Best Youtube Yoga Teachers in the UK in 2025

YouTube Yoga

YouTube is the place to go for free yoga classes. 10min long, special morning or special sore back, "challenge" to practice every day for a few weeks...

Well, they're not free, as you watch an Ad before them. But besides the ads, there are plenty of ways to practice yoga watching recorded classes on Youtube. And more and more people practice in front of a screen, especially since lockdown.

When you look at the Google Trends data, you can see, as expected, a big spike in March / April 2020.

But you can also see that demand for YouTube yoga has been going down since, 2024 being lower than 2023, being lower than 2022... Change in behavior? Lost traffic to Apps or platform like ours?

"Yoga with Adriene" has more searches in Google in the UK, than the generic “YouTube yoga” keyword.

Other Yoga YouTubers are Kassandra, Sarah Beth, Cat Meffan and Tim they also gained in popularity during the lockdown, but never at the same level as Adriene.

Most popular YouTube yoga teachers

Not many yoga teachers get as many monthly searches as Yoga With Adriene, with 22,200. She is followed by Kassandra 1,900 Sarah Beth 1,300 Yoga with Tim 590, and Cat Meffan 480 (monthly Google searches).

Interesting to see that in 2020 Yoga with Adriene was getting 74,000 average monthly searches, down to 22,200 in 2025.

YouTube Yoga competitors: Joe wicks, apps and meditation

Yoga with Adriene, the top YouTube yoga influencer is based in the US and gained a lot of subscribers during lockdown (10M in 2020, 12.8M now). In comparison, Joe Wicks (the body coach) based in the UK has 2.84M subscribers to his YouTube channel in 2025, but he gets more Google searches in the UK in 2025 (60K) than Adriene (22K).

YouTube Yoga is in competition with other recorded yoga classes providers like Yoga apps: ALO moves, Daily Yoga, Yoga for Beginners app, Asana Rebel, Downdog App.

"YouTube meditation" has a high search volume on Google, which is consistent with the trend of online meditation and meditation apps like: Calm, Insight Timer or Headspace.

How much is the UK searching for "youtube yoga" vs other countries

The UK search volume is 4th within global search volume for the keyword "YouTube yoga", behind France and Germany in 2025:

How much is the UK searching for "yoga with adriene" vs other countries

UK is number 2 after the US. This data comes form Ahrefs and is lower than the Google keyword planner data above.

Benefits and risks of practising yoga on YouTube

Benefits of practising on YouTube:

• You can go anytime during the day
• Less intimidating than in a studio
• You can pick very short classes to fit in your busy day

Drawbacks of practising on YouTube:

• No social interaction
• Risk of injury
• Lack of commitment:
  • Risk of skipping the practice altogether
  • Possibility to pause the practice when poses get too challenging
  • Possibility of stopping the practice before the end

On the bigger picture, the more people practice on YouTube, the less they practice in studios and with teachers, which has an effect on yoga teachers' employment rate and on yoga studios' finances, which sadly sometimes ended in yoga studios closing down during or after lockdown.

Most of the famous Youtube yoga influencers are based in the US, they receive advertising money from YouTube for every view of the video, Adriene with her 13 M subscribers must be rich now!

Why not try livestream classes, with a teacher watching you?

Practising for free on youtube is a great way to test to see if yoga is for you, but if you want to deepen your practice, you should also try with a teacher:

• When a teacher is watching you, you practice more intensely
• Teachers can prevent injuries by adapting the practice to your body proportions and/ your conditions (use of props or alternative poses)
• Teachers can compliment you too!
• Once you get used to a teacher online, you might even want to follow her/him in studios and why not, in a retreat?

Yoga on Youtube has its benefits, but you can deepen your practice and contribute to your community by practicing with real teachers!