Brittny Manos

Brittny earned her BA in Psychology at The Ohio State University in 2012. She began working at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio shortly after. Her dedication to health and wellness is specific to supporting adolescents and young adults, more specifically vulnerable youth. The research Brittny manages in Clinical Research Services and Nationwide Children’s Eating Disorder Clinic, General Adolescent Clinic, andMedication Assisted Treatment for Addiction Clinic (MATA) has naturally aligned with this dedication.

Brittny is a RYT200 yoga teacher through Yoga on High and is also a 100-hour Trauma Sensitive EMBER™ certified Instructor. She has taught EMBER™ at Kaleidoscope Youth Center, a safe and empowering center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Ally youth in Ohio. In collaboration with the Yoga on High Foundation, Brittny developed the MATA Yoga Program with the intention to provide a unique resource for patients with opioid addiction using therapeutic elements from EMBER™’s curriculum, such as body-awareness techniques and meditative practices. Brittny hopes to offer similar structured program to additional subspecialty clinics and organizations in the community.

Brittny’s work springs from a place of empathy and introspection. Yoga has been an essential part of her life since she was sixteen; the practice and the community allowed for an acceptance that was completely foreign to her up to that point. Through the experience of laying her life on her mat over the years, a place she could break down and rebuild, she discovered part of her purpose was to share that experience with others.