Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy & Meditation

In this episode, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Shelby Caffery, Breathing Deeply graduate about a 79 year old client who came in presenting knee & hip pain but revealed her real concern was severe depression that left her housebound and isolated.

After 21 sessions over one summer that had a special focus on meditation techniques, Shelby’s client was able to reclaim her life and her freedom. Tune in to hear her story.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - About Shelby's client suffering with depression
03:07 - What yoga therapy tools Shelby gave her client for depression
05:43 - The importance of meditation for Shelby's client
07:09 - How Shelby's client is doing now
09:52 - The power of chanting meditations for Shelby's client

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:
• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma
• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases
• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions
• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

This epsiode explains how yoga therapy approaches balance dysfunction and neurological symptoms through a real client case study, including the specific practices used, how quickly results appeared, and what made this approach different from everything Bill had already tried.

In this conversation, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Sophie, a certified yoga therapist and Breathing Deeply graduate, and her client Bill, who had been experiencing severe balance dysfunction for several months and restored his balance completely within two months using a 15-minute daily yoga therapy practice.

🔗 Work with a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapist: https://breathingdeeply.com/work-with-a-yoga-therapist/
🔗 Join the Breathing Deeply Wellness Program: https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

______

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:
• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma
• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases
• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions
• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

This episode explains the difference between yoga therapy and physical therapy, including what each does exceptionally well, where they overlap, when to choose one over the other, and why some of the best healing outcomes happen when both approaches work together.

🔗 Learn more about becoming a yoga therapist: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:42 - The similarities and differences between yoga therapy and physical therapy
03:27 - When you should see a physical therapist vs when to see a yoga therapist
05:23 - Combining yoga therapy and physical therapy: An example
06:15 - Clinical maturity for yoga therapists
06:50 - How you can use yoga therapy to complement your physical therapy career

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:
• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma
• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases
• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions
• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

This episode explains what actually happens inside a yoga therapy session, including the intake process, how assessment works, how a practice is built for an individual, why yoga therapy is fundamentally different from private yoga, restorative yoga, or modified group classes and the type of training that is required.

🔗 Learn more about becoming a yoga therapist: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube
🔗 Work with a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapist: https://breathingdeeply.com/work-with-a-yoga-therapist/

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - What people think yoga therapy is vs what it really is
01:52 - What actually happens inside yoga therapy sessions
05:29 - How yoga therapy differs from the western medical system
06:08 - An example of how we work with back pain
06:53 - An example of how we work with more complex cases like autoimmune disease
08:59 - Why where someone is trained for yoga therapy really matters

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:
• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma
• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases
• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions
• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness

In this conversation, Breathing Deeply Founder and Lead Teacher Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Jen Herndon, C-IAYT and Breathing Deeply Advanced Program graduate, about a client navigating multiple complex diagnoses including POTS, fibromyalgia, Hashimoto's disease, IBS, and EDS.

Jen shares how she approached assessment and therapeutic design for someone with multiple autoimmune conditions that are debilitating and notoriously difficult to treat. Jen traces the progress her client made across 15 months of consistent yoga therapy work.

🔗Find Jen on Breathing Deeply Wellness: www.breathingdeeply.com/wellness
🔗Interest in becoming a yoga therapist like Jen? Watch this free training video: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube

Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - About Jen's POTS client
02:35 - Yoga therapy practices that Jen prescribed for POTS
07:01 - What results she received from yoga therapy and how long it took
08:47 - The reality of how difficult POTS is to have and treat
09:55 - How Jen feels after seeing her client come so far with this diagnosis

Yoga therapy is a growing clinical field that helps people work with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions using evidence-informed yoga practices.

Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School provides professional yoga therapy training programs designed to prepare you to work safely and effectively with real clients.

Our graduates are trained to work with:
• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma
• Chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases
• Chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions
• Fatigue, burnout, and complex long-term health challenges

Learn about professional yoga therapy training: https://breathingdeeply.com

If you're looking for yoga therapy for your own health, explore Breathing Deeply Wellness: Guided programs, practices, and support for mental health, chronic conditions, and long-term wellbeing. https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness