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
08/12/2024
Session Number
2
Total Session Minutes
90
Homework assignment to client/group
- Practice the adapted sun salutation on your bed or floor.
- Journaling: It is an excellent practice for relieving stress. The self-awareness and self-care help with “stress less” and “love more” themselves and others.
- Yoga Nidra meditations, Julie Lusk on Audible. Find a Yoga Nidra that you like and use it before your afternoon nap or at night.
- Affirmations: You can practice one affirmation daily, and check how you feel.
- Read: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22881-back-spasms
Suggested affirmations:
Affirmation in the Guided Meditation on Expanding Love (video)
“Thou art love and I'm made in Thy image. I am the cosmic sphere of love in which I behold all planets, all stars, all beings, all creation as glimmering lights. I am the love that illumines the whole universe.”
Affirmation by Power of Thought
Concentrate Thought on the forehead, and repeat the following:
“I think my life to flow
I know my life to flow
From brain to all my body to flow.
Streaks of light do shoot
Through my tissue-root.
The flood of Life through vertebrae
Doth rush through spine in froth and spray
The little cells all are drinking
Their tiny mouths all are shining
The little cells all are drinking
Their tiny mouths all are shining.”
- Check in with the client
Suggest to her to ask her primary doctor to refer her to a neurosurgeon about her back spasms, maybe they can order an X-ray to check what could be the issue on her back. Also, PD needs to check her blood to search for autoimmune diseases.
Yoga Philosophy: Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, sutra 2.16
“Those who investigate the ways of life find that pain, sorrow, dissatisfaction, and a feeling of persistent, pervasive precariousness are surely a part of all experiences. This is duhkha. It is due to:
Fear over losing what is gained
The impermanence of all things
Subconscious habit patterns (samskaras) created under the influence of ignorance that sustain craving and ignorance
Changes of mood and mindset due to the interplay of the forces of nature (gunas)58 that vie for dominance in the mind”
Carrera, Reverend Jaganath. Inside Patanjali's Words: Explore the Heart of Yoga (pp. 247-248). Integral Yoga®.
Asanas:
She is having muscle spasms that stop when her back is supported. So she needs to have her back supported all the time.
For this session, we will change the procedure and see what happens. Now the priority is not osteoporosis, but calming her spasms with therapeutic yoga. The activity must include care for her heart (Afib, congestive heart). And also have in mind her vata imbalance (dry mouth, afib, spasm). Her ayurvedic doctor said her body is very vata, fast, and dry. She needs to balance samana, vyana, and apana vayus (contracting, expanding, and grounding). These are the doshas related to vata as Dr. David Frawley mentioned in “Yoga for your type”.
Sun salutation on the floor (she will receive the video).
No back bends and forward bends today.
Inversion - legs up the wall
No twist
Savasana.
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra
From Julie Lusk’s book Yoga Nidra Meditations (pages 136 to 143)
PRANAYAMA: bumble breath - bhramari
MEDITATION pranayama with imagery
CLOSING
Client/Group progress summary
Downward dog gives some relief to her.
She thinks her muscle spasms are connected to her dry mouth.
She has done two Yoga Nidra recordings and loved them. I showed Julie Lusk’s book and suggested she could have it on audible. She bought it right there on her phone.
She said she is very harsh on herself feeling depressed because she didn't follow the recommendations of her doctor. about this, I told her to be playful. She is afraid of weighing herself, I asked her if it was a doctor's suggestion, and she said it was from 2 years ago. Then I told her that maybe she could weigh herself once a week, but not every day, but check with her doctor first. She agreed with me.
Reflection and self-evaluation
I changed the yoga asana plan from Dr Loren Fishman’s adapted sequence to a whole sequence on the floor and no twists. I was happy to see that this worked better for her for now.
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
Check-in with the client
Yoga Philosophy: 4 locks and 4 keys - to create peace of mind. This can help her to not be too harsh on herself.
Sun salutation on the floor (she will receive the video).
No back bends and forward bends today.
Inversion - legs up the wall
No twists
Savasana.
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra
PRANAYAMA: alternate nostril breathing
MEDITATION pranayama with imagery
Report briefly on each Kosha below
Progress toward wellness or worsening reported by the client/group or that you observed in the following areas
