Last Updated: August 14, 2026

22 Beautiful Yoga Pictures of Yoga Models on Instagram That Will Inspire You

Kendra Miller - Best Yoga PhotosYoga girl Kendra Miller is wearing her leopard print yoga pants and teal hair, doing yoga poses in downtown Denver.

Yoga photography captures movement, balance, focus, and stillness in a way that can be both striking and beautiful. I love photographing yoga because every pose creates a different shape, line, and sense of movement, whether it is a challenging pose captured at exactly the right moment or a quiet pose in a beautiful natural setting. The best yoga photos do more than document the pose. They capture the control, grace, and presence behind the practice.

Popular types of yoga photography include:

• Nature-based yoga photography

  These photos often feature yogis practicing yoga outdoors in stunning natural settings, such as on a beach, in a forest, or on a mountaintop.

• Action-based yoga photography

  These photos capture yogis in a challenging pose or flowing through a yoga sequence. Images like these often show the strength, balance, and flexibility required for yoga.

• Artistic yoga photography

  These photos often feature highly stylized looks, using creative lighting, angles, and composition to create visually stunning images. Examples include silhouette shots or pictures with vibrant colors.

In this collection of magical yoga photos, you will see how movement, balance, focus, and creativity come together through photography to create images that feel both expressive and visually striking.

Many incredible yoga photos capture the movement, focus, and presence that make the practice so visually compelling. Ultimately, the best yoga photos are the ones that make you stop, look, and feel something.

1. Shea Leger

Shea is a yoga teacher at Black Swan Yoga, and she's a bottle of smiles and laughter. She loves the Colorado mountains and makes magical potions handcrafted with love.

This yoga girl is full of energy and loves to travel, with Mexico being her top destination. Her Mermaid pose will look beautiful on the beach!

Find her on Instagram: @namastewithshea

Shea Leger - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl and teacher Shea Leger is doing a mermaid pose on a boulder in Colorado.

2. Delaney Dwight

This multi-dimensional yoga goddess is full of adventure. She's a muse, mentor, tantric alchemist, and quite brave on that ledge doing a Chakrasana.

Find her on Instagram: @delaneymdwight

Delaney Dwight - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Delaney Dwight is in white yoga pants doing a wheel pose on a Colorado mountain.

3. Marissa Victoria

Marissa Victoria is a fun and colorful yoga teacher in Santa Cruz, California. We discussed how we enjoyed each other's work and the idea of doing a yoga photoshoot. However, we were 1,000 miles away from each other. Then, out of the blue, we both ended up in Taos, New Mexico — a beautiful, serendipitous moment in our lives.

Out of this magical time in our lives, we created lovely images (during golden hour), such as her Skandasana pose on the side of the Rio Grande Canyon.

An epic yoga winter shoot in Colorado is in the works. Stay tuned!

Find her on Instagram: @marissavictoriayoga

Marissa Victoria Yoga - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Marissa Victoria is doing a Skandasana yoga pose in a canyon during the golden hour in the southwest.

4. Brittany Wilcox

Brittany is a tattooed yogi who teaches aerial silks and has legs for days! I love her Spider Pose. A captivating variation of the Goddess pose.

Find her on Instagram: @gfreeyogi

Brittany Wilcox - Best Yoga Photos 2026Sexy platinum blonde yoga girl Brittany Wilcox (gfreeyogi) with long legs doing spider goddess pose.

5. Kendra Miller

Kendra Miller is one of my favorite yoga models! This pineapple-eating machine really loves pineapple and making shapes anywhere she can!

Didn't you know laughing yoga girls float in the air?

Find her on Instagram: @kendracherise

Kendra Miller - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Kendra Miller is having fun laughing in a downtown Denver alleyway wearing a tight red bodysuit.

6. Emy Hart

Emy is always happily flowing. She’s a Hatha Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master, and artist. Here she is basking in the sun, doing a Mermaid pose with Gyan hand mudras.

Find her on Instagram: @hart.intention

Emy Hart Brown - Best Yoga Photos 2026Emy Hart Brown doing a mermaid pose in the sun at Red Rocks Amphitheater.

7. Mindful Jess

The Body Mantra fashion show featured these beautiful lines and celebrated body positivity. A golden Hero pose with her added details to make this nude yoga photo unique and personal. Read more about Mindful Jess and our yoga photo shoots on my blog.

Find her on Instagram: @mindful_jess

Mindful Jess - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Mindful Jess in gold body paint doing a nude yoga pose called hero pose.

8. Vulgar Yogi

She came out from the East Coast to make shapes on the mountains and run down them in the rain! Best experience of her life! What a rush doing a Wheel pose at 12,000 feet!

Find her on Instagram: @vulgaryogi

Vulgar Yogi - Best Yoga Photos 2026Adventure yoga photoshoot on top of the mountains with this yoga girl doing a wheel pose.

9. Kendra Miller

She was walking up and down the RiNo Art District, making yoga shapes everywhere at the drop of a dime. Here, she is doing her stunning variation of Kapotasana.

Find her on Instagram: @kendracherise

Kendra Miller in Pigeon Pose - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Kendra Miller is in front of a wall with colorful graffiti, doing a yoga pose and wearing a tight red bodysuit.

10. Amanda Pierce

Working with colors, Amanda is in a meditation pose with an Anjali mudra, adorned in a lovely burnt orange crochet sweater.

Find her on Instagram: @her_magick

Amanda Meditation Pose - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Amanda sits gracefully in a meditation pose with Anjali mudra, wearing a beautiful burnt orange crochet sweater.

11. Kendra Miller

This yoga shoot did not go as planned. There was a big rainstorm that summer evening. We shot in the rain anyway and had good, clean fun! Look at her having fun doing the Wild Thing pose or Camatkarasana.

Find her on Instagram: @kendracherise

Kendra Miller in Wild Thing Pose - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Kendra Miller is doing yoga poses after a beautiful summer rain storm on the city sidewalks.

12. Amanda Pierce

Beautifully vibrant, tattooed, and funny. Here is a yoga pose close-up of her handmade mala beads and Kali mudra.

Find her on Instagram: @her_magick

Amanda Pierce - Best Yoga Photos 2026A close-up detail shot of tattooed yoga girl Amanda with male beads wrapped around her hand mudra.

13. Kendra Miller

What a good sport she was getting flexy and bendy in the city! A handstand backbend against a colorful graffiti-covered wall!

Find her on Instagram: @kendracherise

Kendra Miller - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Kendra Miller is doing yoga poses for her photoshoot against an alley with cool graffiti art.

14. Laura Kantwerk

A Colorado yoga teacher who loves making mala necklaces, playing on mountain trails, and creating beautiful shapes like this Prasarita Padottanasana.

Find her on Instagram: @_satyayoga

Laura Kantwerk - Best Yoga Photos 2026 Blonde yoga girl Laura in her purple yoga pants doing Prasarita Padottanasana.

15. Mindful Jess

Playing with shapes and her astonishing flexibility in her Spiritual Playground. She does a lovely Shiva pose!

Find her on Instagram: @mindful_jess

Mindful Jess - Best Yoga Photos 2026Slender and fit yoga girl Mindful Jess (Jessica Branson) is doing a Shiva yoga pose for her yoga photoshoot.

16. Kendra Miller

Kendra and I like to do copious amounts of yoga pictures. She’s my muse. What can I say?

She's adventurous and creative with her yoga poses and will try anything! For example, this beautiful Kapotasana on her forehead and her enchanting, flowing hands.

Find her on Instagram: @kendracherise

Kendra Miller in Kapotasana Pose - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Kendra Miller touches her forehead to her toes in a full back bend, wearing tight little yoga shorts and a top.

17. Bendy Brandi

She is multi-talented! She's a yoga practitioner, contortionist, pole dancer, bikini competitor, and studies NASA stuff. If it's not rocket science, it's the Compass Pose or Parivrtta Surya Yantrasana.

Find her on Instagram: @bendy.brandi

Brandi - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Brandi is doing a compass pose at a train station for our urban-themed yoga photoshoot.

18. Laura Kantwerk

She's a ray of sunshine. This is the yoga photo that started it all! In her Mika Yoga Wear bodysuit, Laura is doing a beautiful one-legged wheel pose, also known as Eka Pada Urdhva Dhanurasana.

Find her on Instagram: @_satyayoga

Laura Kantwerk - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Laura is doing a gorgeous one-legged wheel pose in the Colorado sunset.

19. Angie Rose

She works in higher education and is an Athleta Yoga ambassador. This was her first yoga photoshoot. I challenged her to use everything as props. Many people love this photo!

Find her on Instagram: @angie_has_adventures

Angie - Best Yoga Photos 2026A yoga instructor showcases her flexibility in a backbend handstand, wearing sleek black Athleta yoga pants.

20. Amanda Pierce

The purple-haired yoga beauty! She’s magical, cuts hair, teaches yoga and gives the most amazing therapeutic massages. This is Amanda playing with mudras during a Wild Thing pose, or Camatkarasana.

Find her on Instagram: @her_magick

Amanda Pierce - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Amanda and her purple hair in black yoga pants doing a wild thing pose.

21. Taylor Heisler

Taylor is a beautiful fashion model, a kind woman, and a yoga teacher at Core Power Yoga in Colorado. We did an adventurous winter yoga shoot on the snowy trails at Red Rocks Amphitheater. I give her big kudos for running around barefoot in a little bodysuit in the snow and mud.

Here, she is doing an elegant Skandasana (half squat pose), a variation of Malasana.

Find her on Instagram: @taylor_heisler

Taylor Heisler - Best Yoga Photos 2026Yoga girl Taylor Heisler in a white bodysuit doing Skandasana in the snow at Red Rocks Amphitheater.

22. Riley Narsh

Riley Narsh is a yoga teacher and integrative wellness coach who developed a passion for yoga and nutrition through her own journey toward better physical and mental well-being. She later founded Align Holistic Wellness, where she has offered personalized wellness coaching and guided yoga practices.

For this outdoor yoga photoshoot in the Colorado mountains, Riley is practicing Compass Pose, or Parivrtta Surya Yantrasana. The pose's extended lines work beautifully with the surrounding mountain landscape, creating a yoga photo that feels natural, open, and connected to the outdoors.

Find her on Instagram: @lovinglyriley

Riley Doing a Compass Pose - Best Yoga Photos 2026A compass pose with Riley during her adventurous outdoor yoga photoshoot in the mountains.

Do You Want to See More Yoga Images?

If you enjoy yoga photography, take a look through my yoga photography gallery. You will find a collection of images focused on movement, balance, form, and the visual beauty of yoga.

Explore the gallery to see more of my yoga photography.

Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to view this collection of yoga images. I hope you found a few photos that caught your attention and gave you a new appreciation for how yoga can look through the camera.

Namaste.