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Entry TypeGroup Yoga Therapy Session
Client/GroupYoga Therapy for Joint Health in a Population of Seniors Seeking to Improve and Maintain Mobility
Entry CategoryIntended Case Study
Select your mentorBrahmi Romero
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 Date10/07/2024
Session Number2
Total Session Minutes120
Homework assignment to client/group

Do these joint freeing practices in the morning when you get up and if you can do them before going to sleep. The asana, meditation and breathing.

Remember to practice truthfulness with yourselves and how we really feel.

Activities

CENTERING
• Awareness on breath
CHECK IN AND DISCUSSION
• How did it go since our first session? What Poses worked for you?
• Client sharing

TODAY’S FOCUS/GOAL: Going within to observe (interoceptive attention) how the body feel as we do Diaphragmatic Breathing. Observing sensations in the body (interoception) to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, helps quiet the mind, and allows us to experience our true nature.

ASANAS
• Joint Freeing Movements – all joints of the body
o Group 1 Foot/Ankle
o Group 2 Knee
o Group 3 Hip
o Group 4 Wrist/Hand
o Group 5 Elbow
o Group 6 Head/Neck
o Group 7 Scapula
o Group 8 Spine

• Chair Yoga
o Standing forward bend with spinal stretch (not full inversion)
o Standing ankle rotation

Progressive Deep Relaxation - Yoga Nidra – 40 minutes
o Full body tensing and releasing (Seegra Savaasana).
o Body Scan – from the head down to the feet and then up again.
o Observe the body
o Observe the breath
o Witness the thoughts
o 5 minutes of peace within

Breathing practice
o Observe the breath technique - SMTT manual pg 122
o Dirgha Swason Diaphragmatic breathing – 3 part breath.

Meditation

Reframed Yoga Philosophy:
o Satya starting with ourselves and how we really feel.

Client/Group progress summary

Five out of the 8 individual that participated in the first session participated in the second session.

All the participants enjoyed the joint freeing movements and the Yoga Nidra.

Olga asked if it is okay not to do the practice in the order that we are being showed if they do not remember everything.

Fatima felt better from her shoulder since the first session and she said she believes that after this session the pain will be gone.

Maria C. (Teresa) said that the deep relaxation and meditation was good us.

Reflection and self-evaluation

It was good. They appreciate the class.

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

CENTERING
• Awareness on breath
CHECK IN AND DISCUSSION
• How did it go since our first session? What Poses worked for you?
• Client sharing
ASANA
‘Never strain, back off from pain. Do it more gently.’
• Joint Freeing Movements – all joints of the body
o Group 1 Foot/Ankle
o Group 2 Knee
o Group 3 Hip
o Group 4 Wrist/Hand
o Group 5 Elbow
o Group 6 Head/Neck
o Group 7 Scapula
o Group 8 Spine

Progressive Deep Relaxation - Yoga Nidra
o Full body tensing and releasing (Seegra Savaasana).
o Body Scan – from the head down to the feet and then up again.
o Observe the body
o Observe the breath
o Witness the thoughts
o 5 minutes of peace within

Pranayama
o Observe the breath technique - SMTT manual pg 122
o Dirgha Swason Diaphragmatic breathing – 3 part breath.

Meditation

Reframed Yoga Philosophy:
o Our true nature is experienced in a calm mind state.

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