• Check in, centering, balanced hatha yoga set considering contraindications, relaxation (with imagery as appropriate),
• Balanced pranayama considering contraindications, meditation/centering.
• Include at least one suggestion from Karma, Bhakti, Raja, or Jnana Yoga tailored for this client.

Observe breath, thoughts
Create an affirmation for you and use it every morning, when you wake up.
Practice dirgha swasan (3 part breath) for 5 minutes every day with this video:

Practice the lion's roar.
legs up the wall (stretching and breathing)

Check-in with the client
Talk about diet and the concept of healing in Ayurveda called swasta, which means being established in your own being.
One who is established in the Self, who has balanced dosas (primary life force), balanced agni (fire of digestion), properly formed dhatus (tissues), proper elimination of malas (waste products), well-functioning bodily processes, and whose mind, soul and senses are full of bliss is called a healthy person. (Sushruti Samhita 15/48)

CENTERING
SITTING, OBSERVING BREATH AND SENSATIONS

ASANAS(respect your body))
Warm up the neck to relax muscles that tighten with stress.
Chair Sun salutation (SMTT manual page 65)
Always aware of breath and sensations in her body.
Backbend: warrior 1 (standing, one hand holding the chair)
Forward bend: janusirshansana/ pashiotanasana (chair)
Inversion: viparita/legs up the wall
Twist: Ardha matsyendrasana
Savasana

Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation
PRANAYAMA: breath awareness - lion’s roar
MEDITATION - breathing imagery
CLOSING

I noticed during the sun salutation that her arms did not stretch much.
She felt stretched and had better balance after sun salutation.
We could see her face lit up.
She says she feels winded all the time. Her breath is mostly through the chest, and it’s why we began with Dirgha Svasan.
With her legs up to the chair, she felt her legs stretching. She didn't have a wall to put her legs up but she will do it as homework.
During the meditation, I asked her to visualize 2 words as 2 mantras. When inhale, visualize something you want for yourself, when exhale, visualize something you want to get rid of, that doesn't belong to you anymore. She told me later, that she used the word “strength” in the inhale and “weakness” in the exhale. So this confirmed the warrior asana and the lion roar pranayama.
I asked her to consider consulting an Ayurvedic doctor. She said she would try but she just found one in the main part of the town that she doesn't want to go. I also asked her to walk every day.

I really liked the outcome of the session. She doesn’t talk much, I have to ask all the time what she is experiencing, but everyone is different and that’s good for me to work with different types of people.
She said she is vata/kapha. Her Kapha is much more out of balance than her vata, we can see it very clearly: sleep apnea, weight, difficulty moving, and changing.

CENTERING - SITTING, OBSERVING BREATH AND SENSATIONS
Choose an affirmation.
ASANAS(respect your body))
Warm up the neck to relax muscles that tighten with stress.
Chair standing Sun salutation (SMTT manual page 65)
Always aware of breath and sensations in her body.
Backbend: warrior 2
Forward bend: downward dog, hands on the chair
Inversion: viparita/legs up the wall
Twist: Ardha matsyendrasana
Savasana
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra
PRANAYAMA: Ujjaiy breath (with asanas) and breath of joy
MEDITATION
CLOSING