Emily Gardiner

Yoga Instructor at Yoga Alliance

Emily Gardiner is an experienced professional with a diverse background in education and the arts. Currently serving as the General Manager, Social Media Coordinator, and Assistant Lead Teacher at Pure Barre since May 2020, Emily also contributes as a Yoga Instructor for Yoga Alliance since September 2016. Additional teaching roles include working with Chicago Public Schools as a Teacher from August 2022 to June 2025, a First Grade Teacher at Propel Schools from April 2021 to June 2022, and a Teacher at Pittsburgh Public Schools from September 2020 to April 2021. Emily has also instructed yoga at Purple Blossom Yoga Studio and was a Dance Instructor at YMCA of the USA, focusing on Creative Movement for Children. Emily's academic qualifications include a Master's degree in Elementary Education from East Carolina University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance and Choreography from Slippery Rock University.

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Yoga Alliance

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Yoga Alliance is the leading nonprofit association representing the yoga community worldwide. Our work is a direct reflection of yoga professionals’ needs and feedback, and supports and fosters the high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable teaching yoga everywhere. We do this through: • Celebrating and uplifting the many diverse yoga styles, traditions, and lineages; • Upholding the worldwide growth of yoga through education and community, including Digital Event programming; • Encouraging safe yoga instruction via quantitative Standards and a member-wide Ethical Commitment, which includes an enhanced Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice, and responsibility to equity in yoga; • Advocating for self-regulation in the yoga industry, our community's protection from unfair or unnecessarily burdensome patents, taxation, or government regulation; and universal access to high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable yoga practices; • Serving the member community by providing tools for professional growth and development, exclusive benefits, and timely resources and information including those on COVID-19 and Social Justice; • Fostering accountability within our standards, membership, and internal team; and • Providing yoga schools and yoga teachers with effective business practices to help achieve success.