The Yoga Well Podcast

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