Hannah Barrett

Hannah Barrett is a yoga teacher and the founder of Yoga Happy, a yoga app and teaching practice built for busy, stretched-thin lives. She spent a decade in finance as an actuary and describes herself as a gym person who didn't think yoga was for her. In 2013, in a stressful period, she tried it and kept coming back. What surprised her was the strength it gave her, not only in her body but in how she handled everything else.

She completed her first 200-hour teacher training in 2016. In 2017 her daughter was born, and the baby's start to life was traumatic: she spent time in neonatal intensive care, and Hannah experienced postnatal depression and PTSD. Yoga became the place where she could land, through breathing, moving and coming back to herself when the noise got too loud.

Over the next few years she taught one-to-one and to thousands of people at festivals, and she launched a postnatal e-book. The Hannah Barrett Yoga app launched in 2020 and was later renamed Yoga Happy. It offers classes from five to ninety minutes across yoga, meditation, breathwork, pilates, strength, and prenatal, postnatal and menopause practice, along with challenges. Her two books, Yoga Happy and The Yoga Happy Year, and her deck of yoga prompt cards, Yoga Happy Anywhere, were published between 2022 and 2024.

Hannah holds RYT-500 certification. Her training includes Ashtanga Vinyasa, LYT comprehensive training, pregnancy teacher training with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, postnatal mum and baby yoga, and specialist study in yoga for cancer and Z-Health. Since 2022 she has co-led Alba Yoga Academy, a yoga teacher training school she co-founded with Celest Pereira, offering online trainings that bring neuroscience together with the roots of yoga.