Yoga Alliance
Yoga Alliance is the largest nonprofit association and global advocate for yoga, dedicated to making yoga accessible to everyone, everywhere.www.yogaalliance.org
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Oct 23, 2026
Kris QuinonesGUEST
And that's where I felt, okay, we have this gap in subtle body anatomy that we can't fit in the 650-hour national average.
Kris QuinonesGUEST
We can't fit it in a 300-hour YTT because Yoga Alliance has their own criteria of what we need to cover and the basis of.
Kris QuinonesGUEST
And so I wrote the book to fill that gap because when I went to massage school in 2005, I was blessed to have a program that incorporated a solid four weeks of curriculum just to traditional Chinese medicine.
Kris QuinonesGUEST
And when I took the NCBTMB, the National board certification exam for massage therapists, there was traditional Chinese medicine questions on that exam.
Jason CrandellHOST
sure.
Andrea FerrettiHOST
Today, our first little blip is we're going to talk directly about yoga because the last few days have... there's been a lot going on because yoga Alliance has announced some major changes to what they do.
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Yeah.
Andrea FerrettiHOST
And I'm just going to walk through the changes in their most basic bare bones way.
Andrea FerrettiHOST
They have a, they have like a credentialing page.
Andrea FerrettiHOST
What is my new credential? You can explore on your own if you have more questions, but my understanding is that these are the changes and, Right now, if you do a 200-hour program or you complete 500 hours, you take your little school certificate.
Andrea FerrettiHOST
If you choose to register with Yoga Alliance, you can then put beside your name that you are a 200-hour RYT or a 500-hour RYT.
Andrea FerrettiHOST
Correct.
Karen PattonGUEST
You know, and you've gotta follow, you know, we won't...
Karen PattonGUEST
I'm not even gonna bring up Yoga Alliance 'cause then we're gonna go down a rabbit hole.
Karen PattonGUEST
But you know what-
Heather PetroskyHOST
Yeah
Koya WebbGUEST
It was a lot of work to bring that whole training online and a lot for me to get it accredited.
Koya WebbGUEST
It's accredited by the Yoga Alliance, which is the highest sanction in the States.
Koya WebbGUEST
And after that, many, many years, fast forward, I'm 40.
Koya WebbGUEST
And I host the most successful online Get Loved Up retreat.
Teni RaneGUEST
You had certain hours that you had to do as supervised hours with like another yoga teacher who then had to like fill out things and send them back for if you if you wanted to be, you know, fully certified.
Teni RaneGUEST
fully supported and certified by like Yoga Alliance, which is the large in the United States, kind of like the large governing body, for lack of a better word.
Teni RaneGUEST
Not everyone that's a yoga teacher is part of that group or system or does any of their continuing education and all these different things.
Teni RaneGUEST
But I have enjoyed that membership, certainly.
Sally SJ BrownGUEST
And coming together, I think that's the thing we have.
Sally SJ BrownGUEST
I mean, this has been highlighted recently by, I've forgotten her name there, a blogger in the US who's been sort of talking about Yoga Alliance, you know, that we don't have...
Jivana HeymanHOST
Rebecca Sebastian.
Sally SJ BrownGUEST
Yes.
Sally SJ BrownGUEST
And coming together, I think that's the thing we have.
Sally SJ BrownGUEST
I mean, this has been highlighted recently by, I've forgotten her name there, a blogger in the US who's been sort of talking about Yoga Alliance, you know, that we don't have...
Jivana HeymanHOST
Rebecca Sebastian.
Sally SJ BrownGUEST
Yes.
J BrownHOST
I felt like I was just beating my head against a wall, so I just wanted to let go of it.
J BrownHOST
But I would be remiss if I didn't mention it, because since the beginning of this show, you can go back and listen to episode number three, in which I spoke with the then-CEO of Yoga Alliance, Richard Karpel.
J BrownHOST
And since then, I've always felt compelled to keep listeners up to date on anything that seemed important.
J BrownHOST
And this week, they made a huge announcement, you see.
J BrownHOST
The Yoga Alliance announced that they were going to do away with 200, 300 and 500 hour designations, which is huge.
J BrownHOST
If you listen to that episode number three back in 2015, I said that we should not be doing it based on hours, but we should be doing it on competencies.
J BrownHOST
That's always been the idea.
J BrownHOST
It's much more about marketing than it is about fostering deep inquiry and yoga teachers helping the world.
Karen FabianHOST
And of course you have your whole career to learn, but early on, you need to have the fundamentals.
Karen FabianHOST
I think Yoga Alliance was right in saying you need 15 hours of anatomy.
Karen FabianHOST
But the problem that I have continually brought up is that with no structure for what are the fundamentals that teachers should learn and how are they going to learn it? What's a consistent framework for them to learn it? That's what leaves so many teachers graduating from their 200-hour training feeling like I didn't learn anatomy.
Karen FabianHOST
So the bigger connection here is you can't determine every student's life story when it comes to their anatomical experience, their injury history, their medical history, any of that.
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Karen FabianHOST
And you might hear that and say, oh, that's silly.
Karen FabianHOST
I don't feel like I have ownership over my students, which is kind of funny to me if you were to say it in that way, because you're using the phrase again, my students.
Karen FabianHOST
And I want you to appreciate that the words you use, the words other yoga teachers use, the words Yoga Alliance uses, the words that we see online in titles of social media posts and titles of articles, the words hide a message.
Karen FabianHOST
And for many, many, many, many, many years, my students has been the phrase that teachers say.
John AinsworthHOST
It's a genuinely contrarian position in his industry, and he's built a business on it.
John AinsworthHOST
Two books, Stop Stretching! and Autobiography of a Naked Yogi, his own Stop Stretching! podcast, an audience of more than 160,000 on YouTube and another 34,000 on Instagram, a membership called the Yogi Club, the Yoga Alliance-accredited certification tracks that yoga teachers take for continuing education credit.
John AinsworthHOST
So Aaron took a contrarian idea and a personal injury and turned them into books, a membership certification program, and a retreat center, and that is a version of the journey that I know a lot of our listeners are on right now.
John AinsworthHOST
Aaron, welcome to the show, man.
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