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.

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.