Roz Robinson Yoga Teacher and Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

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In 1994, as a young mother of four children, Roz began to look for some activity that would help her to keep fit and give her a little space of her own in her otherwise frantic family life. Having had a brief encounter with yoga as a teenager she realised that that could fulfil both these needs so she began to attend weekly classes and to pursue her own daily practice.

Impressed by the sense of calm and fulfilment that she gained through this and as her understanding and experience deepened Roz found herself becoming interested in her own emotional landscape. This interest lead her to train initially as a Humanistic Counsellor and then, wishing to further develop her knowledge of psychology, she enrolled on a Human Givens post-graduate diploma course, qualifying with a distinction.

While she was completing her counselling training hours in doctor's surgeries Roz was struck by the evident link between mind and body; a theme that became increasingly significant to her as her experience continued.

When she had qualified Roz was offered bank counselling work within the NHS, again based in doctors surgeries. At the same time she was offered a part-time post with a nationally recognised charitable organisation reaching to families who had found themselves on the wrong side of the law. She also developed her own private practice and wrote "A Users Guide to Being Human", a small booklet that briefly explains how we live our lives in terms of the Human Givens perspective. After a year of the family work she moved to join a team of clinical health psychologists as a pain management counsellor at a local hospital, another year on from this she was excited to accept a permanent contract with the NHS at the surgeries where she was a bank counsellor.

Roz was struck by the often extremely positive responses in her clients as they began to recognise the expectations and patterns that were obstructing and restricting their daily lives. Increasingly interested in the mind-body relationship and, informed by her yoga practice, she began to appreciate a direct connection between psychotherapeutic and yogic principles: therapy can be useful in helping you to find a point of balance, understanding and fulfilment whilst yoga can allow you to explore these principles further and to work toward connecting with your true self. It became clear that sometimes it would be useful for her clients to have a form of continuing self-help that might allow them to maintain and build upon the progress that they had already achieved and that yoga could be one way for them to do this.

Driven by these ideas Roz enrolled on a teacher-training course run by Marc Beauvain, an internationally recognised yoga practitioner, and is now happy to be able to offer her grounded, straightforward and empathic approach in both effective, positive counselling and/or potentially emotionally and spiritually broadening yoga sessions and classes.