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
Originally a professional dancer, Catherine Annis has been practising yoga since the late 1970s. She has explored Sivananda, Iyengar, Astanga and Hatha yoga and is most inspired by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli. With a Masters degree in ballet studies, Catherine has been exploring different movement modalities nearly all her life and loves to share her experience of how our movement patterns can fundamentally improve our wellbeing.
Catherine is well known for her practical and accessible approach. As a teacher trainer, she is renowned for her clarity and attention to detail. In her personal practice and private practice, her current focus is to support those working with pain, stress and anxiety. She works with the breath and subtle somatic movement to create ease in body and mind.
As one of the most respected teachers of Scaravelli inspired yoga, Catherine is regularly invited to share her expertise with large corporations, including Network Rail. She's taught on several yoga teacher trainings and is renowned for her ability to convey complex information succinctly and clearly.
Gary Carter
Anatomy and myofascial connections
Gary Carter has been teaching and practising yoga and various other movement practices for 25 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 groundbreaking 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 26 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.
Mariann Rand-Weaver
Teaching assistant
Mariann has been practicing yoga for over 25 years and found it to be a precious sanctuary from her busy life as an academic. Always active, she sought new challenges in retirement and combined her love of learning, science and yoga to achieve a formal YTT qualification so that she can share the benefits of yoga with others.
She has facilitated Scaravelli-inspired yoga classes in her local community since 2024, and currently offers three weekly in-person classes and 1-1 private sessions. Through a range of movement and breath practices she aims to improve body awareness, strength and flexibility, supporting greater ease in body and mind.
Mariann is a recent IYTT graduate.
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.