Part 2. Health Declaration

If you’ve checked “yes” for any of the above questions, please note that certain medication conditions will need to be evaluated by a medical doctor and approval given before starting the course. We want you to be as safe as possible throughout the training.

Part 3. Your Yoga Practice

Help us understand more about your yoga practice so we know what to look out for during the training.

Part 4. Emergency Contact

Part 5. Liability Release

The Code of Conduct

Purpose Statement

We have adopted our Code of Conduct which applies to all our teachers. We believe that it is the responsibility of our teachers to ensure a safe and protected environment in which a student can grow physically, mentally, and spiritually. We believe our teachers must aspire to and express the highest possible standards of conduct as set forth in our Code of Conduct. Our Code of Conduct embodies the yamas and niyamas of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali which are rules of ethical conduct that apply to all practitioners of yoga.

Financial Practices

Teachers will seek to:
i. comply with all legal and business requirements that apply to their business;
ii. ensure all advertisements relating to the benefits of yoga are accurate, fair, and not misleading;
iii. treat employees, assistants, students, colleagues, and other wellness businesses fairly, transparently and honestly in the course of all business dealings; and
iv. follow sound environmental and sustainable practices in their professional and personal lives.

Professional Growth/Continuing Education

Teachers shall maintain the integrity, competency, and high standards of the yoga profession by continuously striving to improve their skills through keeping current in new developments in yoga practice and by participating in continuing educational programs.

Teacher-Student Relationships

Teachers shall treat their students with respect and with regard to their individuality, dignity, and privacy.

Teachers shall commit to promoting the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of their students. Teachers shall cause no harm to their students, shall commit to practicing ahimsa, and strive to alleviate the suffering of all beings.

Teachers shall create and maintain a safe, clean, comfortable, and positive environment for the practice of yoga. The relationship between a yoga teacher and a student is based on trust. To establish and maintain that trust, the teacher must be polite, considerate, and honest with their students.

Teachers should practise good communication with their students. Teachers should listen attentively to students, respect their point of view, beliefs and culture, and should not allow their beliefs and values to adversely influence their relationship with their students. Teachers should avoid imposing their beliefs on others, although they may express them when appropriate in the class.

Teachers are committed to acknowledging Spirit in all their students, fellow teachers and staff.

Teachers must maintain their relationships with students on a professional basis. Teachers recognise the trust placed in them by their students and the unique power of the student-teacher relationship. Teachers shall avoid dual relationships with students (e.g. business, close personal or sexual relationships) that may impair their judgment, compromise the integrity of the teachings, and/or use the relationship for their personal gain.

Teachers recognise that their teachings may lead to physical contact with students.

Touch will be used only with the students’ consent and with their well-being in mind. Touch shall be free of any personal or sexual motive.

Teachers shall not engage in behaviour, comments, or humour that is offensive to their students because of its sexual content or reference to gender or sexual orientation.

Integrity

Teachers shall uphold the highest of moral standards. Teachers shall strive to ensure that their intentions, actions, and speech are based on honesty, compassion, selflessness, trustworthiness, and transparency.

Teachers recognise that the process of learning is never complete, and they shall avoid portraying themselves as “enlightened” or “spiritually advanced.” Teachers recognise that they are walking on the spiritual path along with their fellow teachers and students. Teachers shall cultivate an attitude of humanity in their teaching and dedicate their work to something greater than themselves.

Scope of Practice

Our studio will not engage in the unauthorised practice of medicine. We will not recommend treatment, diagnose a condition, or suggest that a student should disregard a physician’s advice. We will refer our students to medical doctors or complimentary licensed professionals when appropriate.

Confidential Information

Our studio will maintain the confidentiality of all private information disclosed by our teachers, students and clients. We will maintain commercially reasonable policies and procedures to protect the confidentiality of all private information disclosed by our teachers, students, and clients.

Inter-Professional Relationships

Teachers are part of the health care and well-being community and should strive to develop and maintain relationships within the community for the benefit of their students and their professional development. Teachers shall conduct themselves in an honourable manner in their relations with their fellow yoga teachers and other wellness practitioners. Teachers shall work to build the unity of their community by embracing diversity, collaboration and commitment the benefit of all.

Teachers shall practise tolerance and acceptance toward other yoga teachers, schools and traditions. Teachers shall not openly criticise practices followed by other yoga schools or teachers. However, teachers recognise that differences of opinion are to be expected, and they may be discussed in a sensitive and compassionate manner. When criticism must be made, it should be done with fairness, discretion and with a focus on the facts.

Advertising and Public Communications

Teachers shall not make false advertisements. Teachers shall refrain from making public statements on the benefits of yoga that are not supported by science or the generally accepted experience of the yoga community. Advertisements of workshops, clinics, seminars or similar events must have a clear statement of the purpose of the event, the audience for which it is intended and its educational objectives. The education, training, and experience of the teacher shall be fairly and accurately disclosed. Advertisements shall be made with dignity. Advertisements shall not include exaggerated claims about the benefits of yoga.

Our studio will not make false, deceptive, or fraudulent statements or advertisements concerning:
(i) the training, experience, or competence of our teachers;
(ii) the academic degrees or credentials of our teachers;
(iii) their institutional or association affiliations;
(iv) their services, including classes, workshops, and teacher trainings;
(v) the scientific or clinical basis for or results or degree of success of, their services;
(vi) their fees;
(vii) unusual or unique abilities of our teachers, including statements involving sensationalism or exaggeration; or
(viii) an intent to exploit a student’s fears, anxieties or emotions, or to create unjustified claims of results.

Yoga Equity

Our studio will not discriminate against or refuse to provide teaching or professional help to any student, client or employee based on any protected class such as age, gender (including pregnancy), race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status or genetic information. We will not discriminate in the workplace.

Teachers will welcome, accept, and support all students regardless of religion, gender, sexual orientation, language, nationality, political, or cultural background.

Teachers will embrace yoga equity. Teachers shall seek to have an awareness and a commitment to making yoga more equitable, inclusive, accessible and diverse. This encompasses diversity, inclusion and accessibility in yoga. Teachers will make the conscious decision to address each of these issues thoughtfully and intentionally throughout their work in restoring equity to the yoga community.

Teachers will emphasise the importance of learning, teaching, and practicing yoga honestly, which means promoting equity, reducing harm, honouring and leveraging cultural differences, and fostering diversity and inclusion in all areas of yoga while honouring the integrity of yoga’s cultural and historical roots.

Risk Acknowledgement and Liability Release

I am participating in yoga classes, health programs, workshops and other wellness, bodywork, therapy, exercise and healing arts activities offered by you, Peculiar Yogi Pte Ltd (collectively the “Activities” and each an “Activity”). The Activities may be offered in a physical location or offered online via video conferencing apps or other digital media or platforms. All of such offerings, whether physical or online, shall be considered Activities for the purposes of these Terms and Conditions.

I recognise that I must be in good physical and mental health to participate in the Activities. I understand that the Activities may require intense physical exertion, and I represent and warrant that I am physically fit enough to participate.

I am aware that participation in the Activities carries risk and could result in, amongst other things, high blood pressure, fainting, heartbeat disorders, physical injury, heart attack or stroke, and that participation in the Activities may also aggravate pre-existing injuries. I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with a physician before I participate in any of the Activities. Where I have consulted a physician, I confirm that in choosing to participate in the Activities, I am acting in accordance with my physician’s advice. Notwithstanding this, I agree that you reserve the discretion and right to refuse to permit my participation in any Activity on medical, fitness or any other appropriate grounds and that you are not obliged to refund any payments which I may have already made in respect of the Activities.

I understand that when participating in the Activities, I could experience muscle strains, aches, soreness or discomfort either during the Activity or thereafter. I will abide by my own physical limitations, and will cease and withdraw from participation in any Activity if I experience such conditions or if continued participation causes any injury or aggravate any pre-existing medical condition. I agree to assume all risks associated with participating in the Activities.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither of Peculiar Yogi Pte Ltd, its owners, managers, instructors and staff would be held responsible for any injury, loss or damage (including for any aggravation to a pre-existing medical condition) which I might suffer as a consequence of my participation in the Activities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I voluntarily waive all claims which I may have against Peculiar Yogi Pte Ltd, its owners, managers, instructors and other staff, in connection with my participation in the Activities, and I also agree to indemnify and hold harmless each of the aforementioned parties for all losses or expenses that they may incur in connection with any injury, loss or damage which I might suffer as a consequence thereof.