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The evidence

Most yoga teachers stop teaching within five years.

It is rarely about the teaching itself, and the students do not always stop coming. The career around the teaching never gets built. No verified profile, no peer body, no infrastructure that lets a studio choose you over the next teacher whose certificate looks the same as yours. Teaching is the easy part. Building the career around it is what most teachers were never shown how to do.

"I have been doing this for nineteen years. The teachers who last are not the ones with the deepest practice or the most certificates. They are the ones with infrastructure behind them: the verified profile, the cover, the standards that prove what their work is worth. Talent gets you the first class. Infrastructure keeps you in the room."
The Live CV

Click each section. See what it does for you.

Five sections of the verified profile that becomes your professional record. Hover or click any one to read what it does in practice: what a studio sees, what a student sees, what changes for the teaching life behind it.

Live CV member.theyogapros.com / your-name
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Anna Lawrence

Yoga teacher · Bristol, UK · 7 years teaching

YogaPros · Verified
Qualifications

Read by a person, not self-attested.

Every certificate on a Live CV is read by a named member of the Professional Protection & Safety team before the profile activates. That single discipline (verification before publication) is what the profession in the UK and 100+ countries trusts the YogaPros directory to do.

  • Hours, content, and lead-teacher credentials checked against published standards
  • Grey-area training providers contacted directly before any decision
  • Renewals automatic when CPD evidence is logged · no annual reverification
  • The verified state is visible to every studio, employer, or student looking

Stage 2 · Expertise · Verified visibility

Driver one · Visibility

Found by the people looking for someone like you.

A studio short on cover. A student new to the area. A retreat venue holding a slot for May. The Live CV, the directory, and the brand pages put a verified profile in front of the people whose decision becomes your next class.

Driver two · Recognition

Verified, never self-reported.

The standards behind the badge. Read by a person, against the published threshold. The standards a profession a Royal College would recognise as its own.

200hr Minimum training

The total-hour threshold for verified Professional membership. Below it, the qualification does not meet the standard the directory carries.

180hr Live contact required

Of the 200, at least 180 must be live contact hours with a qualified lead teacher. Distance-only training does not meet the standard.

8 yr · 4,000hr Senior Yoga Teacher

The SYT threshold for lead-teacher status. Eight years of teaching, four thousand hours of taught classes. Double the entry-level body's threshold.

Every certificate is read by a named member of the Professional Protection & Safety team. Grey-area training providers contacted directly before any decision. See the published standards in full →

Driver three · Safety

£6M cover. Activates once you are verified.

The Professional Yoga Teacher Insurance Policy. Built around how working teachers actually teach: multi-location, online, abroad, retroactive. Underwritten by Zurich, arranged by Balens, with ARAG legal support.

1

Build your Live CV

Free YogaPros member account. Upload your qualifications.

2

We verify

A named person reads your certificate. Manual process · one business day.

3

Cover activates

£6M PL/PI live · nil excess · retroactive · multi-location · certificate available the same day.

UK · £6M Professional and Public Liability via Zurich / Balens. Eire · €6.5M via Balens Europe. USA · $2M via Insurance Canopy for US-domiciled teachers. See the full insurance pillar →

Driver four · Credibility

Read against the industry alternative.

Two professional bodies. Two standards. The numbers behind each one are published, comparable, independently verifiable. The reason a studio in 2026 prefers a teacher with a YogaPros badge to one with a self-attested certificate.

Standard
YogaPros
Major US body
Live contact hours required
180 of 200
Approx. 30 of 200 (≈ 15%)
Qualification verification
Read by a named person
Self-reported
Senior teacher threshold
8 years · 4,000 hours
4 years · 2,000 hours
Insurance included
£6M PL/PI · UK / €6.5M · Eire
Not included
Continuing professional development
50+ free hours / year
Tracked, not provided
Membership term
Monthly · cancel anytime
Annual

Numbers from each body's published standards, current 2026. Read the full one-page comparison →

Professional membership

One tier. Everything that matters.

No upsell ladder. No annual contract. The single working-teacher membership that carries verified visibility, £6M cover, the directory listing, the badge, the community, and the CPD library. A real Live CV behind it. Screenshot, right.

Professional · Monthly
£10/ month
  • Verified Live CV · qualifications read by a person
  • £6M Professional and Public Liability cover (UK)
  • Directory listing · brand pages · accreditation badge
  • 10,000+ peer community · 100+ countries
  • 50+ hours of free CPD per year · speciality badges
  • ARAG legal-expenses helpline · weekday business hours

Monthly billing · cancel anytime · cover stops at month-end.

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A verified YogaPros Live CV — qualifications, reviews, badges, availability, brand pages
From teachers past year five

What working teachers say keeps them in the room.

The infrastructure was the difference. After year four I had three regular studio slots, two retreats a year, and a waiting list for privates. None of it would hold without the verified profile and the cover behind it.
Working teacher · 9 years teaching · Manchester
Studios stopped asking for proof of insurance once they saw the YogaPros badge. The verification did the work. I send the Live CV link and that is the whole conversation now.
Working teacher · 6 years teaching · Cardiff
Sixteen years in. The standards are still the reason I am here. A profession with a real threshold for membership and a real body behind it. That is what kept the work feeling like a profession, not a side hustle.
Senior teacher · 16 years teaching · Edinburgh
Where am I now?

A mirror, not a sales tool.

Two short checks. The first reads your training against the published Professional standard in under a minute. The second is a wider readiness picture across teaching, business, mindset, and safety. No score. No sales. Just a clearer view of where you stand.

Eligibility check Readiness check
From the founder

You teach. We make sure that work is recognised, protected, and seen.

The teaching itself is yours. Your room, your students, your hour. What sits around it is what makes the difference between a year of cover classes and a teaching life that compounds. The verified profile a studio can read. The £6M cover that activates the day a private client first walks in. The directory the right people find when they search. The badge that means something because a person read the certificate behind it. Six months in or sixteen years deep, the infrastructure is the same. The body behind it is the same. The job stays yours. The proof of it stops being your problem.

— Bruce, founder, YogaPros

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