Last Updated: June 29, 2020
Yoga Alliance is the largest nonprofit association representing the yoga community, with over 7,000 Registered Yoga Schools (RYS) and more than 100,000 Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT) as of April 2020. We foster and support the high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable teaching of yoga.
Yoga Alliance, founded in 1982, is the world's authoritative yoga training institution.
The alliance convened authoritative Yoga professionals in the United States and even the world to formulate international certified yoga teacher training standards after unified discussion, research and summary of the training systems of various genres
Our work includes:
Celebrating and uplifting the many diverse yoga styles, traditions, and lineages;
Advocating for self-regulation in the yoga industry and universal access to high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable yoga practices;
Upholding the worldwide growth of yoga through education and community;
Encouraging safe yoga instruction via quantitative standards and a member-wide Ethical Commitment, which includes an enhanced Code of Conduct, new Scope of Practice, and responsibility to equity in yoga;
Serving the member community by providing tools for professional growth and development, exclusive benefits, and timely resources and information including those on COVID-19 and Social Justice;
Fostering accountability by encouraging members to provide fair and full feedback on RYSs;
Advocating for the yoga community's protection from unfair or unnecessarily burdensome patents, taxation, or government regulation; and
Providing yoga schools and yoga teachers with effective business practices to help achieve success.
