Rethinking the Yoga Industry Ecosystem. An Interview w/ Tawnia Converse
For so many years I considered two factions of the yoga industry at war with one another. There were the fitness people, the people teaching what felt like acrobatics on the beach in tiny outfits…and then there were those of us who were in it for the “real” yoga.
Turns out I wasn’t the only one who felt that way.
My guest Tawnia Converse has also spent years in the yoga industry figuring out her place among the spiritual teachers, fitness seekers, and everyone else in between. Tawnia and I talk about how we as yoga professionals can find ourselves feeling lost among the career paths that are typically available to us, and how that can cause us to throw stones at the other side instead of looking to collaborate in the greater ecosystem of the yoga teaching space.
I, for one, was really influenced by this talk with Tawnia–she made me rethink my attitude about all of us. I think she will for you too.
Key Takeaways:
*grieving the yoga experience that we had in the 90s and 00s
*we should consider how the folks who teach asana-focused yoga are planting seeds that folks who teach the full spectrum of yoga get to harvest.
*is it possible for us as an industry to shift our binary thinking to ecosystem thinking.
*the intersection of spiritual practice and making money is a hard place to be.
*liberation practice could involve scrolling TikTok and eating chips.
Show Notes:
We need to talk about our grief podcast.