Yoga Alliance

Last Updated: May 01,2022

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.

	Board of Directors Our Board of Directors provides strategic direction that advances the livelihoods of yoga professionals across the globe. Their dedication, wisdom, and energy act as a compass for Yoga Alliance and the Yoga Alliance Foundation.
	Leadership Yoga Alliance is led by a team of executives committed to serving members through their collective experience and mentoring the Yoga Alliance staff.
	Committees When required, our standing committees carry out the vision, mission, and objectives of Yoga Alliance and the Yoga Alliance Foundation.
	History Yoga Alliance's historical timeline details formative moments of growth and highlights how the organization has adapted to the accelerating evolution of yoga.
	Policies All Yoga Alliance policies and bylaws are carefully constructed to support the quality, integrity, inclusion, education, and safety in yoga for its members and the broader yoga community as a whole.
	Financials As a nonprofit organization, Yoga Alliance the Yoga Alliance Foundation make public all of their financial records, including tax forms, audits, and other financial reports.
	Join Our Team Yoga Alliance is comprised of motivated and collaborative individuals committed to fostering high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable yoga teaching. View our current openings and apply to join our team.
	The Yoga Alliance Foundation The Yoga Alliance Foundation is our public charity 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works to broaden access to yoga’s healing potential, foster greater equity and more diverse representation within the yoga community, and expand educational, service, and economic opportunities for yoga teachers.