Living In Alignment Mark Breadner - Yoga Beyond the Body
Mark Breadner is a luminary in the world of yoga and meditation education, boasting over five decades of devoted practice. Known as a teacher of teachers and Australia's longest-serving yoga educator, Mark is the creator of YogaCoach and a certified somatic psychotherapist. He has dedicated his career to empowering yoga teachers to become transformational leaders. Beyond training thousands of yoga and meditation teachers, his expertise has led him to become a "Body/Mind" coach for Olympic Gold medalists and World Champions in swimming & surfing. His passion and focus aim to foster a new generation of yoga teachers, providing essential skills for this deeply transformative practice and teaching.
In this episode, uncover:
- Mark’s introduction to yoga through his mother as a child
- How Mark came to yoga and came to teaching as a teenager
- What Mark’s practice and life looked like in his early days
- Mark’s experience of traveling India years ago and what it showed him
- Mark’s vision and mission for yoga teachers and facilitating teacher trainings
- What prana is and why this understanding is fundamental to the practice and path of yoga
- The basics of subtle yogic anatomy
- Misunderstandings and risks around the Breathwork trend and pranayama
- How the Western interest in science needs to be paired with Spirit
- How Yoga is now part of the fitness movement as an alternate fitness offering
- Seeing the body through the lens of yoga
- The questionable value of Western anatomy and physiology in the context of yoga
- What we lose through the commercialisation of yoga
- How Yoga Teachers can avoid becoming a commodity
- How yoga could be at the leading edge of the health and wellbeing industry
- How a Yoga Teacher can find their niche within their work in the world
- Yoga without asana
- How mastery of mental stability must arise before building prana
- How to get the most change and improvement in your body whilst being kind to oneself
- The essential, holistic, sequential approach to yoga
- How to live yoga and embrace being an energetic, subtle being
- The value of fasting as it pertains to yoga
- Mark’s 3 recommended books
- His message to yoga teachers
UPCOMING EVENTS:
2023:
NEWCASTLE Sept 16th
CENTRAL COAST Sept 17th
BRISBANE Sept 23
SOUTH SYDNEY Sept 30
BALI Meditation Training Immersion Oct 27-31
FREE BREATH CHALLENGE: https://challenge.yogacoach.com/
Connect with Mark via his website https://www.yogacoach.com/ and also on Instagram @mark.breadner or https://www.instagram.com/mark.breadner/
Mentioned:
IYTA - International Yoga Teachers Association
The Oxygen Advantage - Patrick McKeown
Tantra of the Yoga Sutras - Alan Finger
The Kybalion