Yoga Alliance® - International

Professional Accreditations and Affiliations

Yoga Alliance® maintains relationships with professional organisations and associations. These include formal affiliations with international accrediting organisations and international yoga bodies that have reviewed and recognised the high quality of products and services we offer.

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Accreditations

Accreditation means that we have been assessed against internationally recognized standards and operate to the highest levels of quality and service.This accreditation provides further assurance to you that the certificates we issue are both credible and impartial and reduces the risk to you and gives you complete confidence that we have been independently evaluated for our competence and performance capability.

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HBF is a private health insurance company based in Australia. HBF is Western Australia’s largest health insurance provider and also offers general insurance products.

Note: *It is important that prospective members are clear that “Yoga Alliance”(U.S) it is NOT an accredited organisation with HBF Health Fund. For further information see here: Yoga Alliance HBF Provider

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Arthur J. Gallagher is  one of the largest Australian Insurance Brokers and a long term Yoga Alliance’s partner and supplier. Gallagher is Iyengar’s Teachecher favourite insurance company: Arthur Gallagher

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The IYF is the largest non-profit Federation in the world  and the FIRST Organisation in 1987 to set forth the minimum international standards200 hour for yoga teacher training under the Presidency of Swami Maitreyananda and Indra Devi: www.internationalyogafederation.org

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The CMA is the world’s authority and the largest professional membership body for Complementary Medicine lead by its President and Founder Jayney Goddard, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on complementary medicine. Yoga Alliance is the only yoga organisation accredited with the CMA: Yoga Alliance CMA–UK

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Fitness Australia is the National association for registered businesses and exercise professionals which monitors adherence to the industry: Yoga Alliance Registered Supplier

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World Yoga Council ® Vishwa Yoga Samsad was founded in 1970 by Bhagavan Yogavatar  Krishna Kisore Das (New Delhi – India) under the umbrella of Vishwa Unnyayan Samsad. In 1989 the council become part of International Yoga Federation. The World Council of Yoga is composed of grand yoga masters from each continent: Asia, America, Russia, Europe and Australia: World Yoga Council

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Partner Organisations

Australian voluntary Registry of Natural Therapy and Holistic Health Care Practitioners: www.usenature.com

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