Personal Brand Photography in Somerset - Catherine Annis - Yoga teacher & Teacher trainer
So happy to be sharing some favourite photos from my creative day with the lovely Catherine Annis! Again, too many favourite photos to share!!
Catherine & I first met locally at Seven Fables walking book club. It was so great to meet her and click! Since then we’ve become friends & planned this fab shoot here on Exmoor where we both live.
As a yoga instructor & teacher trainer, Catherines work is about helping people to find their version of wellbeing.
She’s deeply interested in how we inhabit ourselves in physical form, breath and mind.
Body-psychotherapy informs how she leads her classes and creates a safe space for her sessions, encouraging her clients to work with their strengths, explore their edges, and embrace depth in their practice. Having a clear purpose and ‘why’ in her classes is core, and while this work can be confronting, there is also a lot of play and fun.
We wanted to make images for Catherines website & social media that showed her as both a teacher & student of yoga, finding that balance of seriousness and silliness. Without capturing too many ‘look at me’ yoga photos, we wanted them to feel candid and natural, as though I’d just popped my head round the door to find her in practice.
We also wanted to create shots that showed her life here since moving from London a couple of years ago, her connection with nature, her sweet pup Zippo, being out in the woods, and by the sea. Catherine has gotten into sea swimming this year (even in the winter!!!) so it felt important to show her connection with the ocean! We gave other glimpses into her life, showing her with her chilli-babies in her conservatory and showed her in lesson-planning mode too. (When Catherine told me she loved growing chillies, I had not quite appreciated the extent of her hobby, it was very impressive to meet all the plants!!)
Check out Catherines website here and find her on Instagram @catherineannisyoga.
