What are yoga communities?

Communities for yoga practitioners covering poses, philosophy, and holistic health. Reddit has active general practice discussion, with Discord serving spirituality-adjacent yoga communities and various platforms for teachers and practitioners exploring different traditions from Ashtanga to restorative yoga.

Where do most yoga communities live?

Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (43% of 14 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

79% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical yoga community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 392K members and the median is 38K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (71%). Others that show up often include live chat, courses, and newsletter.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Yoga topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Yoga Communities Report: Stats, Platforms, Trends & Data...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 14 yoga communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: In this smaller sample, yoga communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 14
Platforms: 5
Avg members: 392K
Median members: 38K

Where Yoga Communities Are Hosted

Independent Platforms
6(43%)
Discord
3(21%)
Facebook
2(14%)
Skool
2(14%)
Reddit
1(7%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
9(64%)
Chat communities
3(21%)
Private membership
2(14%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (64%), but chat communities is also well represented (21%).

Independent Platforms leads (43% of listings).

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
2(14%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
1(7%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
6(43%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
1(7%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
1(7%)

3 communities have unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (392K vs 38K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Yoga Differs From Other Categories

Yoga is larger than typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Yoga	Hive Index average
Free to join	79%	84%
Median members	38K	25K
Average members	392K	668K
Paid or apply-to-join	21%	16%
Live chat	36%	41%
Discord share	21%	18%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
71%
Live Chat
36%
Courses
29%
Newsletter
29%
Online/Offline Events
21%

Niche Features

Paid Community
14%
Job Board
7%
Requires Application
7%

Forum appears on 71% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 20

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Discord	3	21%	18	90%
Facebook	2	14%	2	10%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Discord gets 90% of clicks but only 21% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
18(90%)
Forum / feed-based
2(10%)

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
18(90%)
Forum
14(70%)
Online/Offline Events
13(65%)
Requires Application
3(15%)
Job Board
1(5%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Medium
15(75%)
Large
3(15%)
Huge
1(5%)
Massive
1(5%)

Top-clicked listings

Spiritual World
12(60%)
OURS
3(15%)
Gay+ Men Meditating
3(15%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and forum / feed-based communities.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Yoga. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•We only have a handful of listings so far, so treat these numbers as directional.

FAQ

: Communities for yoga practitioners covering poses, philosophy, and holistic health. Reddit has active general practice discussion, with Discord serving spirituality-adjacent yoga communities and various platforms for teachers and practitioners exploring different traditions from Ashtanga to restorative yoga.
: Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (43% of 14 listings).
: 79% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 392K members and the median is 38K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (71%). Others that show up often include live chat, courses, and newsletter.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Yoga topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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