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International Association of Yoga Therapists

The International Association of Yoga Therapists, or IAYT, supports research and education in yoga and yoga therapy and serves as a membership-based, professional organization for yoga teachers and therapists worldwide. Founded in 1989, IAYT champions yoga as a healing art and science. Membership is open to yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, health care practitioners who use yoga in their practice, and yoga researchers. School membership is open to schools with yoga therapy training programs. As of late 2017, IAYT has over 5,600 individual members from over 50 countries, and over 185 member schools. There are also 28 IAYT accredited yoga therapy training programs.

IAYT’s mission is to establish yoga as a recognized and respected therapy, and the organization provides high-quality education through its publications (the research-focused International Journal of Yoga Therapy and the professional magazine Yoga Therapy Today) and annual conferences (the Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research and the Symposium on Yoga Research).

IAYT has developed in-depth competency-based educational standards, with a rigorous accreditation process for training programs.