  The use of Heavy Quark Symmetry to study bottom and charmed baryons leads to
important simplifications of the non-relativistic three body problem, which
turns out to be easily solved by a simple variational ansatz. Our simple scheme
reproduces previous results (baryon masses, charge and mass radii, $...$)
obtained by solving the Faddeev equations with simple non-relativistic
quark--quark potentials, adjusted to the light and heavy--light meson spectra.
Wave functions, parameterized in a simple manner, are also given and thus they
can be easily used to compute further observables. Our method has been also
used to find the predictions for strangeness-less baryons of the SU(2) chirally
inspired quark-quark interactions. We find that the one pion exchange term of
the chirally inspired interactions leads to relative changes of the $\Lambda_b$
and $\Lambda_c$ binding energies as large as 90%.
