About the Yoga Teaching & Learning website
at www.yogauk.com
The online space
The Yoga Teaching and Learning website is a friendly and professional environment where yoga teachers can learn, reflect and connect with other yoga teachers.
We welcome yoga teachers of all backgrounds, both newly qualified and old hands, who come with an open and curious mind, in the spirit of learning and self-enquiry.
We maintain an environment of mutual support and collegiality where all topics relating to yoga teaching can be explored.
The evolution of YogaUK.com
The YogaUK.com website was set up in 1999 by Andrea Newman as a way of supporting yoga teachers in the UK in the newly emerging worldwide web.
YogaUK.com was the first yoga website on the internet and the title of the site back then was Yoga Village UK.
(Do let us know if you know of an older yoga website - after much searching in vain at the time, no other yoga website could be found!)
As technology evolved quickly, and the needs of yoga teachers changed over the years, new versions of the site were created. The current version 4.0 was published in 2023 and was given the new name of Yoga Teaching and Learning.
The site is dedicated to continuing its original purpose - to support yoga teachers online in their grassroots work in the community. We offer quality education and inspiration from authentic experts and experienced tutors, and opportunities for yoga teachers to support each other and connect more widely with other teachers.
We value diversity and welcome the sharing of ideas and experiences through collaboration, sharing and listening in a heart-centred and respectful learning environment.
We would love to hear from you if you have ideas or suggestions, or would like to help out, contribute or collaborate, as the site continues to evolve. Reach out to us at [email protected]
The business side
YogaUK.com was first set up as a not-for-profit website to support the yoga teaching community in the UK and Ireland through online advertising, and also to provide a yoga presence on the internet.
From its inception, the site's existence relied on a mixture of mainly voluntary unpaid work, and some paid work funded by advertising revenue.
Thanks go to Jenna, Caroline, Lynn, Terry and Angela for much manual input to the free-of-charge yoga teacher directory that we ran for 23 years. And also to Bethan, Fiona, Vivien, Bettina and Jackie for their valuable contributions in the recent years of development, along with Stephanie and Camilla for their design input.
This 4th version of the YogaUK.com site - Yoga Teaching and Learning - was set up by Andrea and launched in 2023. The content is now available to all English speaking yoga teachers around the world.
Today in the 2020s, the setting up and running of a site of this nature is much more costly of both time and money than in the early days. The initial phase of creating this version of the site required some investment.
Once back in the black, further income from the site will be spent on:
- ongoing tech fees
- investment in site development
- creation of new paid-for and free resources for yoga teachers
- course tutor fees
- creation of paid roles to support the site
- marketing to tell more yoga teachers about the site and its content
The site needs to be financially viable in order to continue and we are very grateful to those who pay for courses and join the paid community, or support the site in other ways.
The site will continue to offer free resources to yoga teachers and these are freely given. The proportion of subscribers who choose to enrol in paid courses or services provide the income that allows the site to continue as a growing resource for yoga teachers.