Download the Episode or Subscribe on iTunes!
This week on the podcast I am joined by Kristen Williams. Kristen is the founder of K10 Yoga Coop, the Winston Salem Yoga Festival and Yoga Evolving Now. She has traveled the world and is passionate about bringing community together through yoga!
On this episode, we talk about how Kristen has combined her love of yoga with her love of travel, the process of starting a yoga coop, what it’s been like to start a yoga festival from scratch, and the business lessons she’s learned through all of her different ventures.
Enjoy!
Business Lessons From This Episode:
- Having teachers in training working in a yoga coop model helps them learn how to market their classes and think entrepreneurially. They learn what goes into filling up a class and how to maximize the rewards from bringing in a full class.
- Teaching internationally is attractive and can be really positive, but it is important to think about the impact you are having when you’re trying to travel and teach, and not to assume that the things you teach at home will make the most sense for people from different places.
- There are lots of small details that go into running a yoga festival or any yoga event. From design to planning, to getting city permits and insurance, you need to make sure you’re organized and have a lot of time to prepare for small issues that will come up. Get started early and allow time for new challenges to come up along the way.
- Asking for help is really important as a yoga professional. Kristen talks about how she has someone helping her with her teacher training for the first time and how much that has helped her. It takes trust, but it has the chance to pay off in a big way. If you’re finding it hard to manage your workload or finish all the projects you have on your plate, don’t be afraid to ask for help.
- Getting clear on your budget is very empowering. When you get started it can be tempting to not dive in, but knowing where you’re spending your money and where you are bringing in money is going to help you make much better decisions in your business.
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
Want to join me on a tropical adventure in Costa Rica this fall? Meghan Pherrill and I are co-leading a retreat for yoga teachers at the beautiful Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort November 2-9, 2019 and we’d love for you to join us.
This episode is brought to you by BeYogi. BeYogi is an online resource dedicated to providing yoga teachers and students with the inspiration and information and insurance they will need during every step of their yoga journey. BeYogi has drawn from their knowledge of the yoga world to not only create incredible content, but to also provide yoga and wellness professionals with the insurance coverage they will need to expand their careers. And, I don’t know about you but I know that I run into a lot of places that won’t let me teach or offer anything if I don’t have insurance, so this is definitely something that if you don’t have you’ll want. And they have incredible things like online teaching coverage so no matter what style you’re teaching or wherever you are in the world, give yourself a little peace of mind knowing that you are covered should something happen. Head on over to beyogi.com/mbom to learn more or to get coverage today.
The FavYogis app is back with new features for teachers that let you create and manage your own private classes while making payment and registration a breeze.
Do you have regular private clients? Make life easier with AUTO-PAY. Forget about remembering to Venmo. Use auto-pay to enable repeat payments and keep calendars in sync with classes. Google Calendar integration automatically updates teacher and student classes when you make changes
It’s STILL just your yoga; teachers add classes, students add teachers, and teachers and students stay connected.
Find FavYogis on your app store and use code MBOM.
Has your yoga studio’s growth become stagnant? If you’re like many studio owners I talk to, you’ve tried every marketing tactic under the sun. You started a blog, you’re posting regularly on all the social media sites, running challenges, sending out newsletters blah blah blah. Long story short, you’re doing a TON of work… and barely paying the bills.
What if there was an easier way? A way to get new students regularly coming through your door without having do work so darn hard to get them there? A Proven system that will consistently bring in 20+ new paying students to your studio each and every month? Well there is…. Ron Medlin and his team at www.getyogastudents.com have developed a 3-step system that will help you quickly grow your yoga studio to 6-figure profits and beyond without being shackled to your business.
0 Comments