Reports to date indicate that no insurance providers require Yoga Alliance registration. If any of them do, please let us know and we’ll call them out here.
Insurance Provider Contacts*
Over time, we’ve added insurance providers to this list as we’ve come across them. Please write us if you know of others.
beYogi — Insurance for Yoga Teachers ($20 of every policy is donated to Give Back Yoga) — Discounted beYogi insurance available at this link
Express Insurance – Yoga Instructors Insurance link
IDEA Health & Fitness Association — Yoga Insurance link
National Association of Complementary & Alternative Medicines — Yoga Teachers Liability Insurance link
Philadelphia Insurance Companies — Yoga Instructor Liability Insurance link
*We received this email on February 5, 2021:
I started my research with the first choice BeYogi. After days of research they had the best price available for insurance on all my businesses and the BEST customer service. Thanks for the help. I appreciate it.
* We’re one of dozens of partners collaborating with beYogi Insurance to offer discounts. If you’re a beYogi insurance holder, get 20% off anything in the Yoga Teacher Central Store (excludes memberships).
Related Information
See the following for factual, verifiable information on the Yoga Alliance registry, alternatives, teaching competency issues, proposed standards alternatives, and related subjects.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR STANDARDS? — State of the self-governing yoga teaching field; many highly qualified teachers do not register with YA
HEART OF YOGA YOGA TEACHING STANDARDS — Proposed standards in general including acknowledgement that “Yoga must be adapted to the individual, not the individual to the Yoga”
YOGA ALLIANCE MISPERCEPTIONS — Registration, certification, accreditation; Yoga Alliance misperceptions; why you don’t need to pay the YA fees; teacher and trainer reports of YA issues