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AYC Connect Business Clinic: Simple Strategies for Wildly Profitable Yoga Studios (Even in Small Towns)

Jan 15: Join AYC CEO Andrew Tanner and special guest Shannon McCasland of Radiance Yoga

AYC Team

AYC Connect Legal Essentials: Protect Yourself

Dec 18: Managing risks when running retreats, teaching, or operating a studio

AYC Team

AYC Connect Business Clinic: How to Niche Your Programs & Price Your New Year Offers

Dec 11: Join AYC founder Andrew Tanner for a 30-min talk and 20-min Q+A on Niching and Pricing Strategies for the New Year

Andrew Tanner

AYC Scope of Practice

A Scope of Practice is, at heart, a simple promise to work within your agreed field of competency as a yoga teacher. For us at the American Yoga Council, that agreement is made even more explicit, because we credential you on the basis of your competencies – your skills – rather than on the number of hours that you have trained.

Andrew Tanner

AYC Code of Conduct (beta)

It’s easy for a Code of Conduct to be so generic it is of little use, and for there to be next-to-no consequences for violating it. So we’re taking a different approach, with a few specific aims in mind.

AYC Team

An Honest Day's Pay

This piece was first published in November 2024 on the substack of Theodora Wildcroft and it became a sort of rallying cry and inspiration for the organization

Theodora Wildcroft

Contributors

AYC Team

The AYC credentialing team receives input from advisors, members, and staff

Andrew Tanner

Taoist Yoga teacher of 20+ years. AYC founder.

NIkki Myers

Founder of Y12SR, Yoga For 12-Step Recovery.

Sonia Azad

Health-conscious at heart, I’m half hippie, half yuppie— splitting my time as a network TV health reporter & yoga and meditation teacher.

Theodora Wildcroft

I’m a teacher, trainer, writer and post-doctoral scholar working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us.