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Three major themes emerged from the community-led, Standards Review Project, an 18-month period of self- and public-study to ensure that our credentials support and uphold yoga in the rapidly changing world around us and in which we live today.

The credentials must identify and support you as experts and professionals who stand for quality, safety, and equity in yoga.
For this to be credible, we must be able to uphold the credentials with integrity through enhanced standards and application and review process.
As a membership association, we need to better support you through:

Continuing our advocacy work,
Expanding our educational resources and member benefits, and
Convening community-wide dialogues in support of the field's challenges and growth.

You will see these reflected throughout the changes. Click here to read a letter from the President & CEO.

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Community Updates

YA in the News

How will the new Yoga Alliance standards affect you?

Shannon and Christa both joined Darren Main of the Yogi Underground and Kristen Boyle of the Business of Yoga Facebook Group in this hour-long YouTube webinar on how the new Yoga Alliance standards affect you. Watch now.

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Announcements

Videos: Enhanced RYS Standards and Impacts on the Credentials

Hear from President & CEO Shannon Roche, and learn from VP of Standards Christa Kuberry, regarding the changes to the standards and what you can expect. Learn more.

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Podcasts & Workshops

Unity in Yoga: Rosa Vissers and Yoga Behind Bars

Rosa Vissers, the Executive Director of Yoga Behind Bars, joined our Unity in Yoga podcast to discuss how prison yoga programs benefit those incarcerated and to share the challenges she and her volunteers have faced. Listen now.

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