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Save the Date: AYC Connect with Jen the Yoga Lawyer

Free legal clinics for AYC members. Get practical, actionable guidance you cannot get from ChatGPT

AYC Team

AYC Connect: Business Clinic: Four Profitable Yoga Career Paths for 2026

Join AYC founder Andrew Tanner for a 30-min talk and 20-min Q+A on the core principles for each of the 4 paths to a profitable yoga career in 2026

Andrew Tanner

Structural Inclusivity and Yoga’s Work in the World

I’m not saying AYC is the answer or the only way forward. But it is a step, a movement in the right direction. It’s experimenting with something different.

NIkki Myers

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

NYC Town Hall: Critical Conversations for the Future of Yoga

On Saturday September 27th Yogis from around the globe will gather online to take part in the first ever American Yoga Council, Town Hall and Council Mtg. (join us live in NYC or online)

AYC Team

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.