Yoga Therapy Hour with Amy Wheeler
Hi, this is Amy Wheeler and i have had the good fortune to travel the world learning about Yoga Therapy on a global scale, meeting many of the leaders in the field along the way.I want to share with you what i am learning as i interview our colleagues.
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Exploring Experiential Anatomy in Yoga Therapy Education (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Yoga Therapy Hour , Amy welcomes two guests whose work intersects at the heart of yoga therapy education: Leila Stuart and Kimberly Searl from the School of Integrative Health at Notre Dame of Maryland University. The conversation centers on the integration of Experiential Anatomy into a graduate-level yoga therapy curriculum, and what it means to move beyond memorization of anatomy into direct, embodied understanding. Rather than approaching anatomy as static knowledge, t
Move More, Breathe Less: Rethinking the Breath with Robin Rothenberg (opens the original)
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What if much of what we’ve been taught about the breath in yoga is backwards? In this episode, Amy sits down with yoga therapist and author Robin Rothenberg for a frank, eye-opening conversation that challenges one of yoga’s most cherished cues: “take a big breath.” After a respiratory crisis upended her own health, Robin discovered that the long, dramatic breaths she’d taught for years were making her symptoms worse, not better. The fix ran counter to everything she thought she knew about prana
Prāṇāyāma and Modern Breathwork: What's the Difference? (opens the original)
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Are prāṇāyāma and modern breathwork the same thing, or do they represent fundamentally different approaches to working with the breath? In this episode of The Yoga Therapy Hour , Amy Wheeler explores one of the most common questions arising in yoga therapy, wellness, and healthcare today. While both prāṇāyāma and modern breathwork involve conscious breathing practices that can influence stress, mood, attention, and overall well-being, their origins, purposes, and underlying frameworks are quite
Breath as a Portal: Conscious Connected Breathwork with Laurie Angress (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Yoga Therapy Hour , Amy Wheeler welcomes yoga therapist, meditation teacher, and breathwork facilitator Laurie Angress for a thoughtful conversation about conscious connected breathwork and its potential to serve as a portal into deeper self-awareness, healing, and connection. Laurie shares her personal journey into breathwork, including how curiosity led her to explore a practice that initially felt unfamiliar, despite decades of experience in yoga, meditation, and yoga t
From Āsana to Lived Experience: Yoga, Tantra, Somatics, and Lived Experience (opens the original)
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In this solo episode, Amy Wheeler explores a fascinating question: What happens when we look beneath the physical practice of yoga and return to its deeper purpose? Beginning with the history of āsana, Amy traces how yoga postures evolved from simple meditation seats into the diverse practices we know today. Along the way, she examines the Tantric influence of the Śiva Saṃhitā, the rise of embodied awareness in modern somatic practices, and the importance of lived experience as a pathway to unde
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