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!

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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.

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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 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!

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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 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!

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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!

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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 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.

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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 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!

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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 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.

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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 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

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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