Your students will appreciate assurance that you are doing all you can to keep your studio safe. To help out with this, we have created some A4 signs that you are more than welcome to download and use in your studio to help communicate this.
The Australian Department of Health has provided some very comprehensive advice in regards to cleaning. You can have a read here. Alternatively we have summarised the key points for you below.
At this point, Yoga Australia endorses social distancing to reduce risk and slow the spread of the virus and we will continue to update our position in line with Government advice. If you are still running classes we advise the following
We recognise that this is a very challenging scenario to navigate as you are dealing with the unknown. We have spoken to a few studios who are wondering what it means for them if a teacher/student were to contract coronavirus or be quarantined. Likewise, contracted and casual teachers are wondering what their rights are if they are unable to work for a period of time.
Our HR partner, HR Central, has provided us with some advice in regards to managing your business and employees. This is available for download here. The Yoga Australia team will be monitoring all government resources closely and will update this page and our social media accounts as soon as we have new information for you.
We have cancelled the ACT which was due to run this weekend. This was due to the interactive nature of this event which would have involved close contact between participants.
We are currently reviewing all upcoming events for April and May. Our main priority right now is acting with the best interest of our members, our presenters and the whole community in mind. We will do our best to ensure that these events are still able to run, in an online capacity, where possible. We will update on the status of these events as soon as we know more.
GSA have received a lot of questions around whether the policy with GSA/CGU will provide coverage for online yoga classes. In particular, whether coverage applies to both pre-recorded and/or live classes.
CGU have confirmed that providing the classes being taught online are able to be safely and appropriately undertaken by the students and all necessary precautions have been addressed, the coverage available under the Professional Indemnity + Public & Products Liability policy will extend to the online classes (both pre-recorded and live), subject to the policy terms and conditions.
If you do not currently purchase your policy from GSA and would like to, please click the link below
If you have any further questions regarding online coverage, please contact GSA on 02 8274 8106
To our members. If you are a teacher or studio owner and you are feeling concerned on what this means for your business or just want to seek another opinion, we encourage you to join our member facebook group. It’s a wonderful community and sometimes just talking to each other can alleviate worry and concerns.