Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation

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 feels like to have a balanced Vijnanamaya Kosha and...

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 foundations program, their course practicum, clients and...

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 way we interact with prana outside our body and d...

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. Following these energetic currents is a practice in itsel...

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 layer) body to our spiritual body (innermost laye...

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 to global enlightenment by working through our s...

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 overcoming anxiety after practicing a specific me...

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 practice both. Brandt then guides us through a 10-min...

This week we are sharing a podcast episode on how to find radical balance in the physical body by balancing the three doshas with yoga asana. In this episode, Brandt covers what role asana plays in our yoga practice and why it is important to find balance in the body through the lens of the doshas. Brandt then covers each dosha individually and what types of yoga asana practices you can do for eac...

In this episode, Brandt shares the basics of yoga anatomy through the lens of a yoga therapist. By the end of this episode you will have a basic understanding of the anatomy of muscles, fascia, nerves and the spine. Brandt also covers how the energetic body and physical body are intricately tied, the way yoga therapists look at the body holistically and why training yoga therapists only need a bas...

In this episode, Breathing Deeply founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with his students to ask their burning 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 so on. This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga th...

In this episode, Being at Peace with food instructor, Joe Simek and Breathing Deeply founder, Brandt Passalaquca are sitting down to talk about eating habits and difficult behaviors with yoga therapy clients whose goal is to lose weight. As we go through the yoga therapy process with our clients we help them in many different ways with yoga practices, increased awareness and improved lifestyles. T...

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 finding serenity in the mind, coping with anxious thoughts through yoga and meditation, the way good and evil are understood through a yogic lens, how our disconnection from nature is numbing us out and how we can understa...

Did you know yoga therapy can help ease tinnitus? Well, it most certainly can! Today, Breathing Deeply founder, Brandt Passalacqua is sitting down with Marta Gil, a graduate of the Breathing Deeply Advanced Yoga Therapy program and an IAYT accredited yoga therapist. In this episode, Marta is sharing a client she worked with inside the practicum who suffered from tinnitus which is a persistent ring...

In this episode, Brandt covers chanting and the chakras through the lens of the manomaya kosha (the mind). This is another way to educate the mind as we do with yoga philosophy. We can chant with the chakras to bring balance to the manomaya kosha. If you look at the charka model, we could say that if our minds aren’t properly connected, disharmony and disease result. One doesn't have to do chakra...

This clip has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. In today’s Q&A, Breathing Deepl founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, sits down with his students to ask their burning 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, clien...

Today, Breathing Deeply founder & lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua is sitting down with Tiffany Johnson, a CAYT accredited yoga therapist and a graduate of the Breathy Deeply Advanced Yoga Therapy Program to talk about Yoga Therapy & Complex PTSD. Tiffany is going to speak about a client she worked with as part of the Advanced Program Practicum. Tiffany used the tools & models of yoga therapy that...

In today’s episode, we are sharing clips from a live Q&A that Brandt facilitated with students inside the Breathing Deeply meditation program. During this Q&A Brandt covers what it means if we aren’t having ‘experiences’ during meditation, whether the effects of meditation happen even after we’ve stopped actively meditating, how to discern our role as a ‘teacher’ with our friends and other people...

​​In today’s episode, Breathing Deeply teacher, Joe Simek, sits down with our co-founder Brandt Passalaqua to tap into his expertise around weight loss, obesity and eating disorders. Brandt has seen many people change their lives through weight loss after working with him and become much happier and healthier. Taking people on a weight loss journey helps them to realize who they are and live happi...

This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. Many of our students who join us come from a background of years of yoga asana practice. When they start training with us, they learn a completely new set of tools, techniques, and models to help them refine and change their personal practice. This often leads to many of our students making big changes t...

Welcome to episode 29 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! As a yoga therapy school, we get asked questions about running a yoga therapy business all the time. Breathing Deeply director and lead teacher Brandt Passalacqua has been running his own successful yoga therapy private practice alongside the school for many years and so can share a lot of advice and information with...

Lida Husik is a graduate of our Breathing Deeply advanced program. In this episode, Brandt Passalaqua sits down to talk with Lida about working with a client with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a case study during her practicum. Lisa has been working with this particular client, who has ASD and also suffers from severe depression, for over a year. Since they have been working together he has se...

In this episode, Joe Simek, our lead teacher for our 200-hour teacher training, will guide you through the full timeline of yoga history. There is a lot of information that one could present when talking about this topic so this is going to be a brief yet comprehensive introduction as we dig into the various time periods of yoga. To study the history of yoga is to study the philosophy of yoga. The...

Welcome to episode 26 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. Many of our students come to yoga therapy from a more scientific and analytical background and therefore can struggle to wrap their heads around the more intangible aspects that we learn about in yoga therapy such as the kos...

Welcome to episode 25 of the Breathing Deeply podcast and our meditation sangha with Brandt! The aim of this meditation sangha is to meditate in a way that allows us to experience the love that is the nature of all things. This is our spiritual heart, the place where we connect to consciousness and love itself. Brandt firstly shares with us some words about love and the heart from the yoga traditi...