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 client was able to achieve within one year. Also, discover how yoga therapy and Western Medicine can beautifully complement each other for clients to receive the best health outcomes.

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Our next intake begins on June 27.

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This episode covers:

Symptoms of Crohn’s disease

Yoga therapy practices prescribed for Crohn’s disease

The results of these practices

How yoga therapy & western medicine can complement each other

How often you need to see a yoga therapist for Crohn’s disease

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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 meditation teachers.

This was a clip taken from our Meditation Mentor Certification Program.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:28 - The opposition of duality and non-duality

01:31 - The goal of meditation from a dualistic perspective

02:18 - Duality and the Yoga Sutras

04:57 - Non-duality and the Spandakarika

08:59 - How duality and non-duality work together

09:44 - Orientation of reality through the Tao

10:36 - Stanzas from the Tao Ti Ching

11:48 - Contemplating duality vs non-duality as part of our practice

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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 chakra system in yoga therapy.

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!

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Om Shanthi, Om Peace

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:43 - Do you have tips for memorizing the muscles for yoga anatomy?

05:18 - What are the different effects of breathing up on the inhale/down on the exhale and down on the inhale and up on the exhale in spine breath?

10:59 - How do the three doshas express themselves when balanced & imbalanced in the Anandamaya kosha?

15:12 - How do we use the chakra system with the Manomaya kosha?

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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 struggling with the symptoms of menopause. Learn how Fiona approached these classes and the results that her students received.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:30 - Why Fiona decided to work with women going through menopause

02:03 - Group classes for menopause

02:37 - Menopause symptoms

03:04 - The structure of the classes for menopause

04:26 - The outcomes of the yoga therapy classes for menopause

05:46 - Is yoga a one-stop shop for menopause symptoms?

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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 imbalances in the vijnanamaya kosha in different ways and in today's episode that is what we will be diving into.

You will learn different practices and meditation techniques to balance the vijnanamaya and how to tell whether someone has a vata, pitta or kapha imbalance in this kosha.

This was a clip taken from inside the Vijnanamaya Kosha Module of our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program.

Our next class starts on the 16th of April 2024: https://bit.ly/40Tyxmc

Om Shanthi

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:29 - Balancing the vijnanamaya kosha with the doshas in yoga therapy

02:34 - Different meditation techniques for each dosha

05:13 - How can you tell when vata is imbalanced in the vijnanamaya kosha?

06:13 - How can you tell when pitta is imbalanced in the vijnanamaya kosha?

07:40 - How can you tell when kappa is imbalanced in the vijnanamaya kosha?

08:50 - The knock-on effect of these imbalances in the vijnanamaya kosha

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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 want to be for ourselves and our students.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:28 - Yogic texts as a guide on the path

02:16 - The 3 yoga texts that have brought the most clarity to Brandt

04:20 - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

08:59 - The Yoga Spandakarika

13:20 - The Tai Te Ching

15:51 - How we can combine these texts together

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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 strengthening the shoulders. Brandt also discusses the important connection between the nervous system and strength training (it’s a yogi's superpower!) as well as different ways to think about pricing yourself as a yoga therapist.

This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students.

Our next Yoga Therapy Course starts on November April 16 2024. Find out more information here: https://bit.ly/3lxc0KK

Om Shanthi, Om Peace

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:05 - How can I help my client release trauma with practices safely?

03:30 - What is somatic experience work?

04:54 - How can I help my client with shoulder pain?

09:52 - The connection between the nervous system and pain

12:35 - Can you help me figure out my yoga therapy pricing?

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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 instructional.

Discover a contemplation of the deeper meaning of this ancient mantra and how we can apply it in the modern world.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:30 - The translation of the chant

01:28 - The deeper meaning of the mantra: fear

03:09 - How to move away from fear that isn’t useful = unreal to real

04:20 - Grounding & tranquility practices to move into realtime

05:04 - Moving from darkness to light

06:21 - Faith surrender and our mortality

The written mantra for your reference:

Sanskrit

Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya |
Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya |
Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya |
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

English Translation
Lead us from the unreal to the real
Lead us from darkness to light
Lead us from death to immortality
Aum peace, peace, peace!

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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 has been proven to be effective in helping people form new habits and stick to them.

In this episode, discover the best thing you can do to help yourself and your yoga therapy clients stick to a new habit or routine.

Use this simple hack to help yourself and your clients form new habits so we can all reap the full rewards of yoga therapy tools and practices and reach our goals.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:27 - The relationship between habit and motivation

03:12 - Why people struggle to implement a new practice

03:52 - Habit change research proves this hack works!

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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 deeper place within ourselves which is in connection to the universe.

When we do practices to balance this kosha, we are doing practices to remove barriers that shield us from the truth of who we are. The primary practice for this is meditation.

In this episode, you will learn about the vijnanamaya kosha, what happens when it is out of balance and how we can use meditation practices as yoga therapists to help our clients bring their vijnanamaya kosha into harmony.

This was a clip taken from inside the Manomaya Kosha Module of our Yoga Therapy Foundations Program.

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Om Shanthi

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:27 - What is the vijnanamaya kosha

02:30 - What happens with this kosha is unbalanced?

04:12 - Meditation as a practice to balance the vijnanamaya kosha

06:09 - The process of meditation from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

08:49 - The benefits of reaching tranquility states

10:03 - How do we teach meditation as yoga therapists?

16:04 - What we see when this kosha is balanced

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