show them the experience
Photo Guidelines
Your photos should answer four questions for the person deciding whether to book you:
- Who are you? Your beautiful, smiling face.
- Where will I be? Your gorgeous space.
- What will I experience? Happy clients, your energy, your offerings.
- Why should I choose you? What makes you special.
Use Your Own Photos
Personal photos are always best. They show the real you and your work, and build real connection so clients see exactly who they are booking, and show your unique style and what makes you different.
What to Take Photos Of
1. You · Show Your Beautiful Face
Take professional headshots with a warm genuine smile, a clear view of your face, and natural lighting. Show yourself in action: demonstrating your work, hands working, meditating, concentrating, or explaining things to clients. Include personality photos where you are laughing and being genuine, behind the scenes preparing for sessions, or with things you love (not just the objects alone).
2. Your Space · Show Where the Magic Happens
Always take photos during the day (10am to 2pm is best) for natural lighting, and clean up first: declutter everything, organize supplies neatly, add fresh touches like flowers. For small spaces, use the 0.5x lens on your phone to make rooms look spacious, stand in corners for better angles, and minimize furniture temporarily. No dedicated space? Show yourself in your favorite local nature spot or beautiful outdoor locations where you feel at home and can create sacred space.
3. Your Offerings · Show What They Will Experience
Show your professional setup with clean tools and equipment, and capture yourself actually doing the work, whether that is hands positioned for healing, leading meditation, or facilitating groups. Include happy clients after sessions looking relaxed and glowing (with their permission), along with any before and after improvements or testimonial moments. When in doubt, just show a photo of you and your beautiful smiling face.
The Technical Bit
- Landscape, 3:2. Every offering photo shows at the same 3:2 shape everywhere on the site, so what you upload is what people see.
- At least 1800 × 1200 pixels. Anything under 1200 pixels on the short side blurs, and the uploader will tell you. A phone camera photo is plenty.
- Keep the subject in the middle third. Edges can trim a little on small screens. The middle never does.
- Phone photos are usually 4:3. A sliver trims from the top and bottom, which is fine when the subject is centered.
Please Skip These
- Generic spiritual content · Random spiritual symbols, mandalas, chakra charts, sacred geometry, Om symbols, tarot cards floating in space, aura photography (unless you are an aura photographer), energy field visualizations, abstract light patterns, mysterious smoky backgrounds, statues or figurines, random crystals floating in space, symbolic imagery without context.
- Poor quality images · Clearly fake or overly staged wellness photos, low quality or pixelated images.
- Cheesy unrelated stock photos · Someone jumping, a random person smiling, head in hands. Never try to show an emotion through stock images.
- Text and words in photos · Text does not show people who you are, what you offer, or that you are a safe person. Save your words for your description.
when in doubt, your beautiful smiling face
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