An open registry for a global practice
The International Yoga Council keeps a worldwide registry of people who practise and teach yoga, and of the schools and studios where they meet.
Counting the world’s yoga community
Grow • Learn • Teach • Transform. The IYC Global Yoga Registry recognises genuine experience and professional achievement, upholds meaningful standards, and makes international registration accessible to qualified practitioners, instructors, trainers and institutions.
Hundreds of millions of people practise yoga, in every country and tradition. Until now there has been no simple, open way to count them, or for them to find each other.
IYC’s registry is that place. It is open to everyone, whatever their style, level or background. It records who practises and teaches, and lets people share as much or as little about themselves as they like.
Open, equal, private by default
Yoga belongs to humanity
No country, school or style owns yoga. The registry is open to all.
Clear categories, every tradition
Designations record the category you are registered in, not which style of yoga is better. Every tradition is welcome.
Private by default
Public listings show only what’s needed. You decide what else to share.
What IYC is not
- Not a government licensing authority, university or statutory regulator.
- Not a guarantee: registration does not promise competence, character, employment or income.
- Not a yoga school: we don’t run courses or teacher training. We register schools and approve their training programmes separately.
- Not a ranking of traditions: no style of yoga is placed above another.
The International Yoga Council is operated by International Yoga Council LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company in the United States.