Meet Brittany McConnell – Weblog

Brittany is a yoga trainer and trainee psychologist based totally in South-West London. We stuck up with Brittany to be informed extra about her background and practices…

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Let us know just a little about your self…

At the start from Glasgow however now residing in South-West London.

What does an ordinary day seem like for you?

In addition to instructing yoga I’m recently enterprise my Doctorate in Scientific Psychology which supplies a large number of selection to my weekly regimen. I transfer between being a pupil, NHS skilled and yoga trainer which can also be difficult every now and then due to this fact it’s non-negotiable that my morning and night routines keep constant to provide me a way of balance. Each and every morning begins with meditation follow – although it’s only a few mins after which a espresso (at all times Tale Espresso, SW Londoners you already know!) and a stroll within the park both being attentive to a podcast or chatting with my circle of relatives. Night time regimen is composed of a couple of yin poses, studying (at this time I’m loving the rest Taylor-Jenkins Reid) and sipping on a magnesium drink to lend a hand me flow off right into a deep sleep.

How did your yoga adventure start and what impressed you to transform a yoga trainer?

I started working towards yoga 11 years in the past in an try to rebuild my bodily and psychological well being after a long-term well being prognosis. I take into accout after my first-class feeling a synchronisation between my thoughts and frame which felt like natural magic after suffering thru months of disconnect between the 2. Yoga, for me, become a language of each motion and stillness and allowed me to persistently display up with out judgement as my frame started to heal. I additionally began to note the have an effect on that a typical follow had on such a lot of different spaces of my lifestyles and knew that sooner or later I’d need to proportion this with others.

What impressed you to focus on Scientific Psychology?

I’ve at all times been desirous about human behaviour and determined to check Psychology at college the place I started to be informed extra about neuropsychology and the way we categorical feelings which lead me down the (very lengthy) trail of that specialize in Scientific Psychology. Scientific Psychologists paintings with a large spectrum of psychological well being problems decreasing mental misery and selling mental well-being thru speaking treatment.

How have you ever noticed yoga get advantages the ones going thru psychological well being difficulties?

I started to note the position that yoga has in creating frame consciousness and noticed my purchasers start to experience components of the follow that assist psychological readability. Lots of the paintings that I do is speaking treatment, then again verbal expression doesn’t at all times come simple and via imposing yoga as a device in treatment my purchasers have been ready to deepen their emotional consciousness and building up talents had to keep watch over their fearful machine.

What’s your favourite quote or lifestyles motto?

“Wits fur ye’ll no move via ye” – a Glaswegian reminder that the universe at all times has a plan for you. This has been such an anchor for me just lately, preserving me attached to my roots (each bodily and metaphorically) as I center of attention at the right here and now.