Yoga Spirit is an international learning hub serving the world wide yoga community. We bring you outstanding international teachers through globally accessible tele-classes, podcasts, radio programming, and workshops. We are dedicated to sharing, connecting, educating, and inspiring in the spirit of harmony...

...the Yoga Spirit

We bring together teachers and students from around the world to share a range of yoga disciplines, from asana styles and pranayama, to meditation and other modalities.

The International Association of Yoga Therapists supports research and education in Yoga and serves Yoga practitioners, Yoga teachers, Yoga therapists, health care professionals and researchers worldwide. Our mission is to establish Yoga as a recognized and respected therapy in the Western world. We also serve members, the media, and the general public as a comprehensive source of information about contemporary Yoga education, research, and statistics.

IAYT was founded in 1989 by Larry Payne, PhD, and Richard Miller, PhD, and had well-known Yoga teacher Lilias Folan as its honorary president for many years. Since its establishment, IAYT has consistently championed the cause of Yoga as a healing art through conferences, an annual journal, a newsletter and, more recently, a growing website and a professional referral service.

In 1999, IAYT was dissolved as an independent nonprofit corporation and operated as a special division of Yoga Research and Education Center (YREC) under the overall leadership of Georg Feuerstein, PhD, an internationally respected Yoga scholar and author as well as the founder and former president of YREC. Larry Payne continued as director, with administrative and managing editor responsibilities assumed by Trisha Lamb.