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Why this library exists

Most of what teachers need to know isn't taught in training.

Pricing a workshop. Reading a studio contract. Understanding what your insurance actually covers. Getting through the first year without quitting. Knowing when to say no to a private booking. None of it is in the 200 hours. So we publish it ourselves: twenty years of conversations, written down for the next teacher.

"The library isn't a sales funnel and it isn't a content pile. It's the working knowledge of a professional body, made readable. Most of it is free. Some of it sits behind membership because that's what membership is for. Either way, the writing has to earn its place."
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The Graduate Playbook — book cover The 12-month map from qualifying to a teaching life that holds.
Free PDF The Graduate Playbook. YogaPros · 72 pages
Insurance Essentials — book cover What every yoga teacher should know about cover, claims, and the gaps most teachers miss.
Free PDF Insurance Essentials. YogaPros · 38 pages
The Business of Yoga — book cover The full course on building a teaching career: pricing, positioning, classes that fill, students that stay.
Professional members The Business of Yoga. YogaPros · 12 modules
Pamphlet · 04 The Yoga Teacher's Year One. YogaPros
Month-by-month notes from teachers in their first year. What they did, what they wish they hadn't.
Free read The Yoga Teacher's Year One. Edited by Louise Murray · placeholder
Member course Pricing Your Practice. YogaPros
What to charge for classes, workshops, privates, and retreats, without undercutting yourself.
Professional members Pricing Your Practice. YogaPros · placeholder
Pamphlet · 09 Safeguarding Foundations. YogaPros
The duty of care every working teacher carries, and the policies that make it real.
Free PDF Safeguarding Foundations. Claire & team · placeholder
CPD course · 12hr Trauma-Informed Teaching. YogaPros · accredited
A 12-hour accredited CPD course on teaching with awareness of trauma in the room.
Professional members Trauma-Informed Teaching. YogaPros CPD · placeholder
CPD course · 20hr Anatomy for Yoga Teachers. YogaPros · accredited
A 20-hour CPD course on the anatomy a working teacher actually uses in the room.
Professional members Anatomy for Yoga Teachers. YogaPros CPD · placeholder
Pamphlet · 11 The Studio Conversation. YogaPros
How to read a studio contract, what to ask, and what to walk away from.
Free PDF The Studio Conversation. Louise Murray · placeholder
Founder essay Passion to Profession. Bruce Mackay
The founding letter. Why the profession deserved a professional body.
Essay · open Passion to Profession. Bruce Mackay · placeholder
Founder essay After the Qualification. Bruce Mackay
What no one tells you about the morning after your training ends.
Essay · open After the Qualification. Bruce Mackay · placeholder

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The Graduate Playbook — book cover
Featured · the free PDF

The Graduate Playbook. Start here.

If you read one thing in the library, read this. The 12-month map from qualifying to a teaching life that holds. Templates, timelines, decision-points, and the moves that work. Free. No email gate.

72 pages Free PDF No email gate Updated quarterly
Download the Playbook For newly qualified teachers
Browse by topic

Six shelves. Pick where you are.

Shelf 01

Career path.

The shape of a working teaching life, first year through fifteenth. Maps, milestones, decision-points.

14 resources Shelf 02

Business.

Pricing, positioning, contracts, taxes. The work the training didn't cover.

22 resources Shelf 03

Insurance & safety.

What's covered, what isn't, what to do when something goes wrong. Plain English.

9 resources Shelf 04

Safeguarding.

Duty of care, child and adult protection, the policies a working teacher needs.

7 resources Shelf 05 · Members

CPD library.

Accredited continuing-education hours. Anatomy, business, safeguarding, trauma-informed practice.

50+ hours Shelf 06

Founder writing.

Bruce on the profession, the work, and where it's going. Long form. No agenda.

18 essays
Professional members

Fifty hours of accredited CPD.

Anatomy. Business. Safeguarding. Trauma-informed practice. Pre and post-natal teaching. The full continuing-education library, accredited, free for Professional members. Watch on your phone, your laptop, in the order that suits you.

See the CPD library
From Bruce

Founder writing. The long form.

Pieces written when there was something worth saying. Open to read. No paywall, no email capture, no upsell.

01

Passion to Profession.

The founding letter. Why the profession deserved a professional body, and what it took to build one.

12 min · 2026 02

Why we built YogaPros.

Twenty years in. What still makes the work worth doing, and what the profession needs from a body that holds the standard.

9 min · 2026 03

What a Royal College knows.

On benchmarking yoga not against the yoga industry but against the institutions that hold professional standards across centuries.

11 min · 2026 04

On the second-cohort problem.

Most training providers fill cohort one from warm contacts. Cohort two is where the business is built, or lost. Notes for trainers.

14 min · 2026 05

After the qualification.

What no one tells you about the morning after your training ends. Written for newly qualified teachers, and the trainers who care about what happens next.

10 min · 2026
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From the founder

Most teachers learn this stuff the hard way.

We're trying to make that not necessary. Twenty years of conversations with teachers, trainers, studio owners, and venues, written down, made readable, kept current. Most of it free because that's what a professional body is for. Some of it behind membership because the work cost real time to write and CPD has to stay accredited. Either way, the writing has to earn its place. If something on these shelves saves another teacher a year of figuring it out alone, the library has done its job.

— Bruce, founder, YogaPros

Start with the Playbook Read the founding letter