Senior Yoga Teacher's are the pinnacle of the yoga teacher career path combining training and experience. This is a similar status to what Yoga Alliance USA refer to as an E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher), but is set to a much higher standard, requiring at least 8 years of teaching experience to qualify.

In addition to the benefits that regular yoga teachers receive, Senior Yoga Teachers:

• Are exempt from taking CPDs
• Have Workshops approved as CPD's
• Can open and register a yoga school (RYS)

In addition to your own page to promote your classes and workshops, the aim at Yoga Alliance UK is to help you promote and grow your business as a yoga teacher. 

How much is it to join?

Pricing is simple:

Non RYS (the school you graduated from is NOT registered with YAUK)

First year membership and insurance: £114.00 (without insurance £91.00)*

RYS (the school you graduated from is registered with YAUK)

First year membership and insurance is: £89.00 (without insurance £66.00)*

Renewal fee for either of above is £89.00 (without insurance £66.00)*

FOR IRELAND

Non RYS (the school you graduated from is NOT registered with YAUK)

First year membership and insurance: £124.00 (without insurance £91.00)*

RYS (the school you graduated from is registered with YAUK)

First year membership and insurance is: £99.00 (without insurance £66.00)*

 Renewal fee for either of above is £99.00 (without insurance £66.00)*

* We request that ALL Yoga Alliance UK members MUST have insurance, so if you opt out of insurance with us, then you must provide a certificate of the insurance that you have elsewhere.

Upgrade to SYT from a lower level

If you are current member and believe you are eligible to upgrade to Senior Yoga Teacher click the button below (please read the adjacent column to check that you qualify)

There are three routes by which you can qualify to join as a SYT

1. I have a 200 Hour certificate and experience as a yoga teacher
2. I have a 500 Hour certificate and experience as a yoga teacher
3. I do not have a certificate but I have a lot of teaching experience

 
You have a 200 Hour certificate and teaching experience

There are 3 possibilities by which you can qualify:

1. You trained with a Yoga Alliance UK trainer- auto acceptance - see our list
2. Your trainer is not registered with Yoga Alliance UK but still meets our standards - please contact us.

PLUS

• I have a minimum of 8 years and 4000 hours of teaching experience since getting my 200 Hour certificate.

 
You have a 500 Hour certificate and teaching experience

There are 2 possibilities by which you can qualify:

1. You trained with a Yoga Alliance UK trainer -auto acceptance- see our list
2. Your trainer was not Yoga Alliance approved but the course met our standards.

PLUS

• I have a minimum of 4 years and 3000 hours of teaching experience since getting my 500 Hour certificate.

You do NOT have a certificate but lots of teaching experience

• You have a minimum of 10 years and 6000 hours teaching experience.

• Please note- you can only apply purely on experience alone if you have been teaching since prior to the start of 2001, if you have started teaching after this date at least a 200 Hour teaching certificate is obligatory.

(the option of applying based on experience alone was initially set up to accommodate teachers who have had extensive teaching experience over many years, at a time when  teacher training courses were not so readily available)

 

Do NOT qualify as  teaching experience: either one to one class or home teaching class if not publicly advertised