Private one-to-one yoga in the UK generally costs between £40 and £100 for an hour with an established teacher, with online sessions clustering lower — from around £30 an hour through UK teaching platforms, and less again from teachers based outside the UK. On this site an hour is £59 and a half hour is £33, taught live from India.
The spread is wide and it is mostly not about teaching quality. It is about travel, studio rent, and where the teacher lives. Here is how to read it.
What drives the price
Travel. A teacher coming to your flat in Hackney is selling you ninety minutes of their day for a sixty-minute class. That is the single biggest line item in any in-person private rate, and it is entirely absent online.
Room hire. A teacher renting a studio room by the hour passes it on. In central London this is not a small number.
Where the teacher lives. An hour of a skilled teacher's time costs what an hour costs where they are. This is the whole reason online one-to-one with a teacher in India lands where it does, and it is worth being direct that this is a cost-of-living difference rather than a quality difference.
Specialisation. Genuine specialism — pregnancy, injury rehabilitation alongside a physiotherapist, a named tradition taught seriously for twenty years — moves the price and reasonably so.
In person or online
The usual framing is that online is the compromise. For a lot of people in the UK it is the opposite, and the reason is the winter.
An 8pm class in February requires leaving the house in the cold and the dark and then coming home again. Attendance at in-person evening classes falls off across British winters in a way that studio owners can chart. A class that happens in your own front room at 7am has a completion rate that a Tuesday-night studio class cannot match, and yoga that you do is better than better yoga that you skip.
What online genuinely costs you is hands-on adjustment, a room full of props, and the atmosphere of a studio. If you are working around an injury or want physical correction, in person is better and you should pay for it.
What one-to-one gets you that a class does not
Worth stating because most people's reference point is a group class.
- The sequence is yours. Built around your hips, your shoulders, the thing you did to your knee in 2019, and how much time you actually have.
- Correction arrives immediately. In a class of twenty, a teacher sees you three or four times an hour. In a one-to-one, they are watching continuously, which is the entire point.
- You can ask questions. Obvious, and it is the thing beginners most consistently say changed things.
- It moves when your week moves. A class is at 7pm on Tuesdays forever. A session is booked when you book it.
Choosing a teacher for online sessions
Three questions cut through most of it.
"What will the first session be?" A good answer involves talking to you and watching you move before sequencing anything. A bad answer is a description of a class.
"What do you do about the fact that you cannot touch me?" You want a teacher who has an actual answer — camera angles, verbal cueing, using a wall — rather than one who treats it as a minor inconvenience.
"What should I do between sessions?" One-to-one yoga where nothing happens between the sessions is an expensive habit. A teacher should be leaving you with something short to do on your own.
The timezone, since it is the obvious question
India is five and a half hours ahead of the UK in winter and four and a half in summer. In practice that makes British mornings and early afternoons very easy to book — 7am in London is 12:30pm in India, an ordinary middle of the day. Later evenings run into the night at the teacher's end. If your preferred slot is 9pm, say so early and check it is available rather than assuming.
Sessions here are booked on a rolling calendar in thirty-minute steps, any day of the week. There is more on what differs about an India-based teacher, and on keeping a practice alive through a British winter, which is the season that ends most of them.
Questions people ask
How much do private yoga lessons cost in the UK?
Typically £40 to £100 an hour for an established teacher in person, with online one-to-one sessions available from around £30 an hour through UK platforms and less from teachers based abroad. Travel time and studio hire account for most of the difference between the in-person and online rates.
Is one-to-one yoga worth it compared with a class?
If your goal is specific — a particular restriction, a body that does not fit a general class, or starting from scratch — yes, because the sequence and the pace are built around you and correction is continuous rather than occasional. If you mainly want the atmosphere of practising with other people, a class does something a private session cannot.
Can I do private yoga over Zoom?
Yes, and it is now a standard offering from UK teachers as well as teachers abroad. You need about two metres of clear floor, a wall, and a device placed side-on to the mat a couple of metres back so the teacher can see the line of your spine.
What is the best time to book an online class with a teacher in India from the UK?
Mornings and early afternoons are easiest: 7am in London is 12:30pm in India during British winter, and 11:30am during British summer time. Evening slots after about 8pm UK time fall late at the teacher's end, so check availability rather than assuming.
How often should I have a private session?
Weekly is the common rhythm for someone building a practice, dropping to fortnightly or monthly once you have something you can do on your own. The sessions are most valuable when there is practice in between them to correct.
A senior yoga teacher at IndieVeda, teaching one-to-one sessions live from India.