This week on the podcast I am joined by Laura Burkhart. Laura is an E-RYT 500 international teacher, a retreat leader, and a yoga teacher trainer who offers 300-Hour teacher trainings, as well as mentors teachers in creating successful public and online teaching careers.

In this episode, Laura talks about her career as a yoga teacher and how she pivoted from teaching at yoga studios to teaching indepdently, to teaching at retreats, yoga festivals, and trainings to doing all of her work online.

Pandemic or no pandemic, it’s always important to be growing, shifting and pivoting your business as you grow, and Laura shares what she has learned through the growth and change she’s experienced in her career.

Enjoy!

Discussed in this episode:

• How Laura found yoga as a way to recover from stress
• Why did Laura start teaching online 8 years ago?
• How has Laura shifting the way she teaches over time?
• Yoga has shifted online in 2020, but how much will it shift back to in person in the next couple years?
• As a teacher who often taught at festivals and retreats, how has the pandemic affected Laura’s business?
• What is Laura planning for her teacher trainings and festivals in the future?
• Why the hybrid model of online and in-person classes could be here to stay
• What are the business lessons Laura has found most impactful through her career
• Why you have to be ready to ask for the opportunities you want
• And much more… Here is the episode!

Laura & I continue this conversation on M.B.Om: Behind the Scenes over on Patreon. For less than the cost of 2 lattes per month, you will get access to this exclusive episode with Laura, as well as over 20 never-before-heard episodes that you can’t access anywhere else that will give you tangible ways to dive deeper into your yoga business. To learn more and join, please visit: https://www.patreon.com/mbomyoga

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