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This week on the podcast I am joined by Barrie Risman. Barrie is a yoga teacher and an author and she has built up a successful business with courses, programs, and an online community.
On this week’s episode of the podcast, Barrie and I talk about her yoga story, why she decided to become a yoga story, and the journey that got her to where she is today. She shares how she was able to build a successful online yoga business and community, and tips for how you can too.
Enjoy!
Discussed in this episode:
- Learn more about Barrie’s course: The Triumphant Heart: Lessons from The Bhagavad Gita on Yogic Living in Challenging Times
- How Barrie found her way to yoga in the early ’90s and fell in love with the practice
- How Barrie started teaching, became a full-time yoga teacher, and evolved her career over time
- How Barrie began working with yoga teachers online and the nitty-gritty of transitioning her business online
- The evolution of the yoga space and the challenges that come with specializing and working online
- When we work as yoga teachers, often our own yoga practice is put to the side, but the way you evolve as a teacher and an entrepreneur is through your own practice of yoga
- Why making online courses are a great way to support your current students and expand your business
- Stake: Get clear on your intention and your audience – be really clear about what students will have learned/received by the end and who the students are
- Impact: What are the learning objectives – what students will receive?
- Outcome: What do you want to happen after the course (students have joined a community or signed up for something, etc.)?
- Diving into Barrie’s new course “The Triumphant Heart: Lessons from The Bhagavad Gita on Yogic Living in Challenging Times”
- The advantages and flexibility that come from offering education online
- Barrie’s three most important business lessons:
- We teach yoga from who we are. It’s not about the information you’re sharing, it is about how you embody the practice and connect with your class.
- Relationships are so important in every industry and it is true of yoga. The people you connect with today may be people you are working with in ten years.
- Don’t take things personally. You can’t be the right teacher for everyone, accept what is unique and great about you, and serve the people you were meant to serve.
- And much more…Here is the episode
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