Manifesto

If you have ever walked out of your own yoga class wondering if what you taught was good, than this is for you.

For over a decade, the same story has circulated through blog posts, forums, and advice columns: yoga teachers describing empty rooms, spiraling self-doubt, feedback that amounts to opinion and a persistent, unshakable sense that their certification left them unprepared for the actual work. We all feel it, have felt it, even when we lack the language for it.

Then comes the inevitable question we ask all students: "How was class?"

The same pattern repeats across studios, cities, and states. Even teachers with twenty years’ experience unknowingly send mixed messages, over-cue, or keep their eyes fixed on the mat trying to remember their sequence while students drift.

Delivery has become so inconsistent while we have an entire billion-dollar wellness economy that has emerged that last 5 years that promises consumers the same things yoga can do in 1 class.

Students are disengaged, confused, and largely unnoticed.

This is no individual failing, it is an industry that has long operated on feels and vibes and a call for a fundamental reconsideration of how yoga is taught,  how teachers are trained and how studios operate.

Why YOGAUX Exists

We created YOGAUX because we saw a persistent gap in the industry of applied learning and teaching readiness grounded in the student experience, derived from researched-backed learning principles.

Our professional development focuses on the customer service side of teaching.

We want yoga teachers to have the tools that most teacher trainings do not address and have long been known by other industries and boutique brands.

Tools that reliably develop their craft, foster clear communication, reduce subjective narratives of improvement, help you become a stronger teacher, faster.

YOGAUX get teachers off the mat, integrated in their own classes and creating meaningful connections with students and the practice.

With skill, deliberate intention and a framework for measuring teaching quality, we want to be the answer of what “good teaching” looks like.

Teachers deserve methodology, not mystique and students deserve consist delivery and less confusion. We’re not here to tell teachers “any yoga is better than theirs”…

Choosing to become a yoga teacher is a powerful decision that can transform your practice and your community.

We just want you to know, great yoga teachers aren’t just born. They’re built.

—Brittney Coates, Founder