The Prosperous Yogini

Today we explore friction when it comes to running a business (any business, not just a yoga one!) Friction appears for us in two ways; friction from external events beyond our control and the friction we create. I was going to purely talk about the friction we can create in our business, but after coming to record this episode and finding my brand new (and beloved!) Blue Yeti Mic was broken, more than likely thanks to my little girl who had been pretending to do her own podcast, I had to add in the impact of external friction and how to manage and respond to this! External friction in your yoga business Events beyond our control - illness, problems with physical spaces, issues with technology, managing students/clients and not to mention global pandemics, wars, and economic crises. All beyond our control, all have the power to cause us friction, frustration, and discomfort and leave us with a feeling of perhaps it's best I give up! They'll always be points of friction in your business the trick is knowing the process to navigate these moments. Are you creating friction in your yoga business How easy is it for me to book on to your classes or buy your offers? How easy is it for me to give you money? How easy is it for me to navigate your website? If you don't have a website (don't panic), but if you're just on social media what happens if I'm not or you lose your account? (Cue major source of external friction!) Do I have to complete a form or make a discovery call first? If yes is this appropriate to the offer? Put simply in the words of the brilliant Denise Duffield Thomas – A confused mind says no! And our overstimulated, busy minds say no very very quickly, make sure your messaging and copy (anything you write) is clear and easy to follow! Watch episode 3 on you-tube https://youtu.be/Qw8k2Fdzn-w Work with me Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme - I can help you reduce friction in your yoga business. Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we'll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love. You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/ Start your own podcast? I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you'd like to do the same but don't know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com - they make podcasting possible!

Episode 2 – How to know what to charge After listening to episode 1 you're now totally sold on the belief that to serve, share your passion, teach yoga, you have to have a profitable, sustainable business model. This only happens through action, so let's get to it! How do you know what to charge for your services? In this episode, I primarily focus on the model of teaching classes, but a huge caveat here, this isn't the only way to make money teaching yoga. This model also has a ceiling, there are only so many classes you can physically teach in a week and if it's in-person only so many people you can fit in one room! But my nifty little equation, a + a = everyone is happy, (yes not a figure in sight), works for any offer. You know the importance of balanced energy, for your price to be right long-term the energy out must balance the energy in. Here is where data and woo-woo meet, you need to know the facts, what does it cost you to run this offer? Always start here! Then take time to shift through the noise stuff, until you find a price that says "hell yes", that's your inner wisdom, intuition talking. It's a process of time, practise and patience - just like your yoga practise! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJhhV7vBQ4&t=2s Prosperous Yogini podcast on you-tube Work with me? Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme – I can help you set aligned prices for your yoga offers. Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we'll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love. You can also train with me. I offer 250hr Foundation Yoga Teacher Training and other shorter specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/ Start your own podcast? I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you'd like to do the same but don't know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

I'm going straight in and challenging those deep rooted subconscious beliefs that I believe are collectively held by many of us (me included!) We love what we do. We do it to help people. So we feel we shouldn't make money or it's wrong to make money from our passion. Or we don't fully value our skills, gifts, and experience and believe it's hard to make money from them. It's hard to earn money as a yoga teacher? In this episode I challenge the following 3 beliefs, have you ever heard, seen, felt, or said them yourself – I know I have! It's hard to make money teaching yoga (especially when you first start) It's wrong to make money from teaching yoga It's wrong to talk about how you make money from teaching yoga, it's wrong to talk about money. What we appreciate appreciates, I encourage you to use what you know, mantra, and affirmations – "It is safe for me to make money teaching yoga". In fact in order for you to fully serve your students it's your duty, so you can show up with abundance. Money doesn't care if you are a yoga teacher, how long you have been teaching or what your website looks like! It's simply a medium of exchange, the energy of your services for the energy of money. Yoga teachers, you know that we strive to have our energies in balance; there is no difference here. Take what I say today; sit with it (yes meditate and listen) It is safe for you to make money (teaching yoga)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OSNzDlJacE&t=17s Prosperous Yogini Podcast on you-tube Episode 1 Work with me? Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme – I can help you navigate your money blocks and those self-limiting beliefs. Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we'll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love. You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/ Start your own podcast? I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you'd like to do the same but don't know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com - they make podcasting possible!

Show notes From my experience of training yoga teachers and working with women to create sustainable, profitable yoga businesses I found that the same issues came up time and time again. After repeating myself for too long I am now on a mission to help you over come self-limiting beliefs, banish business overwhelm and take action to create a sustainable, profitable yoga business, that serves you and your students. Since the covid pandemic my yoga business has grown, and a lot of that has been down to investing in myself and studying business (along side the yoga!) I soon realised that the principles of how to run an ethical, thriving business are the ones as yoga teachers we already know through our practise of yoga. Our hard wired belief systems often tell us it's hard to make money teaching yoga, we shouldn't make money teaching yoga, and so often as women we focus on serving others above ourselves. Today the yoga business is worth around $88 billion dollars globally, and £908 million in the UK. Women make up around 75% of the yoga teachers in the world. So why not you? Why can't you create a profitable, sustainable business that helps people and allows you to thrive? This podcast will also be helpful to any female wellness entrepreneur, although I will often take a yoga focus the principles are the same. And just to let you know the wellness business is currently worth 4.4 trillion dollars! Move, train and work with me - visit www.amy-yoga.com Sign up to be first to be first to hear when the doors to my Prosperous Yogini mentoring programme open - https://amy-yoga.com/email-sign-up/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYjvqQWJrw Start your own podcast? I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you'd like to do the same but don't know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com - they make podcasting possible!