• 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.

When he wakes up with a stiff shoulder, I asked him to ice and do shoulder rolls and pendulum swings.
cat cow in the chair when he takes brakes from work

Start with icing his shoulder
Checking in about his pain level and ROM
Checking in about his breathing
His mood and stress level
Taught him 3 part breathing
Started with centering, mountain pose, shoulder roll, forward bend with his arm swinging freely and in a figure 8 pattern, then alternating, chest to chin with chin going left to right, ear to shoulder, chest openers.
Walking his hands up the wall as high as tolerated with an elastic band around his hands, the pause and breathing into the pose, then trying to just go a little further up.
cat cow with going into child pose then puppy pose as much as tolerated.
Then we paused, he iced his shoulder and I led him in a guided relaxation with the picture of imagining an iceberg melting away to unfreeze his shoulder and talked about tapas.
Then going on to the back in savasana, knee to chest pose with rolling sideways, then isometric core exercise with holding the knees in place by pressing against my palm holing to the count of 5 and 3 repetitions.
Leg raises to left and right with 5 repetions twice on both sides
Laying twist with focusing on his breath and relaxation.

I asked him when he has stress at work if he feels his body tensing up and if so where does he feel it? He states that he feels it in his shoulders and in his hips.
He is now about to raise his left arm a little higher and for the first time he woke up and he did not feel stiff in his shoulder.
I suggested in the evening maybe to listen to a guided relaxation, he states that he prefers to focus on his breath, he uses visual imagery with focus on his heart beat and he imagines the blood flowing thought his system. He finds more relaxation in that.

I am able to guide my client thought a session, to adapt the session to his needs, I use active listening and mindfulness when guiding him thought a yoga therapy session.

I will continue with the same yoga sequence , I will continue to work on core strength with leg raises and hamstring stretches .
I will also start working on hip mobility for example when in table top to add circular movements to warm up the hips and then work with fire hydrant pose to strengthen his gluts.