Let's Get Paid, Yoga Professionals.
Hi Working In Yoga Friends!
This week is a longer episode, as Raudhah and I talk about the ever-persistent challenge of yoga teachers being asked to work for free--a problem that has persisted in my yoga teaching career for 20 years.
Raudhah and I talk about what it is to be told that you are being paid in “exposure currency” (which you cannot pay your bills with, btw), and the problem of adding “free yoga” to an event in order to get folks to come.
There is also a call-to-action at the end of the podcast I want to talk about. We are asking that you all contact the car maker Subaru, and request that they ask the US Whitewater Center to pay their yoga teachers a fair wage. There is a link to their email page below, and a link to their mission statement in the show notes.
Here are your steps.
Go to the page https://www.subaru.com/customer-support.html
Tell them your name, your status as a yoga teacher, and how you believe that yoga teachers for the US Whitewater Center should be paid a fair wage for their work.
Hit submit.
Stop using “free yoga” at the top of your marketing funnels.
Raudhah and I have a great chat, and she says so many really amazing things that I just love. Plus her self-care tip is one that I use myself when I need a good mental reset.
This is a conversation you won’t want to miss!