Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation

Welcome to episode 24 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In today’s episode, Brandt shares with us the basics of the anatomy of the breath for yoga practitioners, teachers and therapists. There is so much information out there about the breath and the importance of breathing properly as well as how to influence the physical and pranic body with the breath which has been kno...

Welcome to episode 23 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In today’s episode, Breathing Deeply Meditation Program Coordinator, Sara Bowman sits down with Brandt for an interview about meditation and how meditation can help us understand our life path and ourselves better and make decisions that are in line with who we really are. “One of the great gifts of meditating is bein...

Welcome to episode 22 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In today’s episode, Being at Peace with Food course instructor, shares with us the four foundational principles needed to find peace with food and reach our health and weight goals. The four principles are letting go, awareness, effort, and sustainability. Joe then sits down with Anna Passalacqua, Breathing Deeply dir...

Welcome to episode 21 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast In today’s episode, Brandt sits down to answer some of the most common questions we receive about being a practicing yoga therapist. We receive these kinds of questions all the time from our students. This episode covers the type of employment that yoga therapists can expect to have in the current market, what types of...

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 Bra...

Welcome to episode 19 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with lead teacher, Brandt, and his yoga therapy students. In this Yoga Therapy Q&A session, Brandt focuses on the topic of being trauma sensitive with all clients as a yoga therapist, even if you don’t know all of their trauma history. Brandt offers advice on how to...

Welcome to episode 18 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast. In today’s episode, our co-founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua shares his personal health journey through a life-threatening autoimmune disease and how the healing power of yoga helped to make a full recovery that defied the odds! Brandt then shares with us how this led him to embark on a journey to becoming...

Welcome to episode 17 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast. In today’s episode, Joe Simek, Breathing Deeply Teaching Assistant, sits down for a conversation with Breathing Deeply’s co-founder and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua, about our specialized yoga therapy program for weight loss, Being At Peace With Food. Brandt shares with us his own weight loss journey and how he ca...

Welcome to episode 16 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast For this episode, our Meditation Community Coordinator, Sara Bowman, sat down with our founder & lead meditation teacher, Brandt Passalacqua to talk about meditation, anxiety and much more. A regular meditation practice can lead to an expanded state of consciousness, through the retraining of the mind. This allows us t...

Welcome to episode 15 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. In this Q&A Brandt covers a range of topics including practices for someone recovering from COVID, the difference between the energies in the left and right nostrils in alternate nostril breathing and breathing exercises that...

Joe Simek is a graduate of the Breathing Deeply Advanced Yoga Therapy program and teaches the 200 hour online yoga teacher training course and the Being at Peace with Food course at Breathing Deeply. In this video, our founder, Brandt Passalacqua, talks with Joe about the work he did with plantar fasciitis, which is a very popular condition that yoga therapists help to treat. Joe worked with a num...

Welcome to episode 13 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and students inside the Breathing Deeply Meditation Program. In this episode, Brandt covers two students’ questions which address the topics of why we dream about the past more after we start meditating and whether following our desires is beneficial for...

Welcome to episode 12 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. As we start working as yoga therapists, one of the best things that can happen is when the practices we offer to our clients are effective. But how should we go about giving more practices to clients who are seeing great resu...

Welcome to episode 11 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation Podcast. In this episode, Breathing Deeply Founder, Brandt Passalacqua offers foundational information to help us understand the koshas, which are the 5 aspects of the self, and the doshas, which are the 3 elemental energies that we are constituted from. Learn about the koshas and the doshas and discover why it is so important...

In this conversation with yoga therapist Joe Simek and Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua, Brandt discusses trauma and yoga therapy. There are a lot of schools of thought about how to approach trauma through yoga and the more common one is a more passive, slower approach, allowing the practitioner to explore movement and breath while giving lots of natural cueing. Although this technique...

Welcome back to episode 9 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. During this episode, Brandt talks about his background with yoga and yoga therapy and how he got to be where he is today. He also helps one of his students with a client who is suffering from insomnia and PTSD who are rel...

Welcome to episode 8 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation podcast! In this episode, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua discusses the importance of cultivating softness and openness as part of our meditation practice. Softening and opening allow us to move through our emotional states, even very tough ones, quickly and more effortlessly. With practice, we being to be able to s...

Welcome back to episode 7 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. In this eye-opening Q&A Brandt answers students’ questions regarding the doshas and koshas with children, conditioning children, working with people who have just finished chemotherapy, and also how you can help people st...

Welcome to episode 6 of The Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and meditation podcast. Is pigeon pose always grounding? Is cobra pose always good for digestion? No, not necessarily! Listen in to this quick episode as Brandt Passalacqua, founder of Breathing Deeply, tells us why YOUR yoga manuals are not useful if they don't include variation, intention and assessment when thinking about the effects of...

Welcome to episode 5 of The Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and meditation podcast. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. One of the biggest challenges that new yoga teachers and therapists face is how to properly sequence warm-ups and classes that are safe, effective, and tailored to their students’ needs. In this episode, Brandt helps demyst...

Welcome to episode 4 of The Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and meditation podcast. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. If our clients don’t implement the practices we give them as yoga therapists into their daily lives, the tools we provide simply won’t work. As yoga therapists, it can be a challenge to help our clients change their habits...

In this episode, Breathing Deeply Founder & Lead Teacher, Brandt Passalacqua shares a lecture on reality re-examined as part of the Breathing Deeply Online Meditation Retreat. The reality that we can perceive with our senses is incomplete, there is more to this reality and through philosophical study and meditation, we can expand our awareness to encompass more aspects of reality. Brandt boils dow...

​​Welcome to episode 2 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and Meditation Podcast! At Breathing Deeply we offer Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT Advanced teacher training programs. Inside these programs, we have weekly Q&A sessions with students and Breathing Deeply founder & lead teacher. Brandt Passalacqua. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy st...

Today’s episode is a recording taken directly from a live Q&A session with Breathing Deeply founder, Brandt Passalacqua and students of our Yoga therapy foundations program. ​​Brandt covers how a yoga therapy session usually flows, whether you need to specialize as a yoga therapist, the difference between depression and anxiety and how you can approach these mental health conditions through the le...

Although valuable on their own, combining the concepts of "Discipline and Surrender" can be important for the evolution of our meditation practice. In this episode, meditation teacher Brandt Passalacqua references the Yoga Sutra and the Yoga Spandakarika texts as he explains how discipline, or "the willingness to maintain the perspective we have found through practice," can lead to a deep surrende...