Entry TypeIndividual Yoga Therapy Session
Client/GroupMP
Entry CategoryStandard
Select your mentorSteffany Moonaz
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 Date05/30/2024
Session Number1
Total Session Minutes60
Homework assignment to client/group

Continue assignments that were given to Group 3 in the prior week, plus:
Spiritual support: Read the Beatitudes and listen to Sweet Honey In The Rock’s version of the Beatitudes. Apply the Locks and Keys to self and family.
Physical practice: Legs In the Chair for 15 mins/day at the end of the day.

Activities

Check In
Centering: Guided Awareness with focus on sensing emotions in the body and giving the self permission to release them.
Raja Yoga discussion about the Beatitudes in the Bible and a repeat of a prior review from Group 3 sessions about the Locks and Keys to apply to self and with her relationship with her family following the loss of her brother.
Balanced Hatha Yoga Practice with Adaptations:
Joint freeing series
Legs in the Chair
Pursed lip breathing
Guided Taoist meditation for sadness and grief

Client/Group progress summary

This client doesn’t often talk in our group sessions because she said that if she were to do so then she would "cry as soon as she opened her mouth.” I offered this individual session so that she would have an opportunity to share how she is feeling in a private space. She self-reported that she has been meditating regularly since she started coming to our group sessions. She also signed up for a personal trainer, has been training in hiking to travel to Machu Picchu this Fall, and has been taking chair yoga at a local gym. All of these are new since she started yoga therapy. She burst into tears right away at the start of our session, but by the middle of the session she was much calmer and relaxed. At the end of the session, she said she felt like she’d had a deep emotional release and how she knows that it’s important to take care of herself first before caring for others.

Reflection and self-evaluation

I am glad that I initiated this session with the client. Group 3 met the next day after this session and the client was vocal in that session, cried, but worked through it and shared some really deep insights. She also told the group for the first time that her brother had passed away. I assumed that she was going to want to discuss the grief that she was feeling, so I prepared a care plan based on grief and sadness. I would like to check in with this client following my practicum, just to see how she’s doing. I did not broach a referral to a therapist yet, but will do that before we conclude our group sessions by reaching out to her individually.

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

There is no plan right now for a future session. She will continue to attend Group 3.

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