Change your world
Our current yearly worldwide reach is over 200,000 young people.
Yoga improves…
- physical, mental and social well-being
- self-regulation
- autonomy & resilience
- mental health
- focus and concentration
- academic outcomes
Youth Worker, 2025
“Quality that exceeds expectations. I expected a good course what I experienced was a world class programme that surpassed every expectation. The content was rigorous, the delivery compassionate and the learning environment unlike anything I have ever been part of.
Our impact is global
2500+
Teachers have graduated with Teen Yoga
100+
Teens are reached by each active Teen Yoga teacher annually
200,000+
young people practise Teen Yoga each year
1 million+
Teens across the world have benefited from our yoga based techniques
Teen Yoga is present in over 20 countries and in 30% of UK secondary schools
There are over 2000 active graduates of our training, each reaching an average of 100 young people annually.
Our current reach is over 200,000 young people yearly worldwide.
Our growing reach to young people
Our principal focus is on improving the lives of teens.
In 2004 we reached approximately 40 young people with yoga in one school in the Bath and North East Somerset area with 3 teachers.
By 2007 that number had risen to around 700 due to our newly developed training courses, reaching into London too in around 10 schools.
By 2013 that number had reached around 3000 teenagers due to the increase in the number of teacher training courses to 5 per year, 10 teachers on each. 300 teachers had graduated.
By 2017 we had achieved a steep rise in uptake, to around 1000 graduates by the end of the year, each teaching between 10 and 30 students per week, depending on their setting, so 33,000 teens taking part in yoga in some way.
By 2022 there were over 2000 graduates of the course, each reaching an average of more than 100 young people annually.
We estimate our current reach at around 200,000 young people worldwide.
Teen Yoga is present in some 30% of UK secondary schools in a variety of ways, from external classes for small groups to fully integrated provision across the schools. Our aim is to reach many more, with a special focus on those that most need it.
Our potential
Teen Yoga dates back to 2004 and has developed extensive experience in working with young people and youth-facing organisations to help young people worldwide.
Given the knowhow we have developed over the years, we have the potential to bring the benefits of yoga to young people throughout the UK and beyond. Our focus is particularly on those young people that due to their situation are unable to access the benefits of yoga easily in their school or local environment, and we are always looking for local regional and national partners to help us reach these young people, giving them the skills to help them thrive.
Our projects
Yoga Girls Can
We have always been involved with large projects, after we started bringing yoga to over 10 schools simultaneously in the Bath region with support from Wesport (Sport England) we were asked to devise and run an Innovation programme called Yoga Girls Can in 2015 which reached 750 young women by taking yoga to them wherever they were.
Orphans in Sierra Leone
Also, by raising money locally, the Teen Yoga team were able to design a specific week-long course and travel to Sierra Leone to deliver it to ex-army soldiers, to train them in yoga for trauma.
This project reached 26 young men and women who in turn, continue to reach approximately 2600 orphans annually in orphanages around Sierra Leone.
Hippocampus
In 2017 the Foundation was awarded money from the European Commission Erasmus fund to develop and run a 2 year project delivering yoga to 750 students in 5 countries. The programme developed was very successful, showing improvements in a range of indicators, especially stress reduction and general wellbeing.
Lululemon
In 2019 Lululemon Foundation awarded us $10000 to deliver yoga to disadvantaged young people across the UK. The programme showed a valuable capacity for prevention of mental health issues, and improvements in self regulation.
Ambassadors
In 2019 our Teen Yoga Ambassador programme was launched, delivering a peer to peer wellbeing training to 20 young people across the UK and South Africa. This was a highly successful pilot which we are currently rolling out to schools in the UK, with the support of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
London Youth
London Youth approached the Foundation in 2020 to develop and run a programme to help young BAME women talk more openly about their emotions, bringing greater wellbeing to the entire community. Good for Girls was considered a highly successful project by the Tampon Tax Fund who funded the programme.
70 Youth workers were trained and 700 young people were reached. This project was funded by the Tampon Tax fund and has been extended in subsequent years.
Ready Project
Since 2023 Teen Yoga staff have been collaborating with organisations based in Sweden, Ireland and Slovenia to develop a programme for youth workers across Europe to use in their work, based on yoga-based practices and restorative practice. The programme helps youth workers to “ground” the participants in their sessions, in order to achieve better outcomes from their work. Much of this EU-funded work builds on work done in previous projects, and we anticipate using this work in the UK once the project is completed.