Let’s Explore Professional Development

Remember the days when we felt comfortable, confident, and supported as yoga professionals?

For me, those days feel like a myth, but perhaps for you, they feel like 2019.

For years our industry has been built on the unsteady ground of zero-sum thinking, with no real model for professional development, support, and mentorship.

But it is 2023. We’ve lasted through COVID. We’ve built businesses that exist in ways and spaces that we never imagined in 2019. And we are still here to share the full scope of what yoga has to offer with our students.

We are sharing our stories, working to develop our skills, wrestle with big topics like consent, accessibility, and cultural appropriation, figuring out our money and spotlight attitudes, and creating and sharing content in interesting and inclusive new ways.

We are the next generation of yoga professionals.

And this free challenge is designed for us to move along the path—together. As a team, a unit, and an industry of professionals.

Here are all the details.

We will meet every day from Monday July 17-July 21st, 2023 at 11 am, CST (10 am ET, 9 am PT, 4 pm GMT). Expect each session to be 45-60 minutes.

Each day we will cover a specific professional development topic, offer options for enhancement of that topic, and have question & answer time.

Our topics:

Monday, July 17: Up Level Your Skill Set. Getting yourself where you want to go professionally.

Tuesday July 18: Creating The Content You Want To Share.

Wednesday July 19: Your Money Matters, For All Of Us.

Thursday July 20: You Are Not A Best-Kept Secret. How To Stand In The Spotlight and Not Feel Gross.

Friday July 21: What Self-Care Actually Means When You Already Are A Yoga Teacher.

This challenge IS TOTALLY FREE. (that means it doesn’t cost you any money)

For me, I am looking to build my newsletter list, and so what I gain is your email. You’ll hear from me weekly about the latest episodes, and read about some things I am currently exploring in regards to our profession.

I am also a believer in consent in every aspect of my business—so I am telling you the marketing secret before you sign up. I get your email, we get to connect online, and you get to spend a week with friends working on figuring out how to build your career.

Did We Mention…there is a place to chat online that is off of social media???

We will open our Working In Yoga Professional Development Community online the week of the challenge, and we will have homework and check-ins that we can post about during the week. We will get connected in a positive virtual community far away from prying eyes and someone trying to sell you their next business course/training/online magic beans. In order to develop ourselves, we need space. This challenge’s virtual community is designed to do just that.

Are you ready to join us?

You Might Have Some Questions.

How do I access the challenge?

When you register, you will be automatically signed in to our email list. Each day of the challenge you will get a reminder email an hour before we start with a button to join. Click that button and you are in.

Are there replays?

Yep, you will have replays for one week after the challenge is done.

I am a brand-new yoga teacher, is this for me?

The point of this challenge is for you to create intention around the direction of your career. You can do that at any stage of your yoga professional journey. Sometimes the answer to the question of “how do I get where I want to go” is hard, sometimes it is easy. We will dig in together and find the best possible next steps for you.

Same question as above, but I am an experienced yoga professional (ie. yoga therapist, yoga studio owner, etc)

The answer here is almost the same as above. If you are further along in your career trajectory, sometimes the answer is to invest in programs or offerings that other people are teaching to up-level your capacity to grow. But there are 1,000,000 business coaches out there—how do you choose? Where do you go from here? We will talk about it.

I might have questions, can I get 1:1 time?

During this challenge each day there will be time for Q&As, and there is the opportunity to ask questions in our virtual community. But part of the intention of this challenge is to not sell you one more thing, but to offer the ability to find your own path by listening to your own voice. We will be opening more robust professional development later this year, but right now as we meet in the deep of summertime, we will pause and ask ourselves for the next right step.

Being a Yoga Professional is pretty rad, right? I mean, our job is cool and I love it.

It is, and me too.

See you in the challenge.