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
09/02/2024
Session Number
8
Total Session Minutes
105
Homework assignment to client/group
1. Journal about the kleshas - article
https://integralyogamagazine.org/four-locks-four-keys-a-simple-approach-to-relationships/
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. Practice the Affirmation (from “Scientific Healing Affirmations” By Paramahansa Yogananda)
Thought-Affirmation.
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
4. Read your Guru’s lessons before sleep.
5. Practice 3 part breath. Use this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI055S7g7Xs
Activities
Check-in with the client: Did you practice SS? Affirmations on the mirror? Journaling about 2.15 sutra? Yoga Nidra? Guruji’s lessons? Belly breath?
Yoga philosophy: Kleshas
Back to the article: https://integralyogamagazine.org/the-yoga-of-suffering-its-philosophy-and-practice/
Sun salutation on the floor
back bend: adapted fish
forward bend: Apanasana, supta padangustasana with strap
Inversion - viparita with block
supine twist
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 alternate nostril breathing
MEDITATION: Affirmations for Healing.
CLOSING
Client/Group progress summary
She was feeling very well. She finished her last acupuncture session last week. She is studying the koshas in Julie Lusk’s book and was amazed to know the healing that comes from yoga nidra and that Yoga Therapy works with the koshas. So we talked about the koshas before talking about the Kleshas. She did journaling on the yoga of suffering and the vrittis.
Tomorrow she will meet her electrophysiologist and is apprehensive that he is going to suggest oblation. I suggested that she ask him about the side effects and then she can decide if she is doing it or not. Better be in the moment.
I noticed that when she breaths, her chest is fluttering. In the dirgha swasan, she is inhaling belly-ribs-chest, but exhaling first through the belly and then the chest. We need to work more on that.
She asked her primary doctor for an Endocrinologist referral but didn’t get an answer yet.
She liked the affirmation. She will record it and visualize her cells drinking prana. She loved the adapted fish, with a bolster under her thoracic spine and a pillow under her head. This asana opens up the thoracic cavity for more prana.
She was just practicing the Sun salutation at home. Today she asked me for the whole sequence and I sent it to her.
Reflection and self-evaluation
I love to connect with JD, she is very open to healing, and we have deep conversations. The problem is that we lose track of time. I always ask her if it’s ok to finish some minutes later and she always agrees. She said, “ I could be here the whole afternoon.” And I feel the same.
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: Did you practice SS? Affirmations? Journaling about 2.15 sutra? Yoga Nidra? Guruji’s lessons? Belly breath? Journal about Kleshas?
Yoga philosophy: Kleshas
Back to the article: https://integralyogamagazine.org/the-yoga-of-suffering-its-philosophy-and-practice/
Sun salutation on the floor
back bend: bhujangasana
forward bend: Apanasana, supta padangustasana with strap
Inversion - viparita with block
chair twist
Savasana.
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra (Experiencing the dissolving of the five Kleshas. Nischala Devi, in the secret power of yoga)
PRANAYAMA: 3-part breath and alternate nostril breathing
MEDITATION - Affirmations for Healing.
CLOSING
Report briefly on each Kosha below
Progress toward wellness or worsening reported by the client/group or that you observed in the following areas
