Yoga Alliance
Sakshi Upadhyay is a dedicated professional with extensive experience in yoga instruction and mental health counseling. Currently serving as a Yoga Teacher at Yoga Alliance since February 2020, Sakshi has also worked as a Counseling Psychologist and Yoga Teacher at Mindscape Centre for Counseling from October 2022 to October 2023 and as a Mental Health Counselor at Curelink earlier in 2023, where leadership in psycho-educative webinars focused on antenatal and postpartum mental wellness was demonstrated. Educationally, Sakshi holds two Master's degrees in Clinical Psychology and Psychology in Education from Amity University and Teachers College, Columbia University, respectively. Additionally, training in yoga includes certifications from Indeayoga Mysore and The Yoga Institute in Mumbai. Prior experience encompasses various internships in clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and research on yoga's efficacy for cancer survivors.
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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.