Entry TypeIndividual Yoga Therapy Session
Client/GroupAN
Entry CategoryIntended Case Study
Select your mentorSarala Evans
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 Date07/26/2024
Session Number4
Total Session Minutes75
Homework assignment to client/group

1. continue to practice ha breath.
2. continue tadasana hip circles, bouncy twists practice.
3. work out before 7pm at night.
4. continue to avoid horror movies, to use 432 Hz breathing, to walk outside daily.

Activities

Reviewed past assignments (sound, walking, documentation of agitation periods, TV exposure, dance, asana practice). Client has not been doing the asana practice on her own.

Engaged with mother today and taught her practice of tadasana, hip circles, and bouncy twists. Taught ha breath to client and to mother today. This was difficult for client to convert into nostril breaths from making the ha sound, so stayed with ha sound using mouth open for now.

Continued to talk about the true nature of the self being calm and pure with both client and parents. Parents overall were more positive.

Discussed difficulties with sleep. It was revealed that client is apparently going to the gym to work out (with parent) around 8 or 9 pm at night. Discussed how this would cause sympathetic nervous system activation and how this may lead to wakefulness at night. Client agrees to do work outs before 7pm.

Had part of session (last half) with client alone in room and parents in adjacent. Client's posture, breathing pattern, and overall facial expressions seemed to brighten when her parents were away from the screen.

She, herself, would start dancing and encouraged myself and the behavioral health specialist to dance with her.

Mom noted about 7-8 agitation episodes daily and skipping some days.

Client/Group progress summary

Overall, periods of agitation improving; still with hallucinations and still with feeling that agitation periods are related to an intrinsic behavioral issue that is her fault, but overall the client sense of safety, sense of feeling as a whole and separate person from her parents is improving.

Reflection and self-evaluation

There are some symptoms that are likely being helped with medication, but it is clear that the psychological progress the client is making with regard to esteem, sense of separateness from parents, being a person worthy of praise, and having a sense of her own life are directly related to our work using yogic ideas and practices.

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

1. may consider in the future using acupressure points to massage to help with calmness and sleep.
2. teach more about sleep hygiene; may consider child's pose or another calming practice before sleep.
3. perhaps as mom to use a mantra, a positive affirmation, for when AN gets upset and is agitated.

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