Leading a yoga retreat is a great way to boost your business, make a little more money and get deeper into the practice with your clients. Of course, if you haven’t been responsible for running one before, it can be pretty difficult to know where to start and what to do. That’s why I’ve put together this very brief guide to help you get to grips with the basics… (more…)
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This week on the podcast I am joined by Kathryn Bruni-Young who is the founder of Mindful Strength, the host of the Mindful Strength Podcast, an international teacher and a creative thinker in the field of yoga and movement. Kathryn grew up practicing yoga, and started teaching when she was in her late teens. After years of practicing more traditional Ashtanga, Kathryn realized that she was having chronic pain in her body, and started to learn more about movement.
On this episode, Kathryn dives into her passion for movement and how her teaching style has changed significantly since learning more about movement and how it can be integrated with yoga. We also discuss taking your yoga business online and what it takes to a successful entrepreneur, how to build a successful online course and tips for teaching workshops around the world.
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You might be eager to run your business by yourself with as few employees or contractors as possible. We’ll admit that a yoga company is a business model where this can work. At the same time though, it’s important to understand that working with experts can be beneficial. It can stop you needing to overstretch yourself and fulfill a lot of different roles in your company. (more…)
Yoga is an intensely holistic practice with a huge number of benefits for mind, body and spirit, and for that reason, it can be extremely difficult for any yoga professional to understand why members of the general public wouldn’t dive headfirst at the chance to take up this amazing practice. (more…)
Starting a small (yoga) business can be a tricky thing to do. There are plenty of different options to be thinking about, as well as the day to day running of things. And you may or may not be surprised to hear that there are plenty of small businesses that don’t survive the first year. It could be due to bad planning, incorrect financing, or a whole host of other reasons. So making sure that you’re not one of those statistics of failed businesses is going to always be a good thing. But to that end, how can you best make your small business work? (more…)