Your yoga bio may be the first impression a potential student or future employer has of you – so it’s important that you put your best foot forward! Know Your Audience When writing your bio, it’s important to know who you’re writing your bio for. Is this for potential students? For potential employers? Someone else? […]
Business of Yoga
How to Create Your Yoga Teacher Resume
Having a dedicated yoga resume is a great way to be ready for teaching opportunities as they come up. If you do work in other industries, you’ll see that the yoga resume is slightly different and focuses mostly on education, training, and teaching experience. Key elements for your yoga resume: Name and contact information including […]
How to Teach Workplace Yoga
Teaching workplace yoga can be very fulfilling – you can make a huge difference in employees’ comfort, health, happiness, and productivity. Many companies are open to the idea of yoga for employees, as it is a relatively low cost way to offer employees benefits and potentially decrease healthcare costs. Before starting workplace yoga, take some […]
So You Want to Lead Yoga Retreats
Yoga retreats are a fantastic way to build community, take your students deeper in their practices, and get away to an exotic location. They are also a ton of work in terms of planning, marketing, enrolling students, leading the retreat, and handling payments. While you have your eye on that beachfront resort or those remote, […]
Yoga Teachers, Take Good Care of Your Finances
Whether you like it or not, dealing with finances is a part of being a yoga professional. In truth, being mindful of your finances leads to all sorts of good things like: Enough funds to sustain your health and well being Money to vote with your wallet for the businesses that are building a sustainable […]
Yoga Income Streams: Workshops
Of the many possibilities to bring in income as a yoga teacher, workshops are a great way to serve a portion of your current community and bring in new folks. As you begin to think about building yoga workshops, survey your regular students about what aspects of yoga they want to learn more about. You […]
The Power of Keeping a Success Journal
It’s about that time of year when New Year resolutions wander off into the desert of good intentions. Keep your present self motivated and your future self in awe by creating a success journal that you can keep throughout the year – not just at resolution time. Your successes can be big or small, personal […]
The Power of Keeping a Practice Journal
At Vesselify School of Yoga, we are big fans of keeping a practice journal to track your personal progress. Why? Journaling is a great way to see your progress over time It will help support your dedication to a regular practice that you can then pass along to your students Looking back on your practice […]
I Just Led My First Retreat Since the Pandemic and This is What I Learned
In December 2021 I was very fortunate to be able to host my first retreat since the pandemic began in early 2020. How to describe the experience…It was a lot of pent-up desire for travel, change, humidity, and hugs that flourished in a beautiful week of community togetherness. Our retreat location was Nosara, Costa Rica, […]
5 Tips to Market Your Online Yoga Classes
Offering online yoga classes requires online marketing strategies. Here are some practical ideas for you to employ as you educate your community about what you offer. 1. Invite your friends and family If your family and friends are scattered all around the country, there has never been a better time than now to call them […]
How Much Does a Yoga Teacher Make (And How You Can Make It Too)
Are you wondering how much a yoga teacher makes? According to a survey report by CNN, being a yoga instructor is among the top 10 jobs in America as it can help you earn an average of over $62K per year. How much does a yoga teacher actually make? The starting pay for a yoga […]
6 Essential Tips for Becoming a Full-time Yoga Teacher
Many people don’t believe it is possible to turn teaching yoga into a full-time career. Learn about the six essentials (next to teaching high-quality classes of course), that will help you become a full-time yoga teacher and earn enough to live comfortably: 1. Location, location, location… it doesn’t have to be expensive It is important […]
Why we should stop branding our yoga classes
We are in a golden age of rethinking classical yoga. I love this, as I believe yoga was never meant to be stagnant. As physiology and movement science make their way into our shalas, we can better meet the goal of a lifelong practice. But, let’s make no mistake, it’s all yoga. For years, I […]
Prioritize Stability Over Flexibility
As yoga teachers we need stability more than we need flexibility in our yoga practices and in our yoga businesses. One of the aims of yoga practice is to cultivate balance. Asana practices that focus solely on building flexibility, without regard for strength and stability, risk creating joint instability over time. Beyond asana, we need […]
How to use your website to offer online scheduling to your students
If your yoga business relies on in-person teachings, you already know that managing your schedule can be a challenge! Juggling multiple clients, a variety of services, email reminders, and rescheduling requests—it can be a lot to keep up with, whether you teach private sessions or own a studio! Enter online scheduling software. Sleek, secure and […]
3 Steps To Abundance for All
When Elena Brower shared her thoughts about creating prosperity, I watched it a few times and took copious notes. I also reflected on my own relationship with money. Abundance is something I’ve written about before here (Creating Mindful Abundance), but I thought I would take it one step farther and delve into how to create […]
Should I run a TTC?
I’ve just emerged from running the first TTC at Yoga Beach House as the lead trainer, an experience that has plunged me deeper into my yogic lifestyle and transformed the lives of 8 other yogis. For a few years I asked myself the question should I run a TTC, as I started to have a […]
Balancing Funds Teaching Balancing Poses
Yoga is for everyone, and everyone can benefit from yoga. So yoga should be financially accessible for students. But financial stability (pardon the pun) is a must for the teachers as well as the students. When I first decided to complete a Yoga Teacher Training course I was convinced that I would never teach yoga; […]
Six Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Held My First Retreat
Gearing up to lead your first yoga retreat? It’s an exciting process, but sometimes also an intimidating one. Luckily, there’s lots to learn from the seasoned retreat leaders who’ve trod this path before. We’ve gathered six experienced, knowledgeable yoga teachers to share some things they wish someone had told them before they held their first […]
On Being Brave
I never intended to be an entrepreneur or to start a small business. I’ve worked on social and environmental justice issues for most of my life – finding my calling at a young age at the intersection of climate change and human rights. It was so fulfilling, so all-encompassing, but also deeply disturbing to be […]
Pay Yourself First!
From Elena: This was my year to get my financial situation organized, and of course the Universe handed me many resources and informative humans to help. Paige McKechnie came to me from one of my dear teammates at dōTERRA, and upon hearing of her level of expertise, I asked her three key questions – and […]
How to Cultivate Mindful Abundance
Last week in Virginia, I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of female solo entrepreneurs about mindful abundance. To some, mindful abundance may seem like an oxymoron. But if you are self- employed, thoughts of abundance have crossed your radar. As an independent contractor, there is a strong likelihood that you’ve made some […]
From Subsistence to Sustainability: The Shift from Yoga Teacher to Yoga Entrepreneur
It’s no secret that when you decided to become a yoga teacher, there were whispers every which way telling you you that you’ll never make enough money, you’ll always need a second job and that this choice will never be sustainable as a full time gig. For some of us, it can be tricky to […]
7 Ways to Build a Successful Retreat
For the last 10 years I have been putting together and selling out yoga retreats to some wonderful destinations worldwide. There are tons of beautiful centers that will cater exactly to what your needs are whether it be an adventure filled retreat or perhaps a more meditative quiet experience. Whichever you choose make sure to […]