Not your average trainers
Each of our team members is a part of this community because they are passionate about providing high-quality movement education in a supportive environment.
We bring different expertise and life experiences to this initiative and relish all the opportunities we have to learn from each other, our partnering health professionals, and our clients! We have a growth mindset as a team, always striving to increase our skill sets while uplifting each other through supportive communication and caring in the process.
1:1/Small Group Coaching
Tier 1: $90
Tier 2: $105
Tier 3: $120
1:1 or Small Group Coaching sessions deliver individualized support! You and your coach(es) invest in each other in a relationship built to serve your needs. Our coaches offer their expertise, collaborate as a team to solve problems, and constantly develop our practice as movement professionals. It’s an intimate and highly rewarding way to develop new skills, get support and accountability, strive for your individual goals, and know that you’re working with an expert who’s focused on you!
Similarly, workout programming, including detailed session recaps, is designed specifically for your needs by a coach who understands your history and goals. These workouts include exercise videos from our collaboratively built library with cues specific to the exercise and lots of options for different bodies. The workouts are yours to keep, so they have ongoing value if you want to revisit them! If you’re interested, please fill out a general interest form!
Cost of Small Group is dependent on your size of group.
Ollie
They/Them
I’m Ollivander or Ollie (they/them), I am a functional fitness and movement coach. I am white, transgender, non-binary, neurodivergent, queer, thin, and able bodied. I have 4+ years of experience coaching functional fitness, movement practice, and strength training. I am passionate about helping folks connect to the strength that they already have. I like to approach strength as a product of trust. Learning to find trust in our bodies – and the strength that they hold – is where I do my best work. I am interested in helping others find a connection with their bodies through intentional movement. My experience is working with beginners, returning to movement, recovery and injury, anxiety and depression. All bodies are good bodies, and the beauty of vast difference that exists in our bodies deserves a space to be.
Working to recognize and unlearn the oppression that exists in our society and the fitness industry is a continued part of my movement practice. I am regularly engaged in continuing education in groups and one on one.
My intention as a coach is to support you in the ways that you need. I do not promote or coach dieting or other aesthetic based goals.
Lara
She/They
Lara takes an evidence-based, client-focused approach to goal-setting and training, drawing on both her Master’s degree in kinesiology as well as nearly a decade of experience as a personal trainer. Her mission as a coach is to guide her clients to feel like the best versions of themselves, and she has successfully worked with clients to achieve personal bests on their lifts, complete a set of push-ups for the very first time, implement mindfulness tools in their workouts and beyond, and cultivate greater feelings of body autonomy and self-efficacy. She specializes in guiding women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and anyone who has ever felt out of place in a traditional gym setting to feel strong and awesome in their bodies. Lara thinks of physical strength as an empowerment tool and hopes that her clients come away from each session feeling more capable and self-confident in all areas of their lives.
Lara has competed in both powerlifting and pole dancing, and currently trains and performs as an amateur aerialist. Her certifications include: ISSA Certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, and Online Coach; Girls Gone Strong Level 1 Coach; Girls Gone Strong Pre/Postnatal Coach; 200HR yoga teacher from Seattle Yoga Arts.
Warren
He/Him
Warren Woo (he/him) is a movement coach, photographer, and videographer. Born in Hawaii and having to relocate often, he was homeschooled and found his anchor through creative outlets in his youth. He found his passion for movement as an adult through yoga, running, resistance training, Ultimate frisbee, social partner dance, and acro, before finding his way to concert dance forms, including ballet and modern. He holds a degree in dance from the UW, and has also completed personal training, Pilates mat, and yoga certifications over the years. Enthusiastic about sharing his passion and knowledge for movement and creating a supportive environment to explore what bodies are capable of, he is proud to be part of the coaching team at Friends of the Gym.
Anna
She/Her
Anna (she/her) is a joyful movement coach whose goal is to get you into your body and out of your head. She holds expertise functional fitness, agility training, and weightlifting, and has a particular passion for making movement accessible to bodies of all sizes. Outside of the gym, Anna is a photographer, pole dancer and instructor, and software engineer.
Dominique
She/Her
I am a huge advocate of having a well-rounded movement practice. I teach/coach yoga, strength and myofascial release classes, and I encourage folks to come try different modes of movement with me! I am passionate about helping folks improve their movement capacity by incorporating strength, mobility, recovery and mindfulness into their daily routines.
Ally
They/Them
My name is Ally and I identify as queer, non-binary and femme. I have a background in competitive Irish step dancing, which led me to yoga 13+ years ago as a means of physical therapy and recovery. Yoga gave me a new way of relating to my body and furthered my pursuit of holistic healing. In 2017 I received my first 200 hour RYT with Anna Forrest. This yoga teacher training included a 20 hour Structural Anatomy training led by Ellen Heed. It completely restructured the foundation of my life and led me to further my study of Somatic Therapies. I completed my first Yoga Bodyworker’s Certificate in 2018 and the same year I completed a 6 month Life Coaching program. My trainings include: Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga, Forrest Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Pranayama breathwork, Myofascial Release, Craniosacral bodywork and Polyvagal Therapy, as well as Mindfulness meditation. Additionally, I am a Level 2 Certified Sound Healer. My approach to all of my healing work is to bring the mind into the body, release judgment over the self and become an active but objective observer of the emotions and experience. I seek to guide my students and clients to listen to today’s body and only do what part of the work they can do by respecting their own limits and leaning in to intuition.