Yoga Teacher Designations

Teacher Designations (RYT)

The globally accepted professional credential for Yoga Teachers

We offer various membership levels to meet everyone's needs!

In January 2017, a new set of Standards RYT-PLUS came into effect. The Standards describe the professional knowledge, professional practice and professional engagement for yoga training programs. In April 2018, to celebrate YIN YOGA, we introduced new professional credentials RYT-YIN for yoga teachers

In January 2017, to elevate the profession of yoga teaching in Australia and internationally, Yoga Alliance–International was the FIRST Alliance organisation to revise and update its 18-year old Standards.

By developing and updating standards and offering credentials to those who meet the conditions of the standards, Yoga Alliance provides teachers a measure for quality, safety, and performance that they can claim in order to get jobs or promote themselves to the public. Meaningful standards demonstrate to potential students that a teacher or school has met certain criteria and made commitments to become a qualified and safe educator.

Yin Yoga today is something most yogis has tried or heard about, it’s becoming a more common form of yoga to what it was years ago. The Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings have shown already great teachers how to teach an even more profound class, a class that teaches functional yoga where an individual practice is welcomed and students are given permission to be guided from within. Following a significant high number of feedback received from the community, we introduced the RYT-YIN Yoga credential.

Click one of the Registry Marks below to learn more about that designation