American Viniyoga Institute
The Viniyoga approach adapts practice to the unique condition, needs, and interests of the individual. AYI offers seminars, workshops, teacher training leading to a 500-hour certification with Yoga Alliance, and more. The AVI Yoga Therapist Program is a clinical training program that educates AVI certified yoga teachers about the application of the theory and tools of yoga to individuals and groups of people with health conditions.

Anahata International
Anahata International is a non-profit organization bringing trauma-sensitive yoga to post-conflict communities, training new teachers in their home countries, and facilitating the development of self-sustaining programs. They currently are working in Rwanda.

Ananda Seva Mission
Ananda Seva Mission offers a Yoga Alliance registered Yoga Teacher Training program for 200-hour certification as well as a 300-hour Yoga Therapy Certification program that can include a simultaneous 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification. They also offer Yoga of the Heart, Cardiac and Cancer Yoga Therapy certification.

The Art of Yoga Project
The Art of Yoga Project brings yoga and creative arts curricula to teen girls in the California (Bay Area) and Oregon (Ashland) juvenile justice systems toward accountability to self, others and community by providing practical tools to effect behavioral change. Ten organizations across the country have purchased the Yoga and Creative Arts Curriculum!

Ashtanga in Rwanda
AIR is a volunteer-based program which provides free Yoga instruction to HIV-positive women and children in Rwanda. By learning Yoga, they also have the opportunity to become teachers in their own right. It is an initiative of WE-ACTx, an international organization recognized for its efforts to bring comprehensive HIV care and treatment to genocide rape survivors and their families. In providing this access, WE-ACTx is breaking new ground as the first medical NGO to offer Yoga as part of its programmed services in Africa - or anywhere else. The program plans to move into Eastern Congo this year to work with traumatized rape victims of the current conflict there.

AURA Yoga Teacher Training
AURA offers remote training with books, CDs, workshops, tutoring and more. Their training programs include restorative yoga certification, chair yoga teacher training, meditation teacher certification, and more.

Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy
AIYT offers Australia's first and only nationally recognized, state accredited graduate training program in Yoga Therapy. This is a unique opportunity for experienced, qualified Yoga teachers to extend their skills and scope of practice as well credentialled Yoga Therapists.

Bent on Learning
Bent on Learning offers instruction in yoga and meditation to students in grades K-12 in NYC public schools and youth centers. They also train public school teachers and staff.

DeafYoga Foundation
The DeafYoga Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on serving the global Deaf community in their efforts to learn yoga. In addition to offering workshops and listing instructors at their site, they offer teacher training with a focus on the Sivananda Saraswati lineage.

Divine Yoga Center
In addition to offering adaptive classes, this Texas studio offers a Therapeutic Yoga Seminars programs that helps yoga instructors develop their own vision and mission. Participants work individually and in groups to create specialized yoga programs for particular populations.

Doing More Than Time Prison Project
Doing More Than Time provides yoga and meditation instruction to inmates and staff members in the federal prison system in NYC.

ExTension and Recovery Yoga
Sam Dworkis offers information about and resources for yoga for all types of people, including instructors and students in all types of health situations (including chronically ill, injured, aging, ...). Sam also offers workshops, teacher training, and other services. The site includes a free books for yoga teachers and students.

Feel Your Best (FYB)
FYB Trained Instructors learn to teach all students based on the FYB trademarked philosophy of "The Person, Not The Pose"®. Their Certification Teacher Training Programs include FYB Yoga (200- and 500-hour Yoga Alliance approved), FYB Yoga Therapy (International Association of Yoga Therapists listed), and FYB Pilates. The programs are flexible and fit who you are and how you want to teach—from gentle & therapeutic to athletic & dynamic ... and anything in between. Workshops also are offered.

A Gentle Way
A Gentle Way has been offering gentle yoga—including yoga for plus sizes, seniors, and the health challenged—in San Diego since 1996. They also offer one of the few yoga teacher trainings (200- and 500-hr Yoga Alliance certification) that actively supports training teachers who have specific needs.

Headstand
Headstand educators regularly visit San Francisco Bay Area schools to teach yoga, breathing, and meditation techniques using the YogaEd® curriculum. They also provide professional development for the school teachers and administrative staff through YogaEd Tools for Teachers.

Integrative Yoga Therapy
IYT offers a Yoga Teacher Training Program (recognized as RYT-200 by the Yoga Alliance) as well as a Professional Yoga Therapist Training Program (recognized as RYT-500 by the Yoga Alliance). Learn to design and teach yoga programs for individuals and groups with specific needs or specific health challenges. Develop an in-depth understanding of the theory, process and application of yoga therapy for a wide variety of needs and conditions.

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

IYTC - Yoga for Health International Yoga Therapy Conference
IYTC is a forum that explores ways yoga can aid in maintaining good health or recovery from illness. The event also helps bridge the gap between the yoga and the medical establishment. IYTC is for: Absolute beginners who want to learn how Yoga can help improve many health conditions; medical doctors, therapists and healing arts practitioners who want to add yoga to their practice; yoga teachers who want to add a new dimension to their teachings.

Jai Shanti Yoga
This Atlanta-based studio has made a strong commitment to offering adaptive and specific needs classes on its regular schedule.

The Lineage Project
The Lineage Project teaches at-risk and incarcerated New York City teenagers awareness-based practices, such as yoga and meditation, to help consciously manage stress, increase self-awareness, and cultivate compassion and commitment to nonviolent engagement with their communities (and they train teachers to do this work).

Matthew Sanford's Web Site
Matthew is a pioneer in adapting yoga for people living with disabilities. Matthew shared his story in the book Waking. He teaches weekly yoga classes to people of all abilities at Mind Body Solutions Yoga, the studio operated by the non-profit he founded. He also travels nationwide teaching a wide variety of workshops.

Mukunda's Yoga Therapy Center
The Center offers national and international workshops and professional trainings, including Structural Yoga Teachers (200-hour Yoga Alliance), Structural Yoga Therapists (500-hour Yoga Alliance) training, and more. Structural Yoga is a form of classical yoga that allows teachers to adapt yoga to individual needs and provide teachings that translate off the mat into daily life.

Niroga
Niroga™ brings yoga to underserved communities, including children with special needs, at-risk youth, and the elderly with their Yoga Corps™ community outreach (with classes and an amazing list of workshops in the Bay Area community and at their studio). They also are developing and disseminate yoga yherapy protocols and educational materials for chronic medical conditions, including chronic back pain, asthma, arthritis, osteoporosis, and repetitive strain injuries (RSI). Additionally, they are a leader in yoga therapeutics research to document the health benefits of yoga for chronic medical conditions as well as to understand the underlying principles.

Parinaama Prison Project
The Parinaama Prison Project is a volunteer effort to bring hatha yoga (in the Anusara tradition) to the prisoners in the prison of Atlacholoaya (near Mexico City). It is a firmly established and an accepted part of the prison's activities.

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
PRYT provides certification for two career paths, as a practitioner working with individual clients and/or as a yoga teacher (with a 200-hour Yoga Alliance approved certification) leading therapeutic yoga classes. Through assisted yoga postures, focused breathing, and non-directive dialogue, practitioners guide clients to experience the connection of their physical and emotional selves—fostering release, personal growth and healing.

Positive Health Solutions
In addition to providing medical and cardiac yoga for patients, teacher training is offered. The Cardiac Yoga Teacher Training Program's workshops and seminars educate and train medical personnel and yoga instructors to work with cardiac patients and their spouses (84 CEU credits available for medical personnel, 70 Yoga Alliance hours available toward 500-hour credentialing).

Prison Phoenix Trust
The Prison Phoenix Trust brings the practices of meditation and yoga to prisoners and prison staff around the UK and Eire through teaching, workshops, correspondence, books and newsletters.

Professional Yoga Therapy Studies
PYTS offers a range of programs to prepare licensed health care professionals to be certified yoga therapists (CYT, 900-hour level) for both clinical and healthy populations and professional yoga therapists (PYT, 1200-hour level). They also offer general continuing education courses for yoga students and teachers.

Radiant Transitions (PranaVinyasa School)
This school offers a unique approach making yoga accessible to all, regardless of age or physical condition. They offer on 200- and 500-hour Yoga Alliance registered programs focusing on Yoga as Therapy and Ashtanga, Power, and Vinyasa Yoga as well as 750-hour and 1000-hour Yoga Therapy training programs, and workshops.

Relax & Renew
Judith Hanson Lasater offers trainings for yoga teachers who want to learn how to teach Restorative Yoga and become a Relax and Renew Trainer. The training is 20 hours over five days.

The Samarya Center for Integrated Movement Therapy and Ashtanga Yoga
The Samarya Center provides yoga and yoga therapy to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. They offer a very wide range of specialized classes and workshops. They also offer Yoga Alliance 200-hour training, 500-hour traiing with IMT training, and other programs for instructors. Check out their site's pictures and their card desk to see everyone practicing yoga!

Silver Age Yoga
Silver Age Yoga offers classes and training in a Hatha Yoga style class based on geriatric science and research. Their training includes an online course for certified instructors and a 200-hr Yoga Alliance approved class for new instructors who also want training in Silver Age Yoga.

The Special Yoga Centre
The Centre is the UK home of The Yoga for the Special Child programme, which supports children with a wide range of conditions, including cerebral palsy, Downs syndrome, Autism and epilepsy, ADD and ADHD and other physical and developmental difficulties. They also offer teacher training for working with special needs children.

Sprout Yoga
Sprout Yoga offers free yoga therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Eating Disorder sufferers in Pennsylvania. They also are working to create research and education programs on how yoga therapy aids in the healing of PTSD and ED, as well as to develop a curriculum for use in PTSD or ED treatment of PTSD and ED.

Street Yoga
Steet Yoga offers free yoga, wellness and meditation classes to homeless youth and youth at risk of homelessness in Portland and Seattle. Their mission includes helping homeless youth increase their physical, emotional and spiritual strength, stamina and flexibility so they can better meet their own core needs. They work closely with service providers striving to help homeless youth secure safe housing, nutritious food, accessible health care, employment, clean clothing, educational choices and human dignity.

The Therapeutic Yoga Training Program
The Therapeutic Yoga Training Program teaches physical therapists, registered nurses, certified yoga teachers, and other health care professionals how to integrate therapeutic yoga into their repertoire of healing techniques.

Tranquil Space Foundation
In partnership with schools and community groups, this DC-based nonprofit foundation's TranquilTeens program provides workshops for girls in grades 9-12 that focus on yoga, health, creativity, and leadership. The foundation also contributes to a wide range of programs and organizations that benefit women and girls.

The Urban Zen Foundation
The Urban Zen Foundation offers two teacher training programs with well known experts in the field. The Urban Zen Integrative Therapist program is a 500-hr program focused on integrating multiple therapies—including yoga therapy, aromatherapy, reiki, nutrition, and education about death and dying—into patient care. A 200-hr teacher training program also is offered.

Vajra Yoga of NYC Social Action Teacher Training
The Social Action Teacher Training was created to teach the skills necessary to effectively help others in specific populations such as those with mental and physical trauma, at-risk youth and adults, youth and adults in addiction recovery, and those living with chronic illness and pain. Training is offered for certified yoga teachers and also can be combined with Vajra Yoga's teacher training.

Vinnie Marino Yoga
Vinnie is teaching monthly workshops, Yoga and 12 step Recovery, at Yogaworks Main Street (in LA).

Yoga Aid
The Yoga Aid foundation was created to raise awareness of the benefits of Yoga while raising money for charity partners.

Yoga Bear
By partnering with local yoga studios, Yoga Bear matches cancer survivors with yoga classes in the community free of charge. Their volunteer instructors also provide on-site yoga instruction for support groups, clinics, and other non-profit organizations.

Yoga Behind Bars
Yoga Behind Bars offers yoga to prisoners and "at risk" populations in Seattle.

The YogAbility Institute
This nonprofit was started by Bea Miller Ammidown, who offers workshops and classes in the Viniyoga tradition to people with special needs or disabilities (and their caregivers) at the Ammidown Yoga Studio in Santa Monica. She also created the Special Needs Yoga DVD.

Yoga for Depression / Life Force Yoga
LifeForce Yoga is a practice of compassion, adapted to the student so that each individual can move into a more balanced and positive emotional, mental, and physical state of equanimity and self-awareness. Certified LifeForce Yoga Practitioner (CLYP) training is available to 200-hr level certified instructors, mental health professionals with an ongoing yoga practice, and selected other healing professionals.

Yoga Ed.
Yoga Ed. has developed and implemented school-site yoga curricula for students and educational employees. They also offer training for using their curricula.

Yoga Heals Us
Karen O'Donnell Clarke offers adaptive yoga classes (and more) in Connecticut, yoga business coaching, and teacher training workshops—including Teaching Adaptive Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis and Adaptive Asana Techniques for Yoga Teachers (with CEU credit). Her web site also offers help finding adaptive yoga teachers.

Yoga of the Heart: Cardiac and Cancer Certification Training
Adapting Yoga for Heart and Other Life Threatening Diseases is a certification course offered for yoga teachers and health professionals teaching the general population who would like to share Yoga with people living with heart disease, cancer and other debilitating diseases. It is also useful for people with family histories and/or risk factors. (Programs are Approved for CEU and Yoga Alliance Credit.)

yogaHOPE
yogaHOPE offers rehabilitative yoga programs in residential facilities for underserved women in substance abuse recovery, poor and homeless women, and victims of domestic violence. They provide donated yoga clothing and supplies to the students and make the practice accessible to all abilities. They also offer scholarships to attend teacher certification programs and become eligible for employment as a yoga instructor.

YogaMedics
YogaMedics is a Michigan-based company that designs clinically-based yoga classes and individual sessions to assist in the treatment of specific medical conditions. Each protocol varies depending on the medical condition or individual, but all protocols are evidence-based and developed with clinical expertise and in collaboration with clinical experts and yoga instructors.

Yoga Outreach
Volunteer yoga teachers with Vancouver-based Yoga Outreach promote healing by working with people in health care settings (physical and mental), shelters, treatment facilities and correctional institutions who would not otherwise have access to yoga. The organization supports volunteers with educational programs, equipment, meetings, and newsletters.

Yoga for Peace
The Heart of Yoga Foundation Peace Project brings yoga to people living in active conflict zones and other troubled areas of the world. The Peace Project provides education and resources to current and aspiring yoga teachers so that they may better carry the seeds of positive change to the people and places they love. They teach classes, hold regional dialogues about creating peaceful change, and have a Sister Studio programthat matches yoga studios in peaceful areas with yoga studios in troubled areas to help them to build lasting relationships. They also work with people in peaceful areas, teaching them how to recognize and deal with violence and fear in their own lives.

Yoga for the Special Child
Sonia Sumar's Yoga for the Special Child® is a comprehensive program of Yoga techniques designed to enhance the natural development of children with special needs. It is safe for babies and children with Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Microcephaly, Autism and other developmental disabilities. The methods also provide an effective treatment for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, ADHD and Learning Disabilities. The training programs offer a unique learning environment for children and their parents, special education teachers, Yoga teachers and health care professionals.

Yoga Therapy and Training Centre
YTTC is Ireland's largest Yoga organization. They offer training—including level 1 teaching certification, yoga therapy, yoga for children, yoga for pregnancy, and yoga for special needs—at locations throughout Ireland.

School of Yoga Therapy and Natural Medicine
This Toronto-based school (with locations in Toronto, Windsor, and Ontario) offers yoga teacher training, yoga therapy training, and yogic natural medicine training.

Y.O.G.A. for Youth
Los Angeles-based Y.O.G.A. for Youth offers arts, yoga, and meditation classes for programs to youth in the juvenile detention system, Upward bound, Boys and Girls clubs, and other after school programs and youth centers. The classes include applications to stress, anger management, and other life situations. They also offer teacher training in the Kundalini tradition as well as certification to teach with their program.