The whole application lifecycle, your clock and ours, on one page before you begin. No small print. Nothing discovered halfway.
You submit your syllabus application and we assess it against the published Standard. The application fee is paid at submission, once everything checks out — more on that below.
Approved applicants take out the plan that carries accreditation — Professional Trainer for individuals, the Business plan for organisations.
You list runs of your accredited syllabus on YogaPros, and the accreditation badge — with its verified link back to the register — goes on your website and social media.
This page governs stage one. Mostly, it governs the part before it: the draft.
An application is assembled from evidence, and gathering evidence takes longer than filling in forms. So before a draft opens, we ask you to confirm five things. Each is a yes or a no. You declare them; we verify them later, at submission.
Eight years and 4,000 teaching hours — and they commit to personally delivering at least 70% of contact hours.
Four years and 2,000 hours as a yoga teacher, or the equivalent standing in their own field.
200 hours in total, 180 of them live and in person. Inside those, the keystone: 120 hours on the craft of teaching, at least 50 of them your trainees actually teaching.
Money terms in full, what's included and what isn't, admission criteria, missed sessions, pass and fail, cancellation on both sides, complaints, data.
Public, readable before anyone enrols. We link-check them at submission.
It routes you to the preparation pack — no clock, a personal gap list, and everything to have ready before you return. The draft can wait until you're ready. That is rather the point.
When your draft opens, its closing date sits at the top: ninety days out. It never moves. Editing doesn't extend it, logging in doesn't extend it, and there is no one to ask for more time — extensions don't exist in this process, for anyone. That is what makes the date real.
One draft at a time. If you start a new application while one is open, you'll be asked to finish the first or let it go.
We remind you long before anything happens. If the draft sits untouched, a nudge at day 21 and again at day 42, each naming the next smallest step. As the date approaches, notes at day 60, 75, 83 and 88. A quiet draft is never locked — it stays editable to the final hour.
The date exists to be believed. If the reminders are doing their work, it should almost never actually arrive.
At day ninety an unsubmitted draft lapses. The application closes — and your work comes back to you. A complete copy of everything you wrote, as a readable document and a re-importable file, is stored in your account and sent to you the same day.
For thirty days after a lapse, a restore button reopens the draft for a final thirty-day run. It works once, for everyone, no questions asked. After a second lapse the application closes for good — the export stays yours.
Thirty days after a lapse with no restore, the draft itself is removed. Your teachers' details go first — their data doesn't sit in a closed application — and nothing clears until your export is confirmed delivered.
A new application imports your export. Your writing comes back in seconds; teacher confirmations and checks run fresh, against the Standard in force on the day you submit — never the day you first drafted.
Submission runs the full verification. Every attached teacher is re-confirmed against the live register at that moment — grade, hours, standing. Your policy pages are checked as live. Your hour map is read against the Standard.
Only when everything passes do we take the application fee. A lapsed teacher or a dead policy link blocks payment — it never eats it. The fee is shown in full before you confirm, and it is non-refundable once assessment begins, because assessment is the thing it pays for.
A body that prints deadlines on your application owes you its own. Ours is on the same page as yours, and we publish how we perform against it.
The draft window — and after approval, the window to take out the plan.
From your submission to our first decision — approved in principle, or returned with the list.
Each teacher on your application is invited at the moment you attach them, and told what's held and why. Their acceptance is what attaches them — your lead teacher's acceptance is also their commitment to deliver 70% of contact hours. What joins the application is a live reference to their register record, never a copy of it.
Invitations that aren't accepted lapse after thirty days, and the details clear with them. When a draft lapses, teacher data is the first thing removed. Your export carries your work and their names against register IDs — their records stay theirs.
There are no extensions in this process — which is exactly what makes every date on this page dependable. What there is instead: a correction lane. If our machinery errs — a clock fires wrongly, an export fails to arrive, a register field is out of date — tell us. It's logged, audited, and put right, including restoring any time the error cost you.
Corrections fix our mistakes. They don't add time for yours. And our complaints procedure is published — the same thing we require of every accredited trainer.
An application — draft or submitted — is not a credential. "Accreditation pending" appears nowhere on the register, so it shouldn't appear on your website or social media either. Say nothing until Approval in Principle; from stage three, the badge says it properly, with a verified link behind it. A public claim before approval closes the application.
Application lifecycle · edition one · numbers reviewed against the first cohort's data · a revision never touches a draft already open.
We wrote our deadlines on the same page as yours. That's the whole idea.