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When you begin to work with a new student, it might be difficult to tell which information is relevant to their challenges and is worth exploring and recording. After all, the Panchamaya model reflects the entirety of the human experience. To make it easier, we usually start with collecting information about the most obvious aspects of their life and experience. This includes personal information about age and occupation, health history, and the types of challenges they are currently experiencing. We also need to find out what brought them to yoga and what they would like to get out of their yoga experience in practical, tangible terms.
Then we move on to observing their body, complexion, demeanor, and attitudes, both in stillness and in motion. All this information helps us get a better sense of who that person is on different layers of their system. It usually helps to have a template for a more systematic approach and record the basic information we need to proceed safely and effectively.
PERSONAL INFORMATION includes the student’s first and last name, address, phone number, and email address. It is also useful to list their occupation, age, and source of referral.
HEALTH HISTORY includes information about the student’s diagnosed conditions, recent treatments, surgeries, and current medications.
MAIN CONCERNS comprise the student’s self-described challenges on the physical, physiological, and mental-emotional levels.
INTENTIONS comprise the student’s reasons for coming to yoga and their past experience with yoga and meditation.
Since relevant laws are different from state to state and country to country, it is best to have local legal guidance regarding the exact language and required elements of the Liability Waiver at your specific location.
Many yoga teachers send their new students an Intake form to fill out prior to the first class or session. This form can contain different kinds of questions, including essential information we need to know for safety purposes, such as diagnosed conditions, recent surgeries, current medications and treatments, etc. It can also contain other kinds of questions that give the teacher a better understanding of the challenges that the student is dealing with within the context of their lives. It’s useful to organize the Intake form according to the Panchamaya Model structure and ask questions that relate to different layers of the student’s system.
STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS include notes on the student’s physical structure in standing, supine (on the back), and prone (on the stomach) positions. Four main elements of the physical structure usually are observed: bones, joints, muscles, and fascia. Each of these elements is assessed from the following perspectives: stability vs. mobility, relationships between different parts, and symmetry.
MOVEMENT OBSERVATIONS include information about the student’s movement in and out of yoga poses and holding poses while noting areas of tension, any obvious asymmetries, and habitual movement patterns. Movement observations usually include notes on the connection between breath and movement, breathing pace, the student’s understanding of each pose, general body awareness, and the ability to follow instructions and stay focused.
SESSION NOTES are usually written in SOAP format and include information on the student’s subjective reporting about their state (S), the teacher’s objective reporting on every activity the student completed during the session (O), the teacher’s assessment of the student’s response to various yogic practices (A), and recommended intervention strategies and plans for the future (P).
It can be usetul to make notes in terms of the goals that have been set for the client.
GOALS comprise an outline of functional, measurable, observable, and action- oriented aims. Goals must be realistic for the student, appropriate for their lifestyle and activity level, and able to be achieved in a reasonable amount of time.
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AYURVEDIC ASSESSMENT is an evaluation of the student’s constitutional type (vata, pitta, kapha, and their combinations), which reflects their mind–body traits. It identifies specific qualities that appear to be balanced within the student’s entire system, the qualities that appear to be out of balance, and the factors that could potentially cause the imbalances.
ENERGETIC ASSESSMENT evaluates the flow of prana (life force energy) throughout the system.
The Pancha Vayu model can be used to assess the movement of nourishment throughout the system. It is used to evaluate the student’s current physiological state and identify the locations where energy flow is impeded.
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT evaluates the states of excess and deficiency within each of the body’s main energetic centers, i.e., the chakras. It is used to understand how the student’s experiences, cultural conditioning, habits, and past physical and emotional injuries influence their deeply held beliefs about themselves and their place in the world as well as their functioning in daily life.
Thinking about your spine in every yoga pose helps you understand what it is that you are trying to get out of each yoga pose. Your spine is capable of moving in five different directions: forward (flexion), backward (extension), sideways (lateral flexion), twist (rotation), and slightly upwards (axial extension). Based on these directional movements of the spine, we classify all yoga poses into forward bends, backbends, lateral bends, twists, and axial extension postures. The poses in each group share certain characteristics that help us identify the structural purpose of each particular pose.
This e-book offers an overview of those five groups of poses. It describes which poses belong in which category, what we can hope to get out of them, and how we can make them work for students of different abilities.
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