Entry TypeGroup Yoga Therapy Session
Client/GroupVCU - 3 North
Entry CategoryCase Study
Select your mentorBrahmi Romero
Intake
Assessment
Approval Notice
Your care plan should be approved by your mentor, with any amendments they suggested, prior to your remaining Yoga Therapy sessions.
Care PlanOutline should be a practice adapted to the needs of that client/group, including:
  • Check in, centering, balanced hatha yoga set considering contraindications, relaxation (with imagery as appropriate),
  • balanced pranayama considering contraindications, meditation/centering.
  • 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),
  • Balanced pranayama considering contraindications, meditation/centering.
  • 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 Date08/27/2024
Session Number3
Total Session Minutes45
Homework assignment to client/group

Netra Vyayamam

Activities

Centering

Cleansing breaths, Dirga Swasam

Tadasana

Bouncing, Sun Breath, Gentle Twists w/ arm swingsTadasana - with windmill arms - Crescent R/L

Utkata Konasana Uttanasana

Transition to seated:

Joint Freeing: ankles, feet, toes

Seated Kapotasana

Ardha Paschimottanasana in the chair

Joint Freeing: hands, wrists, fingers

Netra Vyayamam

Shavasana and Yoga Nidra

Client/Group progress summary

Savannah - checked in feeling "good," slightly rajasic, very engaged in the practice.

Juliet - shared it was her first time trying yoga, tamasic, quiet but also very engaged in practice.

Cynthia - rajasic and enthusiastic for practice, shared she was very experienced in yoga and brought a mat for practice. Also engaged, but left before Shavasana. 

Joyce - tamasic, engaged more with the back half (seated portion) of the practice. 

Jermaine “May” - Rajasic, engaged with practice. Mid-way through commented that he was enjoying yoga and was going to try it more. 

All participants reported feeling "good," "calm" and "relaxed" at the end of the practice.

Reflection and self-evaluation

Often with the group in 3 North there is a lot of tamasic energy - heaviness, depression. While this group has more tamas than 4 North, it was the most engaged a group has been on 3N since I started teaching back in May. They shared feedback on what they were feeling in poses, laughed, smiled, asked questions. I really enjoyed guiding them and sharing the practice with them today. Because there was a little more rajas than usual it was the most active session I have led in 3N.

Final Client/Group ReportAfter 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

I will continue to teach next Tuesday, sharing the practice with whoever comes. This was the last session of the case study.

Report briefly on each Kosha belowProgress toward wellness or worsening reported by the client/group or that you observed in the following areas
Additional Information
Personal reflection from doing client/group.
Notify Mentor?Notify Mentor of Updates/Completion