YogamuReviews of yogamu.org

I asked for a refund the day after purchasing because I logged in and immediately knew it wasn’t legit (one of the first resources posted was a YouTube video one can access for free outside of the course). Unfortunately, no one has gotten back to me about the refund, which is another sign that something isn’t quite right. Normally legitimate businesses have support staff who respond promptly and are willing to do their best to issue a refund if you are unsatisfied with your product or services received, which I most definitely am! Not sure who from YogaMu took it upon themselves to write all these 5 star reviews, but luckily there are a few 1 star reviews to warn buyers! Buyers: if you’re looking for online yoga teacher training and think to yourself, ‘Wow, YogaMu has such a great deal on this training that’s normally very expensive, I’ll buy it!’…. Don’t!!! It’s 100% a scam.

I purchased a package of courses over a year ago, but the courses I purchased have never been delivered. Others have, of questionable quality. I don't know why the Yoga Alliance allow this school to be registered with them, the school and courses do not meet the standard set out by them. If you just want a certificate with little effort, this is a good choice, but if you want to learn and actually care about yoga and your students, it is not. The man in charge is manipulative and rude as well. He can be quite aggressive in tone. Yet in the way we have seen over and over again in the yoga world, many follow, unquestioning, and defending him. It is worrying. Students who do question or provide critique - or who point out errors, flaws and inconsistencies in the school and leadership's messaging, are shot down which prevents other, like me, from feeling able to speak out. Avoid the school and pick another, and if you are a current student, widen your view and open your mind to more than the limited opinions of a manipulative leader.

This school misled and ripped-off at least several hundred students when originally starting up. Basically sold a bunch of people a bunch of courses at a great deal that still haven't been released over a year later. If you're looking for a "certificate mill" option, this a is a good choice, as it is eligible for Yoga Alliance registration, but doesn't require all of those bothersome things like actually doing 200 hours of training or doing synchronous learning or all that other stuff Yoga Alliance typically requires in order to get YA certified. If you're looking for a good yoga school sans a headmaster who financially takes advantage of students without any sign of remorse and plays messed up games, avoid this one. Yogamu doesn't have their own YTT. The Bhakti Yogshala course which they licensed for their use was developed during 2020, when YA standards were transitioning to online and far less stringent than they currently supposedly are. As far as updating with the financial information, I had purchased "multiple certificates in one package for $199" in December of 2020. Of those multiple certificates (6 total), only the one produced by Bhakti Yogshala was in existence at the time of sale. A very short (2 hrs video content and 11 pages of YTC handouts) prenatal course was eventually released late spring of 2021, but there was no certificate issued upon completion. No others that I purchased have been released. I've already explained to yogamu that I wasn't a fan of the contradictions in some of the classes, and that I found the misinformation and mispronunciations of the Sanskrit words distracting. Your Kundalini and meditation classes were not what I was interested in. They were not what I purchased. I would have been totally fine had I not wasted any of my time perusing them. You shouldn't sell people something, then fail to deliver, then be like "well look at all this other stuff I gave you that you didn't even want". It's called a bait-and-switch, and it's not an ethical business practice. I'm done emailing your support email, as simple questions have a way of turning into lengthy threads without being answered whenever I do that. I've got more productive things to do with my time. Maybe you should get on that as well.

After going back and forth with customer service(Ravi) over a discount code, the founder(Nikolai) responded and told me I would be issued a refund if I wanted one. At first I told him that I would take the courses I paid for, but after not only finding reviews of people being scammed by this school, I also found that Yogamu has blocked me from commenting on their facebook page. I wrote mutliple emails stating that I want a refund, ALL emails are being ignored.

I decided to join the course and paid 150 dollars (minimum donation 10 - maximum donation 300). After I joined I realised that the course was not what I had expected and I wrote perhaps 4 days after joining the course to ask if they would consider refunding a part of the money I paid. Somebody from the team wrote back very quickly and after a bit of back and forth they said they would forward my request to the accounting team and get back to me asap. They never got back to me. I emailed them again three times over the course of some weeks. Each time they said they would get back to me asap. It has now been a month since my first email and I am yet to hear back with a response that goes beyond “we will get back to you asap” and “Every student is part of our yogamu family and we never let them down.” I am left with the impression that they have been leading me on, without ever intending to refund or even respond to my request.