147: Foundational Business Practices Every Yoga Teacher Needs with Lauren Schoenfeld
You all know that I am only minimally interested in business-- I’d much rather talk about the actual craft of teaching yoga. But we do need to make money, and if we have chosen yoga teaching as our job, we need to be SMART about business because it is not the easiest way to make a living!
Having some smart foundational systems in place can make a huge difference in your yoga teaching career path, and today we have Lauren Schoenfeld (she/her) on the podcast to help us out!
In this episode, you’ll hear:
the foundational systems that all solopreneurs should have in place
what yoga teachers should look at if they want to cut unnecessary expenses
how to establish a cash flow plan for our businesses
Lauren’s suggestions for helping yoga teachers to increase revenue
Lauren Schoenfeld is the founder of Active Core Consulting, offering fractional CFO, bookkeeping, sales, and operations coaching for health and wellness entrepreneurs. A self-proclaimed numbers nerd and athlete, Lauren empowers CEOs and business owners to confidently manage their finances and prioritize profit. She has grown her business while healing her body through nontraditional modalities and is on a mission to end hustle culture for entrepreneurs!
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If I were to ask you what the purpose of asana is, what would you say? Would you say it was to feel better in the body? To build strength and flexibility? To prepare the body for meditation practice? To help people connect more deeply to their breath and themselves?
These are all beautiful answers!!
But if you gave a very specific movement cue or alignment principle when teaching asana, and I asked you what the purpose of that was, what would you say?
I think many of us value clarity and specificity in our teaching, but because of the way we were trained to teach movement, we fall into highly dogmatic or aesthetic based cueing even when that doesn’t honor our values.
Today’s podcast episode is a deep inquiry into the purpose of asana, especially as it applies to teaching movement in a specific and precise way.