INTAKE FORMS, GOALS AND ASSESSMENTS

Unlike other yoga clients, our Intake and Assessment will differ with our clients who are at the end of life.  Here we can become much softer.

 

If we’re truly operating from a “Don’t Know Mind,” then we can truly let the client lead.  It’s important to note that it takes time to build a relationship with a client.  We can’t expect to go in ready to work on specific goals right away.  Depending on where the client is in their relationship to their death, their family dynamics (chosen or biological), their energy levels can dictate the way our time is spent with our client.  This course will teach you how to fill your End of Life Yoga Toolbox, but sometimes it’s more important to hold space and just be with your client.

 

Important information that we’ll want to gather right away:

• MPoA/Next of Kin Information

• Hospice information

• Medications they are currently taking

• Their disease and prognosis

 

Then we can dive a little deeper:

• Do they have funeral plans set?

• How do their advance directives look?

• How do they envision their final months/weeks/days?  What would they like to see happen?

• Are there any final legacy projects they would like help on?

• And more…

 

We can assess our clients using the Panchamayakosha method: 

• Physical assessment (how do they present physically)

• Energetic assessment (sleep patterns, energy levels)

• Mental/Emotional assessment (where are they emotionally and mentally)

• Wisdom assessment  (what are their core beliefs)

• Bliss assessment  (what does “bliss” look like for them)

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Let’s do some role playing on a phone intake and an in-person intake/assessment.  What types of questions would you ask?  How would you assess their physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual states?  

 

A good idea is to use the SOAP method:

• Subjective findings – what client reports

• Objective findings – what you find based on your intake 

• Assessment

• Plan