• National federations/associations can be a full member of IYF.

•  Becoming a full member of IYF is completely free; no fee, no expenditures etc.
•  IYF does have no obligation or restriction for its members.

• Yoga organizations
• Yoga studios
• Yoga teachers

1. For Yoga to spread nationwide and internationally, create projects, take decisions, implement and make others implement.

1. Carry out worldwide Yoga Organizations, conducting activities that promote Yoga, to do research to activate and make these activities much more effective and for their development, to arrange training activities such as: courses, seminars, conferences, and panels, and to organize national and international competitions.

1. For the education, application, and dissemination of the Original Yoga System, creating projects, to give related individuals and organizations support with knowledge and the expertise.

1. To strengthen the communication between the individuals and the Organizations applying the Original Yoga System, arranging national and international meetings and attending similar meetings.  

1. To define standards for the Yoga Centers; make its regulations, audit, and make sure these standards are being abided.

1. To open up courses and programs to train Yoga coaches/instructors, conduct examinations, to honor the ones who succeed with coaching/instructor certification, to arrange training activities such as: seminars, conferences, and panels.

1. To evaluate and inspect how much the institutions that honor Yoga coaching and attendance certification abide by the occupation standards and regulations, enforce sanctions for these institutions to act in certain quality standards.

1. To create occupational standards on the field of Yoga Coaching/Instructor, with this goal make various arrangements (regulation, circular, announcement etc.) announce and publish, to ensure the approval of these by the relevant authorities.

1. Towards the goal to be actualized provide any type of knowledge, document, documentation and publication, to create a documentation center, for the works to be heard of, aligned with the goals to publish newspapers, magazines, books and bulletins.

1. For the goal to be achieved, create a healthy work environment, provide any type of technical equipment, fixed assets, and office supply equipment.

1. To improve and keep the social relationships of members and member associations, organize activities such as: dinner parties, concerts, plays, exhibition, sports, travel, camps, festivals, carnivals, banquets, or to make the members take advantage of such activities.

1. With the necessary permissions, be involved in collecting aid and accepting donations both nationally and internationally.

1. For the goal to get the necessary revenue, to be able to actualize the mission in these Bylaws to establish economic, commercial, industrial, and revolving businesses and to operate or to enable its operation.

1. For the members to benefit and do Yoga establishing social and cultural facilities and  inspect them,

1. If required for the realization of the purpose, to establish local or international foundations, to establish confederation or to be part of such an established confederation, establish such institutions or contribute for them to establish and to build facilities that federations can establish with the necessary permissions,

1. Being in international activities, being a member of Federations and institutions which have been established abroad and organizing activities in the field of Yoga, attending their activities, doing joint work with these institutions or helping each other,

1. If it is found to be necessary, without prejudice to the provisions of the law, to carry out a joint project with the public institutions and organizations in the fields of their duties,

1. To attend the General Assembly together with their delegates.
2. To choose the organs shown in the statute.
3. To take advantage of written studies in the relevant articles of the statute
4. To participate in Federation activities and management.

1. To adhere to decisions of authorized bodies and all provisions of the Federation statute.
2. To report the general assemblies that they will do to the  Federation President in a way it will reach to them at least 15 days in advance.
3. Regularly pay contributions of the Federation.
4. Not to be in an attitude and behavior contrary to the purposes of the Federation, not to use the authorities contrary to the benefits of the Federation.
5. To participate in the research and review studies.
6. To complete the tasks assigned by the Federation bodies.

1. General Assembly
2. Board of Directors
3. Board of Auditors

1. Regardless of the number of registered members, each association participates with “4” delegates to the General Assembly. The delegates sent by each member to the General Assembly, representatives of the Federation's Board of Directors and Board of Auditors who served on the board at that term have the right to attend and cast a vote at the general meeting at the end of the term.
2. The delegates who will attend the General Assembly are notified to the Federation in writing by their association in a way it will reach to the General Assembly at least (7) days before.

1. Ordinary General Meeting: Once every three years, they meet in April according to the call of the Board of Directors.
2. Extraordinary General Meeting: Meet with the call of the Board of Directors through  the request of Board of Directors or Board of Auditors or at least ⅕ (one fifth) of the General Assembly of Federation delegates.

1. Selection of Federation bodies for 3 years.
2. Change of Federation statute.
3. Examine the Board of Directors and Board of Auditors reports, balance sheet and income-expense accounts, according to the result of the examine to make a decision about the Board of Directors and Board of Auditors being released or to make decisions about the responsible ones.
4. Review and approve the Federation budget.
5. Decide about the subjects that need to be taken into consideration or removed.
6. Decide to join or leave a confederation of the federation, to establish a new confederation, and decide to become a founding member in this confederation. Decide to terminate the Federation.
7. To suspend members of the Board of Directors and supervisory board when necessary, to take a decision for legal prosecution of those who have responsibilities on this, to authorize the supervision of member associations by the Board of Directors.
8. Examine complaints and wishes reflected on the General Assembly.
9. Review the regulations to be prepared for the Federation studies by the Board of Directors and approve the same or by changing them.
10. Decide international activities of the Federation, to decide whether to join or leave as a member of a federation, association, or organization abroad.
11. To establish economic enterprises with revolving funds enterprises, to authorize the management board to buy or sell movable or immovable property.
12. Review the other proposals of the Board of Directors and make a decision.
13. The General Assembly supervises other bodies of the Federation and can always take them from the office with justifiable reasons.
14. The General Assembly gives the final decision on acceptance and removal from membership. The General Assembly does work which is not given to the other body of the Federation and uses the authorities as the most authoritative body of the Federation.

1. The Board of Directors is elected for three years through a secret ballot and open count method, including 5 full and 5 associate members among the delegates whose names are listed on the general assembly delegate list.
2. Board members who did not attend three consecutive board  meetings without an excuse lose their membership automatically. Re-election of board members whose term is expired is possible.
3. If the number of members of the Board of Directors falls below the absolute majority due to vacancies, the General Assembly is invited to the meeting within one month by the current members of the Board of Directors and the Board of Auditors.
4. A list of the names, surnames, occupations, and addresses of the full members and associate members of the Board of Directors is notified to the property management authority within 30 days following the election of the General Assembly.
5. The Board of Directors convene at the first meeting after its election and divide the duties. In the first meeting of the Board of Directors consisting of 5 persons together with the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, they select a Vice Chairperson, a Secretary, and an Accountant through the division of duties among themselves.
6. The Chairperson of the Board of Directors also has the title of President of the Federation. The President of the Federation is selected among people who are known to be experts in Yoga in society, who have been engaged in Yoga for 50 years, who have at least 25 books on Yoga, 20 DVDs and CDs, and who are at least 50 years old.
7. Each member of the Board of Directors has the right to cast one vote.

1. Represents the Federation or gives authority to one or more of the other members in this respect.
2. Decides to carry out studies in line with the objectives and working subjects of the Federation and ensures that activities are carried out in domestic and abroad. In order to carry out these activities, it establishes commissions, working groups and assigns them to various subjects.
3. Applies the resolutions of the General Assembly.
4. Assesses the money belongs to the Federation appropriately.
5. Prepares the annual and quarterly reports of the Federation, balance sheet, income-expense account and future turnover budget and submits it to the general assembly.
6. Ensures that the books and files of the Federation are kept regularly and systematically.
7. To present the letting go decisions about the members to the General Assembly
8. Invites the General Assembly to a meeting.
9. Within the framework of the authorities in the law, buy, sell, use, lease movable goods and accept any kind of donations or donate. In addition, buy and sell all kinds of immovable properties based on the decision of the General Assembly.
10. Examines and decides on membership applications made to the Federation. It decides on member associations who lose their membership or want to leave and present this decision to the first ordinary or extraordinary General Assembly.
11. Ensuring the opening of representative offices in the deemed necessary places,
12. Performs the duties assigned to it by legislation.

1. The President presides over the Board of Directors and represents the Federation in all respects and manages the Federation according to regulation rules, the decisions of the General Assembly and the Board of Directors.
2. Provides that notification to the civil administration authority  of the full members and associate members elected to the Board of Directors and the Board of Auditors and other bodies of the Federation ; within thirty days following the election made by the General Assembly,
3. Provides that notification to the civilian authority the amendments in the federal organs and settlement place; within thirty days.
4. Ensures keeping the books and records that should be kept by the Federation.
5. Ensures that the Federation declaration of the yearly Federation activities and the results of the income and expense transactions are submitted to the property administration office by the end of April of each year at the latest.
6. Provides that: in case of receiving aid from abroad, these aids are taken through the banks.
7. Provides that the immovable acquired by the Federation shall be notified to the local authority within one month from the registration to the title office.
8. Ensures that if the Federation opens a representative office, the addresses of the representatives, the appointed person or persons will be notified to the civilian authority.
9. In important and urgent matters, calls the General Assembly to a meeting. Encourage efficient and productive central and branch functions and leading by being an example in the subject.
10. To perform the duties in other matters specified for the President of the Federation in the legislation, and exercise the authorities.

1. Donations and contributions made by real and legal persons to the Federation by their own discretion.
2. Income derived from activities such as sightseeing, entertainment, concerts, conferences, festivals, carnival, seminars, social and sportive events organized by the Federation,
3. Income derived from the assets of the Federation,
4. Donations and aids to be collected in accordance with the provisions of the legislation on aid collection.
5. To be able to obtain the income in order to actualize the purpose of the Federation, the profits derived from the business activities.
6. Other income

VISION

To make Yoga more prevalent in a contemporary and institutional structure, to increase participation all around the world, to be constantly present in international organizations.

 

MISSION

Being an organization that make Yoga training according to the original sources, making it internationally to spread Yoga practices all around the word, making the basis of adopting collective Yoga Culture.