Yoga.org Teach
◈ Backed by the Yoga.org nonprofit · Assessment-based certification

Become a yoga teacher. Know exactly what you're learning and why.

Most programs hand you 200 hours of video and a certificate. We assess where you already are, build the path around what's missing, and hand you the part nobody teaches — how to actually find students.

Free 10-minute assessment · No payment to start · Test out of what you already know
Start here · Free · 10 minutes

What's your teaching path?

Answer a few questions about your experience, your goals, and how you want to teach. We'll show you your path, what you can skip, and what it costs — before you pay anything.

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3,544 video lessons 187 yoga poses 25 yoga styles Nonprofit · free library, always
Why we built this

Becoming a teacher is unclear. Making a living at it is harder.

Yoga training tells you how to hold a pose. It doesn't tell you how to get hired, what to charge, or where your first students come from — so most certified teachers never really teach.

01

The path isn't clear

Programs rarely explain what you're learning or why. You finish with hours logged and no idea what you're actually qualified to do.

02

Your experience doesn't count

Ten years of practice or a coaching career earns you nothing. Everyone sits through the same beginner material at the same price.

03

Then you're on your own

Build a website, learn marketing, find students, handle bookings and insurance. You wanted to teach yoga, not run a startup.

The path

From your first class to your first paying student.

Every step lives on Yoga.org, under one account. Start wherever you actually are.

Free library

Poses, philosophy, glossary

Yoga IQ

Find your level, free

Beginners course

8 modules · $22

Teacher path

Assessed, personalized

Certification

Faculty-reviewed

Students

Directory + marketing

Choose your destination

Four ways to teach. Two ways to study.

They're genuinely different jobs, so they get genuinely different training. Your path is built from how you actually plan to teach.

In-person privates

One-to-one work in homes, studios, or outdoors. Client intake, hands-on adjustments, safety screening, and what to charge per session.

Highest hourly rateLocal directory listing

In-person classes

Leading a room. Sequencing for mixed levels, cueing without demonstrating, studio auditions, and getting on a schedule by subbing.

Studio employmentLocal directory listing

Online privates

Camera and sound setup, cueing what you can't physically correct, time zones, scheduling, and taking payments.

Teach from anywhereGlobal listing

Online classes

Live versus recorded, choosing a platform, building an audience, and pricing a class pass or subscription.

Scales beyond your hoursGlobal listing

Study tracks — for professionals

Yoga philosophy, meditation, pranayama, Sanskrit, and ethics — credentialed without the asana teaching track. Built for therapists, coaches, healthcare workers, and corporate wellness leads who want the depth and the credential, not a studio job.

PhilosophyMeditationSanskritYoga for helping professions

Specializations

Add a focus to any teaching path: prenatal, chair and accessible yoga, yin, restorative, trauma-informed, or teaching older adults.

StackableShown on your listing
What makes it different

Assessed to a standard, not seated for a number.

We care what you can do, not how many hours you sat through.

Test out of what you know

A skills assessment sets your starting point. Ten years of practice means you skip the beginner material — and pay for less of it.

A published standard

You can read exactly what a Yoga.org certified teacher is expected to demonstrate, before you enroll. So can the studio hiring you.

Reviewed by real teachers

Named faculty review the curriculum and your final practicum. A human decides whether you're certified — never an algorithm.

Business, not just asana

Pricing, first clients, insurance, bookings, and how to get on a studio schedule. The part every other program leaves out.

What's included

The training, the credential, and the students.

We handle the part that isn't teaching.

Your personalized curriculum

Built from your assessment — text, illustrated pose breakdowns, video, and practice work. Only what you actually need.

Faculty practicum review

You submit recorded teaching. A named faculty member reviews it and gives written feedback before certification.

Verified certification

A public Yoga.org page any studio or client can check in one click. Not a PDF anyone could fake.

Directory listing — first year included

Certified teachers appear above everyone else, with your specializations, location, and booking link.

The marketing cooperative

Yoga.org buys and earns the traffic; certified teachers get the inquiries. You'll see every lead we send you in your dashboard.

Business toolkit

Pricing guidance, liability and insurance walkthrough, client intake forms, and waiver templates.

Introductory rate
$299$499

One payment. Certification and your first year in the directory included.

  • Personalized path — pay for what you need
  • Human practicum review
  • Verified public credential
  • Directory listing, first year free
  • Business toolkit
  • Payment plans available
Start with the free assessment

See your path and price before you pay. Renewal keeps your listing and lead flow active.

Standards & faculty

A credential is only worth the standard behind it.

So we publish ours — the rubric, the faculty who review it, and how the material gets made.

The published rubric

Every competency a certified teacher must demonstrate, written in plain language and public. Read it before you enroll — or before you hire.

Named faculty council

Practicing teachers with real studios and real students, plus a medical advisor on anatomy and safety. Every module lists who reviewed it.

We publish our pass rate

A credential everyone passes is worth nothing. We show how many candidates meet the standard, and how many don't.

Curriculum lead

Ryin Amber Lokietz

Head of Yoga Content & Outreach

Yoga instructor and author; practitioner of NLP, hypnotherapy, and reiki. Reviews teaching methodology, philosophy, and curriculum structure.

Medical & safety review

Mike Dhaliwal, MD

Ayurvedic & Medical Advisor

Board-certified physician and anesthesiologist, Ayurvedic practitioner. Reviews anatomy, contraindications, and every safety module.

Joining soon

Practicing teacher council

We're adding experienced teachers who have built real practices — studio owners, private-client teachers, and online instructors — to review each specialization.

Meet the Yoga.org team →

How the curriculum is made

AI speed. Human authority.

We use AI to assemble the best material fast, then real teachers correct it — and their corrections become permanent standards the AI must follow.

STEP 1
AI drafts

Curriculum assembled and structured at speed

STEP 2
Multi-model review

Several AI models cross-check each other's work

STEP 3
Faculty review

Named teachers correct anatomy, safety, philosophy

STEP 4
Standards captured

Corrections become rules every future module follows

Pose demonstrations are filmed with real teachers — never AI-generated. In yoga, bad alignment causes injury.

After you certify

You teach. We'll work on getting you students.

You could build a website, learn Google Ads, and figure out local SEO. Or you could be listed on Yoga.org, where we do that once — properly — for every certified teacher at the same time.

Priority placement

Certified teachers rank above claimed and unclaimed listings — with your specializations, styles, and booking link.

Pooled marketing

Students searching for teachers land on Yoga.org, not on a site you had to build. Every listing benefits from the same spend.

You see every lead

Your dashboard shows the inquiries and bookings we sent you. No guessing whether the listing is worth it.

Find out what your path looks like.

Ten minutes, free, no payment. You'll see your curriculum, what you can test out of, what it costs, and how long it takes.

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