Podcasts and talks on breath and meditation

Start with “How Breathwork Opens the Door to Meditation” with The Inspired Yogi, because it covers the core of Andrew's teaching: using breath as the way into meditation. If stress is your main concern, “How to Actually Calm Your Nervous System (Not Just Breathe)” with Dr. Z is the next one to play. For silence and inner life, try “Embracing Silence: Secret to Thriving.”

Each conversation is hosted on YouTube. Listening without watching works well for all of them.

• Why Meditation Alone Isn’t Enough for Spiritual AwakeningSpiritual Ninja(opens on YouTube)
• How to Actually Calm Your Nervous System (Not Just “Breathe”)with Dr. Z(opens on YouTube)
• The Healing Power of Breath: Transform Your Brain, Body & LifeSusan LoPresti Guzman(opens on YouTube)
• How Breathwork Opens the Door to MeditationThe Inspired Yogi(opens on YouTube)
• Embracing Silence: Secret to ThrivingHealing with Rachel Abi(opens on YouTube)
• How to Find Yourself Again After DivorceDivorce to Bliss(opens on YouTube)
• Voice for the VoicelessMental Health Movement(opens on YouTube)
• The Pause That Wasn’t There: Sky Breath in RecoveryAlchemist Recovery(opens on YouTube)

Andrew has also been a guest on these audio podcasts. Search the titles in your podcast app.

• The Breath Is the Bridge

  Podcast, episode 122

• How Breathwork Opens the Door to Meditation

  Podcast

• Breathwork, Meditation & Mental Wellness

  Podcast

Across these talks, Andrew keeps returning to a few ideas. Breath is a bridge between the body and a quiet mind. Meditation on its own may not be the whole path, a point he explores with Spiritual Ninja. Breathwork has a place in recovery, as in “The Pause That Wasn't There: Sky Breath in Recovery” with Alchemist Recovery, and in mental health, as in “Voice for the Voiceless” with Mental Health Movement. He also speaks about rebuilding a life, in “How to Find Yourself Again After Divorce.” The same ideas run through his breathwork retreat.

The conversations explain the practice. The meditation retreats with Andrew Keaveney let you practice it with him for several days.

Where can I hear Andrew talk about breathwork?

This library’s podcasts page lists eight video conversations and three audio podcast appearances. Breathwork-focused ones include “How to Actually Calm Your Nervous System (Not Just Breathe)” with Dr. Z, “The Healing Power of Breath” with Susan LoPresti Guzman and “Breathwork, Meditation & Mental Wellness.”

How does breathwork relate to meditation?

Andrew teaches the two together, using breath as a way into meditation. He discusses the idea in the podcast “How Breathwork Opens the Door to Meditation” and in “The Breath Is the Bridge,” episode 122 of a podcast he appeared on. His retreat in Boone is titled the Breathwork & Meditation Retreat.

Does Andrew offer online breathwork classes?

No online breathwork classes are currently listed. Andrew’s breathwork teaching is listed as residential retreats in Boone, North Carolina. Online, you can hear him explain breathwork in podcast conversations such as “How Breathwork Opens the Door to Meditation” and “The Healing Power of Breath,” which are collected on the podcasts page of this library.

Are Andrew’s films, articles and podcasts free?

Yes, they are free to watch, read and listen to. The films and video conversations are on YouTube, the articles are published on Andrew’s Substack newsletter, Everyday Joy, and the podcast episodes appear on the hosts’ own shows. This library collects them in one place.

Who is Andrew Keaveney?

Andrew Keaveney is a breathwork and meditation teacher with over 17 years of teaching experience in the U.S. and India. He studied yoga, meditation and Sanskrit for four years at an ashram in India, helped launch the Art of Living Retreat Center and regularly teaches retreats there in Boone, North Carolina.

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