YSSPA
PROFESSIONAL YSSPA BENEFITS:
Come along…let’s build a professional association for yoga studio owners and schools that really supports and rewards the work we do.
- Annual destination conference somewhere fabulous (yet affordable) featuring important topics by knowledgeable and inspiring speakers, vendors, & sponsors - YSSPs work hard and deserve peer support and community. Must be a YSSPA member to attend.
- YSSPA: a professional association just for studio and school owners.
- YSSPA Newsletter focused on what is important to YSSPs right now
- YSSPA Advisory Board featuring some of the most experienced, dynamic, and successful studio owners and school professionals
- Listing on the YSSPA Directory
- Low one-time administrative fee of $98 gets you all this PLUS optional Educational Benefits below.
- Coming Soon: Discounted Studio Insurance for YSSPA members!
EDUCATIONAL YSSPA BENEFITS:
- FREE ($1 registration fee) SAYF training valued at $499 (plus 20 CE hrs!) with YSSPA Member registration.
- 2 educational manuals (Pose Manual & Joint Action Manual) that you can use in your teacher trainings or trainings with your instructors.
- 40% SAYF Training discount for all YSSPA Member instructors and trainees.
- 20 CE hours now and in the future through renewal for every SAYF Learner (a more budget- and time resource-friendly option!)
- Studio/School Admin program that allows you to easily invite and track your instructors and teacher trainee progress.
- Discounted personal liability insurance for all SAYF Learners.
- If you do not choose to register your YTT with Yoga Alliance, your graduated trainees/instructors can use the “SAYF” credential behind their name as an RYT alternative.
- Coming Later: SAYF Summits for yourself and your teachers to enjoy together featuring some of the most experienced, talented, wise, educated, inspiring, devoted and innovative yoga educators available today.
SAYF is a YSSPA sponsor which allows our membership and benefits to be SO affordable and accessible. SAYF Education benefits are optional for any YSSPA members.
If you would like to offer the educational benefits of SAYF to your trainees, students, and teachers, keep scrolling down to learn more, or just email steph@sayfyoga.com and set up a time to talk to Stephanie about how she utilizes the SAYF program as both a Studio Owner and YTT School Director.
If you are not interested in SAYF education, you can simply enjoy the professional benefits of YSSPA thanks to the sponsorship of SAYF!
Welcome All Students, Grow Your Studio
SAYF Certification elevates our yoga teaching & a honors a students' practice.
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If YA-registered, SAYF satisfies the YA enhanced standards for biomechanics & assessment.
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Teach to every body.
Why Become A SAYF Studio or School!?
- Prevent or reduce yoga injury in your students and teaching staff!
- Foster a welcoming and inclusive yoga community.
- Unify your teaching staff within a common language and training based in critical thinking & human movement mechanics.
- Receive a free and discounted SAYF Training for yourself and your teachers.
- Broaden your awareness of teaching language, tradition, diversity and how to consider them all in your classes.
- Explore our training content for a variety of learning styles!
- Receive 20 CE hours for your yoga, therapeutic or movement modalities and certifications.
- Receive discounts on personal and studio liability insurance.
Receive a free* SAYF training with your Studio Registration. (*$1 processing fee)
"The SAYF approach is a based in common sense. Seeking to bridge the gap between experience, expert opinion, tradition, and research. "
In The SAYF Training You Will:
- Dive deeper into up to date research on yoga asana and sound human movement mechanics.
- Explore skeletal and muscle anatomy as it applies to yoga.
- Broaden your awareness of teaching language, tradition, diversity and how to consider them all in your classes.
- Align breath, bandhas, and human movement principles to all poses.
- Apply critical thinking for pose considerations and injury reduction for yourself and students.
- Learn through well researched text, videos, images, diagrams, stress-free quizzes and a final exam.
- Explore our training content for a variety of learning styles!
- Receive 20 CE hours for your yoga, therapeutic or movement modalities and certifications.
"SAYF teaches human movement mechanics and generally agreed upon principles to support the yoga community in reducing the likelihood of yoga injury. "
Studio Registration: $98 one-time fee (over $2000+ value)
- One Free* SAYF Certification for studio owner/manager, or other teacher/trainee you designate. ($498 value, *$1 processing fee)
- All your studio teachers or trainee's receive 40% off SAYF Training ($200 savings per instructor)
- Listing on SAYF Website Directory
- Life-time use of our Studio Admin portal to manage studio instructors, teacher trainees, and SAYF Studio Directory
- E-marketing Materials: Downloadable SAYF-Certified Studio images, SM templates, & Informational Posters
- SAYF provides 20 hours of Continuing Education for many organizations, a substantial benefit for all of your teachers who need CE's.
- Downloadable Education Materials:
- SAYF Joint Action Ebook
- SAYF Pose Manual Ebook
- Covid Safety Studio Guidelines Ebook
Registration price goes up to $198 if you purchase later. So take advantage of 50% off your initial registration + 1 free SAYF Training
Through our online platform we are organizing a community of educational resources, experts, teachers, and studios who value Sustainable Asana Yoga.
Find A SAYF Studio on the Directory
Studio Owner Story
As a yoga studio owner for more than 16 years, yoga teacher and, a teacher trainer, Stephanie struggled with how to set a standard for asana teachers at her two small-town studios. Teachers would approach her with lots of experience, and powerful awareness and presence, so she would give them a class on the schedule.
Because her studios had developed a unique culture of understanding basic human movement mechanics, many of her students would approach her and ask why the new teacher was teaching something inconsistent with what they had learned.
When she approached a teacher with this feedback they were often offended that their training or experience was being questioned. This is in no way was the fault of the teacher. Yoga teachers have not, traditionally, been trained in biomechanics. This is a new standard that is being asked of us, and one that is essential to empowering a life long practice.
... What SAYF Instructors are Saying ...
“SAYF created a tangible knowing of body awareness and body love. After years of practicing yoga as exercise I feel like I am practicing a deep relationship with my body with yoga asana, and my strength and flexibility is changing in beautiful and nourishing ways.”~ Anonymous
“Very well organized and deeply useful program based on sound principles for modern yoga.”~ Anonymous
“The SAYF training gave me new tools to better serve a diverse clientele within a yoga class. I was also inspired to pay attention to and change some of the wording I use to stay neutral, open and affirming. So many options to modify to different people (anatomy, injury, psychological) that I'm far more confident in teaching classes that are safe and inclusive.” Dr. Karen Wright