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.

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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.