Founded in 2006 to do one thing well — verify yoga teachers and stand behind them. Twenty years on, ten thousand members, one hundred countries, and a small team holding the floor for the profession.
Other professions have one. Doctors have Royal Colleges. Lawyers have the Law Society. Yoga in the early 2000s had self-certification at one extreme and weekend-course mills at the other. We started YogaPros to give the profession the institution it needed — a body teachers could stand inside, and that students could rely on.
Live CV is the spine. Every credential on a YogaPros teacher's profile is confirmed with the training provider that issued it. Time-stamped, public, beyond dispute. A teacher's record is not what they say about themselves — it is what their providers have confirmed.
£6M Professional and Public Liability cover, underwritten by Balens, sits inside membership rather than alongside it. Without the policy, a teacher cannot teach. The institution and the cover are one thing — that is the design.
200 hours minimum. 180 of those hours live contact. A named senior lead teacher delivering at least 70 percent of the training. The floor we hold; never the ceiling we point to. Standards are what an institution exists to defend.
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We don't optimise for headcount. We optimise for the quality of decisions made by the people closest to the work.
Founded YogaPros in 2006 as Yoga Alliance UK. Twenty years thinking about what yoga teachers need from an institution. Direct, opinionated, occasionally provocative. Holds the line on standards.
Trainer acquisition, partnership conversations, and re-engagement. The bridge between the teachers we serve and the training providers who feed the profession.
Compliance, accreditation enforcement, and the operational side of being a regulator-adjacent body. The reason our standards mean something.
£6M PL/PI cover for UK teachers, €6.5M for Eire, $2M for USA. Underwritten by Balens / Zurich / Insurance Canopy. Nil excess in UK. Active within one business day.
See the cover detail VerificationThe verified credential record. Provider-confirmed, time-stamped, public. The single source of truth for who you trained with and when.
How verification works The floor200 hours minimum. 180 of those hours live contact. Named SYT lead delivering at least 70 percent. The floor we hold; the ceiling we point to.
Read the standardsTwelve minutes on the structural problem in yoga teaching and what we've built to close it.
Read the letter Field intelligenceFive shifts that have changed the field since 2020. Industry intelligence, not opinion.
Read the field For studios & venuesFor studios, retreats, and venues hiring verified teachers. The partnership home.
Open the partnership storyVerified credentials. Real cover. Standards that mean something. From £8.30 a month.