“Know your worth, hold your own power, be you.”

~ Morgan Harper Nichols

I know how hard it is to make a living teaching yoga.  It was hard when I began, but I think it is even harder now. 

It is not surprising that there are two words that teachers often use to describe their feelings about the current yoga landscape.

• PRECARIOUS
• ISOLATED

Recent months of exploring the roots of yoga teachers’ financial vulnerability have drawn me to share my business experience to help teachers better understand how to approach money dealings. How to grow in commercial awareness and confidence, and to become more savvy.

This is not a “7-steps to financial freedom” seminar.  However, knowledge is power.  And knowing you are certainly not alone in a struggle can be empowering.

When you know some of the common traps that yoga teachers fall into, this can help you to avoid them. And pave the way to make the changes you need to flourish, and to help reframe the discussion around larger change across our yoga industry.

Gender-based financial inequity is insidious. But almost as threatening to our ability to ask to be paid what we are worth is the nagging feeling that it would compromise the spirituality of our practice. That seeking remuneration for our teaching is unspiritual.

In fact, an ethical, sustainable, and prosperous business is not a contradiction to spiritual life, but rather, an expression of it. 

Life is a balance.

Through prosperity we are more able to donate to charities, offer work exchange or scholarship opportunities, and provide low-cost community classes.

In Meeting the Challenge: Yoga & Money (Note: “Yoga & Money”. Not “Yoga or Money”!) I aim to help teachers reassess the thoughts, beliefs, words, and actions that undermine their ability to generate income. And to offer strategies for building a more sustainable and prosperous yoga career. 

The recordings of this two-part offering are now available from this link.

Sending care,

Donna