Yoga Student Profile: Workbook

Best addition to HOW TO CREATE STUDENT PROFILES: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide to Keeping Records of Private Yoga Sessions

This workbook has everything you need to organize your paperwork, simplify your recordkeeping, and chronicle your students’ progress. This is a blank template for keeping a complete set of records for one private yoga student. It includes prompts and guidelines on the type of information you need to collect from your student, a place to record all relevant information about your student and your work together, and sample cut-out forms to give to your student. In this workbook, you can document your structural and movement observations; write down your Ayurvedic, energetic, and personality assessments; map out your practice recommendations; list your goals and objectives; and record your individual private sessions’ content. This workbook has space for 12 individual sessions, including session notes in the most widely used SOAP format and practice sequences. This workbook also includes a template for a discharge report that you can fill out when you complete your work with the student.

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About the book

When you work with students one-on-one, do you ever forget what you did in the last session? Get distracted from the goals you set for your student? Try to remember what the client had said about their condition previously? Struggle to plan your course of action?

Most healthcare professionals take regular notes as part of their practice to avoid situations like these. Keeping students’ records is invaluable for yoga teachers and therapists as well, because it can remind us about small details we might have forgotten and provide a road map of our students’ progress. In addition, when we sit down to write (or type) our notes about our session with a student, we have an opportunity to reflect on what occurred during the session and process our experience of it. Taking time to reflect, analyze, and process our work is invaluable for refining our skills as yoga therapists, helping us grow professionally.

What kind of profile is better

What kind of profile is better–printed or electronic?

Every practitioner decides for themselves whether they prefer to keep paper or electronic records. Paper records provide a more familiar format, are easier to customize to your needs, and have lower upfront costs. Meanwhile, electronic health records help standardize, streamline, and organize information, thereby improving efficiency and decreasing the need for storage space.

Who is it for

Yoga Student Profile Workbook is for yoga teachers and yoga therapists who work with students one-on-one and wish to organize their paperwork, simplify their recordkeeping, and chronicle their students’ progress. If you find it easier to follow a template rather than make your notes in a blank notebook, you will appreciate the structure of this workbook.

One Workbook per student

Each Workbook is a blank template to record all relevant information about one specific student and your work together. This workbook has space for 12 individual sessions, including session notes in the most widely used SOAP format and practice sequences. It also contains a template for discharge report and sample cut-out forms to give to your student.

About the author

Educated as a school teacher, Olga Kabel, C-IAYT, has been teaching yoga for over 20 years and practicing yoga therapy for the past 12 years. Olga is a founder of Sequence Wiz—a membership-based electronic health records system (EHR) for yoga teachers and yoga therapists.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0997T2Z1Q
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (July 12, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8536229743
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.19 x 11 inches

Do you prefer to keep electronic records?

You can use the Electronic Health Records System for Yoga Teachers and Yoga Therapists, which includes the same components and allows you to modify your forms, duplicate your notes, design your yoga sequences, and more easily exchange information with your students.

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Every time a new yoga student arrives at their first private yoga session, the teacher needs to develop some understanding about who this person is. As yoga teachers and therapists, we have several ways to collect the information we require to get to know our students and their needs – some more direct (via conversation) and others less direct (via observation).

As we build that multidimensional image, that unique profile for each of our private yoga clients, it’s essential to keep detailed notes of our work. Maintaining students’ records helps us determine students’ challenges and strengths, develop an appropriate plan for our work together, record yoga practices and lifestyle recommendations we suggest for them, and keep track of students’ progress. Consistent recordkeeping also helps us form a more complete picture of the student and be more successful at meeting their needs.

What is usually included in private yoga session records?
PERSONAL INFORMATION includes the client’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.

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 on 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 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.

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 potentially can 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.