Admiral Specialist
Yoga instructor cover
- Public liability sized to studios and venues
- Online class & recorded session cover
- Personal accident included
- Same-day cover certificate
For UK yoga instructors building something of their own
Run your yoga business with confidence.
StudioOS is the complete business stack for UK yoga instructors. Insurance, banking, accounting, booking, website, and tax. Picked, integrated, and set up for you in one afternoon.
The Stack
Seven things every yoga business needs.
Most yoga instructors set this up the hard way: research a tool, sign up, get stuck on the bit nobody told them about, repeat seven times. We've shortlisted the right partner for each, vetted them for UK yoga businesses specifically, and made setting them up a single guided flow.
Insurance
Public liability for studios and venues, professional indemnity for online classes, gear cover.
Recommended: Admiral Specialist · Mobeen · Insure4Sport
Banking
Free UK business bank account in 5 minutes that separates your business and personal money from day one.
Recommended: Tide · Starling · Monzo Business
Accounting
Self-Assessment ready by default. Connects to your bank account and tracks every penny in or out.
Recommended: FreeAgent · Xero · QuickBooks
Class booking
Class scheduling, memberships, recurring payments, waitlists, and online class delivery, all in one.
Recommended: TeamUp · Acuity · Mindbody
Website
Yoga business website with bookings embedded, optimised for search, live in 30 minutes.
Recommended: Bloxx · Squarespace · Wix
Tax & legal
Sole trader vs Ltd company decision, formation, tax filing, and the annual paperwork done for you.
Recommended: GoForma · Crunch · Self-file
Marketing
Email list, social posts, automated reminders, and the basic SEO that makes you findable.
Recommended: Mailchimp · ConvertKit · Beehiiv
Community
Real conversations with UK yoga business owners on pricing, marketing, dealing with cancellations.
Recommended: StudioOS Community (free)
The StudioOS Bundle
One stack. One monthly fee. Everything talks to everything.
From
£85
/ month, all in
Banking, insurance, accounting software with a real UK accountant, and your website, in a single bundle. Plus partner discounts on the rest of the tools yoga businesses use most: Acuity, Mailchimp, HubSpot, and more.
Your dedicated specialist (run by our team) sets the whole stack up for you, walks you through the quirks of running a UK yoga business, and is your first call when something needs sorting.
What's in the bundle
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TTideBusiness bankingFree
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Admiral SpecialistYoga instructor insuranceIncluded
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FreeAgentAccounting softwareIncluded
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GGoFormaYour UK accountantIncluded
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BloxxYour yoga business websiteIncluded
Plus discounts with our partner network:
Talk to a specialist
Don't know where to start? We'll set it up for you.
Our team has run yoga and fitness businesses, accountancy practices, and small-business platforms for the last decade. Book a 30-minute call to talk through your setup, your turnover, and the right shape of stack for your practice. Free. No obligation.
01 · Insurance
Cover for the way yoga is taught.
Public liability, plus the bits generic policies miss.
Most yoga instructors get sold a generic small-business policy and only find out it doesn't cover online classes, group sessions in shared spaces, or studios you hire for a 90-minute slot, at the moment they need to claim. Specialist yoga cover handles all of those by default.
A typical policy bundles public liability (£5m to satisfy any UK studio or venue), professional indemnity (for online classes and programme advice), and personal accident (for when an injury keeps you off the mat).
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Mobeen
Yoga teacher specialists
- Public liability for yoga teachers
- Class & retreat cover
- UK only
- Yoga Alliance recognised
02 · Banking
A free business account, in five minutes.
Mixing personal and business money is the single most common mistake new yoga instructors make. It makes Self-Assessment messy, makes claiming expenses harder, and creates problems if HMRC ever asks. A free UK business account fixes all of it the moment you open one.
Tide is the fastest path. Open from your phone, free for the lifetime of the account on the standard plan, and connects natively to FreeAgent so your bookkeeping fills itself in.
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Tide
Business banking, app-first
- Free Standard account
- Open from your phone in 5 min
- Native FreeAgent integration
- UK-based support
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Starling
UK challenger bank
- FSCS protected up to £85k
- Free for sole traders
- Cheque imaging
- Excellent UK support
03 · Accounting
Self-Assessment ready by default.
If you're a UK sole trader, you'll be filing Self-Assessment every January. If you go Ltd, you'll add Corporation Tax filing on top of that. Either way, the longer you leave the bookkeeping, the more it costs you in time and in tax.
FreeAgent connects to your business bank account and tracks every transaction, prepares your Self-Assessment, and is free if you bank with Mettle or NatWest. Pair it with GoForma and an accountant takes the annual filing off your desk entirely.
FreeAgent
UK-built accounting
- Self-Assessment ready
- Mileage & expense tracking
- Connects to Tide, Starling, Monzo
- Free with Mettle / NatWest
Xero
Cloud accounting standard
- Most accountants use it
- Excellent integrations
- Strong reports
- From £16/mo
04 · Class Booking
Bookings, payments, and waitlists in one place.
The booking tool you choose shapes the customer experience for every student. Pick the wrong one and you'll spend evenings reconciling Stripe receipts; pick the right one and the whole thing runs itself. We've vetted three for UK yoga teachers specifically.
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TeamUp
Built for fitness & yoga
- Memberships & class packs
- Waitlists & auto-rebooking
- Online class delivery
- UK pricing, UK support
Acuity
Squarespace booking tool
- Simple, polished UX
- Stripe / PayPal native
- From $16/mo
- Best for solo instructors
05 · Website
A real website that actually brings in students.
Most yoga instructor websites are an afterthought: a Squarespace template, a couple of class times, a contact form. The yoga businesses that grow have a website that gets found in Google when someone searches "yoga classes [your town]". That's a solved problem with the right CMS.
Bloxx is the StudioOS-recommended website builder. It's optimised for AI search and Google by default, includes booking embeds, and goes live in 30 minutes.
Bloxx
CMS optimised for AI search
- Live in 30 minutes
- Schema & llms.txt automatic
- Booking embeds (TeamUp, Acuity)
- Free on Hobby for StudioOS
Squarespace
Visual website builder
- Beautiful templates
- Acuity built in
- From $16/mo
- Hosted, no setup
06 · Tax & Legal
Sole trader or limited company? We answer that.
The first big decision every UK yoga instructor faces, and the one most regret getting wrong. The right answer depends on your turnover, your other income, and your plans for the next two years. We help you make the call, then handle the formation if Ltd is the answer.
GoForma is the StudioOS-recommended accountancy partner: UK-based, fixed monthly fee, includes formation, Self-Assessment, and Corporation Tax in one package.
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GoForma
UK accountants, fixed fee
- Sole-trader vs Ltd consultation
- Formation included
- Self-Assessment + CT filing
- Named UK accountant
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Self-file
DIY guide
- Free guide
- Sole trader setup walkthrough
- Self-Assessment checklist
- For confident DIY-ers
Guides
Read the guides, not just the partners.
Every category has a deep-dive guide written by people who actually run UK yoga businesses. Not stock content, not AI-shaped fluff. Practical, specific, sourced.
Featured · 12 min read
Sole trader or limited company? The honest answer for UK yoga teachers.
The vast majority of UK yoga instructors are better off as sole traders for the first 18 months of their business. The exception is if your turnover crosses the £30k mark or you're hiring covering teachers. Here's the unvarnished version of the conversation with worked examples for £15k, £30k, and £50k turnover.
We cover Self-Assessment timing, the National Insurance trap most teachers walk into in year two, when (and how) to switch to Ltd, and the specific HMRC quirks for retreat income and online class revenue.
Read the full guide →
Insurance · 8 min
What public liability cover do UK studios actually require?
The honest answer for instructors hiring studio space, teaching at chains, and running their own classes. Sized to specific UK studio policies.
Pricing · 12 min
How to price 1:1 sessions, group classes, and online courses.
Working through your hourly rate, your gross margin on group classes, and how online recurring revenue changes the maths.
Tax & legal · 10 min
The UK GDPR rules every yoga teacher should know.
What counts as personal data, when consent is required, and the realistic risks of holding student lists, recorded classes, and progress photos.
Banking · 6 min
Tide vs Starling vs Monzo: which UK bank is right for a yoga business?
Side-by-side on free tier, FreeAgent integration, support quality, and the real differences between FSCS-protected and EMI-licenced accounts.
Marketing · 14 min
Filling your first 20 weekly class slots, without paid ads.
Practical Google, Instagram, local SEO, and word-of-mouth tactics for new yoga businesses, with a 30-day plan and an honest take on what actually works.
Operations · 9 min
Handling cancellations, no-shows, and refund requests fairly.
Sample policies, the messages that actually work, the legal limits on retaining payment, and the small admin moves that prevent disputes.
How It Works
Your business, set up in one afternoon.
No five-week onboarding. No fifteen-step questionnaires. Tell us where you are, pick your partners, we'll handle the rest.
01
Tell us about your practice
Studio teacher, online coach, retreat leader? Solo or with cover teachers? Sole trader, Ltd, or unsure? Five questions, no signup.
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Pick your partners
For each of the seven business areas, we recommend a partner that fits. You can take our pick or browse alternatives. Your choice, no lock-in.
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One guided setup
We open accounts, connect them to each other, and migrate your data where there's something to migrate. Most members are live within a single afternoon.
Run a yoga business with the same kit as the pros.
Free to set up. Pick your partners. We'll have you live this afternoon.