• 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.

1. Thich Nhat Hanh says “The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already on the path of release from it." Write in your journal about the "how".
2. Practice Sun salutation on the floor and 15 minutes of Yoga Nidra 1, 2, 3 (chapter 6, Yoga Nidra meditations, Julie Lusk on Audible).
3. Affirmations: Write an affirmation you like in your restroom mirror and repeat it daily.
4. Read your Guru’s lessons before sleep.
5. Practice the Heart coherence meditation for 5 minutes, with deep exhalations.
6. Walk meditation once a week.

Check-in with the client: Did you practice SS? Affirmations? Journaling about suffering? Yoga Nidra? Guruji’s lessons? Belly breath?
Yoga Philosophy:
Continue with Yoga Sutra 2.15 and the article about it.

Sun salutation on the floor
back bend: bridge
forward bend: Apanasana, supta padangustasana with strap
Inversion - viparita with block
Twist- gentle supine with pillows
Savasana.
Progressive Relaxation with Sri Swami Satchidananda (Julie’s book)
PRANAYAMA: Belly breathing exercise. Talk about the power of diaphragmatic breathing
https://www.healthline.com/health/diaphragmatic-breathing#benefits
https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/belly-breathing-benefits

MEDITATION: concentration on your heart
Renewal exercise – Heart coherence (Heart Math Institute)
“Step one
Focus your attention on the area of the heart.
Imagine your breath is flowing in and out of your heart or chest area, breathing a little slower and deeper than usual.
Suggestion: Inhale 5 seconds, exhale 5 seconds
Step two
Make a sincere attempt to experience a regenerative feeling such as appreciation or care for someone or something in your life.
Suggestion: Try to re-experience the feeling you have for someone you love, a pet, a special place, an accomplishment, etc., or focus on a feeling of
calm or ease.
*Feel Your Heart
Pay attention to your chest area and to your heart.
The heart responds rapidly to whatever is going on around you. It can leap for joy at seeing someone you love, feel heavy and constricted when you’re sad, pound fiercely when you are afraid. It gives us important clues about our lives.
Listen to your heart carefully and ask what messages it may have for you.”
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She read the article but didn’t write her thoughts in the journal.
She is happy to read again about the Hong So technique, it is improving her pranayama.
She has 0 pain! ( https://www.va.gov/WHOLEHEALTHLIBRARY/docs/Defense-and-Veterans-Pain-Rating-Scale.pdf)
But with no stamina, no energy, and no strength, she went to Cosco and needed to sit and drive in the electric wheelchair.
Saturday Morning: when the pain was coming, she lay down and it was gone.
Sunday and Monday: no pain
Getting out of bed is bad for her. She wakes up every two hours to go to the restroom and her husband disturbs her sleep with the CPAP machine. She wants to wake up at 6:30 but can’t. I suggested she try to wake up at 7:30, she needs to rest now.
At the end of the class, I asked how she felt and she said she always felt with higher energy after the class, and because of pranayamas, she felt her OM chant was stronger.
I noticed that in the diaphragmatic breathing, she is expanding her belly more and not using her chest too much.

I felt happy that her health was slowly improving.
I gave a gentle twist as her pain subsided. We tried supine, but because of the fusion on her back, she couldn’t twist with her shoulder on the floor. It was an uncomfortable position for her.
We tried the gentle twist sitting on the chair, and she liked it and felt good.

Check-in with the client: Did you practice SS? Affirmations? Journaling about 2.15 sutra? Yoga Nidra? Guruji’s lessons? Belly breath?
Yoga philosophy: Kleshas

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 nidraYour body as a healing garden (Therapeutic Yoga kit, Cheri Clampet, and Mithoefer, page 159)
PRANAYAMA: 3-part breath and bee breath
MEDITATION: Affirmations for Healing. Where there is Light, P. Yogananda, page 38, 39.
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