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a heartful collaboration
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Great Heart Yoga was born from a desire to create an opportunity for a deeper yoga learning experience in Olympia. It's a collaboration between Annie Barrett and Whitney Lawless, who together have 30 years of combined teaching experience. Since 2013, Whitney and Annie have been offering in-depth yoga studies and teacher training programs for those interested in discovering their unique gifts and delving deep into the heart of yoga.
annie barrett
Annie Barrett is an educator with an Masters of Arts in Education, an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher and teacher trainer, a certified yoga health coach, a spouse and a mother of two amazing teen boys. She loves cooking, hiking, live music, traveling, and speaking Spanish. Her family spends their time between the evergreen forest on the edge of Olympia, WA and the Andes mountains of Pisac, Peru.
"My life has been and continues to be a magnificent journey and I count myself and fortunate and blessed. As someone who has walked the householder path of yoga for over twenty years, I am dedicated to offering yoga and wellness programs for vibrant and soulful living." Annie has been practicing yoga for over twenty years and has been teaching since 2000. Her teaching is alignment based and heart oriented, blending bio-mechanical principles with the life affirming wisdom and teachings of the greater yoga tradition. Her teaching is informed by teachers from several traditions including Iyengar, Anusara and Tantra. Yoga, for Annie, is the practice of stepping fully into one's body, mind and heart. Via the tools of profound yogic practice, yoga teaches us to align with our core essence so that life can be lived more fully from a stabilized condition of well-being and expansive freedom. Annie looks forward to sharing this journey with you! For Annie's yoga classes, health coaching programs and travel yoga adventures check www.yogawithanniebarrett.com |
whitney lawless
Whitney Lawless, E-RYT-500, has been studying and practicing yoga since 1995. She began teaching in 2003 while in school for Massage Therapy. She is a mother of two young boys, a sometimes circus performer, and quilt maker.
The capacity of the human body to experience trauma, sustain injury and continue to seek intentional movement practices inspires Whitney's inquiry into the nature of hatha yoga. To be at home in our bodies while still living in this world, connected to self-wisdom, and vitality is a daily practice that she brings to her classes. Her teaching also reflects her love for anatomy and biomechanics in asana. Personal practice and influence of her teachers, Denise Benitez, Darren Rhodes and Christina Sell, has equipped Whitney with a solid foundation in asana and set of tools to invite the ancient wisdom of yoga into this modern world. Whitney is deeply committed to awakening awareness through the practice of yoga. Her goal is to support her students in uncovering their unique gifts and nurture their ability to live a more embodied and fulfilling life. She is excited to share this conversation with all who are interested. For Whitney's classes, online programs and blog, go to www.tomoveandawaken.com |
what students say:
"Wonderful program, wonderful women. My life has forever shifted. I am graduate of Great Heart Yoga 200 hr teacher training. It was the most enriching educational situation I have ever had. I feel as though I was guided to a truer self through the teachings; both the physical & the philosophical aspects. I would say the qualities that describe Whitney Lawless and Annie Barrett's teaching style are; rich from knowledge, organized, loving, empathetic, intuitive (based in deep study & practice), appreciative, & joyful. I am not done learning from these folks, in my mind they will forever be my teachers. This is a truly worthwhile endeavor." - Lori Capra
"Whitney and Annie have amazing teaching chemistry. They are very different and complimentary people who communicate with each other effectively and respectfully. They were so available, so quick-thinking, so strong and flexible. Their sense of humor is really accessible and empowering and their encouragement and direction is authentic and unique." EE
"It was great to really work with the texts, to learn the eight limbs. I really appreciated this part of the program. I have a committed home practice and have found integration of yoga principles in my life - my personal healing from grief has been deepened and comforted (and difficult). My teaching has changed." KB
"What a gift to learn from you two - such a dynamic duo! I can feel the palpable change this training has brought on." DL
"I feel so grateful for the training! It has been such a rich experience. I have learned so much, and I am so excited about the possibilities of sharing yoga with others. I feel so empowered as a result of the experience." KH
"The Heart of the Practice is an amazing journey into setting the foundation of Yoga. Annie and Whitney both display knowledge and passion in a nurturing atmosphere." KZ
"If you are not ready for a change in the way you see the world, communicate and connect with yourself or others, then this course is not for you. It has changed everything for me - my home life, work, home practice - everything. My life has changed for the better and I am so grateful." JH
"I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to do this work. I can feel that it has helped me understand myself and my practice, while also opening up some possibilities for some new directions/projects/ideas in my life" CS
"This program totally shifted my entire practice. It brought yoga into my life in a more integrated way. Yoga is no longer a piece of my life, it is my life." - KL
"The Heart of the Practice is an amazing journey into setting the foundation of Yoga. Annie and Whitney both display knowledge and passion in a nurturing atmosphere." KZ
