Sara Arabi

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.