Module 2
Break down of Primary Skills: Focus on Guiding Key Components &Exploration of Grief Through Shadow Work
Live Lesson Plan
Break down of Primary Skills: Focus on Guiding Key Components & Exploration of Grief Through Shadow Work
Grief as a Teacher & Exploration of the Four Bodies
How to Facilitate Key Components of CSG’s Signature Yoga Therapy Programs including:
Dharma Talk
Centering Meditation
Group Facilitation
4 Phase Asana
Integration Meditation
Learning your Triggers Embodying your Emotions Through Asana
Creating a Bridge Between your Practice and your Life
Reading & Reflection Assignments
"The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook" by Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Peer Mentorship - Learning your Personal Triggers
The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook with Arielle Schwartz, PhD - due by January 3rd
Please choose one of the main bullet points below (including sub questions) to reflect on and write about.
THE POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH GUIDEBOOK
Take some time to reflect upon and write about your own resilience and post-traumatic growth.
In what ways do you already feel capable of handling the challenges you have faced in your life?
Do you have a tendency to isolate or do you reach out when you feel vulnerable?
Do you tend to have difficulty maintaining a hopeful outlook in your life?
Do you believe your decisions and actions make a difference?
What additional support do you need to help you respond in a flexible or adaptive manner to the challenges in your life?
Take some time to reflect upon the traumatic events or losses you have faced.
In what ways have you already created meaning about the events of your past?
In what ways have these events changed you?
Have any of these events resulted in positive changes in your life?
Are you aware of any strengths you have discovered as a result of your difficult experiences?
Take some time to write about your experiences expressing yourself openly and authentically.
As you think about your childhood, what positive or negative messages did you receive from your parents about your emotions?
How did you feel during times of sadness?
Do you recall times in your adult life when you felt hurt after revealing your true feelings?
In contrast, can you recall times when your feelings have been warmly welcomed or received by another person?
How have these positive and negative messages and experiences shaped how you share (or don’t share) yourself with others today?
What positive messages could you tell yourself now about authentically sharing your thoughts and feelings with others?
Each of us faces at least one major loss or traumatic event at some point in our lives. This may be a personal loss or a collective wound in your community.
In what ways have events in your life served as an invitation for growth.?
Who are the people who helped you the most?
What wisdom have you gained as a result of your challenges?
What is most important to you about your life?
What are your strengths or gifts? Look over the following list of common character strengths and identify which traits characterize you: creativity, open-mindedness, love of learning, bravery, persistence, integrity, kindness, fairness, leadership, humility, forgiveness, gratitude, humor, hope, and having a sense of social responsibility.
Is there something that is not included on these lists that speaks to your soul?
In what ways is your life already aligned with your values and strengths?
What new actions would help you to create greater alignment?
What helps you best face challenges or overcome obstacles?
What are you seeking to create more of in your life?
Peer Mentorship & Personal Reflection Assignment: Learning Your Personal Triggers Through Shadow Work (90 minutes/1x) - due by January 3rd, 2025
With your peer mentor, you are to explore your personal triggers to support you so that you are best able to hold a safe container for your students. Below is a brief list of reasons why this is important!
Why Is It Important to Learn Our Personal Triggers?
So that we have worked out the emotional response to the point where we won’t be thrown off when someone touches the trigger point
So that we can remain present with our students
So that we have a deeper, personal understanding of the process we are guiding our students
So that we can respond without projection
To learn how to get out of the way
To acknowledge feelings when they come up so that we can tend to them later (If we have already worked them out then we are able to do that - rather than be surprised or caught off guard.
As you share with your partner, use the following list of questions to guide you in this exploration. One person shares completely. The other person listens and offers a reflection using reflective listening practices. Then, switch roles. Remember, this is not a conversation, but an opportunity to share deeply with each other and practice your facilitation skills too! Each person should have an average of 45 min to share and receive a reflection.
Write a reflection paper that speaks to what you are discovering. Please use the questions listed below as a springboard to your reflection. This is to be turned into your cohort facilitator upon completion.
Shadow Work Questions:
Describe your core wounds / issues (old and new).
What is the primary emotion that you feel?
Where are you holding this in your body?
What have you learned about yourself through exploration of your core wounds / shadow?
What happens when you bring this part of yourself into the light to be recognized and acknowledged?
How does this knowledge inform your relationship with yourself? Others?
How does this support your ability to hold space for other people’s grief?
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!
Peer Mentor Call
Learning Your Triggers Assignment (see instructions above)
