The Yoga Well Podcast

When you are stuck in a difficult situation, how do you know what to do? In the epic poem The Rāmāyana, Rama received important instructions while on the battlefield. Chase explains the context of this story, this moment in the text, and the āditya hṛdayaṁ chant, meant to honor the sun. If you want to do the right thing or are stuck in a difficult situation, your state of mind matters a lot. This chant was given to Rama to support him, may it support you. Want to learn more about sacred texts? Find our offerings at https://www.yogawell.com/our-offerings/

What makes Viniyoga a breath centered practice is the way we focus on breath as as origin of movement. In āsana, the bones or the structure of the body that we should care about the most is the spine. In fact, one of the most important ways of categorizing āsana is based on the movement of the spine, the way that the process of the āsana affects the movement of the spine, how all other parts: shoulders, hips, knees, etc. are affected by the position of the are affected by the position of the spine, and many other factors. An especially important part of this classification is how the breath supports the movement of the spine. When we look at the relationship between breathing and movement, what we see and experience as yoga practitioners is that, more than the movement aiding the breath, it's actually that the breath is the origin and instigator of physical movement. Join Chase for weekly classes on Wednesdays with Yoga for Meditation or free live class on Thursdays with 15-Minute Breathing & Meditation. Find these classes at https://www.yogawell.com/our-offerings/ 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 program, Advanced Viniyoga Applications: Prāṇāyāma - Breathing in Viniyoga. Learn more at https://courses.yogawell.com/advanced-viniyoga-applications-2

Welcome to your breath centered practice on our Viniyoga podcast. This meditation podcast with Chase Bossart, long-time student of TKV Desikachar, starts as a standing and kneeling practice, complimented with pauses after breathing, and building into pauses to nourish your happiness. Join Chase for weekly classes on Wednesdays with Yoga for Meditation or free live class on Thursdays with 15-Minute Breathing & Meditation. Want to discuss your practice experiences and hear about the teacher's course planning thoughts, too? Look into Yoga for Meditation's discussion class, The Application of Meditation, that meets twice monthly for a dive into the tools, unique experiences of participants and application of philosophical context. Or, join 15-Minute Breathing & Meditation as a monthly subscriber and access the course planning discussion that happens the last Thursday of the month. Any course purchase gives you access to a year of recordings for that class Learn more at https://www.yogawell.com/our-offerings/

Welcome to our Viniyoga podcast, and conversations that apply yoga philosophy for modern life. Join long-time student of TKV Desikachar and Executive Director of the Yoga Well Institute, Chase Bossart, in his discussion with Mary Stewart, Yoga Therapist in critical stabilization for 10-years at Cedar Hills Hospital Inpatient for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery in Portland, OR. Follow their conversation through topics including: using the tools of yoga to reconnect with a faith tradition of origin, relationships with God and spirit, the borrowing faith from a mentor when a student cant find it in self, the value of spiritual devotion and nature of surrender, the challenge of knowing if action is coming from kleśa or spirit, and our lives providing the opportunity to show what is important to us.

Chanting is a meditative tool in the Viniyoga tradition that illustrates the power of yoga beyond physical postures. Chanting can be breathwork. Chanting can be meditation. Chanting also takes time to learn. In Vedic Chanting, there are 3 mnemonic devices to support memorization: krama-pāṭhaḥ, jaṭā-pāṭhaḥ, and ghana-pāṭhaḥ. Explore these tools with Chase as he uses a portion of the Rudranamaskāra-mantraḥ. We begin each class with a chant to honor the teachers that have brought forward the teachings. Join us in carrying these teachings forward at at https://www.yogawell.com/our-offerings/

In this Viniyoga podcast, Chase connects yoga philosophy to breath based practice, the popularization of breathwork, and the 1,000-year tradition of yoga that gives these practices context. Listen in on our monthly Community Conversation, as Chase discusses the influence of Prāṇāyāma on Prāṇā. Within the popularization and proliferation of breathwork, there can be a tendency to explain yoga tools and techniques with descriptions of a Western allopathic focus. Chase reminds us of the ancient context and goal for these tools within a larger path of refining the human system and how it operates. 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 program, Advanced Viniyoga Applications: Prāṇāyāma - Breathing in Viniyoga. Learn more at https://courses.yogawell.com/advanced-viniyoga-applications-2

Welcome to our Viniyoga podcast where Chase Bossart, Executive Director of the Yoga Well Institute and long-time student of Mr. Desikachar hosts discussions of yoga for everyday life. In this episode, step into the Yoga Well classroom's weekly yoga philosophy course on the Yogasūtra as Chase presents a general overview of the 4 chapters of the text, exploring how this text serves as a user's manual for life. He'll discuss our ability to see our patterns, how the quality of our mind determines our experience, how we know our system is out of balance, and the steps outlined in the Yogasūtra to guide us. Want to join our weekly Yogasūtra class live and have access to a year of recordings? Learn more at https://courses.yogawell.com/patanjalis-yogasutra

Welcome to our Viniyoga podcast where we explore yoga philosophy, yoga therapy, and yoga beyond physical postures. This episode with Chase Bossart, long-time student of Mr. Desikachar, focuses on breath centered yoga. Yoga philosophy gives us the pathway to influence our mood, or our state, into balance. The more out of balance we are, the more affected we are by the goings-on of life. This is true for our breath, too. The length of one's breathing is a manifestation of their state. This can work both ways. If you want to change your state, you are also talking about changing your metobolic rate, your emotions, your stability in your physicality, they all depend on each other. He addresses the concepts of: finding the rhythm that illustrates the state you are in, adjusting one element at a time, and maintaining a rhythm tham allows for a state change. 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

Welcome to our Viniyoga podcast where we explore yoga philosophy, yoga therapy, and yoga beyond physical postures. Michelle Fury, C-IAYT, LPC is a professor at the Community College of Denver and a Clinician at Children's Hospital Colorado. Join her conversation with Chase as they discuss principles in applying yoga to youth, the unfolding process of yoga, stages of life, nature of yoga training and business, clarity from yoga guiding career and life choices, and the experience of deep study in a shared group. Find Michelle Fury at RhythmsYogaTraining.com. 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

Enjoy this Viniyoga practice podcast that artfully presents two different prāṇāyāma techniques to extend your breath. With the focus to movements that accentuate and support the mechanisms of breathing, this breath centered yoga practice includes gentle arm movements while resting on your back. 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