Module 1
Introduction to CSGs Mindful Grieving Yoga Therapy Program
Focus on Personal Process & Mindfulness-based Grief Education
Live Lesson Plan
Philosophy & Guiding Principles of Community-Based Somatic Grief Work
Evolutionary Themes of Mindful Grieving
Format of CSG’s Signature Yoga Therapy Programs
Introduction to Group Facilitation - Group Dynamics & Sharing Guidelines for Yoga Therapy Programs
Body Scan Technique
Introduction to Shadow Work
Shifting the Culture of Grief
Reading & Reflection Assignments - due by December 4th, 2024
Self-Reflection Paper - Shadow Work
Reading & Self-Reflection Paper - “It’s Ok, You’re Not Ok” by Megan Devine
Video & Self-Reflection Paper - Conscious Death and Dying Exploration with Erica Brookings
Shadow Work Self-Reflection Assignment
Listen to the centering meditation. Check-in with your four bodies and focus your awareness on where your shadow lives inside of you. Take some time to breathe into this place.
Notice where it lives in your body. Notice the emotions there and if this is a new or old part of your being. Notice how old this part of yourself is. Give this part of yourself space to be felt, heard, seen and experienced by you. You may ask this part of yourself, “if it could speak to you, what would it say?”
Write a reflection paper that is to be submitted to your cohort facilitator that speaks to the following questions:
Where does your shadow live in your body?
What is the primary emotion that you feel here?
How old is this part of you?
What does this part of your body have to say?
What happens when you acknowledge this part of you and invite it into the light to be fully seen and recognized?
Notice and speak to any resistance you may feel.
What does this part of you have to teach you about yourself?
How does this part of you inform your purpose, path, life, etc.
What are the gifts that may come out of your shadow?
Read “It’s Ok, You’re Not Ok” by Megan Divine and write a reflection paper to be handed into your Cohort Facilitator
Write a reflection on your most significant take away from this book.
How does it connect with the Mindful Grieving philosophy?
How has the cultural stigma of grief impacted you or your community during times of loss?
What is your response to the perspective shared in this book?
Support your ideas with examples from your own life.
Conscious Death and Dying Video and Reflection Assignment with Erica Brookings
In Erica’s video, she shares her work as a death doula and the techniques and practices that she uses to support herself while holding space for her clients. She offers many suggestions that may help you in your life as well as in your practice as a mindful grieving facilitator.
After this introduction, Erica offers a visualization inviting you to contemplate the end of your life. Please pause the video, and take the time to journal after each of the questions that she poses. It may evoke some emotions in you that you may not expect…so please be gentle with yourself and take a break when you need it.
Additionally, you will be asked to write your own obituary. This exercise offers another opportunity to contemplate your own mortality.
Your journal writing as well as the obituary will be shared with your cohort facilitator.
Home Practice
Minimum practice of 3 days a week. Please journal after each practice to reflect on your experience. Please note, journal entries do not need to be turned into your cohort facilitator. This is for you!
Cohort Tea Date
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 / 6:00-7:00 MST
