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Yoga Alliance

We believe in a better, bolder, more compassionate world, grounded in yoga. For teachers, practitioners, visionaries.

Yoga Alliance is the leading nonprofit association representing the yoga community worldwide. Our work is a direct reflection of yoga professionals’ needs and feedback, and supports and fosters the high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable teaching yoga everywhere. We do this through:

• Celebrating and uplifting the many diverse yoga styles, traditions, and lineages;
• Upholding the worldwid

e growth of yoga through education and community, including Digital Event programming;
• Encouraging safe yoga instruction via quantitative Standards and a member-wide Ethical Commitment, which includes an enhanced Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice, and responsibility to equity in yoga;
• Advocating for self-regulation in the yoga industry, our community's protection from unfair or unnecessarily burdensome patents, taxation, or government regulation; and universal access to high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable yoga practices;
• Serving the member community by providing tools for professional growth and development, exclusive benefits, and timely resources and information including those on COVID-19 and Social Justice;
• Fostering accountability within our standards, membership, and internal team; and
• Providing yoga schools and yoga teachers with effective business practices to help achieve success.

07/24/2026

This Disability Pride Month, we're honored to spotlight Rodrigo Souza (he/him) Adaptive & Accessible Yoga Teacher, Artist, and Wellbeing Advocate, and founder of Allihopa Yoga.

Rodrigo is a powerful voice in our community, who champions accessibility as a core value of an inclusive yoga practice. His work has been shaped through mentorship and collaboration with Matthew Sanford of and of , deepening his commitment to making yoga truly available to all bodies.

In his own words:

"Yoga teaches us that every human being is already whole. Yet millions of people with disabilities continue to be excluded from one of the very practices that could most profoundly support their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Those who often need yoga the most are still the least likely to have access to it.

For years, my work has been dedicated to changing that reality. Around the world, I have trained teachers, partnered with organizations, and advocated for a vision of yoga where accessibility is not an adaptation added later, but a fundamental expression of the practice itself. There is still so much work to do.

My hope is that accessibility becomes an essential standard in yoga education worldwide, empowering every teacher to confidently welcome students with physical disabilities into their classes.

When we remove barriers, we don't simply include more people — we reveal the true heart of yoga.

Together, we have the opportunity to build a future where disability is visible, celebrated, and fully represented, and where every body is recognized as a yoga body."

Rodrigo's advocacy reminds us that true accessibility transforms yoga for everyone. We're grateful for his leadership and excited to continue supporting his mission in the months ahead.

Follow Rodrigo's work at

07/18/2026

"Rest is not a reward we earn," wrote in "Pause, Rest, Be," "it is a birthright we return to. Sukhasana is an invitation to come home to stillness, even if just for a few breaths."

Sukhasana, written also as सुखासन, translates to Easy Pose or Simple Pose. (Sukha means easy, comfortable, or pleasant, and Asana means posture.) The pose's roots trace back through centuries of yogic tradition as one of the most foundational seated postures for meditation and pranayama practice. It appears in the "Gheranda Samhita," a 17th-century Sanskrit text on Hatha Yoga, describing it simply as a comfortable cross-legged seat “placing the feet beneath the opposite knees," as the text has been translated, "brings steadiness to the body and stillness to the mind."

Sukhasana offers us a foundation, a place to root down, breathe deep, and simply be present.

What does Sukhasana mean to your practice? Tell us in the comments.

07/01/2026

July is . A.H. Reaume writes in her essay for "Disability Visibility," edited by Alice Wong: “There is so much that able-bodied people could learn from the wisdom that often comes with disability. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out. People need to be lifted up."

"The story of disabled success has never been a story about one solitary disabled person overcoming limitations—despite the fact that’s the narrative we so often read in the media," she continues, "The narrative trajectory of a disabled person’s life is necessarily webbed. We are often only as strong as our friends and family make us, only as strong as our community, only as strong as the resources and privileges we have.”

Yoga teachers, we encourage you to reflect on your role in this webbed existence—how do you create space, reach out, and lift up the people around you?

06/30/2026

"If we truly believe yoga is for everyone," Registered Yoga Teacher Branden Elmore, PhD, told us, "then equity isn't just about reducing barriers to entry. It's about creating communities where people feel they belong and where they can experience the practice fully as themselves."

We recently sat down with Dr. Elmore to learn how his work in education—from yoga studios to college campuses—intersects with the idea of equity: "In both higher education and yoga, I believe access and belonging are not the same thing. We can invite people into a classroom or studio, but true equity asks whether people feel seen, supported, and valued once they arrive."

"For me, equity in yoga means recognizing that healing is not one-size-fits-all," Dr. Elmore shared. "It means creating spaces where people do not have to leave pieces of themselves at the door. Their identities, stories, and lived experiences are not obstacles to the practice. They enrich it."

Dr. Elmore first discovered yoga well over a decade ago, while living in India. The practice offered him a disciplined way to move his body. "I quickly realized yoga offered something much deeper," he told us. "It became an outlet as I navigated graduate school, a career in higher education, recovered from a broken femur, and experienced the joys and challenges of life as a Black gay man learning how to move through the world authentically."

Authenticity is a big part of Dr. Elmore's practice. He reminds teachers that yoga is not about asking people to fit into a mold. "It's about creating enough room for people to show up exactly as they are," he said. "Sometimes the greatest gift we can offer is helping someone feel that they belong."

06/29/2026

Yoga teachers, you show up for your students, coworkers, and communities, again and again. But this is only sustainable when you have someone in your corner, too.

Our members have asked for mental health support that's accessible, flexible, and actually fits a yoga teacher's life. We're listening.

We are excited to introduce our new partnership with BetterHelp. Through it, we're able to give Yoga Alliance members 50% off their first month of online therapy.

BetterHelp connects you directly with a licensed therapist on your schedule, from wherever you are. No waiting rooms. No referrals. Just real support, when and how you need it.

06/28/2026

What does inclusion look like? For Dr. Marissa Floro, creating space for q***r people in your yoga classes takes intention and care.

Dr. Floro is a licensed psychologist, Registered Yoga Teacher through YogaX's yoga teacher training, and the Director at Stanford University’s Weiland Health Initiative. These different identities and roles are more connected than you might expect: As a yoga practitioner and teacher, Dr. Floro has learned to "diversify the ways that one can connect to the body, breath, and somatic experiences," she told us recently. "I invite (my therapy) clients to navigate difficult experiences, feel more embodied, understand their internal world, and connect with their sense of self as they explore their identities."

Swipe through to learn Dr. Floro's advice for yoga teachers looking to create safe, affirming spaces for q***r yogis to explore their identities, find community, and feel at home.

06/22/2026

"In the sacred silence of Savasana," Judith Hanson Lasater wrote in "Meditation Intensive," "it is the only time in the day I'm doing nothing and creating nothing, serving no one outwardly, but serving everyone inwardly by bringing myself to that state."

Shavasana, written also as Savasana and शवासन, translates to Co**se Pose. (Śava means co**se, and Asana means posture.) The pose's roots extend deep into yoga tradition. In the 15th century, it appeared in the "Hatha Yoga Pradipika," a Sanskrit manual on yoga: "Lying down on the ground supine, like a co**se," as the text has been translated, "is called Shavasana. It eliminates tiredness and promotes calmness of the mind."

Shavasana offers us a moment of pause, a place to come back to ourselves—mind, body, and spirit.

What does Shavasana mean in your practice? Tell us in the comments.

06/20/2026

This , we are proud to uplift the incredible work of our collaborators at RefuSHE. For nearly two decades, RefuSHE has supported thousands of Kenyan women, girls, and children displaced by war, conflict, violence, and drought. Their work is essential to recognizing the power of one of the most vulnerable and underestimated populations—refugee girls. Through holistic programming, RefuSHE works alongside communities to support them in becoming emotionally resilient and economically independent.

This work is deeply meaningful to Yoga Alliance, and we’ve been proud to support it since 2022 through trauma-informed yoga programming, led by refugees for their peers.

Yoga can be a respite—a practice for peace, calm, and connection. Through our pilot program, RefuSHE participants have reported that their sleep, energy levels, and health were better because of yoga.

If you’d like to learn more about RefuSHE and support their work, visit refushe.org

06/19/2026

On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom. Today, Juneteenth is a moment for joy and jubilation—a celebration of liberation.

Our yoga practice encourages us to reflect on the Sanskrit term moksha, which can be translated as release or emancipation. It invites us to ask, "What does liberation look like in practice?"

Our offices are closed today as we celebrate Juneteenth and work to build a world in which all people, everywhere, are free.

06/18/2026

Felipe Gonzalez, E-RYT 500, began practicing yoga when he moved to New York City in 2006. "It started as a way to maintain my flexibility for my musical theatre career and to regulate, ground, and center myself before or after, sometimes both, auditions," Felipe shared with us. "Over time, it became so foundational in my approach to life that it inspired me to become a yoga teacher."

Today, Felipe is a founding yoga teacher at The Joyful Liberation Collective, a community-led organization, and a Legacy Ambassador for Lululemon. He's also a social worker. "Yogic Philosophy and the Ethics of Social Work are harmoniously aligned," Felipe shared. "Both invite us to be mindful, inquisitive, kind, and considerate in our relationships, with the understanding that the intrapersonal informs the interpersonal and beyond."

Much of Felipe's practice is about intersections—between the arts, community, and care. He sees connections between q***rness and yoga, too: "Queerness goes against the status quo and allows one to be true to themselves and to live authentically. Pride is a reminder that q***rness is an inclusive spectrum. As yoga facilitators, we need to be inclusive in our views, language, choices, and actions."

"This consideration needs to be implemented in every choice we make when preparing and teaching yoga," he continued. "How can we serve the room? How can we create an experience for people to practice that mediation of effort and grace, of mobility and stability, of doing into being? How can we support the integration of body, breath, and mind as an individual and as a community?"

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