Meet the Team
Our teachers have over 100 years of combined yoga experience.
With all this knowledge, wisdom and guidance, you know you’ll be in safe hands.
Catherine Annis
Course leader
Catherine is a movement specialist, yoga teacher, teacher trainer and APPI Pilates teacher with over 20 years' professional teaching experience.
Drawing on more than 50 years of personal practice and study in yoga and Pilates, she combines Scaravelli-inspired yoga, evidence-informed strength training, Yoga Nidra and Pilates to help people move with greater ease and continue doing the things they love throughout life.
Based in Exmoor National Park, Somerset, Catherine teaches online yoga classes, strength training classes, workshops and teacher training for clients across the UK and around the world. She believes that moving well is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves. For Catherine, healthy ageing isn't about staying young. It’s about staying curious, capable and connected to our bodies, so we can enjoy an active, fulfilling life at every age.
What continues to fascinate Catherine is the body's remarkable capacity to adapt. With thoughtful movement and the right support, our bodies can continue learning, growing stronger and surprising us every age.
Whether teaching dynamic movement or restful Yoga Nidra, Catherine helps people move with greater awareness, build physical resilience, and regulate their nervous systems.
Rather than forcing people to fit a rigid method, Catherine encourages curiosity and exploration, helping each person discover movement that feels supportive, sustainable, and enjoyable in their own body.
Over more than two decades of teaching, she has seen how small, intelligent changes in how we move can have a profound impact on how we feel. Her work is rooted in the belief that intelligent movement – not simply harder movement – is the key to staying strong, mobile and resilient throughout life.
Catherine’s approach is shaped by a lifelong fascination with human movement. Originally trained as a professional dancer, she discovered yoga as a teenager. She explored Sivananda, Iyengar, Ashtanga, and various Hatha traditions before finding lasting inspiration in the work of Vanda Scaravelli.
Alongside her yoga credentials, Catherine holds a Master's degree in Ballet Studies and is a qualified APPI Pilates teacher. This diverse background reflects her commitment to continually deepening her understanding of how our bodies adapt, heal, and thrive throughout life.
Gary Carter
Anatomy and myofascial connections
Gary Carter has been teaching and practising yoga and various other movement practices for 30 years. He has studied Shiatsu, Chi Ne Tsang, CranioSacral Therapy and in 1998 met Tom Myers and studied the Anatomy Trains theory in depth, completing the KMI Structural Integration training.
Over the past 15 years he has lectured in Movement Anatomy for Yoga, Yoga teacher trainings, Pilates teacher trainings and massage schools all over the UK. He has run the Science of Movement course at Middlesex University from 2007- 2011 and studied Dissection at the Institute of Anatomy in Vienna. He ran his Natural Bodies centre in Brighton for over 20 years offering several yoga teacher trainings and continues to run his Anatomy and Yoga courses in England, Scotland and Ireland.
More recently Gary was Lead Dissector for the Fascial Net Plastination Project on FR:EIA, the first Fascia-focused plastinated human body, a ground breaking project in collaboration with The Plastinarium, Germany.
Jody Barber
Introduction to anatomy
Jody Barber has been practising yoga since 1998 and has experienced several styles, Mysore Astanga, Yin, Hatha and Scaravelli and is a qualified yoga teacher.
Jody is also a Chartered Physiotherapist of over 30 years and has a special interest in treating people with a neurological diagnosis. As a physiotherapist she is trained to an advanced level in the Bobath Concept, which is a specialist assessment and treatment approach for individuals with disturbances of function, movement and postural control. The rationale of this approach is based upon present day knowledge of motor control, motor learning and neural plasticity, as well as a knowledge of biomechanics.
Jody works for the NHS and as a private physiotherapist and teaches yoga classes and workshops in West Hertfordshire. She has a passion for understanding the anatomy of the body and how it moves and how to restore normal movement when dysfunction arises. Jody has clinically supervised many undergraduate physiotherapy students.
www.neurologyacademy.org/profiles/jody-barber
Neville Cregan
Yoga philosophy
Neville Cregan has been teaching the history and philosophy of yoga since 2003. During a trip through India in the 1980s, he accidentally ended up at an ashram, and the experience inspired his curiosity. On his return to the UK, he completed a Humanities BA focusing on Indian religions and philosophy.
He is interested in issues of cultural appropriation, and exploring whether modern Western scientific knowledge is changing our approach to yoga. Neville is also an accredited British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) teacher, and a qualified Thai massage therapist and reflexologist.
Sarah Druce
Teaching assistant
Yoga has been a constant throughout Sarah’s life. She has practised lots of different styles over the last 30 years, but it was discovering Scaravelli-inspired yoga a few years ago that ignited her curiosity and a desire to take her love of yoga further with IYTT.
Sarah’s background is in contemporary dance, teaching and performing professionally, before working in higher education for the last 20 years. She has found balancing a desk job with an innate need to move challenging but it has brought her, time and time again, back to yoga.
Sarah teaches online and in person in South East London.
Sarah graduated from IYTT in 2024. Currently she is completing a 100 hour training in Breathwork and Pranayama.
Whilst we do everything in our power to ensure all teachers will be available,
there may be occasions beyond our control when the teaching team may need to change.
[…] Our teachers have over 100 years of combined yoga experience – with a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, Catherine Annis, Gary Carter, Neville Cregan, Jody Barber and Mariann Rand-Weaver will lead you through your yoga teacher training experience with a practical and accessible approach. With all this knowledge, wisdom and guidance, you know you’ll be in safe hands. Find out more about each teacher on the website. […]