Teacher Training Support

Yoga Alliance is committed to maintaining open communication channels with our members throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and updating our community as individual, communal, and professional circumstances evolve.

We have compiled the below information—which we are updating regularly—to provide you with resources, information, and guidance as you face these known and unknown challenges surrounding your profession as a yoga school, studio owner, and/or as a yoga trainer or teacher.

Distance Learning and Teacher Training

This video compiles Online Teaching and Training advice, insight, and support from a variety of Yoga Alliance digital event presenters, including best practice tips, how to build and house content, curriculum requirements and considerations, and more. For more support you can:

Review and print Distance Learning Best Practices (PDF)
View the dedicated Online Teaching Exemption event from November 6, 2020, in which Yoga Alliance Leadership spoke to all things related to the 2021 Online Teaching Exemption, including application details, guidelines, requirements, and the valuable feedback received from members. This event includes a Q+A with event participants.
Utilize an Online Set-Up Guidance checklist (PDF)
Watch additional Digital Event Resources:

Yoga and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)

Representation, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility are necessary to truly create unity through yoga. These complied resources offer education, guidance, and support in making yoga classes and teacher training accessible to the BIPOC community and inclusive of all.

CE Workshop | Yoga Humanities and Philosophy for BIPOC
This powerful series brings awareness to yoga communities of color. In this event, join Natasha and guests as they share on yoga humanities and philosophy for BIPOC.
CE Workshop | Professional Essentials for BIPOC—Cooperatives, Non-Profits, and Studios
Discussion focuses on the business of yoga and how it affects communities of color. Learn about various studio culture experiences and how studios, nonprofits, and cooperatives can benefit BIPOC.
CE Workshop | Anatomy – Ableism and Accessible Yoga for BIPOC
Learn more about ableism and accessible yoga for BIPOC.
CE Workshop | Men’s Yoga for BIPOC
This workshop looks at meaningful ways to engage Black men in the practices of yoga and meditation, while highlighting its benefits and how our panelists individually impact the cities and communities they serve.
CE Workshop | I Don’t See Color…
This workshop looks at Allyship vs. Accomplice-ship, seeking to describe the differences between the two and explore what each looks like in action.
CE Workshop | I Don’t See Color…
This workshop is Part 1 on the discussion of colorism. “Colorism in and Beyond Yoga.” Colorism is defined as the discriminatory treatment of individuals falling within the same ‘racial’ group on the basis of skin color, and is the result of white supremacy, systemic racism, and a broad misunderstanding and appropriation of black culture.
CE Workshop | I Don’t See Color…
This workshop is Part 2 on the discussion of colorism. “Colorism in and Beyond Yoga.” Colorism is defined as the discriminatory treatment of individuals falling within the same ‘racial’ group on the basis of skin color, and is the result of white supremacy, systemic racism, and a broad misunderstanding and appropriation of black culture.
CE Workshop | I Don’t See Color…
The topic of this conversation is on Yoga in Service: Saviorism vs. Humanitarianism.