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
09/13/2024
Session Number
1
Total Session Minutes
100
Homework assignment to client/group
1. Journal about Swadhyaya or Self-discovery, finding your essential nature.
Pay attention to your resistance. What makes you angry and why?
After your pranayama, be still and meditate on the affirmation suggested below.
2. Practice:
-Warming up the joints when waking up or in bed
https://www.annswansonwellness.com/blog/joint-freeing-series
-Web-claw-beak-paw exercise
-Sun salutation,
-and 15 minutes of Yoga Nidra 1, 2, 3 (chapter 6, Yoga Nidra meditations, Julie Lusk on Audible) before sleep.
3. Affirmation- suggestion: “I am a spark from the infinite. I am light.”
Practice this or any other positive affirmation in the morning.
4. Use this video to practice 3 part breath.:
5. watch a one-minute 3D Diaphragm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXstUTg_Rc&t=12s
Activities
Check-in with the client:
Did you …
-practice the joint freeing exercises daily?
- fill out the 2 scales: pain and DASS-21?
- practice the 3 part breath lying down before sleep and observe it?
Yoga philosophy: swadhyaya
“Svadhyaya (self-study) is about developing a sense of introspection, of knowing the stories and habits that run us. It’s so important to be able to make different choices because we know these habits and know we are more than these. One year for Christmas, my brother and I gave my father a diamond ring. We hid it inside seven boxes and delighted in watching as my father opened box after box until he came to the last one that held the ring.
That’s the image I have of self-study: We have to unwrap all the layers until we reach the diamond that is the true Self within. That’s also a reminder to our Western minds that there’s nothing to attain; it’s here within us. It’s a letting go process that I think we really see in self-study.” Deborah Adele
Asanas:
Warm up with music - JAPA
Sun Salutation
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 nidra
PRANAYAMA: 3-part breath
MEDITATION: Affirmations for Healing.
CLOSING
Client/Group progress summary
He didn’t practice the 3-part breath and did JAPA just once.
He says he needs to stretch his wrists and sometimes hang on the bar for more stretch. He didn’t do all the joint freeing exercises for his writs because they were painful. I showed him the web-claw-beak-paw exercise, and he loved it. His wrist pain was 2 (1-10 veterans scale).
She said his wife is mad at him and this gets him stressed. They have not talked since the day before the class. We talked about swadhyaya, and how being aware of his mind’s reactions can be good to avoid arguments in his relationship with his spouse.
He wants to be challenged. He asked to practice the tree pose next time.
He said he would never thought he would need a chair for Sun Salutation, he used to practice the classical version when he was younger. Because of his wrist, he could not put weight on his hands in a classical downward dog, and he was not happy with that.
Reflection and self-evaluation
I had planned to talk about Pratipaksa Bhavana today, but he needed swadhyaya this time to analyze his thoughts and know that he and his wife are both a spark of the infinite, they are not their thoughts or whatever they are arguing about. The Self-discovery takes us to uncover the real Self, our essence.
This session was online, but in the next in-person session, I’ll try a sun salutation on the floor, adapted to him, with no weight on his wrists.
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 swadhyaya or Self introspection? Yoga Nidra? Belly breath?
Yoga philosophy: Pratipaksha bhavana: see the positive in every situation (Patanjali Yoga Sutras)
Warming up with music
Sun Salutation
Tadasana / tree pose
back bend: bhujangasana
forward bend: Apanasana, supta padangustasana with strap
Inversion - viparita with block
supine twist
Savasana.
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra
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
