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This episode explains how long it actually takes to become a yoga therapist, including the three stages most students move through, what each level of training involves, and how the timeline varies depending on your background, schedule, and professional goals. 🔗 Pathway Assessment: https://breathingdeeply.net/quiz?utm_source=youtube 🔗 BDYT Clinical Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:54 - Stage 1: Foundations level of training 02:20 - Stage 2: Advanced Yoga Therapy Training 03:34 - Stage 3: IAYT Certification 05:14 - The pathway at Breathing Deeply 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

Get an inside look into what it is like to be a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy student in this mentoring session with Breathing Deeply Director and lead teacher, Brandt Passalacqua. Questions covered in this episode cover how to heal Meniere’s Disease with yoga therapy and proven techniques to improve vagal nerve tone. Pathway Assessment: https://breathingdeeply.net/quiz?utm_source=youtube BDYT Clinical Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube Timestamps: 00:00 - My client has Meniere's Disease, what can I do to help them? 05:13 - Does sticking your tongue out really improve vagus nerve tone? 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

BDYT Clinical Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube This episode gives an honest answer to one of the most common questions prospective yoga therapy students ask: how much does a yoga therapist actually make. In this conversation, Breathing Deeply co-directors Brandt Passalacqua and Anna Passalacqua give an honest answer to this question. They cover how yoga therapy income is actually structured, the range of professional paths graduates build, what realistic growth looks like over time, and why the depth of clinical training is the single biggest factor in long-term professional success. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:17 - Is yoga therapy a real profession? 01:41 - How a yoga therapist's income can be structured 02:59 - The income structure of private yoga therapy practices 03:38 - Professional pathways we are seeing with our graduates 04:45 - The most common background of yoga therapists 05:38 - Career development as a yoga therapist 06:43 - An important factor for professional success 08:01 - The evolution of students to yoga therapists 09:33 - The clinical success of our practicum students 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 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

In this conversation, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua speaks with Melissa Russell, C-IAYT and Breathing Deeply graduate, about her yoga nidra for trauma. This episode explains how yoga nidra supports trauma recovery and PTSD, including what the practice actually involves, why it works on a neurological level, what the research shows, and what results people can realistically expect. 🔗Join us on Breathing Deeply Wellness: https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - What is yoga nidra? 02:29 - Yoga nidra vs meditation 03:50 - How yoga nidra helps with trauma 05:54 - The profound effects of breath awareness and trauma recovery 07:04 - Research done on yoga nidra 08:20 - The results Breathing Deeply has seen with yoga nidra for trauma 09:23 - Yoga nidra for trauma techniques 12:20 - Results you can expect from doing yoga nidra for trauma 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 video explains what yoga therapy training actually looks like from the inside, including how students develop real clinical skill, what the supervised practicum involves, and why the structure of clinical training matters more than hours or curriculum lists alone. 🔗 The BDYT Method: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - The Clinical Training Experience 02:25 - How different programs vary 03:37 - How guided case studies work 04:27 - Ongoing mentorship and supervision 05:18 - What happens inside the advanced practicum 06:23 - The Breathing Deeply Clinical Method 07:47 - Our students' outcomes with their practicum case studies 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 how yoga therapy treats anxiety, including the specific methods used, why they work on a physiological level, and how a structured yoga therapy practice produced a 90% reduction in anxiety symptoms in one client with a 20-year anxiety history. 🔗Join us on Breathing Deeply Wellness: https://breathingdeeply.com/wellness Timestamps Pod 00:00 - Introduction 00:39 - Anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the world 01:03 - Beneficial effects of yoga therapy for anxiety 01:49 - The Breathing Deeply methods for anxiety 02:15 - Yoga classes vs yoga therapy for anxiety 03:04 - Client success story 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 gives an honest answer to one of the most common questions prospective students ask: “is yoga therapy certification actually worth it?”, including who it is and isn't right for, what it realistically prepares you to do, and what determines whether the investment pays off. 🔗Free training video: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - The most important questions to explore 01:49 - Yoga therapy training isn't the right path for everyone 03:13 - What the career pathways are for yoga therapists 04:41 - The real value of yoga therapy training 05:09 - The Breathing Deeply Clinical Method 06:41 - Guided practicum mentorship at Breathing Deeply 09:08 - The different levels of yoga therapy training 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 how to evaluate yoga therapy training programs, including the different educational models used across the field, what supervised clinical practice actually looks like, and how the Breathing Deeply clinical method develops real therapeutic competence. 🔗Free training video: https://breathingdeeply.net/home--breathing-deeply-yoga-therapy/?utm_source=youtube Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:13 - The most important elements of training programs that do vary 02:03 - How to compare different yoga therapy trainings: 3 different learning models 04:47 - The clinical method: the approach at Breathing Deeply 05:40 - Breathing Deeply's practicum supervision: The Breathing Deeply difference 07:32 - The results our students have achieved in their practicum case studies 08:12 - The various yoga therapy training pathways you can take 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 how yoga therapy approaches chronic low back pain, including the assessment process, the practices prescribed, and the real client results achieved over nine months of one-on-one work. In this case study, Breathing Deeply founder Brandt Passalacqua speaks with SarahLyn McConaughey, C-IAYT and Breathing Deeply Advanced Program graduate, about a client who lived with debilitating low back pain for over 10 years. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 00:52 - About SarahLyn's client with chronic back pain 01:41 - The yoga therapy assessment process for chronic back pain 02:27 - The practices that were prescribed for lower back pain 04:07 - Breathing and mindfulness elements used to heal chronic back pain 05:12 - The results SarahLyn's client received for her back pain 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 credentials and clinical competence, including what actually makes an effective yoga therapist, how to evaluate certification programs, and the clinical framework that determines real outcomes with real clients. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:19 - About Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School 02:10 - The different levels of credentials at Breathing Deeply 02:33 - Credentials vs. clinical competence 03:33 - The real work of yoga therapy: 3 core abilities of an effective yoga therapist 05:04 - The BDYT Clinical Method: What makes students the most confident yoga therapists 06:10 - What our students say about their confidence to apply their training 07:16 - How to evaluate which yoga therapy certification to take 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