• 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.

A huge adjustment was including mother in the sessions. She was open to it and seemed to really benefit. This helped to strengthen the relationship between client and mother; was careful to still give client individual time so that mother was not the main focus of attention.

Client and interestingly, also her mother, have had improvements in insomnia and anxiety. Client in the past would miss entire weeks of school and do make up work. Has been missing at the most one day a week of school and has been sleeping well more consistently.

Insomnia improved with use of breath practices, yoga nidra. Bilateral hand tremor also improved.

Client typically had an anxious energy that was low during the day time. Breaths became less rapid and less shallow. Used alternate nostril breathing, 3 part breath, and brahmari breath before bedtime.

Helped client notice her emotions as they arose. The ability to feel she could write down what she was feeling and then use our chart to feel more in charge of how she felt was very useful. The stream of consciousness writing was given at the last session and its purpose was to allow for emotional release and to help calm the mind as well. We will see if that helps as well. Overall, there are less emotions of fear.

Client, with the demonstration of the crystal and the food coloring in the bowl, and the concepts that she can notice her thoughts and actually change them using the prati pak shabavana practice, improved in the way she was thinking. I noticed on her chart that there were less negative thoughts which occurred and when they did occur, she also had other thoughts which were more positive which were also occurring in the situation.

Client with no specific spiritual practices she did before these sessions. She is Catholic. It is hoped she will continue these practices. She found some support in her family, not only from mom, but also from others with whom the yoga nidra recordings were shared. So possible that the family structure will help to maintain client's daily practices and perhaps over time the entire group will be helped.

The client has been very grateful for this work; she very much appreciates my 'standing up for her' with her mother regarding mental illness and validating her experiences of having a mental illness in a family which does not believe in it.

Mother was also very grateful; I am not sure if she ended up getting an appointment for herself, but she has definitely found benefit from the services she has been able to access with her daughter. She was so happy with the yoga nidra practice and was surprised we would be able to do that together.

1. client to do yoga nidra practice with mother.
2. client to continue practicing brahmari breath at night along with alternate nostril breathing, 3 part breathing, box breathing, which are both done in AM and PM
3. client to continue to notice her thoughts and emotions and write them into chart, examining core beliefs and challenging them using prati pak shabavana.

I would really like to do this more in person. I think it would be helpful to have a group, perhaps one that is focused on yoga nidra, for this client's family.

I'd like to know more about yoga nidra resources in Spanish for my Spanish speaking clients. I also hope to add an asana practice in the future.

Yes! It was really enjoyable and intellectually stimulating.