Working in Yoga

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

How to Build a Local Yoga Professional Network

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 — peopl

The Cheshire Cat, A.K.A. The Online Gap — Any Road Will Get You There

“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 e

Scripts, Responsive Teaching & Self-Paced Courses — With Deb Flashenberg

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, a

The Cheshire Cat, A.K.A. The Online Gap — The Grin That’s Left Behind

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 pr

IAYT's 990s, AI Tools & Rethinking How Clients Find Us — With Kellie Adkins

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 r

The Caterpillar, A.K.A. The Extraction Economy

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. The

What Is the American Yoga Council & What Does It Do? — With Andrew Tanner

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.