learn more about becoming a yoga therapist: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

🔗 Work with a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapist: https://breathingdeeply.com/work-with-a-yoga-therapist/

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

01:12 - What people think yoga therapy is vs what it really is

01:52 - What actually happens inside yoga therapy sessions

05:29 - How yoga therapy differs from the western medical system

06:08 - An example of how we work with back pain

06:53 - An example of how we work with more complex cases like autoimmune disease

08:59 - Why where someone is trained for yoga therapy really matters

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

In this conversation, Breathing Deeply Founder and Lead Teacher Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Jen Herndon, C-IAYT and Breathing Deeply Advanced Program graduate, about a client navigating multiple complex diagnoses including POTS, fibromyalgia, Hashimoto's disease, IBS, and EDS.

Jen shares how she approached assessment and therapeutic design for someone with multiple autoimmune conditions that are debilitating and notoriously difficult to treat. Jen traces the progress her client made across 15 months of consistent yoga therapy work.

🔗Find Jen on Breathing Deeply Wellness: www.breathingdeeply.com/wellness

🔗Interest in becoming a yoga therapist like Jen? Watch this free training video: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction

00:47 - About Jen's POTS client

02:35 - Yoga therapy practices that Jen prescribed for POTS

07:01 - What results she received from yoga therapy and how long it took

08:47 - The reality of how difficult POTS is to have and treat

09:55 - How Jen feels after seeing her client come so far with this diagnosis

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

In this conversation, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Melissa Russell, C-IAYT and Breathing Deeply graduate, about her yoga nidra for trauma. This episode explains how yoga nidra supports trauma recovery and PTSD, including what the practice actually involves, why it works on a neurological level, what the research shows, and what results people can realistically expect.

🔗Join us on Breathing Deeply Wellness: https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

00:57 - What is yoga nidra?

02:29 - Yoga nidra vs meditation

03:50 - How yoga nidra helps with trauma

05:54 - The profound effects of breath awareness and trauma recovery

07:04 - Research done on yoga nidra

08:20 - The results Breathing Deeply has seen with yoga nidra for trauma

09:23 - Yoga nidra for trauma techniques

12:20 - Results you can expect from doing yoga nidra for trauma

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma

• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases

• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions

• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness