• 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.

Practice the adapted sun salutation on your bed or floor.
Journaling about 4 locks and 4 keys
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.
Suggested affirmation: “I accept the challenges that come to me as opportunities to grow stronger and clearer about how best to use my energy and focus of attention.”
Read your Guru’s lessons before sleep.
Practice the 3-part breath for 5 minutes a day, with deep exhalations.

Check-in with the client
Did you journal? Did you have any insight? Did you practice Yoga nidra? Affirmations?

Yoga Philosophy: 4 locks and 4 keys - to create peace of mind.
1.The 4 locks and 4 keys
“The four locks are: sukha (happy people), dukha (unhappy people), punya (the virtuous), and apunya (the not-so-virtuous). At any given moment, any person – including ourselves – can fit into one of these four categories.
The four keys are: maitri (friendliness or loving-kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (delight), and upeksha (disregard or equanimity). Patanjali reminds us that there is a Yogic way of approaching all people, no matter what behaviors and attitudes they may be exhibiting at the moment.”
Check this website for more about the four locks and four keys:
https://www.theyogasanctuary.biz/inside-the-yoga-sutras-the-keys-to-peace-1-33/

How can we communicate with others/yourself using the keys? How can we express compassion toward the unhappy without being drowned by their sadness?
How can we express disregard/equanimity toward those not-so-virtuous?

Sun salutation on the floor
back bend: bridge
forward bend: Apanasana
Inversion: viparita with block
No twists
Savasana.
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra (relaxation script to cope with problems SMTT p.192)
PRANAYAMA: alternate nostril breathing for healing script (SMTT p. 130)
MEDITATION: Affirmation to reshape the mind: “I accept the challenges that come to me as opportunities to grow stronger and clearer about how best to use my energy and focus of attention.” (SMTT manual page 145)
CLOSING

She said this morning she felt pain but this didn’t stop her from coming to the session. She took a shower, ate, and had no pain when she arrived or during the session. She wrote to the PC doctor as I asked her.
She wrote in her journal about the secret chamber I mentioned in the former session, a safe place where our inner Self lives. Nischala Devi talks about the womb heart.
She practiced Yoga Nidra with Julie’s audiobook.
I noticed her hands were shaking and asked her about it. She said this pain is affecting her nervous system.
She said she had the cardiac monitor when she was watching the news and her pulse was 119, and she had problems sleeping. This morning, her pulse was 64.
I suggested that would be better if she did not watch the news, or just watch for 15 minutes, or read rather than watch. I also ask her to stop TV at least one hour before sleep, and read something peaceful, maybe her Guru’s lessons.
Then we began to talk about how we see things can change how we perceive situations, which was perfect to bring up the concept of the 4 locks and 4 keys, which she loved.
When she was leaving she asked me about some vegetarian recipes. I showed her some ways to use the spices in her cooking according to her Ayurvedic doctor’s prescription.

I enjoyed to see how she is improving. Although she still has the pain, her mind (manomaya kosha) is being affected by yoga, which is a signal of healing. I was going to give her a therapeutic supported back bend but she preferred the bridge, which is more advanced. The same thing for inversion posture, I suggested legs up the wall and she prefered viparita on the block! She memorized the sun salutation on the floor, she said she is doing it every day, and loves it.

Check-in with the client
Yoga Philosophy:
“In Yoga Sutra 2.15, Patanjali tells us that, “To one of discrimination, everything is painful indeed, due to its consequences: the anxiety and fear over losing what is gained; the resulting impressions left in the mind to create renewed cravings; and the constant conflict among the three gunas, which control the mind.” https://integralyogamagazine.org/the-yoga-of-suffering-its-philosophy-and-practice/

We need suffering in order to see the path. The origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the path leading to the end of suffering are all found in the heart of suffering. If we are afraid to touch our suffering, we will not be able to realize the path of peace, joy and liberation. Don’t run away. Make peace with it. The Buddha said:
“The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already on the path of release from it. —Thich Nhat Hanh

Sun salutation on the floor
back bend: stick pose with back bend
forward bend: Apanasana, supta padangustasana with strap
Inversion - viparita with block
No twists
Savasana.
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra
PRANAYAMA: with imagery (SMTT page 131)
MEDITATION: bee breath
CLOSING