Entry TypeIndividual Yoga Therapy Session
Client/GroupAN
Entry CategoryCapstone
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 Date09/20/2024
Session Number12
Total Session Minutes75
Homework assignment to client/group

1. client to review affirmation card daily.
2. client to continue asana with breathing.
3. client to continue mantra repetition and challenging negative thoughts.
4. client to continue Zumba, regular dancing, outdoor walking in nature, and using 432Hz sound healing music.

Activities

1. reviewed parents' report of how client has been doing. Had one episode of short lived (5min) agitation in the last week.
2. client reports she does not remember episode. She reports she has been sleep well and doing the asana practice daily, walking outside. She likes helping her mother and home. More positive feedback is being given by parents to client. She seems to really value her parents' opinions.
3. she states she continues to use mantra 'I am Good.'
4. pulled affirmation card with client form Louise Hay's deck of How To Love Yourself cards. Client shuffled card deck before doing this. She pulled the card, "I am Gentle, kind and comforting to my inner child as wee uncover and release the old, negative messages from family and society."

The client speaks English fluently while her parents do not, so she understood this and agreed to use this card daily until our next session when we would pull another.

Danced for the remainder of session. Parents were very grateful.

Of note, I met with another provider (nurse practitioner) who relayed the information that prior to becoming my client, the client was living in a group home. She was known to follow the group home staff around, particularly a female staff member. The group home felt overwhelmed and client was released back home to family. The nurse states that the client's family both during the time she was in the group home and when she returned back home, had no interest in medications. Mother was interested in more natural treatments. As such, the client was discharged to my care.

Client/Group progress summary

Overall, she continues to improve; only one episode of agitation in the past week.

Reflection and self-evaluation

The yoga based interventions correlate easily with ideas in Chinese medicine and philosophy, making it easy for the client and her family to understand concepts. This has been very helpful and a good learning experience for me. The client's manas, her mind, has a large representation of her family. My working with her family and helping them to use pratipak shabavana when they have negative thoughts about their daughter, has proven very helpful in allowing the client's manas/mind to recuperate.

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. continue going over asana, dancing and cards with client. Will not plan to add another element to asana for now. This sequence is very short and something the client is able to memorize. More elements would likely be overwhelming.
2. will draw a new affirmation card.

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