Barrett Lauck (Registered Yoga Teacher [RYT] Yoga Alliance, 500 hours) has been teaching yoga since 1998, and teaches over 200 students weekly in group classes and privately. Trained in Astanga Vinyasa yoga and Interdisciplinary Yoga, Barrett melds asana, breath, music, philosophy, and playful improvisational movement into her vinyasa sessions. She also holds certification in Prenatal yoga and works with pregnant women throughout metro Boston as they prepare physically and mentally to give birth and become parents. Skilled in being able to identify her students’ tensions and deep holding patterns, every class of Barrett’s is different, depending on the needs of the group/person. Sessions are dynamic yet calming, so that students are deeply rooted in their bodies and yet light and free in spirit. Barrett’s philosophy is best described in her five points of yoga: building RELATIONSHIP, developing a PRACTICE, remembering to PLAY, SURRENDERING to the moment, and finding radiant JOY. See below for more details about Five Points yoga philosophy.

Resume of Yoga Teacher Training:

1997, 1998: 80-hrs. training in Astanga Vinyasa Primary Series, Beryl Bender Birch

1999: 200-hr. Yoga-Alliance approved Interdisciplinary yoga teacher training, Nosara Yoga Institute

2001: 500-hr. Yoga-Alliance approved Interdisciplinary yoga teacher training,Nosara Yoga Institute

2002, 2003: 80-hrs. Advanced vinyasa teacher training, Shiva Rea

2004: 150-hr. intensive prenatal yoga teacher training with Colette Crawford
In addition to the above teacher trainings, I’ve assisted teacher trainings at Nosara Yoga Institute, 2001-2003.

I also continue to practice with:
Don and Amba Stapleton, Shiva Rea, Kathy McNames, Ana Forrest, Tias Little and others

ABOUT FIVE POINTS YOGA

1. Relationship
2. Practice
3. Play
4. Surrender
5. Joy

My personal definition of yoga has evolved over the years. Currently, I consider yoga to be the practice of developing a conscious RELATIONSHIP both between you and your Self, as well as between you and everything/everyone else. This takes deliberate PRACTICE, which we do through yoga asana (postures) and breathwork – this evolution in our relationship to ourself and others happens in stages, over time. The vinyasa practice is built around moving through physical postures in stages (krama) for just that reason. Our practices are designed with many modifications and variations of postures along the way for us to PLAY with our edges, and have fun with it along the way. We have moments where we hold a posture, and moments where in every breath we move in a seemingly effortless flow from one posture directly into another, and then another. Because this practice, by its very nature, is always changing, we never quite know what the next moment will bring us, just like in life. And so in our practice on the mat, we learn to release, to let go, to SURRENDER, into the present moment, and learn to fall in love with the mystery of not knowing. Letting go our controls, our attachments, even our ambitions, at least for a time, brings a total inner freedom, a radiant JOY, that can transform not just our practice, not just our bodies, not just our relationships to our loved ones, but our whole life, and even the world. These are five points of yoga that we try to glimpse during a practice.

Barrett, You are a superb teacher who knows how to: provide clear instructions, respond to student needs and requests, give just the right amount of encouragement, make adjustments at the appropriate moment, harmonize form and freedom, and transmit the joy you experience with yoga.

-Margo Morado, Director Casa Nia