About the Standards Review Project

In 1999, in its role as a voluntary, member-based organization serving yoga schools and teachers, Yoga Alliance sought to ensure and preserve the quality of yoga education and practice by establishing and disseminating standards for the training of yoga teachers and by maintaining a registry of teachers who met these standards.

In 2018, we launched a review of our standards, calling it the Standards Review Project (SRP). The SRP brought together Yoga Alliance members and non-members, yoga teachers and practitioners, thought and field leaders, wisdom holders, and not-for-profit and for-profit business leaders from around the world in a comprehensive and inclusive process. This undertaking included thousands of voices inside and outside of yoga who offered their viewpoints through a 12,000-respondent survey, a listening tour, a series of virtual town halls, working group sessions, and other feedback channels.

We thank everyone for your participation.