Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Working in Yoga
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| Retreats, Marketing Identity & AI in Your Yoga Business — With Manu Molina | 22 oct. 2026 | 00:48:12 | |
Wellness travel is growing, retreat culture is expanding, and a lot of yoga professionals have had the fantasy of hosting one — Rebecca included (she once rented a castle in England that COVID cancelled, and yes, she mentions it). Manu Molina joins the podcast to talk about what it actually takes to build a retreat offering that stands out in a crowded market, starting with the thing most people skip: getting clear on your identity before you build the offer. They also get into the marketing piece — the uncomfortable truth that we are so inside our own brands that we assume people know what we’re doing when they absolutely don’t — and how to build evergreen systems that capture emails and keep working while you’re not. And then there’s AI. Manu brings a genuinely global perspective to the AI conversation, including the notable difference in how AI-generated content lands in Asian markets versus Western ones, and a practical breakdown of how to use AI for pattern recognition, planning, SEO, and reflection without letting it flatten your voice. One of the more wide-ranging and fun conversations of the season. RESOURCES | |||
| What Now? Part 2: Stop Paying for What Isn't Serving You | 19 oct. 2026 | 00:11:47 | |
Institutions change when the people funding them stop, or when they start asking hard questions before they pay. In Part 2 of What Now?, Rebecca looks at the money yoga professionals spend every year just to feel legitimate: registry dues, association memberships, continuing education credits, and the next training that's supposed to finally make you employable. She offers three questions for auditing every one of those expenses, compares yoga's credentials with the way massage therapists and personal trainers handle theirs, and makes the case that your money is a vote. This isn't a "cancel everything" episode. It's a "decide on purpose" episode, with one clear move to make this week. RESOURCES | |||
| Online Yoga, Accessibility & Building Without Burning Out — With Becky Aten | 15 oct. 2026 | 00:45:20 | |
We talk a lot about what gets lost when yoga moves online. We don't talk nearly enough about what becomes possible. Becky Aten — back on the podcast after her earlier conversation about yoga and neurodiverse populations — joins Rebecca for week 4 of the online teaching series to make that case clearly. Online yoga is often wildly more accessible than in-person, and the yoga world needs to stop treating that as a footnote. For neurodivergent practitioners especially, the ability to go at their own pace, adapt to their own capacity, and participate without the sensory and social demands of a studio environment is not a consolation prize — it's the whole point. Becky and Rebecca also get into the sustainability side: sliding scale pricing and what it quietly does to both teachers and students, the cooperative culture fantasy vs. the reality of doing things yourself, and why building something slow and loving online might be the antidote to the hustle culture that the online space tends to produce. There is no one right way to build online. This conversation is proof. RESOURCES | |||
| What Now? Part 1: Find Each Other | 12 oct. 2026 | 00:12:27 | |
"Okay, but what now?" It's the question Rebecca hears more than any other. After months of looking at what went wrong in this industry, from Yoga Alliance's leadership to the organizations that stepped back to the career path nobody built, it's time to talk about what comes next. In this first episode of a five-part series, Rebecca starts with an honest admission: she doesn't have all the answers, and she doesn't think any one person should. Instead, she makes the case for the move underneath every other move: finding each other. You'll hear why organizing almost always starts local, what ten teachers comparing notes can change, the objections that keep us isolated, and exactly how to start a network with one message this week. RESOURCES | |||
| Building an Online Membership & Preserving Your Body of Work — With Keri Marino | 08 oct. 2026 | 00:47:23 | |
A lot of yoga teachers still have real questions about how an online membership works in practice — and Keri Marino has the answers. In week 3 of the online teaching series, she and Rebecca get into the mechanics and mindset of building a membership that actually holds people over time: email touchpoints that keep students engaged between sessions, the case for adding a live component, how to film in a way that feels authentic and connected even when nobody's on the other end of the camera yet, and why giving yourself full permission to enjoy the practice while you're recording changes everything about how the content lands. They also get into something Rebecca thinks about a lot — how legacy teachers can use online platforms to preserve and transmit their bodies of work, and what gets lost when that work stays locked behind high-ticket offerings that most students can't access. Plus a conversation about AI, agency, orientation emails, and why membership models take longer than people expect — and are worth it anyway. RESOURCES | |||
| Inside Yoga Magazine Issue 2 — The Accountability Issue | 05 oct. 2026 | 00:13:10 | |
Accountability is one of the most overused and underdelivered words in the yoga industry. A soft-focus apology post is not accountability. A teacher quietly pulled from the schedule with no explanation is not accountability. Issue 2 of Inside Yoga Magazine — The Accountability Issue — is built around one argument: that accountability in yoga is performed rather than practiced, and the public has noticed. In this solo episode, Rebecca walks through what's inside. Magnolia Zuniga's unflinching piece on yoga's predator problem and the deflection tactics the community reaches for every time. Nana Amoako-Anin bringing a Truth and Reconciliation framework to the question of what repair actually requires. The Real Hours Project data sitting alongside parallel research from Singapore, converging on the same structural problem from opposite sides of the world. The grievance processes at Yoga Alliance and IAYT examined honestly for what they produce. And Rebecca's own most personal writing yet — four myths yoga professionals carry, and what each one costs. The issue closes with a story about lying to a man in a grocery store in 2013, and what it took to figure out why. This is what the magazine is for. RESOURCES | |||
| Evergreen Courses, Learning Outcomes & Building an Online Yoga Business — With Summer Huntington | 01 oct. 2026 | 00:45:55 | |
Most online yoga studios are built like a sandbox — open-ended, come-when-you-can, no clear progression. Summer Huntington thinks there's a better way. In week 2 of the online teaching series, she joins Rebecca to talk about learning outcomes — identifying what students are actually working toward and building material that feeds directly into that — and why that framework changes everything about how you design an online offering. They also get into the case for having one clear offer instead of many, why small email lists consistently outperform large ones, the underrated market for private and individualized online experiences, and what it actually means to build a body of work rather than just a content library. Plus: what-to-expect emails, office hours, and why getting comfortable on camera is a skill worth developing even if the tech still intimidates you. RESOURCES | |||
| The Mock Turtle, A.K.A. Institutional Abandonment — The Tears | 28 sept. 2026 | 00:08:17 | |
The Mock Turtle cries through the whole story. The tears are real — the Tortoise taught them that. Nothing changes. This episode closes out the series with the hardest piece: organizations that perform concern about misconduct and student safety, without the accountability mechanisms that would make that concern mean anything. It’s not an angry episode — it’s closer to an autopsy. And it’s the hinge into where this work goes next. The One Thing: this episode doesn’t end with a task. It ends with where the series is headed next — and an invitation to be part of building what the organizations won’t. RESOURCES | |||
| Teaching Yoga Online With Intention & Community — With Nyk Danu | 24 sept. 2026 | 01:08:56 | |
Rebecca doesn't say this lightly: this is one of those conversations where she found herself thinking she was talking to someone who is genuinely a better teacher than her. Nyk Danu has developed such a nuanced, intentional approach to teaching yoga online that this episode is practically a masterclass. She and Rebecca kick off a five-episode series on online yoga teaching by getting into what most people get wrong — the assumption that the relational depth of in-person teaching can't be replicated online. Nyk has built a warm, community-driven online teaching practice that works precisely because none of it is accidental. They cover how she creates a sense of home on Zoom, the cameras-on vs. cameras-off debate, why semesters make sense as a teaching model, hybrid class structures, niching as a differentiator in a crowded online space, and some genuinely practical advice for anyone who has ever recorded for another studio's platform. If you teach online or want to, start here. RESOURCES | |||
| The Mock Turtle, A.K.A. Institutional Abandonment — The Education | 21 sept. 2026 | 00:08:36 | |
The Mock Turtle’s school taught Reeling and Writhing, and Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision — taught by the Tortoise, because he taught them. It’s absurd. It’s also, this episode argues, an almost exact map of how yoga credentialing works. This episode looks honestly at what credentials actually prepare working teachers for, who’s selling them, and what it means that the organizations selling the credentials have signaled — in their own language — that building jobs isn’t their job. RESOURCES | |||
| Studio Ownership, Heartbreak & the Right to Evolve — With Jessica Patterson (Part 2) | 17 sept. 2026 | 00:39:49 | |
This is the conversation Rebecca wishes she could have had when she owned her studio. In Part 2 of this conversation with Jessica Patterson, they move from theory into the deeply personal territory of what it actually costs to own a yoga studio — and why the industry has made studio owners into villains when many of them started this work trying to build a sanctuary. Jessica and Rebecca talk about the shift in power dynamics that comes with ownership and the isolation it creates, the heartbreak of telling a community you've evolved when they've frozen you in a particular moment in time, and the difference between self-agency and self-determination in an economic climate that nobody chose. They also get into the latent shame that comes with business difficulty, why blaming individual owners for systemic problems is both unfair and counterproductive, and the simple but radical truth that you don't have to keep doing the things you're good at. One of Rebecca's favorite conversations on the podcast. It earns that. RESOURCES | |||
| Tweedledum and Tweedledee, A.K.A. The Menopause Pivot | 14 sept. 2026 | 00:08:26 | |
Tweedledum and Tweedledee look identical from a distance — but they’re not the same, and the real stakes are happening just out of frame while everyone argues about the rattle. Menopause and perimenopause content is a real, legitimate growth area for yoga professionals — the demand is genuine and the science backs it up. But this episode is about the difference between a teacher arriving at this work because it’s where their career has been heading, versus a teacher pivoting because the topic is trending. From the outside, the content can look the same. From the inside — for the women being served — it’s everything. The One Thing: a self-check for anyone considering menopause-focused content, regardless of which side of that line you’re on. RESOURCES | |||
| Purity Culture, Authentic Yoga & Which Bodies Come to Matter — With Jessica Patterson (Part 1) | 10 sept. 2026 | 00:53:15 | |
Jessica Patterson is doing something rare — she's working through a PhD in religious studies focused on yoga and yoga bodies while remaining fully embedded in the yoga professional world as a teacher, studio owner, and trainer. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, she and Rebecca get into the ideas that don't get enough airtime in the industry: which bodies come to matter in yoga spaces, how proximity to authenticity functions as a marketing strategy, and the purity culture that quietly shapes how yoga professionals judge each other and themselves. They talk about Orientalism — the idea that the East is pure and the West corrupt — and why that framing isn't just intellectually lazy, it's actively harmful to the profession. They get into the difference between training yoga teachers and training yoga performers, the franchising of bodies and teaching styles, and the mob mentality that can emerge when cultural appropriation anxiety meets social media. This one is dense, honest, and worth every minute. RESOURCES | |||
| The Mad Hatter, A.K.A. The End of the Portable Career, Part 2 | 07 sept. 2026 | 00:08:12 | |
If Part 1 was about the stale tea party, Part 2 is about what’s actually on the other side of it: not another niche, not another container — depth. Philosophy, breathwork, meditation, movement, put back together rather than stripped for parts. This episode is about the small but real number of teachers building something rooted, and what that looks like in practice — including the uncomfortable homework of treating your career like it just started, because in the market that now exists, in a lot of ways, it did. The One Thing: an honest audit question — was your career built for expansion, or for depth? And what would depth look like on a specific Tuesday? RESOURCES | |||
| Yoga Therapy Clients, Referrals & the Studio Owner Experience — With Maile Wicklander | 03 sept. 2026 | 00:57:03 | |
There's a real and underexplored difference between the people who walk into a general yoga class and the people who seek out a certified yoga therapist — and if you're trying to fill your yoga therapy practice, that distinction matters enormously. Maile Wicklander, longtime yoga studio owner and recent yoga therapy graduate, joins Rebecca to work through what that difference actually looks like in practice. They get into referral strategy, including Maile's straightforward approach to getting the right clients through the door, the particular challenge of psychotherapist referrals, and why handouts and connections to adjacent fields are still some of the most underrated tools in a yoga therapist's toolkit. They also talk about what's missing in the yoga professional community space, why boundaries inside collective networking groups make them more useful rather than less, and what studio owners need that nobody's really providing. A practical, grounded conversation for yoga therapists building or expanding a practice. RESOURCES | |||
| The Mad Hatter, A.K.A. The End of the Portable Career, Part 1 | 31 août 2026 | 00:07:57 | |
The Mad Hatter quarreled with Time, and now it’s always six o’clock — a permanent tea party, moving from seat to seat around the same stale table. That’s the soloist career model: niche something, workshop it, build a following, move to the next container. Repeat. This episode names how that model came to dominate yoga careers in the 2010s — not by accident, but by design, modeled and reinforced by the most visible voices of that era. And it names, gently but clearly, that the market that made that model work doesn’t exist anymore — even for the teachers who are still running it. RESOURCES | |||
| How to Build a Local Yoga Professional Network | 27 août 2026 | 00:19:03 | |
Most yoga teachers can name two or three colleagues they'd actually call if something went sideways. Not people they follow, not someone from a training years ago — people they could actually call. In a profession that runs on referral and reputation, that's not a personality problem. It's a structural one. In this solo episode, Rebecca walks through five stages of building a real local yoga professional network — getting honest about what you're actually building, finding your first five people, planning a low-stakes first gathering, setting ground rules that will hold when it gets real, and keeping the thing alive past the fourth meeting, which is where these groups almost always fall apart. This episode comes with a free companion checklist in the show notes. No email wall. Just the thing you need to actually start. RESOURCES The Network Checklist | |||
| The Cheshire Cat, A.K.A. The Online Gap — Any Road Will Get You There | 24 août 2026 | 00:08:55 | |
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” For yoga professionals who left online teaching without a plan, that’s exactly what happened — they ended up somewhere, just not somewhere they chose. Meanwhile, a small number of platforms kept building online and now dominate the space. This episode reframes the question most teachers get stuck on — “how do I compete with a channel that has a million subscribers?” — into the one that actually matters: what can a working teacher offer in an online space that a content platform structurally cannot? The One Thing: a single reframing question to sit with this week about your own relationship to online teaching. RESOURCES | |||
| Scripts, Responsive Teaching & Self-Paced Courses — With Deb Flashenberg | 20 août 2026 | 00:51:17 | |
This is the kind of conversation Rebecca wants to do more of — two people parsing out the nuance of how we actually do this work, in real time. Deb Flashenberg is back, and this time she and Rebecca get nerdy about scripts, responsive teaching, and what it really means to be present with the people in the room. They talk about why giving teachers a framework serves them better than handing them a script, what gets lost when AI writes your sequences, and the particular challenge of self-paced courses that have no relational feedback loop built in. They also get into the reps — the honest reality that there is no shortcut to learning to teach, and that teacher training exists precisely to give people a safe place to mess up and figure it out. If you've ever wondered whether scripts are a crutch or a tool, or how to develop the skill of actually seeing your students, this one is for you. RESOURCES | |||
| The Cheshire Cat, A.K.A. The Online Gap — The Grin That’s Left Behind | 17 août 2026 | 00:08:38 | |
For one strange year, online was the whole game. Then studios reopened, and most yoga professionals quietly walked back — leaving behind a channel that still exists, a profile that’s still live, content that’s technically still there. This episode is about presence without substance — what happens to the online version of a teaching relationship when the relationship part leaves but the page doesn’t get taken down. It’s not about deleting anything. It’s about noticing what’s actually still working, and what’s just… still there. RESOURCES | |||
| IAYT's 990s, AI Tools & Rethinking How Clients Find Us — With Kellie Adkins | 13 août 2026 | 01:02:19 | |
Kellie Adkins did her homework — including a close look at the IAYT's 990s — and she brings the receipts. In this conversation with Rebecca, they get into the financial reality behind the C-IAYT credential: what yoga therapists are actually earning (around $10K a year, against the cost of a yoga therapy degree), why significant numbers of credentialed yoga therapists are choosing not to renew, and what the IAYT's own financial losses over recent years say about the organization's trajectory. They also talk about the structural problem at the root of all of it — an industry that trained far more people than it ever built jobs for, and the obligation legacy professionals have to charge enough that entry-level yoga therapy can actually be a livable wage. Kellie also brings something genuinely useful to the conversation: a working accountability model built around DEIA, lineage, and codes of conduct with real removal processes — and hire.yoga, her platform designed to connect yoga therapists with actual employment opportunities. Plus a conversation about AI tools and how yoga professionals can use them well. RESOURCES | |||
| The Caterpillar, A.K.A. The Extraction Economy | 10 août 2026 | 00:10:05 | |
A therapist tells a client in crisis to “notice the present moment.” The client destabilizes — and the therapist has no idea why, because they read about mindfulness. They never built a practice, and nobody who has is in the room to say: that’s not how this works. This episode is about the difference between fields that hire yoga professionals (integration) and fields that borrow yoga’s tools without yoga professionals (extraction) — and why that distinction isn’t territorial, it’s a safety standard. The One Thing: a simple way to start the referral conversation with allied health professionals in your own network. RESOURCES | |||
| What Is the American Yoga Council & What Does It Do? — With Andrew Tanner | 06 août 2026 | 01:04:51 | |
A lot of you have had questions about the American Yoga Council — what it is, what it does, and whether it's worth your attention. So Rebecca went straight to the source. AYC founder and CEO Andrew Tanner joins the podcast for a straightforward conversation about what the organization is building and why: certification vs. registry, accountability reporting, access to data, retirement funds, and what it means to advocate for yoga professionals at an institutional level. Rebecca isn't doing gotcha journalism here — the goal is to give you the information you need to make your own call. She also gets into something she's been developing for the magazine: a theory about why yoga professionals are so cynical about organizations in the first place, rooted in counter-culture identity, 2010s individualism, and the specific kind of betrayal that comes from entering an industry you believed would be different. This is a conversation about whether institutions can actually serve us — and what it would take to find out. RESOURCES | |||
| Insurance, Retirement & Protecting Your Future — With Felicia Laab | 30 juil. 2026 | 00:52:26 | |
Rebecca has a name for this kind of content: boring. And she means it as a compliment. The boring stuff — insurance, disability coverage, retirement planning, banking relationships — is exactly what protects you when something very non-boring happens. Financial planner Felicia Laab joins the podcast to talk about what yoga professionals are consistently leaving on the table when it comes to protecting themselves and their futures. They get into disability insurance specifically, which most yoga teachers never think about until their body has a bad year and suddenly it's all they're thinking about. They talk retirement — how to stop working before you die, as Rebecca puts it — and what it looks like to start building real financial infrastructure when your income has never been predictable. This is also the conversation that connects directly to what major trade organizations like Yoga Alliance could be doing for their members and aren't. Worth every minute. RESOURCES | |||
| The White Rabbit, A.K.A. We’re Already Late | 27 juil. 2026 | 00:10:38 | |
This episode opens a new series — one that’s a little different from the others. Less “here’s a number nobody told you” and more “here’s the shape of the thing we’re all standing inside.” The premise: the yoga industry isn’t approaching a turning point. It already turned. Most of what this series will describe over the coming weeks has already happened — it’s just not been named out loud, in order, in one place. This episode sets the frame and names the urgency without pretending to have all the answers yet. If you’ve had the feeling that something shifted and nobody sent the memo, this is that memo. RESOURCES | |||
| Updated Conversation — Yoga's Changing Landscape, Aging Teachers & the Case for Regulation With Amara Miller | 23 juil. 2026 | 01:03:39 | |
Amara Miller is back, and this updated conversation goes to some places the original didn't. The yoga industry is contracting — fewer participants, a flooded market, and more companies chasing a shrinking pool of practitioners. Amara and Rebecca talk honestly about what that means for the profession, including the regulatory conversation the industry has been reluctant to have and why the libertarian anti-regulation instincts of the 2010s may be genuinely outdated in the current landscape. They also get into something Rebecca hadn't fully considered before this conversation: the yoga teachers and lineage holders who carry the deepest knowledge of this tradition are aging, and the professional associations haven't built any meaningful infrastructure to preserve that wisdom before it walks out the door. It's a conversation about what the industry is at risk of losing — and whether we're organized enough to do anything about it before it's too late. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Retirement Math | 20 juil. 2026 | 00:11:32 | |
Most yoga professionals have no employer contributing to their retirement. No pension. No automatic savings. Whatever gets built for the future is built entirely through individual planning, out of an already stretched income, in a profession that culturally treats financial planning as spiritually suspect. In this episode we do the retirement math — what you actually need to save monthly at different ages to retire at sixty-five, what that number looks like against average yoga professional income, and why starting now matters more than starting right. RESOURCES | |||
| Updated Conversation — Teacher Training, Online Yoga & Studio Owner Skills With Leslie Pearlman | 16 juil. 2026 | 00:53:05 | |
Leslie Pearlman is back, and this update to their 2024 conversation covers even more ground than the original. Rebecca and Leslie dig into online and hybrid teaching not as a lesser alternative to in-person but as a genuinely distinct skillset that requires its own curriculum — one most YTTs still aren't providing. They get into the internal regulation work required to teach well in any format, and the largely unexamined tendency to moralize the absence of in-room co-regulation as an automatic loss. They also tackle one of Rebecca's long-running preoccupations: the difference between professional training and personal development, and why the yoga industry needs to get honest about which one it's actually offering. And they go somewhere most conversations don't — into the urgent need for yoga teacher trainer training and studio owner training, including the relational dimension of what it means to be for a community without being of it. Rich, honest, and covers a lot of ground in fifty minutes. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Online Business Math | 13 juil. 2026 | 00:09:47 | |
The online yoga business is sold as the answer to everything — unlimited reach, passive income, freedom from the studio model. The reality has a specific math that most of the people selling online business courses are not showing you. In this episode we build the honest financial picture of what it costs to build an online yoga offering — in time, money, and the long runway before it generates meaningful income — so you can make decisions about digital offerings based on what is actually true. RESOURCES | |||
| Confidence, Pricing & Visual Representation in Yoga — With Nana Amoako-Anin (Part 2) | 09 juil. 2026 | 00:39:33 | |
Part 2 of this conversation with Nana Amoako-Anin goes somewhere a little more personal — and just as essential. Rebecca and Nana talk about the confidence it takes to charge what your work is actually worth, and why pricing remains such a persistent struggle for yoga professionals. They get into consumer choice — the fact that the industry has never given students a real way to evaluate or choose a good teacher — and the visual culture problem baked into yoga marketing, where the internet still defaults to one narrow, unrepresentative image of who practices. They also touch on AI's growing role in marketing and what it means to stay genuinely uncomfortable while your teaching and business evolve. This one feels like listening in on two people becoming real friends, which, honestly, it is. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Retreat Math | 06 juil. 2026 | 00:11:29 | |
Running a retreat looks like a financial opportunity. Fill twelve spots at $1,500 each and you have $18,000 in revenue for a long weekend. The math seems obvious. Until you look at the actual costs. In this episode we build the real financial picture of a yoga retreat — venue deposits, per-person minimums, marketing costs, payment processing, and the thin margins that result. This episode is for every yoga professional who has run a retreat and wondered where the money went, or who is considering their first retreat and wants to go in with accurate expectations. RESOURCES | |||
| Capital, Trauma-Informed Practice & a Cautionary Tale — With Nana Amoako-Anin (Part 1) | 02 juil. 2026 | 00:41:06 | |
Nana Amoako-Anin has lived a genuinely international life — including a stint as a prosecuting attorney in Manhattan — before finding her way into yoga and opening her own studio in Ghana. In Part 1 of this conversation, she and Rebecca get into something the yoga industry rarely names directly: access to capital, and what it means for the future of this work. They also unpack the term "trauma-informed," questioning whether academic language is actually serving the people it's meant to help, and look honestly at how the US wellness industry burned hot and fast in the 2010s, organized itself around deep individualism, and ultimately failed to build infrastructure for its own workers. It's a candid look at what other parts of the world might do differently — and why. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Studio Job Math | 29 juin 2026 | 00:10:11 | |
The per-class rate sounds reasonable until you do the actual math. In this episode we calculate what a studio teaching job really pays when you factor in unpaid prep time, travel, cancelled classes, and the absence of benefits. What looks like a professional income often works out to less than minimum wage when the full picture is on the table. This episode is for every yoga professional who has felt that something wasn't adding up — because something wasn't. RESOURCES | |||
| Yoga Philosophy, Virtue Ethics & Why Dissatisfaction Is the Beginning — A Revisited Conversation With Dr. Shyam Ranganathan | 25 juin 2026 | 00:54:26 | |
Some conversations leave you with a line you keep quoting for years. For Rebecca, this is one of them. Dr. Shyam Ranganathan, founder of YogaPhilosophy.com, joined the podcast during the 2024 perfectionism series, and the conversation has held up in every way that matters. They get into the difference between Western virtue ethics — which starts with finding the right person and doing what they say — and yoga's invitation to spend a lifetime practicing right doing as you understand it. They talk about why "the customer is always right" is a genuinely complicated idea when you're teaching something transformative, why yoga is inherently subversive and dissatisfaction is actually the doorway in, and what that means for how you market your work without compromising your ethics. And they get into leadership — the real kind, that requires vulnerability, healthy boundaries, and the willingness to be a serious student yourself. This is the final episode in the revisited conversations series, and it's a worthy close. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Continuing Education Math | 22 juin 2026 | 00:09:25 | |
Yoga professionals are required to complete continuing education to maintain their credentials. Nobody has ever done the math on what that requirement actually costs over a career, or what it actually returns in earning potential. In this episode we put both numbers on the table — the real cumulative cost of continuing education across a yoga career, and the honest answer to whether those requirements serve the professional or the organizations that set them. RESOURCES | |||
| Perfectionism, Activism & White Supremacy Culture in Yoga — A Revisited Conversation With Colice Sanders | 18 juin 2026 | 01:11:40 | |
This is one of those conversations Rebecca keeps sending people back to — and for good reason. First recorded in March 2024, this discussion with Colice Sanders on perfectionism and activism in the yoga space holds up in every way that matters, and has only gotten more relevant since. Colice brings serious precision to the conversation — defining terms, naming the ways white supremacy culture shows up in yoga and social justice spaces, and making a clear-eyed case for why awareness without focused action is where we keep missing the mark. They also get into how perfectionism gets weaponized to police each other in yoga and activist communities, the difference between critique worth sitting with and shame designed to silence, and how moral superiority quietly infiltrates even the most well-intentioned spaces. An updated conversation with Colice is coming in July — things have shifted enough since 2024 that it was time. Start here first. RESOURCES: | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Yoga Therapy Credential Math | 15 juin 2026 | 00:09:47 | |
The C-IAYT credential represents a significant investment — in time, money, and professional identity. In this episode we put the full cost of becoming a certified yoga therapist on the table alongside the realistic income outcomes, and calculate what the credential actually needs to return to justify the investment. The math is not designed to discourage you from yoga therapy. It is designed to give you the complete financial picture so you can build a career strategy that works in the real landscape.
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| How We Built the Yoga Organizations We Have — A Revisited Conversation With Amara Miller | 11 juin 2026 | 01:03:25 | |
If you've ever wondered how we ended up with the yoga organizations we have, this is the conversation. First recorded in 2024, Rebecca's discussion with Amara Miller remains the clearest, most honest account she knows of how the yoga industry organized itself — and why it looks the way it does today. They trace Yoga Alliance back to its 1999 origins as a genuine attempt at student safety and teacher standards, through the flood of money that hit the industry in the late 2000s and early 2010s that nobody was prepared to navigate, to the cultural counterculture identity that shaped how yoga professionals thought about structure and institutions. They also get into the hours-vs-curriculum debate that defined early standards-setting, the approval of fully virtual YTTs, and what it might mean to start thinking seriously about unions and community-led professional organizing. An updated conversation with Amara is coming in July — but start here. This one is foundational. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Going Independent Math | 08 juin 2026 | 00:10:55 | |
Going independent sounds like the answer to everything — no studio politics, set your own rates, build your own thing. And it can be. But the math of going independent has a specific shape that most people don't see clearly before they make the leap. In this episode we build the real financial picture of independent yoga work — what you need in place before it makes sense, how long the runway actually is, and what it costs to make the transition sustainably rather than desperately. RESOURCES | |||
| A Conversation Worth Revisiting — Yoga Teacher Training Best Practices With Leslie Pearlman | 04 juin 2026 | 01:01:11 | |
Some conversations age well. This one with Leslie Pearlman — first recorded in 2024 — is one Rebecca keeps coming back to, because everything Leslie was talking about then is still not standard practice now. Leslie was among the first to build a hybrid yoga teacher training model, and it's still wild that teaching online isn't a baseline requirement in most YTTs. In this revisited conversation, they get into what actually makes a great teacher trainer (spoiler: it's a different skill set than being a great teacher), why mentorship and ascension models need to be part of this industry's future, the problem with "listen to your body" as instruction without the tools to back it up, and what it means to be truly intentional about who you are as a teacher and space holder. Stay tuned — an updated conversation with Leslie is coming in July. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The Studio Owner Math | 01 juin 2026 | 00:09:09 | |
Yoga teachers and studio owners are often frustrated with each other over money. Teachers feel underpaid. Owners feel squeezed. In this episode we put the studio owner's actual numbers on the table — rent, payroll, insurance, utilities, platform fees, marketing, and the razor-thin margins that result. This is not an episode that excuses poor pay. It is an episode that gives yoga professionals a complete picture of the economics on both sides so they can stop directing their frustration at each other and start directing it at the actual problem. RESOURCES | |||
| What We Got Right — And What's Coming Next: The 2026 Yoga Industry Forecast | 28 mai 2026 | 00:27:57 | |
Six months ago, Rebecca published the first Yoga Professionals Trend Forecast — a snapshot of what was actually happening in the yoga industry, without the soft focus. In this episode, she comes back to it. Not to congratulate herself, but to update it: what held, what sharpened, and where things have moved. She also previews the Summer 2026 forecast. A few trends get named. One — the end of the portable career model — gets the full treatment. If you've been building your career on the solopreneur model and something has started to feel off, this episode is probably for you. Topics covered: the professional promise that didn't deliver, skill migration and what it costs to do it right, yoga therapy's quiet attrition, integration as survival, the limits of niching — and the deeper argument that the yoga boom is over and the middle of the market is disappearing. RESOURCES | |||
| The Math Nobody Does: The 200-Hour Training Math | 25 mai 2026 | 00:13:03 | |
Everyone assumes yoga teacher trainings are a cash grab. The actual math tells a very different story. In this episode, we build the real financial picture of running a 200-hour yoga teacher training from the trainer's perspective — the 500 hours of labor behind 200 hours of delivery, the costs that eat into gross revenue, and the hourly rate that results. For many trainers, that number lands around $20 per hour before taxes. This episode is for everyone who has ever assumed the trainer got rich off their tuition — and for every trainer who has never actually sat down and calculated what their work is worth. RESOURCES | |||
| Building Something That Has Never Been Built Before: Introducing Inside Yoga Magazine, Issue 1 | 21 mai 2026 | 00:14:35 | |
Issue 1 of Inside Yoga Magazine is here — and in this episode, Rebecca walks you through what's inside, why she built it, and what she hopes it becomes for the yoga profession. The Rebuild is the first issue of a trade publication designed to do something that doesn't exist yet: treat yoga professionals like the intelligent, serious people they are. That means original data, honest industry reporting, contributor voices from across the profession, and editorial writing that says the things that have needed saying for a long time. In this episode you'll hear about the Real Hours Project and what the early data is showing about compensation and unpaid labor. You'll meet the contributors — Suzie Carmack, Jivana Heyman, and Stevie Inghram — and hear why their pieces belong together in the same issue. And you'll hear Rebecca talk about what it cost to write the pieces she wrote, and why she wrote them anyway. This is the beginning of something. Come be part of it. RESOURCES | |||
| Nobody Told You Working Until You Die Isn't Devotion, It's A Missing Retirement Account | 18 mai 2026 | 00:10:23 | |
The yoga industry tells a story about the devoted teacher who never stops — who teaches into their seventies, their eighties, who is on the mat until the very end. We tell it like it's a spiritual achievement. Nobody asks whether those teachers had a choice. In this episode we name the open secret the industry has been romanticizing for decades: for a lot of those teachers, it wasn't only devotion. It was the absence of a retirement account. And an industry that conflates financial precarity with spiritual purity has a serious problem that no amount of reframing can fix. RESOURCES | |||
| Mapping the Real Landscape of Yoga Teaching Today — With Alexia Walker | 14 mai 2026 | 00:53:43 | |
There's a real and growing gap between yoga teachers who built their careers in the 2010s and those trying to build one now — and we're not talking about it enough. Alexia Walker, a yoga teacher working in Michigan, joins Rebecca for an unfiltered conversation about what the current landscape actually looks like. They get into the devaluing effect of free offerings, why the people who find you through free content rarely become paying students, how the yoga world built a training system that rewards wealth and travel over actual teaching skill, and what it means to build a truly bespoke career when no two paths look the same. They also touch on transferable skills, community care as a framework for service, and the harm that gets quietly replicated when we don't pay attention to the patterns we're inheriting. This is the conversation about where yoga is right now — not where it was ten years ago. RESOURCES | |||
| Nobody Told You It's Okay To Feel Taken Advantage Of | 11 mai 2026 | 00:09:24 | |
The yoga world's commitment to non-judgment, positive intent, and non-attachment is genuinely beautiful in a practice. In a profession, those same values have been used to silence legitimate grievances, protect institutions that should be held accountable, and make yoga professionals carry a collective harm privately that should have been named publicly. In this episode, we say plainly what the industry has never said: you are allowed to feel taken advantage of. Because in many cases, you were. And naming that is not unspiritual. It is honest. And honesty is also a practice. RESOURCES | |||
| The Economics of Yoga — Curiosity, Community Spaces & Staying in the Work With Reika Shucart | 07 mai 2026 | 00:57:24 | |
If we keep training yoga teachers without honestly addressing how they're going to get paid, we're doing everyone a disservice — the teachers, the students, and the practice itself. Reika Shucart, host of the Full Time Yoga Teacher podcast, joins Rebecca to talk about what it actually looks like to build a sustainable income as a yoga teacher right now. They get into the shift away from studios toward community spaces like YMCAs, senior centers, and libraries; why online teaching needs to be a YTT requirement, not an afterthought; the quiet shrinking of the continuing education market; and the honest conversation nobody wants to have about yoga's cultural moment fading. There's also something genuinely hopeful in here — about curiosity, artistry, and the kind of passion-led teaching that keeps both teachers and students coming back. This one is practical, a little uncomfortable, and worth every minute. RESOURCES | |||
| Nobody Told You Almost Everyone Came Here To Regulate Trauma | 04 mai 2026 | 00:09:10 | |
There is something true about this profession that almost nobody says out loud. Almost everyone who comes to yoga — and especially everyone who makes it their life's work — came here because they needed it. Because something in them needed regulating. In this episode we name what the yoga industry has never said collectively: your history is not a liability. It is your most important credential. And the fact that you came here to heal is not something to hide. It is the whole point. RESOURCES | |||
| Data, Transparency & Building the Yoga Industry We Actually Deserve — With Dr. Stevie Inghram (Part 2) | 30 avr. 2026 | 00:38:04 | |
What would it mean if yoga professionals actually had access to employment data, debt-to-income numbers, and honest information about whether this career is financially viable? In Part 2 of this conversation, Dr. Stevie Inghram and Rebecca get into why yoga's governing bodies keep that data close — and what it costs the profession when they do. They also talk about the difference between people who train for personal knowledge versus those building a career, why waiting for existing organizations to fix things is a losing strategy, and what a genuinely community-led approach to yoga professional advocacy could look like. And they share details on a free summer gathering for practitioners ready to stop waiting and start organizing. This is a conversation about building the industry we all need and deserve — and it starts here. RESOURCES | |||