Working in Yoga

Reimagining the Future of Yoga Credentials with Danny Angelo Fluker, Jr.

This one is a thought spiral in the best possible way. Rebecca sits down with Danny Angelo Fluker Jr. — futurist thinker, yoga professional, and author of a white paper t

What Now? Part 4: Build the Leaders We Didn't Get

Finding each other, auditing where your money goes, and building your own floor are how we survive. This episode is about what comes after survival. When the organization

200 Episodes: How This Show Changed Me

Two hundred episodes. Rebecca Sebastian sits down solo to mark the milestone — and she doesn’t hold back. She takes you back to the beginning: a studio owner a year out f

What Now? Part 3: Build Your Own Floor

What happens when you can't teach anymore? For most yoga professionals, there's no pension, no employer retirement match, and no plan. In Part 3 of What Now?, Rebecca get

Retreats, Marketing Identity & AI in Your Yoga Business — With Manu Molina

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

What Now? Part 2: Stop Paying for What Isn't Serving You

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 p

Online Yoga, Accessibility & Building Without Burning Out — With Becky Aten

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 con

What Now? Part 1: Find Each Other

"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

Building an Online Membership & Preserving Your Body of Work — With Keri Marino

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 seri

Inside Yoga Magazine Issue 2 — The Accountability Issue

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 t

Evergreen Courses, Learning Outcomes & Building an Online Yoga Business — With Summer Huntington

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 o

The Mock Turtle, A.K.A. Institutional Abandonment — The Tears

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 p

Teaching Yoga Online With Intention & Community — With Nyk Danu

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 he

The Mock Turtle, A.K.A. Institutional Abandonment — The Education

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.

Studio Ownership, Heartbreak & the Right to Evolve — With Jessica Patterson (Part 2)

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 th

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, A.K.A. The Menopause Pivot

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 r

Purity Culture, Authentic Yoga & Which Bodies Come to Matter — With Jessica Patterson (Part 1)

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 pr

The Mad Hatter, A.K.A. The End of the Portable Career, Part 2

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

Yoga Therapy Clients, Referrals & the Studio Owner Experience — With Maile Wicklander

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 t

The Mad Hatter, A.K.A. The End of the Portable Career, Part 1

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 care