Interview with Dr. Rachel Beanland

In today’s podcast, Dr. Rachel Beanland describes her transition from working for the NHS to becoming a freelance Yoga and Meditation Instructor.

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Dr. Rachel Beanland completed her basic medical degree in the United Kingdom at the University of Bristol. A few years later, she completed additional Public Health training at the University of Sheffield.

In 2019 she founded Resilience Yoga. Resilience Yoga creates personalized classes for clients to build their own yoga stories and live more mindfully. In her Yoga practice, she helps women in medicine understand their needs and prioritize their health. She does this using evidence-based approaches, enabling clients to make conscious decisions and live a life they love.

She is now able to do both public health consulting and yoga and meditation practices.

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Journey to Public Health Specialist and Yoga and Meditation Instructor

In the UK, you can go begin your medical training at the age of 18. Dr. Beanland did that at the University of Bristol in the Southwest. During her 4th and 5th year, she had the option to spend time either overseas. She went to South Africa to a rural hospital where they were piloting the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and HIV treatment. Subsequently, she returned to the UK to finish her training in adult medicine.

When Rachel finished her training, she decided to move to France and start working with United Nations organizations. For the last 8 years she’s been working with the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, and academic institutions. And she found that she can work independently doing consulting, which enables her to balance her time between that and teaching meditation and yoga.

Yoga and Meditation

Rachel has been a yoga practitioner for years. In 2008, she developed a much more consistent practice, which led her to complete teacher training in yoga and meditation. Now, she balances freelance consulting work with yoga and meditation instruction.

In Resilience Yoga, she offers one-to-one programs using Zoom on a weekly basis over a three-month period of time. She also offers live teaching using the InsightTimer app. And that enterprise is run as a not-for-profit. 

She is also working on a new course which is the Breathwork session. It’s a really simple tool to use, to reduce stress and anxiety for healthcare workers in their clinical environment.

The morning’s guide to yoga is a really simple practice. It won’t take very long and it’s based on six movements of the spine. You can do it right in your pajamas next to your bed.

It’s the first thing you do when you wake up. And it’s just a really nice outline that someone can get started with… That’s what I like to try and do with people: just to give really simple things that you can add in.

Summary

You can find Rachel at resilienceyoga.fr or on LinkedIn.

Then check her podcast, “Authentic Tea” where she connects with coaches in medicine who have found their way to balance. She also highlights people who’ve explored lifestyle medicine, yogis, and people who have stepped out completely of medicine and are now doing other things.

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