The record2006 – 2026YogaPros at twenty
Twenty years.
Brian and Bruce decided somebody had to hold a proper standard. Turns out it held.
2006Founded in Edinburgh
20Years of one standard
10,000+Verified teachers
100+Countries
The record2006 – 2026YogaPros at twenty
Brian and Bruce decided somebody had to hold a proper standard. Turns out it held.
We’re twenty this year. Doesn’t time go fast. In truth, though, the milestone isn’t ours. It’s yours. So before anything else, meet the real heroes: you, our members.
01 Meet our Teachers
Every face is a verified YogaPros member. Click any card to see their Live CV.
Browse Live CVs →02 The arc
And we’ve only just started.
You could buy every piece of this somewhere else, sold separately. For me, what matters is the connection: each piece feeds the others, and all of it stands behind your name.
What training and teaching must involve before we put our name to either. Written down, public, readable by anyone.
→ every qualification is checked against themWe check the certificate is genuine and the training met the standard. Verified by the body, not self-declared.
→ verified entries appear on the Live CVOne public page holding your verified training, your current insurance and the record of your teaching as it grows.
→ open to students and the studios that book youAccredited courses publish who leads them, what they cover, how they assess and what support follows. Before anyone pays.
→ so choosing a course stops being a gamble£6M professional insurance and legal support behind every class you teach in the UK. Regional cover elsewhere.
→ active once your record is verifiedCPD, member levels, a professional community and a recognised route from newly qualified to senior teacher.
→ each step recorded, each step visible
Where it all lands
Every line on this map ends at a person. Meet Elena — the record is real, and it’s public.
View Elena’s Live CVTelling a studio you’re qualified is one thing. Showing them a record a professional body has checked tends to end the conversation.
Recognition is one half of a teaching life. A living is the other. Twenty years in, most of the world still treats yoga teaching as a hobby, and the people doing the work know better. So we built the Growth Path: four disciplines that turn a qualification into a career that holds. There’s no set order, and for me that’s the point. The pieces hold together, or the career doesn’t.
A hobby will happily stay a hobby. A career takes deciding.
05 Independent review of YogaPros
In July 2026 the Professional Wellness Alliance published its independent comparison of the leading yoga organisations. YogaPros came first for transparency to students, studios and employers. Worth saying plainly: we didn’t commission it, and we don’t control it. Read it in full if you like, then have a look at the system it examined.
06 Transparency proof strip
07 The new Experience Badges
Five grades, and you can’t buy a single one. They’re earned by teaching, and a person checks every claim.
08 Meet our Founders
We get asked what the next step is all the time, and it’s a different answer for every person asking. The door worth opening is the one that matches your life right now, not the one you feel you ought to pick.
10 Coming this year
A few of the things already in build. Tap the deck.
Honouring the longest practice.
The bar rises again.
Refined, region by region.
The member library, expanding.
Teaching work, found through the Register.
Senior teachers becoming trainers.
A senior teacher in your corner.
