by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 27, 2017 | Personal Development, Show Notes
When Jenny Parum first discovered yoga, she was dealing with rheumatoid arthritis, and with the first few years of her practice her symptoms completely disappeared. The change she experienced in her own body through yoga inspired her to become a yoga teacher.
For Jenny, teaching yoga was an opportunity to share her love of helping people and to inspire people to feel better in their bodies. Jenny loved being a teacher, but was uncertain about opening a yoga studio. She ended up taking a leap of faith and following her entrepreneurial spirit and opening a yoga studio with her partner.
Jenny went through the process of opening a yoga studio as a single mom with 3 pre-teen children, and after she opened her studio she sought out yoga teachers who were looking to be entrepreneurial and bring their own style to the space.
On this episode, Jenny shares what she learned through opening a yoga studio, what she has learned over the years as a studio owner, how she has balanced being a mom with being an entrepreneur and advice for new yoga teachers entering the industry.
Enjoy!
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Business
For us new yoga teachers, traveling & teaching yoga around the world may be our ultimate goal or adventure.
I know, I know, traveling while teaching yoga (as a new teacher) sounds crazy. But I promise that if many yoga teachers, including myself, can do it, so can you.
I graduated from YTT at the end of 2015. I felt overwhelmed and puzzled about how to make my dream of becoming a traveling yoga teacher, a reality. If you want to become a traveling yoga teacher and aren’t sure where to start, continue reading. Please don’t continue reading if you’re not willing to challenge yourself, increase your self-confidence, and experience rejection.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 20, 2017 | Niching, Show Notes
I met Brittney Hiller at Wigwam Festival in Atlanta last year, and I had the privilege of taking a laughing yoga class with her. It was my first experience with laughing yoga, and it was both awkward + fun. I immediately signed up for Brittney’s newsletter and I’ve been following her along ever since.
On this episode, Brittney shares how she got into laughing yoga (it’s different than you would expect!), how she expanded her teaching from laughing yoga, to teaching children, to teaching chair yoga, to offering entirely donation based classes.
Brittney and I also chat about moving from being strictly a yoga employee to being a yoga entrepreneur. She shares how she has built her own business, how she has differentiated her business, and has created a successful newsletter, book and online business.
Enjoy!
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog
We all know how important throwing events can be for your yoga business. They get you out there to a larger audience, and allow you to meet people that support you in person, rather than just hearing from them through email or over the phone. It also opens a lot of opportunities for you because there may be possible investors and partners that you can connect with, and potentially even work with.
Having said that, it can also be a very stressful time – especially if you’ve never done this before, because there are so many different areas you need to cover in order to make sure that everything goes well and runs smoothly. Fortunately for you – here is a list of the most important things to cover.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Business
Over the last few weeks, we chatted a lot about creating websites and being on social media. One of the biggest things that these topics can bring up is comparison.
It’s easy to look at another yoga teacher’s website and think why doesn’t mine look like that? or why does his / hers look so much better than mine?
Or to look at another yoga entrepreneur’s Instagram account and think why don’t I have that many followers? or why didn’t I think to take a photo like that?
We’ve all been there, myself included.
But, as with our yoga practice, comparison can be really harmful. It truly can be the thief of joy, and that is true both on and off the mat.
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