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Corinna Raznikov Photography, 638 Delano Road, Marion, MA (2026)

09/25/2026

Friday, the day before our Mantra Portrait workshop. A storm is moving in, and tomorrow’s Aries full moon is nearly here. It feels like the right moment to ask: where do we find our steadiness?

Melissa brings a remarkable depth of practice to that question. She has completed more than 900 hours of yoga training, including yoga therapy certification, and is a Reiki Master. Whether she’s leading an Ayurvedic workshop or one of her much-loved classes at The Studio in Mattapoisett, she teaches with a quiet strength that makes room for everyone.

Kerry’s portrait carries the words she returns to often: “Be Your Own Anchor.” She completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Kripalu with Rolf Gates and Michelle Dalbec and brings a gentle love of yoga and mindfulness to her teaching. I see that same quiet strength in her portrait.

“Be your own anchor.” “Root to rise.” To me, both mean finding a place to stand within ourselves, even when the world around us feels unsettled.

Tomorrow, we’ll gather at The Studio for yoga, grounding, and the art of seeing ourselves with more kindness. I’ll guide you through creating a Mantra Portrait: being photographed as you are, then adding words that can bring you back to your own beautiful nature.

I can’t wait to share this experience with you. If you’d like to join us, sign up today through The Studio’s Momence page.

09/24/2026

Since photography arrived in 1839, we’ve had more and more opportunities to see ourselves from the outside. It can be hard to look at a photograph without judging the body we see.

I created the Sacred Portrait Mantra Workshop as an invitation to begin somewhere else: with how it feels to be in your body. It’s a seed for living from the inside out and developing a kinder relationship with the body that houses your soul.

Lindsay and I did our 200-hour yoga teacher training together at Sva Ha. This is her second time doing the portrait process with me, and it’s been amazing to watch her grow into the experienced yoga teacher she is today. On her portrait, she wrote, “I am capable of anything I set my mind to” and “I am enough.” Knowing her journey makes those words especially moving to me.

I’m also sharing a portrait of Kaylee, an amazing and beloved yoga teacher at The Studio. She wrote “I am enough” again and again, with the words “just as I am” beneath her. Sometimes we need to hear a truth more than once before it begins to feel like our own.

Lindsay will play the sound bowls on both days of the workshop. On September 26, we’ll begin with gentle yoga and sound healing. While everyone rests in savasana and receives the sound, I’ll make each person’s portrait.

On October 10, we’ll return for gentle yoga and sound healing, then write and draw our own mantras on the photographs. It’s going to be a magical experience. ✨

Join us at The Studio in Mattapoisett on September 26 and October 10, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Registration is through The Studio.

09/23/2026

I’m having a great time bidding on some of these amazing gifts for the silent auction for Nepal flood relief. Try to outbid me! I dare you!❤️

09/23/2026

"Peace in me. Peace in you.”
Yoga teacher Linda Vivino wrote those words around her portrait, along with Om Shanti Shanti Shanti—a call for peace. On her second portrait, she wrote, “Be here now.”
When I told a portrait client about my Mantra Portrait workshop, they said they couldn’t come because they couldn’t sit in Sukhasana—crisscross applesauce. That’s why I’m so grateful Linda volunteered to be photographed in a chair. Her portrait shows that you can take part while sitting in a chair, standing, or in whatever position feels right for your body.
Linda has studied with David Vendetti and Jason Crandell, as well as chair yoga with Jnana Heyman. I love that she brought both her teaching and her own practice into these portraits.
“Be here now” asks us to begin with the body we have today. “Peace in me. Peace in you” offers a gentler way to speak to ourselves and, from there, to one another.
That’s the heart of Mantra Portraiture: listening to your body, noticing the quiet criticism you may carry, and finding words that offer it support. Linda writes in her bio about owning your peace and rooting your life in the grounding power of yoga. To me, these portraits show what that can look like.
My Mantra Portrait workshop is this Saturday, September 26, at The Studio in Mattapoisett. You can register through The Studio on Momence. Come as you are. 🤍
The Studio

09/22/2026

I recently realized something: all my art projects are really about community.

For ten years, I created the Vocabulary Day Project—photographing more than 500 children every year dressed as words. It was never only about the photographs. I loved collaborating with people and watching what happened when they became part of the art.

The Mantra Portrait grew from that same love.

I’m fascinated by the way art can help us alchemize emotion—how making something with our hands, bodies, words and imaginations can transform what we’re carrying.

We live in a culture that makes us feel as though we need to be experts before we’re allowed to create. But perhaps we don’t need to be experts at everything.

Perhaps it’s okay to be in the middle.

To experiment.
To play.
To make something imperfect.
To keep transforming.

The Mantra Portrait isn’t about arriving at a finished, static version of yourself. It’s an invitation to collaborate, create and meet the person you are becoming.

These portraits feature two extraordinary women from our community:

Jo Norton—retired Global VP and powerhouse teacher of Barre, Pilates, yoga and movement—offering her sunny, empowering encouragement for each of us to be our own kind of beautiful.

And Sara DaCosta—a multi-hyphenate educator, mother and teacher of yoga, sound healing, Reiki and so much more—whose life beautifully demonstrates that we never have to be only one thing.

Join me this Saturday at The Studio at Mattapoisett Wellness Center, where we’ll create, reflect and transform together.

No artistic expertise required. Just come as you are. ❤️

Registration is through The Studio on Momence.

09/21/2026

What happens when a photograph becomes a conversation with yourself?

This is Jen Risio, the heart behind The Studio in Mattapoisett—and the person who invited me to bring Mantra Portraiture into this beautiful space.

Recently, Jen and some of the teachers at The Studio created mantra portrait art pieces together. They aren’t traditional portraits. They are collaborations: part photography, part handwriting and art, part self-expression, part visual meditation.

I am whole.
I am worthy.
I am complete.

The words repeat until they become more than words—until they begin to feel like something the body might remember.

This Saturday, I’m bringing this same creative process to Mantra Portraiture at The Studio. You don’t need to be a writer, an artist, or comfortable in front of a camera. You only need to arrive willing to listen for the words you most need to hear—and to create something entirely your own.

Registration is available through The Studio on Momence.

Thank you, Jen, for inviting me to bring this work into the community you have created. 🤍

Jennifer Risio
The Studio

09/17/2026

Sometimes the image seems to know something before I do.

I first met my friend Stacie when I photographed her daughter’s senior portrait. We became friends instantly and she joined some of my yoga classes and then participated in my Mantra Portrait process.

Recently, I asked her to experiment with me.

I had begun imagining a variation of the Mantra Portrait in which each person is held within an element from the natural world—earth, air, fire or water. I had impulsively bought several closed peony blossoms from Eden Landscapes, and the closed peony bud simply felt right for Stacie’s portrait.

Stacie had been flirting with the mantra “I bloom,” along with “I listen to my body with love.” She wrote her words over the finished portrait, allowing the mantra, her body and the flower to become one piece.

When I surprised her with the photo, she said, “You didn’t know this, but peony is my wedding flower.” Also, a special friend of hers had been giving her peony bouquets for months.

I didn’t know.

And yet, somehow, the image did.

This elemental layer—pairing each Mantra Portrait with something from the natural world—is a new idea I’m just beginning to explore. Now I have a beautiful collection of portraits to play with, and I cannot wait to see what wants to emerge.

A week from Saturday, on September 26, I’ll begin my next two-part Mantra Portrait Workshop at The Studio at Mattapoisett Wellness Center.

We’ll gather for gentle yoga, sound healing, self-love, portrait-making and, when we return on October 10, the creation of your own handwritten mantra artwork.

What words are waiting to be written around the person you are becoming?

September 26 + October 10
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
The Studio (at the Mattapoisett Wellness Center)
Sign up on the Momence App under ‘The Studio.’

Come create something sacred with me.

09/11/2026

Thirty years ago, our black Lab, Daggett, was side-swiped by a car on Converse Road.

Thankfully, he survived, but his front and back legs on the same side were dislocated. That terrifying weekend was also the beginning of a relationship with Dr. Gould and his family that has now lasted three decades.

Dr. Gould, his wife, and their son Matt sat vigil with Daggett over the weekend at Mattapoisett Animal Hospital. When we brought him home, Dr. Gould taught us how to support him with a sling while he learned to walk again.

My husband and I would stagger around the woods at night in our bathrobes, holding a towel under Daggett’s belly and begging him to p*e.

“Wee check?” my husband would ask.

“Wee check,” I’d reply.

We were making sure he wasn’t p*eing directly into the towel. 😂

Daggett recovered, and Dr. Gould and his family went on to care for our animals for the next 30 years.

Somewhere along the way, I began photographing their family.

I think this was possibly our 10th session together. I’ve photographed them at home, at Ned’s Point Lighthouse, and this year I had the privilege of photographing the whole extended family—including Dr. Gould’s beloved granddaughter.

And, of course, the animals. There is always a new menagerie with the Goulds. This year, three dogs joined the festivities.

I moved here from Northern California 33 years ago, knowing almost no one. Relationships like this are how a place becomes home.

Today we have over five animals, and going to Mattapoisett Animal Hospital is honestly one of our favorite things to do. They know us. They know our animals. There is history there.

And now I have history with their family, too.

One of the greatest gifts of being a photographer in this community for so many years is watching families grow and lives unfold—and sometimes getting to photograph the same family again and again.

What a gift to have been embraced by this little corner of Massachusetts, and to still be making photographs for the people who helped make it feel like home. Mattapoisett Animal Hospital

09/02/2026

From the archives: a photograph I created years ago for an editorial story for Cape Cod Living Magazine.

I have always been drawn to the quiet relationship between a person and the world around them—the moments when a portrait becomes about something more than appearance.

A gesture. A connection. An inner quality that may not have words yet.

That same desire is at the heart of my Family photography, my senior portrait photography and my Mantra Portrait Project: creating a photograph that holds something meaningful about who you are and what you want to remember.

My next Mantra Portrait workshop will be held on September 26 at The Studio at the Mattapoisett Wellness Center.

Registration is available through the Momence app under The Studio. ✨

08/31/2026

The flyer is up at The Studio! My Sacred Portrait Mantra Workshop is becoming real, and I’m so excited to bring this beautiful two-part experience to The Studio at the Mattapoisett Wellness Center this fall. sign up on the Momence app underneath ‘The Studio.’ The Studio

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