About r/yoga
In its own words:
Reddit's best place for all things yoga.
Community guide
r/yoga (#309, about 3.4 million) is for all things yoga. Rules: play nice; search/FAQ first; ban blogspam/ads/crowdfunding, COMP (see on-sub), medical advice, inappropriate content, and piracy. Text/Image (~10 ppd).
Practice and community talk
Yoga practice discussion fits; medical advice and piracy do not.
Practical pointers
Search FAQ before basics; text-leaning samples; skip crowdfunding spam.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Apr 2, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,733 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/DestinyTheGame (#308) and ahead of r/brasil (#310) in our ranking.
What sets r/yoga apart
Compared with other large communities, r/yoga leans heavily on text posts (63% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 34%).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/yoga grew from 3,369,849 to 3,379,530 subscribers (+9.7K, +0.29%). That is about 220 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/yoga talks about
Looking at the titles of 98 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “mat”, “training”, “help”, “recommendations” and “deep”. Other frequent themes are youtube, home, long, practice, experiences and beginner. Recurring phrases include “mat recommendations”, “staying strong”, “shoulder injury” and “rishikesh ryt”. By format, 63% are text posts, 12% are images and 11% are links.
Activity and best time to post
r/yoga gets roughly 10 new posts a day. The public archive holds 143,887 posts and 1,215,193 comments in total, about 8.4 comments per post.
Rules of r/yoga
The moderators of r/yoga list 7 rules. In short:
- Rule 1 - Play nice.
- Rule 2 - Search and check FAQ first
- Rule 3- Blogspam, adverts, crowdfunding
- Rule 4- COMP
- Rule 5- Medical advice
- (Obvious) Rule 6- Inappropriate content
- (Also obvious) Rule 7- Piracy
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/yoga and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/yoga?
r/yoga has 3,379,530 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #309 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 9,681 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/yoga created?
r/yoga was created on Apr 2, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 17, 2009.
Is r/yoga still active?
Yes. r/yoga gets roughly 10 new posts a day (estimate from a sample of recent posts). Over its lifetime the archive counts 143,887 posts and 1,215,193 comments. In a sample of 98 recent posts we counted 84 different authors.
What kind of posts are on r/yoga?
The community describes itself as: “Reddit's best place for all things yoga.” Recent post titles often mention mat, training, help, recommendations and deep. Most posts are text posts (63%).
Is r/yoga SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/yoga as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/yoga?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/yoga accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Rule 1 - Play nice.”; “Rule 2 - Search and check FAQ first”; “Rule 3- Blogspam, adverts, crowdfunding”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/yoga?
Communities with similar topics include r/travel (14.5M), r/Fitness (12.6M), r/photography (5.7M), r/bodyweightfitness (4.8M) and r/xxfitness (3.1M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/yoga.