• 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.

Yoga nidra with YouTube link. (Try at different times of day, assess results/effect on YOU.)
Bee breath at bedtime.
Breathing app.

This meeting was virtual, and in the later evening just before bedtime.
Long 5 body check in, feeling into each kosha, and assessing state through breath and movement. Demo / practice gentle movement, pranayama, meditation with breath and prayer. She demonstrated/led a meditation practice of sending her breath to ______ )
What’s working and what’s not? Conversation about current goals.
Practices that support a healthy bedtime routine: gentle breathing, bee breath (long practice during session, with options for mudras - or not).
(She had already done some sun sals and hip openers.)

Meditation discussion included this verse and a reminder that the practice IS that the mind goes and we notice and bring it back.
Gita 6.34: Trying to control the mind is like trying to control the wind.
Wisdom teaching on forgetting/remembering your true nature.

Ct. has gotten back to exercise, and described a “remembering” or “coming home” feeling as she was reminded of who she is during her first trail run/walk in months.
She’s not sleeping enough during the week. Her energy and emotions are up and down with stressful situations with her adult child.
She feels well challenged with the new job, and is starting to feel she’s getting a handle on the work and the relationships there.
She’s feeling more of a sense of connection again as she’s been getting outside more. Her meditation is a reframing of lovingkindness meditation that she does at various times during the day.
Her spiritual practices include nature meditation and 12 step recovery meetings, service, etc.

It’s been interesting to check in with this client every several months over the past year. I do see her approximately monthly at Y12SR. The ideas and suggestions come pretty easily to me most of the time, although they are almost always different from what I’m thinking about doing.

I’m not sure there will be a next session like this, although I told her I’m happy to keep checking in and coaching her through adjustments. She’s happy to have suggestions that build on or stack with things she’s already doing, but is unlikely to add anything new.