The Next Steps For Your Yoga Teaching Career
Set Yourself Up For Success
Joining our career path will ensure you have all the tools required to run your teaching business well and make teaching yoga your full-time profession.
Build Trust With Your Students
Being associated with a third-party organisation will help you build credibility. With that comes trust from your students that you're a quality yoga teacher.
Everything You Need
Progression
Encouragement and guidance to keep growing and contributing
Credibility
Utilise your badge and reviews as 3rd party validation
Development
Opportunities to develop are sent to you regularly
All The Details
Help Centre
Webinars
Accreditation
Profile
Private Message
Connect with potential clients/students privately and quickly
Career Path
Progress in your career and continue to expand your knowledge
Resources
Discount Codes
Save big on yoga-related products and services that are ethical
Insurance
Select policies are available at a fantastic price for YAP members
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Frequently Asked Questions
We do not have any requirements for you to complete CPD (Continuing Professional Development). However, we highly encourage you to take further training as much and as often as you can. This helps you become the best teacher you can be.
Find registered further training courses here.
Yoga Alliance Professionals have 3 distinct membership levels that reflect your knowledge and experience.
Yoga Teacher
What Is The Experience?
Teachers on this membership level have been teaching yoga for up to 4 years and have up to 2000 teaching hours (up to 30% of this can be substituted for training hours).
Experienced Yoga Teacher
What Is The Experience?
Teachers on this membership level have been teaching yoga for between 4 - 7 years. They also have at least 2000 teaching hours (up to 30% of this can be substituted for training hours).
Senior Yoga Teacher
What Is The Experience?
Teachers on this membership level have been teaching yoga for at least 8 years and have a minimum of 4000 teaching hours (up to 30% of this can be substituted for training hours).
You should have at least 2 years of regular yoga practice before enrolling on a yoga teacher training course. This experience ensures you can keep up with the course content and focus on developing your teaching skills and knowledge, not advancing your practice.
For Yoga Alliance Professionals, the minimum qualification required to teach yoga is a 200-hour teacher training course.
If you have completed a physical course in another type of yoga i.e. not an online course, you can add this to your YAP profile in a few ways.
- As a specialisation, this is used as a search criteria on our website, so we recommend you keep this as as up to date as possible.
- As an additional training.
- In your biography.
Please keep a note of all additional training you complete as we can consider these if you upgrade your membership level.
Insurance
The master insurance policy will cover members to teach as per the training they have received. If you have completed a physical training course (not on-line) in any type of yoga and go on to teach you will be insured. Please keep a copy of your certificate in a safe place, in the event of a claim you will be required to send copies of all training certificates to Balens.
This Code of Practice is a summation and declaration of acceptable, ethical, and professional behaviour by which all Yoga Alliance Professionals members agree to conduct the teaching and business of Yoga. Read here!