Enjoy this meditation podcast with breath-centered yoga focusing on the space in your heart. Gentle movements on your back with breath regulation evolve into a meditation on the space in your heart. This practice is a sample of Yoga Well's weekly practice class, Yoga for Meditation.

Learn more at https://courses.yogawell.com/Yoga-for-Meditation

In this Viniyoga podcast, Chase Bossart and Pam Hardy discuss their personal journeys through cancer with the aid of their yoga practices. The intersection of meditation, breath-centered yoga, mind body connection, and yoga philosophy come through in their conversation including topics of self-knowing translating into personal advocacy, the foundation of clarity in decision making, yoga providing an openness so things can move, addressing fear of death and grief, the body as a manifestation of identity and qualities, and textural references to Yogasūtra I.29 & 30, Yogasūtra III.13, and the Sāṁkhya Kārikā.

Find Pam in Bend, Oregon at pamh@pamhardy.yoga. As breathing is increasingly recognized as an important part of human physiology by western therapeutics, Chase Bossart, Yoga Well's Executive Director, clarifies the foundational physiological understanding of yoga and how this relates to prāṇāyāma practices including concepts, applications, and tools in our upcoming program, Advanced Viniyoga Applications: Prāṇāyāma - Breathing in Viniyoga. Learn more at https://courses.yogawell.com/advanced-viniyoga-applications-2

In the Viniyoga tradition that has been handed down to us through Kṛṣṇamacarya and TKV Deśikachar, the Viniyoga tradition emphasizes breath-centered yoga. Moreover, we present engagement with breath as deeply tied to lessons from yoga philosophy. As breathing is increasingly recognized as an important part of human physiology by Western therapeutics, Chase Bossart, Yoga Well's Executive Director, clarifies the foundational physiological understanding of yoga and how this relates to prāṇāyāma practices, including concepts, applications, and tools.

Learn more about the Advanced Viniyoga Applications Program: Prāṇāyāma - Breathing in Viniyoga at https://courses.yogawell.com/advanced-viniyoga-applications-2

Āsana (the physical postures) is the most visible practice of yoga, yet for many practitioners, its true aims and purposes often feel mysterious and unclear. In this edition of the Yoga Well's free monthly live discussion series, Chase Bossart helps to contextualize Yoga's physical postures in order to better unlock personal and spititual transformation. The Yoga Well Discussion series takes place on the last Tuesday of every month, starting at 11:30amPT/2:30pmET. Sign up for our email list for details on topics and how to join. www.yogawell.com

In this prāṇāyāma practice with ujjāyī breathing, you are guided to count different aspects of the breath, developing inhale, exhale, hold after exhale, and hold after inhale into a samāna ratio. Breath is an important tool in yoga.

You will find breath-based focus in our āsana and meditation classes. Learn the how and why of breathing practices in our 300-hour practitioner and seeker training Deepen Your Yoga Practice: https://www.yogawell.com/deepen-your-yoga/

This episode of our Viniyoga podcast weaves together therapeutic yoga and yoga philosophy through a discussion of meditation, presence, and integrity - in the largess of community and the intimacy of death. Chase speaks with Sarah Capua, certified Yoga Therapist, Zen Practitioner, and End-of-Life Doula, about Yoga as spiritual work.

Find a quiet place to be with this beautiful discussion of how painful experiences are the opportunity for transformation of spirit, how practice is inseparable from the evolution of our everyday life, and how the values and ethics in Zen & Yoga Therapy direct practice and teaching.

Sarah explores her lessons as an End-of-Life Doula and presents death as a spiritual view that is asking us to be awake. Find Sarah at www.SarahCapua.com. Learn more about the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram at KYM. org. Learn more about Yoga Well's offerings at https://www.yogawell.com/our-offerings/

Students will notice that we use Saṁskṛta terminology and practice traditional Vedic chanting at the Yoga Well Institute. This is keeping in with the Viniyoga tradition we have learned from Mr. TKV Deśikachar. Chase Bossart, our Executive Director, explains the importance of maintaining the foundational concepts that are linked to Saṁskṛta by using the examples of pramāṇa and yoga.

Join a live weekly class or take a self-paced, pre-recorded course. Learn more at https://www.yogawell.com/our-offerings/

What is the role does yoga plays in transformation? Applying yoga philosophy to modern life is a key component of the Viniyoga tradition. The context and tools provided through yoga philosophy affect how we perceive, understand, respond, and make meaningful change in our lives. Join Chase Bossart, the Executive Director of the Yoga Well Institute, and Yoga Therapist Cathy Christoff for a conversation about how practice and study serve as containers that support life's changes.

Explore how personalized meditation tools support awareness changes. They talk through particular meditative objects, what was happening in her life at the time, and the qualities these objects provided for her to experience changes resulting in clarity, discernment, and authenticity. You can listen to the referenced Laura Jane Mellencamp's podcast with Yoga Well that posted in September of 2024. Find Cathy Christoff, a Yoga Therapist in the Chicago area, at CenterHeartYoga.com Join Chase's weekly Yogasūtras course. You can learn more about this offering at https://courses.yogawell.com/patanjalis-yogasutra