Study — a wooden retreat platform deep in Thai jungle at first light Study — awaiting his photograph

Bruce Mackay For producers & journalists One page, no follow-up

Forty-one days, alone, in a Thai jungle.

Then he built the most rigorous yoga register in Britain. Everything needed to book or quote Bruce Mackay — bios, photographs, topics, one route in.

41daysThe longest fast — alone, jungle of Thailand
5decadesDaily practice, since childhood
11Behind a drum kit since age eleven
2006Then he built the body — 10,000+ behind it

01  The story

Why producers book him.

Not another association executive. The life is the story; the institution is the proof. Six hooks, each a segment on its own.

Study — a retreat platform in Thai jungleThe fast

Forty-one days, alone

Many long fasts; the longest alone in the jungles of Thailand. What happens to a mind that far in — an hour of radio on its own.

Study — an ashram courtyard at dawnThe ashrams

Inside the lineage

Ashram life in India, repeated long Vipassana silences, breath retention held by seven. The old way — lived, not read about.

Study — a worn mat, a mala and old booksThe medicine

Ayahuasca · Kambo

With the shamans who keep the traditions — Peru's mountains, Costa Rica's jungle — decades before the fashionable wave. Ceremonial, lawful where practised, never a recommendation.

Study — behind a drum kit in a dim rehearsal roomThe drummer

Behind a kit since eleven

Semi-pro to pro across five decades. Rhythm was the first teacher — and it still runs the classroom.

Study — parcels and rolled mats in a small office, 1999The operator

Yoga, posted — 1999

An online yoga shop before Amazon reached the mat. Businesses built and run since. The register runs on an operator's discipline.

Study — a founder's desk late at nightThe twist

Then he built the register

The wildest CV in British yoga belongs to the man who keeps its strictest standard. That tension is the story — and he knows it.

The mark

The Cut — real photography breaking through the Y. The register's signature gesture.

Study — his photograph replaces it

02  The bios

Three lengths. Lift the one that fits.

Forty words · broadcast awaiting his sign-off

“Bruce Mackay has practised yoga since childhood and taught it for more than two decades. In 2006 he co-founded what became YogaPros — the professional body behind ten thousand teachers in more than a hundred countries. He's also been a drummer since he was eleven.”

One-twenty · print & show notes awaiting his sign-off

Bruce Mackay has fasted forty-one days alone in a Thai jungle, lived ashram life inside the lineage in India, sat long Vipassana silences, and taken ayahuasca and Kambo with the shamans who keep those traditions — five decades of testing practice on himself, begun in childhood. He has been a drummer since eleven and an operator since 1999, when he opened Britain's first online yoga shop. In 2006 he co-founded what became YogaPros with Brian Cooper — the professional body behind ten thousand teachers in more than a hundred countries, whose standards have not moved since: years taught, hours evidenced, training delivered live. The wildest CV in British yoga keeps its strictest register.

Full length · the portrait

The complete record — the arc from 1999, the practice underneath, the six questions, the landmark — written to be read and safe to quote.

The Long Argument →

Quote freely with attribution to YogaPros. The forty-word intro reads aloud in fifteen seconds.

NowMarking twenty years of the body — and collecting the answers for The Six. Updated August 2026.

03  The photographs

Two resolutions. Favourites starred.

Study — a teacher-training circle mid-session★Study · horizontal — banner
Study — an ashram courtyard at dawn★Study · portrait — print
Study — a founder's desk late at nightStudy · portrait — stories
Study — a teaching circle in an Edinburgh hallStudy · in the room — live
Study — a worn mat, a mala and old booksStudy · square-safe
Study — Edinburgh's Old Town at dawnStudy · the city
Web resolution · ZIP Print resolution · ZIP Unlocks after the sitting — real photography only

The frames shown are commissioned studies, marked as such — stand-ins until his photographs arrive. Usage at release: editorial use with credit “Photograph: YogaPros”. No undisclosed synthetic imagery — the same rule the register holds its members to.

04  The voice

Producers book voices. Here is his.

Study — behind a drum kit in a dim rehearsal room▶
Ninety seconds — the argument, in his voice Cut from the sitting · arrives with the photography
Certificates aren't teachersWhy the industry counted training hours for decades — and what a register counts instead.
Britain's yoga body at twentyFounding in 2006 with the American body's blessing, and what survives two decades.
The teacher's economyWhat a teaching livelihood actually looks like, and what the profession owes the people who carry it.
The deeper practice yearsAshram life, Vipassana silence, a forty-one-day jungle fast, ayahuasca and Kambo with the shamans who keep them. Nothing off the table.
Already on the record Authority Magazine Mastering the Business of Yoga ———

05  The facts

Every figure checks.

06  One route in

Invitations are read. You hear either way.

Keynotes & podcasts

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