178: The Systems You Need to Make Yoga Teaching Sustainable
About this episode
This episode discusses the essential systems needed for sustainable yoga teaching, focusing on practical solutions for yoga teachers.
Teaching yoga involves far more than the hours we spend with our yoga students. Behind every yoga class we teach there is a significant amount of planning, relationship-building, scheduling, administration, marketing, and financial management. In this episode, I share the practical systems that have helped me build a sustainable yoga teaching career over the last two decades. Following up on our recent conversation about the hidden labor of yoga teaching, this episode focuses on solutions. While we absolutely need collective action and systemic change to better support yoga teachers (and other freelance workers), there are also concrete systems we can put in place right now to make our work feel more manageable, organized, and sustainable. I walk you through six essential systems every yoga teacher should consider implementing, whether you're brand new to teaching or have years of experience. In this episode, you'll hear: Why sustainability requires both personal systems and collective advocacy The financial systems that create consistency and reduce stress My approach to managing a yoga teaching schedule without burnout Two proven strategies for finding new private clients How…
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