Currently in a 200hr+ training course.
You've enrolled. You're a Trainee — qualified by enrolment, not yet by certification. Stay here. The Trainee pillar holds your cover, your Live CV, and the support designed for the training period.
You are here
Most trainees finish their 200hr feeling more uncertain than when they started. The certificate doesn't tell you whether you're ready. It tells you that you're qualified.
The threshold from qualified to working teacher is a year that no school teaches and no graduate forgets. The professional body holds the ground in between — cover from the start of training, a Live CV that builds with you, and a community of other trainees walking the same months you are.
OneThe decision is made.
TwoThe course is underway.
ThreeThe first class is closer than you think.
Trainee, Graduate, and Practitioner are distinct stations. The body recognises them differently. The right cover and the right pillar depend on which one you're in.
You've enrolled. You're a Trainee — qualified by enrolment, not yet by certification. Stay here. The Trainee pillar holds your cover, your Live CV, and the support designed for the training period.
You are hereYou've graduated. The qualification is yours. The first year of working teaching is what the Graduate pillar is built for — the Graduate Playbook, full insurance, the room you're about to enter.
Graduate pillarYou're a Practitioner — considering the path, not yet on it. The Practitioner pillar holds the frame for choosing a school and the questions to ask before you enrol.
Practitioner pillarSame indemnity as a full member. Designed for the months you are in training. Activated by Live CV verification.
A single payment covers the duration of your training. Not a monthly subscription. Not auto-renewing. Pay once, train under cover.
Cover lasts up to eighteen months, or until you graduate — whichever comes first. Long enough for any 200hr or 300hr course in any honest format.
Six million pounds professional and public liability — the same indemnity as a full member. Underwritten by Balens, backed by Zurich. Nil excess.
Up to £100,000 of legal cover per claim — criminal defence, disciplinary hearings, tax disputes. Helpline Mon–Fri 9am–5pm.
One business day after Live CV verification. Not instant, not 48 hours. The cover is real, the verification is real, the wait is what it takes.
Cover first. Then identity. Then community. Each door opens the next. Most trainees walk through all three before their second teaching weekend.
£25 trainee cover. One business day to activate after Live CV verification. The foundation underneath every classroom hour, every practice teach, every assist offered to a fellow trainee.
Verified credentials from day one of training. Your evidence file as a working teacher starts now, not after graduation. Every continuing education hour, every styles studied, every CPD completed — recorded against you, not against your school.
Trainees walking the same months. Recent graduates a year ahead. The slack channel of people who know exactly what your fourth-month wobble feels like because they were in it twelve months ago.
Trainee membership bundles cover, Live CV, community and study support into one £25 entry that lasts the whole training period.
I bought trainee cover on the second weekend. My lead teacher asked us to demonstrate adjustments on each other in month two. Without cover I would have hesitated. With cover I learned faster because I knew the worst-case wasn't on me alone.A · 36 · Glasgow 200hr · month three of nine
The Live CV was a small thing that turned out not to be small. I added every workshop I'd done in the year before training, every retreat, every continuing education weekend. When I qualified, the file already showed two years of evidence. The studio I applied to noticed.S · 44 · Brighton 200hr · just finished
The trainee community channel was the surprise. Three of us swapped study notes through anatomy month. One of them lived two streets away and I'd never have met her. We still teach each other's classes when one of us is away.D · 39 · Bristol 200hr · six months after graduation
One payment. Eighteen months or graduation, whichever comes first. Activates one business day after Live CV verification.
The training period is the strangest part of becoming a teacher. You are not a student in the way the rest of your practice has had you be. You are not yet a teacher in the way you will be in a year. The middle is where most of the questions live.
YogaPros existed before the school you chose, and we will exist after it. Trainee cover is £25 because the cost should not be the thing that decides whether you are protected while you learn. The Live CV is yours from week one because the record of who you are becoming belongs to you, not to the school that helps you become it.
When you qualify, you don't need to do anything. The trainee cover steps aside. Professional membership begins. The community channels you've been in for the last nine months stay open. The body has been here all along.
Bruce Mackay & Brian Cooper
Co-founders · YogaPros · since 2006