A healthy, successful, ethical, and compliant career in teaching yoga.
live contact hours
Foundation Training minimum · highest in the field
live ratio
Of total foundation course time · live-only principle
+ 4,000 hours
Senior Yoga Teacher floor · lead-trainer requirement
proprietary systems
Three Pillars · Ecosystem · Live CV · Growth Path
Independently verifiable. Every threshold is public · every credential is checkable · every member is held to the same standard since 2006.
You came to yoga to teach. The rest — insurance, qualifications, legitimacy, livelihood — is the body of work YogaPros holds for you.
What YogaPros isA register tells the public a teacher exists.
A professional system verifies the teacher · accredits the training · activates the insurance · publishes the Live CV · holds the standards · defends the career.
YogaPros built that system in 2006. The industry is starting to catch up.
Founded 2006 in Edinburgh as Yoga Alliance UK · renamed Yoga Alliance Professionals (YAP) in 2015 · operating as YogaPros since 2025 · one continuous institution ·
Build your own peer community.
Every face here is a verified YogaPros member.
It’s the reason other organisations can copy our language but cannot reproduce our work.
Three pillars. One career. Training prepares you for Teaching — Business and Mindset are the work after. Members progress Teaching-led → Business-led → Leadership-led.
Verification · insurance · accreditation · Live CV directory · partnerships · safeguarding · Cover Class Alerts. Held as one architecture, not a stack.
One verified Live CV per teacher. Visible to studios, students, partners. Insurance status, Cover Class Alerts, Trainee Success Score — all live-vetted in one record.
Trainee dashboard from the first day of training. Growth Journeys with named milestones. Opportunity Score. Networking. The career, made navigable.
Each a system, a credential, or a measurable standard. Each registered to Yoga Pros Organisation Limited.
Career architecture.
Operating system.
Credential engine.
Member development engine.
Guided career milestones.
Career-runway metric.
Work-flow network.
Training-school accountability.
Teaching-led · Business-led · Leadership-led.
Gatekeeper credential · 8yr / 4k hours.
Mid-tier credential · 4yr / 2k hours.
Live-only accreditation · SYT-led.
Twelve canonical terms. One continuous institution since 2006.
Whether you teach, train others, or are about to qualify, there is a next step built for where you actually are.
Starting out. The first steps you take determine everything that follows.
Your trainee path
Building a career. Recognition, protection, and a path that actually lasts.
Your teacher path
Shaping the profession. Accreditation that proves your programme is worth trusting.
Your trainer pathThe most developed trainee experience in the field. Open a YogaPros account from the day your training begins.
Named milestones from Trainee to Senior Yoga Teacher. Track where you are. See where you're going.
Read the path 02Setting yourself up after graduation. Turning passion into a profession. Why so many yoga teachers burn out. Named tasks · guided.
Read the journeys 03Search teachers near you. Follow brands. Discover what your peers are up to. The network you'll grow into.
Open the network 04£25 one-time · cover from the moment you start training · valid until you qualify or 18 months. The first product of your career.
Read the coverNo fee to register. Start while you train.
The industry is moving toward these. YogaPros set them at the start. Six published thresholds, including the live-only principle that anchors them. Every figure verifiable, every figure publicly stated, every figure held by YogaPros since 2006.
The full course length. Live contact, supervised practice, observation, self-study, and assessment all counted toward the 200-hour total.
Real-time delivery, lead teacher present. The structural floor that separates a teacher-training course from a self-study programme.
Not one of the 180 contact hours can be pre-recorded, asynchronous, or self-paced. Live is the floor — and the line YogaPros has held since 2006.
Senior Yoga Teacher grade. The named lead on every accredited course — eight years of teaching and 4,000 cumulative hours since graduating. Double the threshold of the major US body.
The minimum proportion of contact hours delivered by the named lead teacher. Holds the coherence of the course; protects the graduate experience.
EYT (Experienced Yoga Teacher) grade. Four years and 2,000 cumulative teaching hours since graduating — or sector-equivalent for non-yoga modules such as business. Specialist guest teaching sits alongside.
If your course meets these thresholds, bring it to YogaPros.
Get my course accreditedIndependently verifiable · the highest live-contact requirement of any major yoga professional body in the field. The principle that anchors every YogaPros-accredited Foundation Training.
Wanting a livelihood from this is not a compromise of the practice. It is what allows the practice to continue.
Example shown · Senior Yoga Teacher accreditation. Minimum 8 years and 4,000 verified teaching hours since graduating.
The professional body's job is to see what's coming. Three things on our desk this week.
From April 2027, MTD becomes mandatory for self-employed teachers earning over £30,000. Quarterly digital submissions required. Five-step action plan inside.
Fifty hours of accredited continuing-education content, free for Professional members. Anatomy, business, safeguarding, trauma-informed practice, and more.
UK studio chains increasingly require YogaPros-verified teachers — and what that means for the profession.
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