Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation Breathing Deeply

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.

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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.

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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 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!

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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!

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Blog: bit.ly/3rMo77T
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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 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

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!

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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