Qualifications
Being awarded Qualification with Yoga Unify identifies you as teacher who has made a commitment to ethics and has been vetted by their peers for your level of skill, competency, and embodiment. This is not a one-size-fits-all professional certification. By becoming a Qualified YŪ Professional, you have the ability to differentiate your level of education and experience to potential students and potential employers, as well as be supported in your continued growth at the appropriate level.
YU has chosen a collaborative peer review process to involve community collectively in assessment and in celebration. Multiple levels of qualification are not intended as hierarchical—there is a place for all of us at Yoga Unify—but instead, as benchmarks that identify the current level of skill and embodiment of a yoga teacher or professional. It is from this place of awareness that Yoga Unify can support and nurture the growth and continued embodiment of the yoga teacher with advisors, mentors, grants, and pathways to excellence.
The Yoga U Catalog
Rather than asking you, as a teacher, to structure your workshops, courses, and trainings to fit into one box, we want to support the full breadth and scope of your offerings and practices. Provide YŪ with the courses, workshops, and trainings you are passionate about teaching and we will place your courses within the educational structure YŪ is bringing to the field, for the purpose of helping all practitioners of yoga navigate and mark the milestones of their journey.
For students as well as teachers seeking to advance their level of excellence, the Yoga U Catalog promotes the workshops, trainings, and courses offered by yoga educators and professionals with Qualification into an easy to access searchable tool. The Yoga U Catalog serves as an educational road map. With Yoga Unify’s team of Advisors available to members you can easily assess the next steps on your personal yoga journey, and be guided to the teacher you are looking for.
I am impressed and moved by its mission to change the way people are able to navigate through the complex roadmap which is modern-day yoga. Yoga Unify is a very thorough and well thought out system of making growth accessible to many different people on many different paths.
– Sarah Platt-Finger
Collaborate
The Yoga Unify collaborative review process is being designed (see Governing Council on Qualifications) to award qualification to a yoga teacher premised on where they are in their journey.
Celebrate
By collectively honoring a teacher for where they are on their path we can lift one another up and continue to strive for excellence in the field. We can celebrate one another’s accomplishments and support the next phase of the journey.
Empower
Understanding where a teacher is in their journey allows for YU to nurture the career of this individual with professional resources, and student advisors and mentors to guide the next phase of study and practice.
Elevate
Yoga Unify’s commmitment to supporting the yoga teaching profession as an honored and venerated life purpose is bolstered by the YU Grant and Research Funding pool, available to YU Professionals.
Apply for Qualification
A Qualification Award from YŪ is an opportunity available to any yoga professional, at any stage of their professional journey.
Yoga Unify will begin to accept applications from yoga educators and professionals as soon as possible, no later than January, 2021. The Governing Council for Qualifications is meeting throughout fall 2020 setting the peer review process and scope of practice guidelines anew, and are preparing YŪ to activate exact processes and requirements. Be a part of the Governing Council conversation by becoming a Founding Circle Member. Your application fees for qualification with YŪ will be waived as a Founding Circle Member.