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
08/30/2024
Session Number
3
Total Session Minutes
90
Homework assignment to client/group
Observe breath, and thoughts (like you practice, put your thoughts in the bubble and let them go)
Read the article about 4 locks and 4 keys and journal about it
https://integralyogamagazine.org/four-locks-four-keys-a-simple-approach-to-relationships/
Create an affirmation for you and use it every morning, when you wake up.
Practice the lion's roar.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1LNLTHNxrzQ?si=TP8wjpGCtIDqgMCI
Practice one sun salutation (sequence is attached). You don't have to do 6 and 7.
Activities
Check-in with the client
Did you journal? had any insight? Practiced yoga Nidra? Affirmations?
Vertigo and yoga
“Yoga can help you regain balance, focus, coordination, and movement—and can help train the brain to counteract the effects of vertigo. Simple positions like Child’s Pose or Corpse Pose combined with deep, regular breaths can calm the body and mind. By reducing anxiety, yoga and deep breathing could prevent vertigo attacks in some people.” https://www.webmd.com/brain/remedies-vertigo
Vitamin D check? Primary Care Physician?
Drink enough water?
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://integralyogamagazine.org/patanjalis-words-the-four-keys/
https://integralyogamagazine.org/four-locks-four-keys-a-simple-approach-to-relationships/
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?
CENTERING - SITTING, OBSERVING BREATH AND SENSATIONS
Choose an affirmation.
ASANAS(respect your body))
Warm up the neck to relax muscles that tighten with stress.
Slow Eye movements to help with vertigo.
Chair standing Sun salutation (SMTT manual page 65)
Always aware of breath and sensations in her body.
Backbend: warrior 3 hands on the chair
Forward bend: child’s pose/ pashimotanasana (https://www.artofliving.org/us-en/yoga/benefits/yoga-for-vertigo)
“vertigo sufferers are cautioned against sudden forward bends”
Inversion: viparita/legs up the chair
Twist: Ardha matsyendrasana
Savasana
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra
PRANAYAMA: breath of joy and alternate nostril breathing
MEDITATION
CLOSING
Client/Group progress summary
She is sleeping better with the CPAP, about 8 hours a night, but she still feels rundown, there’s an undercurrent. She feels stiffness in her neck.
She went to a church retreat where she works as a bookkeeper. She said she thinks differently from them, for her, there is not just one path.
She is having problems with her new boss, her other boss was fired and she is afraid of being fired too.
Before the guided relaxation with visualization from the book The Therapeutic Yoga kit by Cherri Clampett, she felt a knot on her back, that dissolved after she visualized the breath as water, softening the muscle knot.
Reflection and self-evaluation
She is opening up more because she trusts me more. I was impressed with her ability to heal herself with visualization. I recorded guided relaxation and sent it to her.
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: Pratipaksha bhavana: see the positive in every situation (Patanjali Yoga Sutras)
CENTERING - SITTING, OBSERVING BREATH AND SENSATIONS
Choose an affirmation.
ASANAS(respect your body))
Warm up the neck to relax muscles that tighten with stress.
Slow Eye movements to help with vertigo.
Chair standing Sun salutation (SMTT manual page 65)
Always aware of breath and sensations in her body.
Backbend: bridge pose with support
Forward bend: child’s pose/ pashimotanasana (https://www.artofliving.org/us-en/yoga/benefits/yoga-for-vertigo)
“vertigo sufferers are cautioned against sudden forward bends”
Inversion: viparita/legs up the chair
Twist: Ardha matsyendrasana
Savasana
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra
PRANAYAMA: bhastrika and alternate nostril breathing
MEDITATION
CLOSING
Homework:
Observe breath, and thoughts (like you practice, put your thoughts in the buble and let them go)
Practice Pratipaksha Bhavana, see the positive in every situation
Create an affirmation for you and use it every morning, when you wake up.
Practice the lion's roar.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1LNLTHNxrzQ?si=TP8wjpGCtIDqgMCI
legs up the wall (stretching and breathing)
Report briefly on each Kosha below
Progress toward wellness or worsening reported by the client/group or that you observed in the following areas
