How verification works
Santua exists because the reviews you find on Google, Yelp, Trustpilot and Reddit are structurally unable to tell you whether a yoga teacher training was actually good. They can be written by anyone, including people who never attended. Santua reviews are different.
1. The school graduates a student.
A real program, with real teaching hours, completes. The teacher confirms each graduate's identity and completion inside the school's Santua dashboard.
2. Santua sends each graduate a private magic link review.
The link is tied to their specific completion record. It cannot be reused, forwarded to a stranger, or generated by anyone other than the school owner.
3. The graduate fills out the review.
They rate seven dimensions on a 1 to 10 scale (not five stars), describe what surprised them, who the program is right for, and what could be better. The honest critique section is mandatory.
4. The school owner approves before it is published.
This is a quality check, not censorship. The owner can request a clarification or reject for factual error, but they cannot fish for praise. The honest critique section is required, and Santua reviews are typed by humans, not generated.
5. The review goes live on the school's public page.
Anyone, including search engines and LLM crawlers, can read it, including the critique. The link is permanent.
With 5 to 10 verified reviews per school across hundreds of schools, future students can search by dimension, modality, career outcome and price range, and what they see is structurally honest. Schools that game the system cannot generate fake graduates; schools that earn glowing reviews despite mandatory critique earn trust.