Yoga.org Teach
◈ Cohort One begins October 1, 2026 · Founding rate

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

Other programs sell you a number of hours. We publish a list of things a teacher must be able to do, assess which ones you can already do, and build your path from what's left — then hand you the part nobody teaches: how to actually find students.

No account, no payment, no obligation · Take the first module and judge it for yourself
Cohort One · Starts October 1, 2026

Twelve weeks. One module a week. Faculty-reviewed.

A dated cohort, not a video library you binge alone. Take Module 0 free, see the whole curriculum as it's built, then reserve your seat with a refundable deposit.

Reserve your seat
Oct 1 cohort begins 12 weeks one module a week $99 refundable deposit Module 0 free to everyone
Built in the open

We're building this in public. You can watch.

Most programs show you a sales page and a promise. We're publishing the curriculum as it's written, with the review status and the reviewer's name on every module — so you can judge the work before you pay for it.

Module 0 is free

The orientation module — what teaching actually involves, the four paths, and the standard you'll be held to. No account, no card, no obligation.

The curriculum is public

Every module, its objectives, and its current status — drafting, in faculty review, or approved. Updated as we go.

Reviewers are named

When a module is approved, the teacher who approved it is named on it. If a module hasn't been reviewed yet, it says so.

One module a week

From October 1, released weekly with the cohort — so you move with a group instead of drifting through a video library alone.

Start Module 0 — free See the curriculum
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 measure the time you sat there, not what you can do. You finish with a number on a certificate and no clear answer to what you're actually qualified to teach.

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.

Income beyond the matGlobal 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

Measured in competencies, not hours.

An hour count tells a studio how long you sat in a room. It says nothing about whether you can teach. We publish the competencies instead — and certify against them.

Test out of what you know

A skills check sets your starting point. Ten years of practice means you skip what you can already demonstrate — and pay for less of it. Only possible because we count competencies, not hours.

A published standard

Read the full competency list before you enrol — every skill you'll be held to. So can the studio hiring you, and the student choosing 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.

Cohort One · Founding rate
$299$499

$99 to reserve your seat, refundable until October 1. The $200 balance is charged when the cohort starts — or spread over three months.

  • Personalized path — pay for what you need
  • Human practicum review
  • Verified public credential
  • Directory listing, first year free
  • Business toolkit
  • Locked founding rate for renewals
Reserve your seat

Or take Module 0 free first — no card, no obligation.

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

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

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 →

Faculty for Cohort One are confirmed and named above. No module is shown as approved until one of them has actually signed it off — current status for every module is on the curriculum board.

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.

Start with Module 0. Decide after.

It's free, there's no account and no card, and it's the same material the paying cohort gets on day one. Take it, judge the quality, then decide whether to reserve a seat for October 1.

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Already sure? Reserve your seat · $99, refundable until October 1