So what is a Yoga Therapist?
Listen in as Brandt Passalacqua, the creator of Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy, describes in his own words what a Yoga Therapist is and how they want to help others lessen suffering.
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Transcription
So what is a Yoga Therapist? I get asked this all the time and of course I often give answers about what we share, the techniques we use, physical asana vs meditation, what conditions we work with. But really at the core, a Yoga Therapist is a yogi and it’s a yogi who is committed to taking the knowledge gained as a yogi and sharing it with people who are suffering. As yogis we are trying to lessen our own suffering and therefore lessen the suffering of the world around us. As Yoga Therapists we are dedicated to lessening suffering in the world around us. Most of us become yoga therapists or want to become Yoga Therapists because we see that suffering, we see how yoga has helped us, and we want to share that information with the world. And that’s why we created Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy, to give the most efficient, practical way to do this that we could think of. {chanting}
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Listen in as Brandt discusses how a Yoga Therapist might work with a client who has already been to physical therapy, as well as some of the different approaches between the two therapies.