Here is Subaru’s mission statement: https://mission-statement.com/subaru/

Snag the Medium Blog here.

Snag the free worksheet here.

Want in on our Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Virtual Retreat? Grab your ticket here: https://app.namastream.com/sunlight-streams/buy/product/31631

Learn More about the GYMs Act here:

https://www.ihrsa.org/federal/the-gym-mitigation-and-survival-act/

This week is a solo episode, dedicated to all of those brick-and-mortar business owners out there.  

I had the opportunity to respond to a couple of conversations that happened online in the last couple of weeks regarding yoga b&m business owners.  This made me sit down and really think about my experience of running a public-facing business during a global pandemic.  

How much work was it, really?

What did I learn?

Well, this is episode is the answer to those questions, for me.  And maybe for you too.  

This episode comes right in front of the amazing Pamela Brown who is going to talk on the podcast next Monday all about the GYMS act in the US, and how we can advocate for our yoga studios to get some assistance.  

This week on Working In Yoga we are talking to Aly Paws, a long-time yoga teacher who came into yoga from a lifetime of movement.

Aly was ready for our online shift and shares some of her thoughts on what it means to run good online teacher trainings (a thing I am working on now, so I was thrilled to have this conversation), and how what we do has value. We talk about coming back from the bottom-basement pricing of online teacher trainings in 2020, and how we can move forward valuing ourselves, our traditions, and our services.

Aly is also a self-care master and shares with us two tips for caring for ourselves now and into our brave new future.

Check out all things Aly in Clubhouse (@alypaws), Instagram (@alypaws), and YouTube (@The Yoga Home with Aly Paws) or her website www.alypaws.com.

This week on the podcast we are welcoming Dr. Lisa Holland, the founder of The Belly Guru and so many more amazing projects.  I met Lisa on her podcast The Evolving Human, where we talked business and yoga (no shocker, it’s what my jam is all about).  

This time the two of us chatted about the business mindset of the yoga and yoga therapy community, Lisa and I both give you potential business ideas, and Lisa shares the most important business self-care tip imaginable.  Get your business affairs in order (Lisa will tell you more).  

We are in a time of flux and change in the industry and we need to put our business pants on.  Those of us with brick and mortar spaces have been working hard this last year to keep the lights on, and often times the guilt associated with closing down and “disappointing” our sacred communities is brutal.  

But Dr. Lisa gives us hope and real talk.  Which honestly, is my favorite.  Make sure you check out all of her business offerings at www.drlisahollandpt.com and check out our former podcast convo here.  

Welcome to Working In Yoga!  This week Rebecca welcomes Nicole D’Andrea to the podcast to talk all things yoga studios.  Nicole runs Blackbird Yoga Studio in New Jersey, and is also a yoga studio business consultant.  

Nicole shares her experience running a yoga studio during COVID and she also talks about what saved her studio during this last year.  While a lot of people think that there is a magic formula to which studios survived and which studios didn’t over the last 16 months, I have found from talking to owners that there isn’t.  Some of us were cautious.  Others weren’t.  Some of us were true savvy business owners.  Some of us were just lucky (I consider myself more the latter than the former in this).  All of us relied on the generous support of our local community to get us through.  

Find all of Nicole’s smart commentary on the yoga studio biz through her Facebook group, The Profitable Studio Community.  Don’t forget to check out her website www.nicoledandreaconsulting.com!

As a final note: for those of you who listened two episodes ago to my solo podcast on Selling Yoga, there IS a worksheet for you all that is a companion to the episode.  Grab the link to this worksheet and all the future worksheets at www.sunlightyogacenter.com/wiydownloads  

Welcome to this week on Working In Yoga! 

This week I am welcoming my friend Allison Rissel onto the podcast to chat about all things COVID and yoga.

Allison runs 200 and 300 hour YTTs in Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana.  The is also the founder of three yoga conferences North Dakota Yoga Conference and the 403 Yoga Conference AND launched a yoga conference just for yoga teachers this year called Yoga Teacher Conf.

Allison and I have known each other for a bit and we get immediately to chatting about the challenges of COVID for our businesses, what we like about online, what we don’t, and she says something super important about that.  There in fact IS a huge difference between good online yoga teaching and the rest of it.  (I am even trying to convince her to help me write some industry best practices around yoga teaching online, cuz wow do we need them).  

So take a listen to our chat--I love how Allison offers us some real talk on struggles and successes during her experience with her business during COVID.  

Find her and all of her stuff on www.yogateacherconf.com or follow her on IG @yogateacherconf