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About Yoga Australia

Aims

  • To promote yoga to the community as a path to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being
  • To promote understanding, tolerance and co-operation between all traditions and styles of yoga
  • To set and maintain professional and ethical standards for yoga teaching
  • To provide representation, advocacy, support, services and a peer network to its members

Mission

Yoga Australia is dedicated to serve the timeless tradition of yoga by uniting and representing yoga teachers from all traditions and styles in Australia. We are also dedicated to serve the general public by assisting them to develop a deeper understanding and knowledge of yoga and meditation.

A brief history

Yoga Australia is a voluntary, non-profit association, incorporated in 1999 (originally known as the Yoga Teachers Association), by a group of independent yoga teachers who recognised the need to bring yoga teachers together from all different traditions, styles and backgrounds, to provide mutual support and professional recognition of yoga in Australia. This was a step towards the development of an independent self-regulation of the profession of yoga teaching in Australia.

In the ten years since it was first incorporated, the Association continues with this primary objective and mission, and has now grown to become recognised as the "industry peak-body" of yoga in Australia. Now known as Yoga Australia, the Association provides a variety of benefits to members, including professional support networks, the development of recognised training requirements, support for continuing professional development, assistance with the promotion of yoga in general, and the work of each member in particular. A range of further benefits for members can been found here

Yoga Australia is also recognised as an advocacy organization for yoga teachers in Australia. Its mission is to promote the values and benefits of yoga, and to support teaching yoga as a profession. Members of the Association's Executive committee are available to provide information or resources to the media, other medical and health professional, and the general public.