• 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.

1. Continue with the awareness of breath and body.
2. Continue with your journaling practice. Journal about anything that comes to your mind.
3. Practice the Nadi Shodhana pranayama which we did together. Practice every day in the evening. It is a very centering practice. It balances the mind.
Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biry04x7rFM
4. Continue practicing progressive relaxation before sleep, as we did together. Contracting each part of your body and relaxing. Tensing the part when you inhale and release when you exhale. Observe the difference.
5. Try practicing the eye exercises (Netra Vyayamam) we practiced together. At the end of the practice, you can rub your hands and place them like conchs on the top of your eyes. And take a deep breath.

6. Practice the moon salute every day, mainly during Navaratri (she was following the Navaratri festivities) to honor the lunar energy, the Divine feminine in all forms and in you.
Summary:
He daily practices: Breath and body awareness, eye exercise, Moon salute, Nadi Shodhana pranayama, progressive relaxation, and journaling.

1. Check-in.
Talk about Abhinivesha / Aparigraha
Fear of not having enough:
“Just thinking that a resource is limited initiates fear, thereby lessening the joy in the present moment.” Nischala Devi
Fear of death:
“The body is like a rented apartment, and nature is the landlord. We dwell in our apartment until our lease is over. During our tenancy we must follow the laws set by nature—violating them causes debility and disease, and this results in eviction. On the other hand, compliance with nature’s laws—including nonviolence, truthfulness, compassion, nonattachment, and non-possessiveness—engenders an environment in which we can live joyfully. But we must always maintain the awareness that nothing in this world, including the body, is ours. While we live in this body we must discover the purpose of life, and when the lease has expired, we must graciously hand the keys of breath over to the landlord or we will be evicted.”
2. CENTERING
SENTADA, OBSERVAR RESPIRAÇÃO E SENSAÇÕES
3. ASANAS(respeite seu corpo)
1) Warm-up – neck, shoulders, moon salutation.
2) BACK BEND: in the moon salute
3) FORWARD BEND: in the moon salute
4) INVERSION : legs up the wall (adapted viparita)
5) Twist: Supine twist
6) Yoganidra – From Julie Lusk’s book “Yoganidra meditations”– Lifting Depression and energy with Life Force Yoganidra – Amy Weintraub)
PRANAYAMAS: Nadishodhana (2 min) – beginning thru the right nostril/
Surya bheda (2 min)/ Bhramari (2 min) – didn’t have time
7) MEDITATION
Observe the breath. Chant the mantra.
8) CLOSING
Chant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAX0iGkd_nI&t=3s)

Om
Asato Mā Sad Gamaya Lead is from unreal to Real
Tamaso Mā Jyotir Gamaya Lead us from Darkness to the Light
Mṛityor Māmṛitam Gamaya Lead us from the fear or Death
To knowledge of Immortality
OM Śantiḥ Śantiḥ Śantiḥ OM Śantiḥ Śantiḥ Śantiḥ

She said she is using the DOSE meditation she learned with the group sessions and awareness of breath and now she can observe when she gets anxious, she can stop the anxiety cycle with the tools she learned.
She likes to hear and sing music as a therapy. We sang a Brazilian song together, which is described in the final client report.
Her perception of death has changed. She said all the practices are having an effect on her, she can see the shadows inside herself through the inner observer and she feels very supported to do this work. She said she never felt supported before, although she tried many other different professionals and practices.
She had a dream that she saw a friend spinning around, dancing ballet.

I confess I totally forgot about the psoas because we had a big interval between sessions and I was taking care of my husband. But the awareness and deepening the breath could help relax her psoas. Before savasana, I like to offer apanasana (hugging the legs) to massage the spine before savasana. This asana helps also with psoas release. She was with the Yoga for Anxiety group, where she had many opportunities to untighten the psoas. I was very glad she dreamt of a male ballet dancer, more fluidity than the image of the contracted image she felt in the previous session.
I first planned for Pratipaksa Bhavana in this session but then I found it more appropriate for her to experience Abhivesha / Aparigraha.

1Talk about the week.
4 locks and 4 keys
“The four locks are: sukha (happy people), dukha (unhappy people), punya (the virtuous), and apunya (the not-so-virtuous). At any given moment, any person – including ourselves – can fit into one of these four categories.
The four keys are: maitri (friendliness or loving-kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (delight), and upeksha (disregard or equanimity). Patanjali reminds us that there is a Yogic way of approaching all people, no matter what behaviors and attitudes they may be exhibiting at the moment.” (https://www.theyogasanctuary.biz/inside-the-yoga-sutras-the-keys-to-peace-1-33/)

LOCKS KEYS
HAPPY FRIENDLINESS
UNHAPPY COMPASSION
VIRTUOUS DELIGHT
NOT SO VIRTUOUS DISREGARD

How can we communicate with others using the locks? How can we express compassion toward the unhappy? (her husband)
How can we express disregard toward the not-so-virtuous?

4. CENTERING
SENTADA, OBSERVAR RESPIRAÇÃO E SENSAÇÕES
5. ASANAS(respeite seu corpo)
• Warm-up – neck, shoulders, kundalini breath for throat, ha breath (throat chakra)
• BACK BEND: camel with block.
• FORWARD BEND: seated yoga mudra
• INVERSION: setu bandha sarvangasana / legs up the wall
• Twist: Supine twist
• Yoganidra – Wheels of Life, pages 231, 232, 233.
PRANAYAMA: Bhramari
MEDITATION
CLOSING
Chant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAX0iGkd_nI&t=3s)

Om
Asato Mā Sad Gamaya Lead is from unreal to Real
Tamaso Mā Jyotir Gamaya Lead us from Darkness to the Light
Mṛityor Māmṛitam Gamaya Lead us from the fear or Death
To knowledge of Immortality
OM Śantiḥ Śantiḥ Śantiḥ

Resources
https://www.theyogasanctuary.biz/inside-the-yoga-sutras-the-keys-to-peace-1-33/
Wheels of life
Raja Yoga Manual