Anna Ashby: Studio Yoga Photography for Teacher Training
Holistic, powerful photography for wellness and yoga brands
Anna Ashby is a restorative yoga teacher, teacher trainer and author, and this studio shoot was built for her advanced teacher training programme and website imagery. Working in a London studio, the brief was to bring the same stillness and depth her teaching is known for into the frame: a backbend held with total control, a deep seated fold, a twist caught mid breath.
The set used directional lighting and a controlled drift of smoke through each pose, adding texture and a quieter, more cinematic register than a straight studio portrait. Smoke that thickens around a held backbend, or clears just enough to show the line of a spine in a fold, does something a plain white background can't: it gives stillness a texture you can see. It's a technique built to slow the eye down, the way Anna's own teaching slows a room, and one that reads clearly even as a small image online.
This shoot sits alongside the restorative yoga book photography I made with Anna for her book on teaching restorative practice, and Anna's teaching also runs through the triyoga photography I've made across London's studios, where these same qualities of stillness and presence carry through to a wider yoga community. See more of my yoga and movement photography, or find out about commissioning a shoot like this one.
If you're building teacher training or marketing imagery that needs the same stillness and clarity, I'd love to talk.