200 Instagram Captions for Yoga Instructors

Your captions aren’t part of the practice. They’re the front door, and at the moment yours has no sign on it.

She has watched 40 of your reels. She knows your cat’s name and which mat you use. She has never once been to a class.

What’s stopping her isn’t the yoga. It’s that she doesn’t know whether she’ll be the oldest there, if she needs to bring her own mat, or what happens if she walks in at 6:02 and everyone is already lying down.

Below are 200 captions to help her choose your yoga class.

(Take them. Add your own timetable.)

How to Write a Yoga Caption

A restorative yoga class and a Mysore practice are selling opposite things to different women. One is selling permission to stop. The other is selling discipline to women who already know the whole sequence by heart.

So here’s what to write each time:

The cue test. You already know how to do this and you do it 3 times a week out loud. A good cue is physical and specific: weight into the outer heel, ribs down, let the shoulders go. A bad one is abstract: find your center, honor your body, sink into it. Captions work exactly the same way. “Melt into stillness” tells her nothing she can act on. “Put a cushion under your knees and stay there for 5 minutes” is something she can do tonight, in her front room, for free, which is how she ends up in your class this weekend

The modification rule. Every post showing a strong pose carries the modification in the caption. Not in a comment, not in a follow-up post, in the caption. Because the woman who most needs your class is the one who just saw a headstand and closed the app. 6 words fixes it: “against a wall, or skip it entirely, or here’s the version with a block.” Yoga Instagram has an intimidation problem that yoga studios do not, and the caption is the only place you get to correct it.

One more thing, and it’s something I’ve experienced personally. 

The woman skimming your Instagram posts is looking for your teaching style. If you teach one way online and another in person, she’s not returning to your class. If she’s doing a child pose while everyone else is doing the scorpion pose, because you said your class was for EVERYONE, she’s not returning for another class.

Cozy Yoga Captions

• 9 in the room and 40 minutes of it spent lying down.
• Somebody fell asleep and I let her stay until quarter past.
• Dimmed the lights and over half the room exhaled.
• 5 shapes in an hour, all of them propped.
• A student turned up in what she’d slept in. Absolutely fine by me.
• Set out 4 blocks per person and used every single one.
• Wednesday is the slow one. Nobody sweats, everybody sleeps better.
• She booked after the worst week of her year and told me so afterward.
• Eye pillows in the basket by the door. Help yourself.
• Sunday evenings, because Sunday evenings are the hard ones.
• Ran 6 minutes over because the room was warm and nobody moved.
• Somebody cried quietly in the corner and nobody made it a thing.
• 5-minute holds, which is far longer than it sounds from here.
• Bring socks. The floor is freezing and I’ve stopped apologizing.
• Slowest thing on the timetable and the first one to fill.
• A woman told me it’s the only hour of her week that belongs to her.
• 3 students stayed on the floor 10 minutes after I’d finished talking.
• Candles, 11 people, heating up far too high. Ideal.
• I put a blanket over someone and she messaged me about it a week later.
• You will not wake up sore. That’s Tuesday’s class.

Strong Yoga Captions

• 5 breaths in every hold and the 5th one is where it happens.
• We held chair for 60 seconds and the room went completely silent.
• Somebody got her first crow today, 14 months after she started.
• 3 rounds. The 3rd is the interesting one.
• 20 minutes on hips before we went anywhere near an arm balance.
• Runners keep finding this class and I know exactly why.
• Nobody arrived able to plank for 90 seconds. Most of them can now.
• The shaking is the work. It isn’t a signal to come out.
• 4 people have told me their back stopped hurting after 6 weeks.
• 6am Tuesday is harder than the evening one. Sorry about that.
• A student carried her shopping up 2 flights and messaged me about it.
• She’s 61 and holds a longer plank than anyone else in the room.
• Sweaty, shaky, then 8 minutes flat out on the floor.
• 40 sun salutations in January. I’m still hearing about it.
• 12 in the room and every one of them trembling by minute 20.
• For anybody who wants the workout without the gym.
• Somebody asked if it gets easier. It doesn’t. You get stronger.
• Strength first and flexibility second. It works in that order.
• My hardest class and my fullest. Draw your own conclusions.
• I counted 9 people shaking in warrior 2 and felt no guilt at all.

Spiritual Yoga Captions

• We read 3 lines of the sutras before anybody moved.
• 25 minutes sitting and not one person looked at the clock.
• Phones stay in bags in this class. Kindly but firmly enforced.
• A student asked what it’s for. It isn’t for anything.
• 19 years in and I’m still a beginner at the sitting part.
• The postures are 1 of 8 limbs. We work on the other 7 as well.
• Somebody chanted for the first time and looked mortified. Then didn’t.
• Thursday ends with 10 minutes of silence. Nobody ever leaves early.
• I trained under a teacher who trained under hers. That matters in here.
• We spent the entire hour on breathing and nobody complained.
• A student has come every Thursday for 6 years and never mentions poses.
• A couple of thousand years older than exercise, and it shows.
• She said this is the only place she stops thinking. That’s the job.
• 11 people sitting still in a village hall on a Tuesday. Strange and lovely.
• Nothing in this class is decorative. Not the chanting, not the quiet.
• I don’t tell anybody what they should be feeling. That part is theirs.
• We finished 4 minutes late because nobody moved.
• The pause between the in-breath and the out-breath. Start there.
• Somebody came for her shoulder and stayed for the other thing.
• This is the practice people keep for decades, not for 6 weeks.

Sanskrit Yoga Captions

• Somebody asked what ahimsa meant and we lost 10 minutes to it happily.
• Gave the class a drishti on the floor and the wobbling halved instantly.
• 15 minutes of pranayama before anybody stood up.
• A student wrote svadhyaya on her water bottle. Best compliment I’ve had.
• Explained aparigraha and 3 people went noticeably quiet.
• Tapas came up today. It is not about the temperature of the room.
• We talked about santosha for 10 minutes and then stretched anyway.
• Every pose name gets translated. It takes 4 seconds and it matters.
• Abhyasa came up because 2 people apologized for missing a fortnight.
• A student assumed vinyasa meant rushing. It means the opposite.
• We spent 20 minutes on the second line of the sutras.
• Brahmacharya, explained badly by me and then rescued by a student.
• Sadhana: a student has practiced daily since March. 140 days now.
• A beginner asked whether she had to say namaste. She does not.
• Ishvara pranidhana came up and I kept it to 2 sentences.
• Bandhas took me 9 years to actually feel. Nobody warns you.
• Savasana is a posture. I say it weekly and nobody believes me.
• Somebody asked why we use Sanskrit at all. Good question, long answer.
• Sthira and sukham are 2 things, not 1. That confuses everybody at first.
• A student has started naming poses in Sanskrit at home. Her family are baffled.

Beginner Yoga Captions

• Your first one costs nothing, and I mean it about the watching.
• Mats provided. Bring socks. That is genuinely the full kit list.
• She stood at the door for 3 minutes before coming in. Now she’s weekly.
• 11 signed up for the beginners course and 11 finished it.
• 4 people reached their toes for the first time this term.
• Ask your questions out loud, mid-class. Somebody has to go first.
• I show the easier version before the harder one. Always that way round.
• A student started at 55 and stiff. She’s the most improved in the room.
• Nothing inverted for the first month. Possibly not ever, if you’d rather.
• Turn up 5 minutes early and I’ll show you where everything lives.
• She apologized 4 times in her first class. By week 3, not once.
• Wobbling is most of the first month for absolutely everybody.
• Come twice before deciding. Once tells you nothing at all.
• Nobody gets adjusted or touched without being asked first.
• No fitness level required. No previous anything required.
• A woman came because her physio sent her. She stayed 2 years.
• 3 people in tonight’s class have never done yoga before.
• Nobody needs to buy anything before their first class. Nothing.
• The back row is the popular row here. There’s no shame in it.
• Your body in 2019 is not the one turning up on Tuesday.

Outdoor Yoga Captions

• Practicing in the park from May. Bring a towel, the grass is damp.
• 14 of us on the grass at 7am and 2 dogs who joined in.
• The grass was soaking and not 1 person put their shoes back on.
• Weather-dependent. I’ll post by 6am if it’s off.
• The 8am beach class runs all summer, tide permitting.
• Wind, birds, someone’s radio 3 fields away. It all counts.
• Practiced outside today and nobody wanted to go back indoors.
• Sunrise class, 5:45am, and yes people genuinely come.
• Bring a mat with grip. Wet grass is its own challenge.
• The whole class stopped to watch a heron. Correct decision.
• Garden classes for 8 people max, because that’s what fits.
• Rained for the last 10 minutes and we stayed out anyway.
• September evenings on the field, until the light goes.
• No mirrors, no ceiling, no music. Just the actual outside.
• Somebody’s toddler joined in for tree pose. Better at it than me.
• Free parking by the gate and the toilets are open until 8.
• Cold, bright, and the best class of the month.
• Sun salutations facing an actual sun. Recommend it.
• Blankets provided because British summer is a rumor.
• Weather turned so we moved to the village hall. Same time, warmer.

Funny Yoga Captions

• Yes, everybody does. We move swiftly on.
• 19 years of practice and pigeon still ruins my week.
• 2 people welled up in pigeon last night. Happens constantly.
• Half of you come for the lying down at the end. I do know.
• Somebody wobbled into somebody else and we lost 3 minutes to it.
• Turn up hungover. I have taught hungover. No judgment available here.
• I called downward dog a resting pose and the room laughed at me.
• Your knee can make whatever noise it likes. We’ll all ignore it.
• 4 people asked about the cat this week. 0 asked about the timetable.
• I keep 6 spare mats for the people who left theirs at home.
• Nobody is watching you. Everybody is facing the wall.
• Somebody bought the outfit 3 weeks before booking. Whatever works.
• 7:30 means 7:30. It may be my only real talent.
• The front row treats this as a competition. It is not one.
• Phones go in the basket by the door. Revolutionary, apparently.
• Somebody’s stomach rumbled through an entire savasana. We coped.
• Yes I say namaste. No I’m not going to stop.
• Your desk has done this to your shoulders. Give me an hour.
• Slip out the second it ends if you want. Plenty do.
• Balancing on 1 leg is hard for everyone. You are not failing.

Behind the Scenes Yoga Captions

• Mopping the studio floor at 7am. Nobody photographs this bit.
• Sequencing tomorrow’s class on the kitchen table at 11pm.
• 30 mats, washed by hand, every single week.
• Training weekend. 9 hours a day and I’m 19 years in.
• Cut 4 words out of a cue and it finally landed.
• Reading up on shoulders because 2 students have the same problem.
• The heating broke in January. I taught in a coat for a week.
• Insurance, first aid, safeguarding renewal. The unglamorous half.
• 4 people booked, 11 turned up. Fastest mat-shuffling of my life.
• Practicing at 6am so I’ve got something to give at 6pm.
• Half of this work is spreadsheets nobody will ever see.
• Quiet term here too. January fills it back up.
• Booking the hall for next term, 6 months in advance.
• Learning a new sequence badly before I teach it well.
• Setting out 14 mats, 28 blocks and 14 blankets. Takes 25 minutes.
• Teaching 3 classes today, then studying tonight. Standard.
• My own practice happens on a mat between the sofa and the bookshelf.
• 37 unanswered messages by Friday. That is the actual job.
• Cancelling a class because 1 person booked. Hardest email to send.
• Every calm class you see took 2 hours of setting up and clearing away.

Motivational Yoga Captions

• Taught my first class to 3 friends in a village hall for nothing.
• 200 hours of training, then 4 years before it paid a bill.
• Handed my notice in with 2 classes booked and no third.
• Nobody handed me a full class. I built one over 5 years.
• Booked the hall for 6 weeks and hoped 8 would come. 5 did.
• The first student who ever booked still comes on Tuesdays.
• Terrified before my first class. Taught it anyway.
• I started because a teacher was kind to me at 29.
• 6 years, same hall, same creaky floor by the window.
• Every full class came from somebody telling a friend.
• Small classes, and I know every single person’s knees.
• Teaching 40 people a week who mostly can’t touch their toes. Best job going.
• Taught to 1 person once. Still one of my best classes.
• Still practicing badly at things I teach well. That’s the job.
• Nobody tells you self-employment is 60% messaging people back.
• I get to watch people get stronger. That’s the whole wage, really.
• 19 years in and I still learn something most weeks.
• Built this around school hours, one term at a time.
• 13 Septembers in a row I’ve booked that same hall.
• Proof that being useful to 12 people at a time is a living.

Timetable Yoga Captions

• Tuesday 6pm, 4 spaces left. Book or just turn up.
• New term starts 8 September. Same 3 classes, same hall.
• Drop-in £9, block of 6 for £45, first one free.
• Doors at 6:15, class at 6:30, finished by 7:30 exactly.
• Free parking behind the hall. Toilets are through the left door.
• Mats, blocks and blankets all provided. Bring water.
• Thursday has 2 spaces. Somebody dropped out this morning.
• No class next Monday, back as normal the week after.
• Beginners course starts 14 October. 6 weeks, 8 people, book early.
• Arrive at 6:02 and it’s fine. Come in quietly and grab a mat.
• Saturday morning class added because the waiting list got silly.
• Pay on the night if that’s easier. Cash or card.
• Private sessions on Wednesdays if a class isn’t right for you.
• Message me your knee, your back or your worry before you come.
• 6am, 9:30am and 6pm on Tuesdays. Pick whichever suits.
• Term dates are in my bio and I keep them updated. Genuinely.
• Booking opens Sunday at 8pm for the whole week.
• Pregnancy class Thursdays, all trimesters, midwife-approved.
• Chair yoga Monday afternoons. No getting on the floor at all.
• If the class is full, join the list. 3 people usually drop out.

Your name is what she saves in her phone. Your slogan told her she wouldn’t be the worst one in the room. This is where she finally learns how you teach, what to bring, and that walking in at 6:02 is absolutely fine.

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