Website builders for yoga teachers: which one to pick in 2026

Most guides to this start with the builders. Squarespace versus Wix, round one.

That is the wrong end. Which builder suits you depends entirely on what you want the website to do, and teachers want quite different things from it. So work that out first, and the shortlist writes itself.

None of this is especially yoga-specific, by the way. It applies just as well whether you teach Pilates or barre, run a club, or have a studio with several teachers on the timetable.

First, what is the site actually for?

In our experience it is almost always one of three things.

You want people to find your classes and book them. That is the whole job. You are not itching to write, and you do not need ten pages.

You want a simple presence. Who you are, what you teach, where you teach it, and a way to book. One or two pages, looking tidy, so people who have been given your name can look you up and feel reassured.

You want somewhere to write and be found. You have things to say, you want to turn up in search results for what you teach, and you are prepared to put some hours in.

The rest of this is organised that way.

If it is only so people can book

Be honest about this one, because it saves you a lot of bother.

If the only reason you were about to build a website is so people can see your timetable and book a class, you may not need a website. reservie includes a landing page: one page with your name, a photograph, a few words in your own voice, and your live timetable with booking on it. Four short steps and you publish. You get a short address that fits on a flyer or in an Instagram bio, and the timetable cannot go out of date, because it is your actual schedule.

It is not a website and does not pretend to be. One page, one fixed shape, and you choose the words and the picture rather than the layout. That is the trade, and it is why it takes a couple of minutes instead of an afternoon.

Plenty of teachers run for years on exactly that. If you later decide you do want a proper site, nothing is wasted, because the booking carries straight over.

If you want a simple presence

Three options worth knowing, and none of them are expensive.

Google Sites is free. No tiers, no upgrade path, no trial that expires. It will connect a domain you already own at no cost, which nothing else here does. The catch is design: the range is genuinely limited and your site will look like a Google Site. For a clear page with your classes, your photo and a booking button, that is often fine.

Canva is worth knowing if you already make your flyers and Instagram posts there. Same editor, same templates, nothing new to learn, which for a lot of teachers is the entire argument. The free tier publishes to a Canva address, and using your own domain needs the paid tier.

Webador is the cheapest credible paid option and includes a domain for the first year. It is a small, straightforward builder rather than a deep one. For a timetable and an about page, that is not much of a drawback.

If you want to write and be found

Here the extra money starts to earn its keep.

Squarespace is the one to choose if design is not your favourite part. The templates are hard to make ugly, which sounds like faint praise and is not. It is the main reason people stay. There is no free plan, but the trial does not ask for a card, so trying it costs you nothing but an evening. Note that the plan lineup changed this year, so anything you read about Personal and Business plans is out of date.

Wix is the one to choose if you want to start without paying. The free plan is genuine, not a trial: your site sits on a Wix address with Wix branding until you upgrade, but it is a real site and you can take as long as you like over it. You get more control than Squarespace over where things sit on the page, which some people love and others find fiddly.

WordPress is really two products sharing a name, which causes no end of confusion. WordPress.com is a hosted service like the other two. WordPress.org is free software you install on hosting you buy yourself, with no restrictions and no ceiling, but updates, backups and security all become your job. Free to download, then, but not free to run. Unless you already enjoy this sort of thing, the hosted version is the one to look at.

The thing that decides free versus paid

It is not the design and it is not the features. It is whether you can use your own name.

The domain itself is cheap, and several builders will hand you one free for the first year. The catch is that free plans generally will not let you attach a domain at all, however you came by it. You can buy yourname.co.uk for a few pounds from whoever you like, and Wix, Webador and Canva will still leave your site at yourname.wixsite.com until you go paid. Google Sites is the exception.

So if the free tiers look too good to be true, that is usually the reason. What a paid plan buys is your own name over the door.

One other thing worth checking before you commit: nearly all of them advertise an introductory rate, the same way broadband and car insurance do. Look up what the plan renews at, and whether the price includes VAT, since most teachers are not VAT registered and cannot claim it back.

Will it work with your booking?

Almost certainly yes, and for most people this does not need deciding at all. It is worth thirty seconds though, because it is the one thing that can make a plan you have already paid for the wrong plan.

There are two ways to get your timetable onto your site.

You can link to it, with a button that says “Book a class”. This works on every builder and every plan, including all the free ones, and most people tapping the button neither notice nor mind where they land.

Or you can have the timetable appear inside one of your own pages. This is the one with limitations. Some builders restrict what you are allowed to drop into your pages, almost always on the cheaper plans, and the restriction is not usually mentioned where you choose the plan. As it stands, Squarespace needs its Core plan rather than entry-level Basic, and WordPress.com needs its Business plan.

Wix deserves its own note, because it is the fiddliest of the lot. It puts anything you add inside a sealed box, and browsers are wary of sealed boxes, so left alone your customers get signed out and lose their basket every time they move between pages. There is a fix and we publish it, but it means switching on Wix’s developer mode and pasting in some code, and you have to size the timetable separately for phones and computers. It is all perfectly doable, and you only do it once. It is just not a paste-it-in-and-forget-about-it job, so if you are on Wix and would rather not, link out instead. Or ask us and we will talk you through it.

One more thing worth knowing, whichever builder you land on. When the timetable sits inside a page on a builder’s site, Apple Pay usually disappears from the checkout. The builders will not let us install the small file Apple insists on, so the button cannot be offered. Card payment works exactly as normal, and Apple Pay is there as usual on your own reservie booking page, where we take care of that file ourselves and there is nothing for you to do. It is only the embedded version that loses it.

None of that applies if you link out, which is what most teachers end up doing. It works everywhere, Apple Pay included, and there is nothing to go wrong.

If you are unsure, ask us before you pay for anything. Tell us which builder and which plan you are looking at and we will tell you whether the timetable will go inside your page. Our guide to adding reservie to your website has the detail if you would rather read it yourself.

If you are weighing up what else is worth automating while you are at it, what actually saves time in a yoga studio covers similar ground.