• 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.

I sent this email after the session to remind her about what we talked about and to give her some "home fun" exercises.
We talked about how to find your life’s purpose.
Yoga Philosophy says that we need to connect to our higher self to discover our life’s purpose – svadharma, or one’s individual dharma. Yoga, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy are the best way to reveal your svadharma.
Anodea Judith, in her book Creating on Purpose, has an interesting exercise that you can practice at home. We began steps 1 and 2 in our guided meditation. Now you can try step 3.

Exercise to find your purpose – svadharma
Step 1: Track Your Purpose
First, walk through your memories, searching for clues that your soul has left along the way. Your first clue may have been given by Joseph Campbell when he said, “Follow your bliss.” Whenever you’re “on purpose,” you feel wonderfully alive, full of spark and spirit. You feel turned on, passionate about life, centered, and inspired.
Remember back to your childhood, when your connection to Source was strong. Think of times when you felt most alive, most happy, most satisfied, and most excited.
Step 2 Find the pattern
•What activities were common across some (or most) of the incidents?
•How were you serving others in these situations?
•How did the condition of people or the environment change as a result?
•What was it about these particular experiences that made you so happy?
Your ego tends to turn you away from your purpose, which might be dangerous to your reputation or look ridiculous in the eyes of others. A big life purpose would threaten the part of you that needs to stay small.
Step 3: Identify Your Life Purpose Category
Try to identify which categories your life purpose is related to:
•Teaching / Learning / Knowledge / Inspiring others
• Creativity / Art / Craft / Making beauty • Healing / Medicine / Mending the body or mind / Therapy • Awakening / Spiritual growth / Personal growth / Evolution • Supporting others / Helping / Assisting / Social work • Loving / Nurturing / Feeding / Family care • Giving birth / Mothering / Nurturing • Fixing / Repairing things, people, or organizations / Cleaning / Restoring • Building / Developing / Designing / Architecture / Engineering • Nature / Environment / Earth-based traditions • Entertaining / Fun / Performing / Play / Enjoyment / Theater • Discovery / Exploration / Research / Experimenting • Scouting / Exploring new territory / Journalism / Astronautics / Anthropology • Defending / Protecting / Military / Warrior • Control / Mastery / Management / Influence
Judith PhD, Anodea; Lion Goodman. Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras (p. 86-90). Sounds True. Kindle Edition.

Dharma and svadharma resources:
Better is one’s swadharma, though deficient, than the swadharma of another well-performed. Better is death in one’s own swadharma. The swadharma of another brings danger (3:35).
https://ocoy.org/dharma-for-christians/bhagavad-gita-for-awakening/swadharma/

Chapter 2, v31 about svadharma
https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/2/verse/31#:~:text=Swa-dharma%20is%20one%E2%80%99s%20duty%20as%20an%20individual%2C%20in,God%20with%20devotion.%20This%20is%20called%20para%20dharma.

Chapter 18, v.45 By fulfilling their duties, born of their innate qualities, human beings can attain perfection. Now hear from Me how one can become perfect by discharging one’s prescribed duties.
https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/18/verse/45#:~:text=Swa-dharma%20is%20the%20prescribed%20duties%20based%20upon%20our,and%20is%20auspicious%20for%20the%20self%20and%20society.

Paramahansa Yogananda about finding your purpose in life:
“Many people may doubt that finding God is the purpose of life; but everyone can accept the idea that the purpose of life is to find happiness. I say that God is Happiness. He is Bliss. He is Love. He is Joy that will never go away from your soul. So why shouldn’t you try to acquire that Happiness? No one else can give it to you. You must continuously cultivate it yourself.

Even if life gave you at one time everything you wanted — wealth, power, friends — after a while you would again become dissatisfied and need something more. But there is one thing that can never become stale to you — joy itself. Happiness that is delightfully varied, though its essence is changeless, is the inner experience everyone is seeking. Lasting, ever new joy is God. Finding this Joy within, you will find it in everything without. In God, you will tap the Reservoir of perennial, unending bliss.”

Homefun:
Keep practicing Bioenergetic Grounding, to calm down the mind. With a clear mind, you can achieve your goal.
Practice the exercise to find your purpose.
Read about svadharma and try to see how it can help you to find your purpose.
Continue with your breath work, Self-inquiry, and journaling practices.

Talk about the week.
How are your migraines?
Have you been practicing kirtan Kriya meditation before sleep?
How is your sleep?
How is your diet? Vata type? Dry food? Vata : mind is scattered.
Yoga Philosophy: connection to self to discover your life’s purpose – svadharma and dharma

Centering
Observe breath, energy, and sensations.
Asanas: Vata/kapha reducing instant change program (Dr David Frawley. Yoga for your type)
Warm-up –
Neck and shoulders release (parasympathetic activation) release tension where it generally is held.
Surya Namaskar
Backbend:
Virabhadrasana 1
Forward bend:
Navasana, Janu sirshasana
Inversion:
Viparita with block
Twist:
Supine twist
Progressive relaxation
Savasana With imagery to the root chakra (Wheels of Life, page 55, Anodea Judith) and tune fork
Pranayama
Bioenergetic Grounding: I am in here (Anodea Judith)
Meditation – To find my purpose – svadharma
Step 1: Track Your Purpose
First, walk through your memories, searching for clues that your soul has left along the way. Your first clue may have been given by Joseph Campbell when he said, “Follow your bliss.” Whenever you’re “on purpose,” you feel wonderfully alive, full of spark and spirit. You feel turned on, passionate about life, centered, and inspired.
Remember back to your childhood, when your connection to Source was strong. Think of times when you felt most alive, most happy, most satisfied, and most excited.
Step 2 Find the pattern
•What activities were common across some (or most) of the incidents? • How were you serving others in these situations? • How did the condition of people or the environment change as a result? • What was it about these particular experiences that made you so happy?
Your ego tends to turn you away from your purpose, which might be dangerous to your reputation or look ridiculous in the eyes of others. A big life purpose would threaten the part of you that needs to stay small.
Step 3: Identify Your Life Purpose Category
(homework)
Judith PhD, Anodea; Lion Goodman. Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras (p. 86-89). Sounds True. Kindle Edition.
Closing

During this session, she reported no migraines. She is not practicing the kirtan kriya meditation, but she is humming all the time, which is very good for self-regulation. She said her sleep is "pretty good", more regulated.
She said her diet was not good, but she will try to take some of my suggestions: try not to eat canned, dry food and eat more sattvic food like those that come from nature. If possible have a consultation with an Ayurvedic doctor.

Like I said during a mentoring meeting, this client was very challenging for me, because she was difficult to open up. I had to build her trust, and then she was opening a little bit more.
Although this was an uncomfortable experience for me, it was very rewarding to watch her feeling much better at the last session.
I learned that maybe clients don't need to open up their stories in order to heal themselves. If we bring a little lamp into a dark room, the darkness will go away. I think the intention is not to help the client get rid of what makes them suffer, but to help them look at their inner light, which is their true nature, and then they can choose if they still want to stay in the darkroom or come to their illuminating essence.

This was probably the last session. I traveled to Brazil for 3 weeks and she will move with her mother in June.