• 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.

Practice the last 5 asanas of Dr. Fishman’s sequence
Be in your truth, aware of breath, sounds, sensations in the body.
Practice SA TA NA MA meditation:
Here is the explanation about the kirtan Kriya or SA TA NA MA meditation and how to practice it:
https://alzheimersprevention.org/research/kirtan-kriya-yoga-exercise/
https://alzheimersprevention.org/downloadables/White_Paper.pdf

Here is the chanting on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Sl4s0GOMYJ8kpqg1MfXpP?si=_l9oinEuSG2L-RjV5fKmZQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A03GUPkQOWGhoiGShYwTs9w

Here is on Youtube but longer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiKkM9VywzE

Shorter version on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKEAiwrgeY&t=32s

Check-in with the clients
Yoga Philosophy: Satya
Satya or truthfulness to ourselves and others.
II. 36 dedicated to truth and integrity (Satya), our thoughts, words, and actions gain the power to manifest. (Devi, Nischala Joy. The Secret Power of Yoga, p. 184)
“Most people will not remember what you said or what you did. But they will remember how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou
Truth has a vibration and it is what people feel.
“If in doubt whether to observe Ahimsa or Satya, always go with Ahimsa.” —Swami Vivekananda
Truth must be accompanied by love.

How can I apply these teachings to my daily practice?
Today we will be aware of our throat chakra or Vishudha.
Element: Ether or sound
Purpose: Communication Creativity
Issues: communication, creativity, listening, resonance, finding your voice.
Location: throat
Demon: lies
Try to observe your breath.

CENTERING
In a sitting posture, observe sensations in your body, and observe your breath.
ASANAS(respect your body)
Warm-up - neck and shoulders
Dr Loren Fishman’s sequence- last 5 asanas
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided yoga nidra - Architecture of the Soul workbook. Anodea Judith
MEDITATION (on the chakra with bija mantra HAM)
CLOSING
Dr Loren Fishman’s sequence for Osteoporosis (6 last asanas)

SALABHASANA
SETU BANDHASANA
SUPTA PADANGUSTHASANA 1 and 2
MARICHYASANA
ARDHA MATSYENDRASANA

VIPARITA
SAVASANA

J had an AFIb event this week. She doesn’t feel good moving her arms up. I told her to do everything very slow paying attention to the breath and maybe just observe today. She can also practice it mentally and ask her doctor about the exercises we are doing.
R dog is dying, so she is dedicating herself to him, and the practice is not regular. During savasana, she didn’t get up, just 2 hours and a half later.
Ci (pregnant) finds it very difficult to be still.

R really needed to rest and is in a difficult moment right now. J is having some cardio issues because she stopped her medication. I feel I am there as a safe container, I cannot expect a perfect practice. But I have to confess sometimes it can be frustrating.

Check-in with the clients
Yoga Philosophy:
Attachment to the senses creates the illusion of what we see.
Trust your inner wisdom, your gut, your intuition.
“Bondage is due to the connection of our consciousness, or the soul, we may say, with the report of the senses, which is confirmed by the activity of the mind and the intellect.”

Today we will be in tune with our 3rd eye chakra or Ajna.
Element: Light or thought
Purpose: Pattern recognition
Issues: intuition, imagination, visualization, insight.
Location: forehead, point between the eyebrows
Demon: illusion
Ajna, the command center. The pictures you hold in your mind do command your reality.
Thinking and imagining are so closely knit together that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between them.
CENTERING
In a sitting posture, observe sensations in your body, and observe your breath.
ASANAS(respect your body)
Warm-up - neck and shoulders
Dr Loren Fishman’s sequence - 12 asanas
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided imagery (Julie Lusk, Yoga meditations)
MEDITATION (on the chakra with mantra OM)
CLOSING

“We have notions about things based entirely on sense-perception, not on the intuitional insight into the background of the occurrence of events. What do the senses tell us? They can report exactly what they can abstract concretely in the form of bodies of perception from the vast reservoir of information. The reservoir, as a background, is unperceivable to the eyes, not even cognisable to the ordinary mind. But the meditation proposes to introduce a technique of envisaging the whole universe as responsible for the manifestation of everything, so that everything is all things, and anything is everywhere. There is no such thing as a particular individual or a particular body. This is the meditation which frees us from the bondage of attachment to particular things. If this meditation could be conducted effectively throughout one’s life, there would be a universal perception of everything. When you look at any particular object you will see the whole world in it, and not merely one person in front. There is no such thing as one person; that does not exist. The description of the causes with their effects, in these passages of the Upanishad, is therefore intended to take us above the level of ordinary sense-perception and open the gate of a new knowledge altogether, behind the visible effects which are the so-called objects of sensation, perception and cognition. Bondage is due to the connection of our consciousness, or the soul, we may say, with the report of the senses, which is confirmed by the activity of the mind and the intellect.”
THE CHHANDOGYA UPANISHAD
SWAMI KRISHNANANDA The Divine Life Society Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India Website: www.swami-krishnananda.org (Page 42).