Please include at least one suggestion from Karma, Bhakti, Raja, or Jnana Yoga tailored for this client/group.
Over time, we want to see something from each branch, selected, adapted and re-framed appropriately. Tools from each module should be used (not on each client/group – but overall)
The outline should show the sequence of practices as you plan to offer them. Your care plan proposal should be approved by the mentor before session 2 if possible, or 3 if approval is delayed by mentor.
Session
Session Instructions (Not Mentoring)
Your session outline should be a practice adapted to the needs of that client, including:
Check in, centering, balanced hatha yoga set considering contraindications, relaxation (with imagery as appropriate),
Include at least one suggestion from Karma, Bhakti, Raja, or Jnana Yoga tailored for this client.
Over time, we want to see something from each branch, selected, adapted and re-framed appropriately. Tools from each module should be used (not on each client – but overall)
Session Date
08/02/2024
Session Number
5
Total Session Minutes
120
Homework assignment to client/group
Centering.
Asana Poses (notice where you have tension):
Tadasana.
Half-Moon standing.
Ardhad Chandrasana (like a 5 pointed star) do with one hand on a chair.
Chair Yoga:
Half Locust holding on to back of chair.
Flexion & extension of the spine on chair (wavelike smooth motion).
Chair Cobra.
Seated Forward Bend/Turtle.
Table top spinal stretch, holding the chair and stepping back.
Twist on a chair.
Body Scan – down and up
Netra Viyayamum
Breathing practice – Nadi Sudi
Meditation on the breath, with imagery for healing. Use a Meditation Shawl.
Review:
Sutra I.5 There are five kinds of mental modifications which are either painful or painless.
Sutra I.14: Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness. (Practice that is done for a long time, without break and with sincere devotion becomes a firmly grounded.)
Activities
Centering.
Asana Poses (with noticing where she has tension):
Standing:
Tadasana
Half-Moon standing
Ardhad Chandrasana against the wall – like a 5 pointed star, do against wall or with one hand a chair.
Chair Yoga:
Half Locust holding on to back of chair.
Flexion & extension of the spine on chair (wavelike smooth motion).
Chair Cobra.
Seated Forward Bend/Turtle.
Table top spinal stretch, holding the chair and stepping back.
Twist on a chair.
Body Scan – down and up
Netra Viyayamum
Meditation on the breath, with imagery for healing.
Discussion on how the assignments went for client. How the personal sadhana is going?
Briefly review Wisdom teaching - Sutra I.3 – Then the Seer [Self] abides in His own nature, and Sutra I.4 – At other times [the Self appears to] assume the forms of the mental modifications.
Wisdom Teaching: Sutra I.5 There are five kinds of mental modifications which are either painful or painless.
Sutra I.14: Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.
Client/Group progress summary
Client is doing her best to practice both asana and meditation. She has been traveling a lot and this makes it hard for her to do it at a set time, but she finds a way to get it in during the day. Client is trying to be mindful and present and non-judgmental.
Client has had a lot of family meetings and issues that have happened since our last session, she has been able to remember that it’s the vritti when her mind goes away, she said “When I start getting away in the mind, it’s gotten easier to say it’s just vritti – it’s just thoughts.”
Reflection and self-evaluation
We studied Sutras I.5 and I.14. We talked about how pleasurable thoughts, expectation and attachment bring pain.
Client really like the idea of using a shawl while she meditated.
Final Client/Group Report
After seeing your client/group (for at least 4 sessions including interactive intake)
Please remember practicum is a learning experience. You’ll learn more from sharing what’s accurate than from what might “look good”. Things you did well, not so well, problems and questions are all valid and useful tools to teach you. We can’t serve you to become the best clinician you can be if you don’t share your challenges and mistakes. Success is anything from which you learn. You can continue to add Session entries after submitting this Final Client/Group Report.
Plan for next session
Centering.
Asana Poses (with noticing where she has tension):
Tadasana
Half-Moon standing
Chair Yoga:
Half Locust holding on to back of chair.
Flexion & extension of the spine on chair (wavelike smooth motion).
Seated Forward Bend/Turtle.
Table top spinal stretch, holding the chair and stepping back.
Twist on a chair.
Seegra Savaasana
Body Scan
Breathing practice – Nadi Sudi
Meditation on the breath, with imagery for healing.
Discuss Titiksah - "even-mindedness under all conditions, a changeable mind perceives a changeable creation and it is easily disturbed. The unchangeable soul and the unruffled mind on the other hand behold behind the masks of change the eternal spirit" ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Sutra I.15 – Vairagyam/Non-attachment – The consciousness of self-mastery in one who is free from craving for objects seen or heard about is non-attachment. Page 22-27
KOSHAS: Discuss the Koshas.
Report briefly on each Kosha below
Progress toward wellness or worsening reported by the client/group or that you observed in the following areas
