You’ve been asking for some time now, so here it is, the first in my 3-part series on how to start out as a yoga teacher once you graduate from your yoga teacher training course - eek! How do I become a better yoga teacher? The answer does not lie in more training, yes that is a fun thing to do, but the only way to get better at teaching is to go out and practise the skill of teaching. Teaching is teaching, regardless of subject, it is a skill, and skills improve through practise. The process of...
Mar 10, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 39
A sort of mini-sode (I talk for too long, but it was my intention to keep it short!) In today’s shortish episode, I talk about the power that lies in leaning into what we love, in our business and in our lives! I share my passion for surfing longboards and small waves, and how the more I allow time in my life for surfing the more my business grows – what does that tell you about energy and magnetic attraction? Leaning into what we love can be easier said than done, hard wired beliefs, fear of fa...
Mar 03, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 38
This episode is the last in my 3-part series where I’ve picked up questions and common issues that came up during my free live launch event “The profitable Yoga Business Roadmap”. So many teachers communicated to me - for various reasons - feelings of resentment and frustration. I know that neither of these emotions are pleasant, but I’m going to go all out here and say they are a part of the practice of running a business. In our case as yoga teachers, a service-based business, a solo entrepren...
Feb 27, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 34
What would I have done differently in my first year of teaching yoga? For the next few weeks, I’ll be picking up questions that came up during my free live launch event “The profitable Yoga Business Roadmap”. I am sure those questions will also really apply to you and your yoga business. I loved this question I was asked “What would I have done differently in my first year of teaching yoga” Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I wish I had done the following 3 things: Charged more for my classes ...
Feb 17, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 36
For the next few weeks, I’ll be picking up questions that came up during my free live launch event “The Profitable Yoga Business Roadmap ”. I am sure these questions will also apply to you and your yoga business. Before I get going, yes my launch has been a massive success at every level of my business, and it was out of my comfort zone. I know this is where change and expansion occur, and as a little side note to you all, we all must operate from a place of compassionate expansion. Times when w...
Feb 08, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 35
How do you measure the value of investing in something for you and your yoga business? How do you communicate the value that your classes and other yoga offers bring? Understanding the value can help you make that decision to invest in training or mentoring (and yes, the doors to my mentoring programme are open until Monday 6th Feb 9 pm - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/ ) This is also true of your potential students who will invest in your offers. When they understand the value...
Feb 03, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Today I am joined by the gorgeous Claire Bowring, who I know very well! Claire trained with me in 2021 to be a yoga teacher and then went on to join my mentoring programme in the summer of 2022. Claire shares with us brilliant insights into what it’s like to work with me, both in a training and mentoring capacity. She shares how she worked round her resistance to say yes to YTT, and her transformation in the last 18 months has blown my mind! My mentoring programme for yoga teachers I can tell yo...
Jan 26, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Your 'why'... I spent some time wondering why do anything , and in the end I concluded why do anything if not for love ? Why do you teach yoga, what’s your story? Your why should be at the centre of all you choose to do, but so often we forget our why or we say yes because we feel we can’t say no. Your 'how'... How do you want to work? One reason I decided to be a full-time yoga teacher was so I could take my children to and from school and be there in the holidays. This has framed every decisio...
Jan 19, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 32
It’s my first ‘official’ Live Launch event! It’s still very much Amy-Yoga style, a chilled launch where I am open to all the possibilities that doing a launch event will bring into my life. Why am I launching? The Profitable Yoga Business Roadmap is a FREE 3-day live training, with a coaching call Q&A to close. Day 1 Monday 23rd January 1.30pm 'Your Why & How.' Day 2 Tuesday 24th January 1.30pm 'Call out your dream student and fill your classes with ease.' Day 3 Wednesday 25th January 1....
Jan 13, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In today’s episode, I explore 'Launching', why you may choose to launch, the ways you can launch, covering both in-person and online examples, and the benefits of launching. Ultimately launching creates a wave of energy, a vibrational surge that opens the door to you a little wider for a period of time. It’s just one way you can talk to people, aka marketing, which then leads you to invite people to work with you, aka selling! And why I am starting the year talking about Launching? Because I am!...
Jan 05, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 30
It’s the second of my two-part festive minisodes! Today I share with you how I goal set for the year ahead. Rigid goals and New Year’s resolutions have never worked for me, so instead I have a word that guides me through the year. This word guides me to goals - I prefer to call them opportunities - and allows me to be open to both my plans and the plans that the universe has for me that I may not yet know about! Covid taught me one thing – you never know what opportunities lie ahead!! Yoga teach...
Dec 31, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 29
It’s the first of my two-part festive minisodes! Consistency is king! Showing up in all areas of your yoga business on a regular basis is how you create that sustainable, profitable business. It’s just like your yoga practise; you know the answer is consistency. But don’t confuse consistency with working against your natural energies and doing a lot of stuff you don’t want to do (or have time for!) The key to consistency is to lean into what you love (like I love doing this podcast and have show...
Dec 22, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Your yoga business? How do you feel when you think about your yoga business? Do you even consider yourself a business owner? I am a business owner and it's taken me several years to get to this realisation and to see that I have two roles: Yoga teacher Business owner (aka yoga boss over at Amy-Yoga HQ) Once I realised this, everything about my yoga business began to flow with much more ease. As a yoga teacher, you are a service provider, the service you provide is the act of teaching yoga. If yo...
Dec 15, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Today I am not alone, I’m joined by the lovely Victoria Leigh who in just 2 years since she graduated from my Foundation Yoga Teacher Training course is now FULL-TIME in her yoga business – whoop! Victoria proves it’s possible, and if you have the ambition to work full-time as a yoga teacher or simply wish to make the part-work that you do profitable, it’s important that you surround yourself with positive people who prove it’s possible. Victoria shares with total honesty her journey from part-t...
Dec 08, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 26
It’s another mini-sode, but it’s mighty! Today in this short episode I ask you one very, very ,very important question. “What if you are right where you are meant to be?” So often when I am working with other yoga teachers there’s a huge sense of they should be further along, and simply not having enough time to do it all. There's always time! There is always enough time, but you can’t do it all and nor do you need to. When we step back and lean into a belief that we are right where we are meant...
Dec 01, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 25
A few weeks ago, I surveyed the yoga teachers in my community on where they were and how I could best continue to support and help them with my mentoring and training programmes. The information has been gold-dust and a HUGE thank you to all the teachers who took the time to respond. As part of this process, some teachers asked me a question and I thought why not answer them all in a podcast episode! It’s my longest episode to date, and a great example of what it would be like to hire me on your...
Nov 24, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Today’s episode is inspired again by a conversation I’ve had with one of the regular listeners to the show. I love these conversations, so feel free to get in touch. I received this DM on Instagram . She messaged to say her regular class had gone really quiet; she was feeling really demotivated and wondered if it was the current economic climate in the UK. Firstly, I want to send out the biggest hug to everyone who is self-employed in their business, showing up every day and I know it's feeling ...
Nov 17, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Today’s episode is inspired by a conversation I’ve had with one of the regular listeners to the show. They got in touch to say they'd just started teaching, their classes were full, knew it was just luck, was surprised because there’s already so much yoga in her local area, and was worried that she couldn’t accommodate everyone! What a fantastic problem to have! Firstly, it’s not luck, your beautiful brain will try to convince you of this, or worst may even persuade you to engage in some act of ...
Nov 10, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 22
With the doors to my 6-month group mentoring and coaching programme for yoga teachers re-opening I thought this was a good time to discuss the role of a mentor and coach. And is there a difference between a coach and a mentor ? And if there is any difference, does it really matter? A mentor I believe that there is a distinction that can be made between a coach and a mentor. I think a mentor is someone who shares their knowledge, skills and experience in order to help you to develop and grow. The...
Nov 03, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 21
It’s my first minisode, and in this short episode I'll talk about why the first thing you should do in your yoga business is to get really really clear on what your dream yoga business would look like?! Get clear on your why? What’s your 'why'? Well of course, this will be to share the love that is yoga and help people. But how do you want to work, when do you want to work, would you like to be a full-time or part--time yoga teacher, and how much money would you like to earn? In my 6-month Prosp...
Oct 28, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Do you have a marketing strategy? What does the term marketing even mean? I do wonder if we yoga teachers have gone mad. 14 years ago when I first started teaching there was no social media, I was even ground-breaking for having a website! I just rented a village hall, made a flyer and spoke to people about my classes and invited them in. I literally rolled out my mat and started teaching. How did we get ourselves to a place where we can feel the pressure of the content treadmill, to even need a...
Oct 21, 2022•32 min
This is my first request episode and I’ve been asked by one of my regular listeners to share what I have learnt from teaching yoga to young children over the years. I have had the absolute honour of teaching toddler yoga for 12 plus years now and I can say hand on heart – it is the best job in the world! And from the toddlers I have learnt: To drop the ego and just move To not take the practice of yoga too seriously Sometimes you do have to eat mid-practise And OM is certainly a magical sound Fr...
Oct 14, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Why does your mind say 'no'? Stepping out from our place of safety, and doing anything new is never easy, and this includes creating your first online yoga course. Your beautiful brain is hard-wired to keep you safe, stay with what is known, what is comfortable, be liked and stick with the tribe. Your wonderful, human brain has several strategies to stop you in your tracks on any path that is a new journey or has an un-known outcome, these include: Imposter Syndrome - she’ll tell you if you go o...
Oct 07, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 17
There are a whole host of wonderful ways yoga teachers can share their gifts with the world and make money! It is a simple fact most yoga teachers, especially when starting out and cutting their craft as a teacher, opts for the model of in-person weekly classes. And this is a great model, and for many years this is how I consistently made money as a yoga teacher. But……. This only goes so far, there are only so many classes you can physically teach in a week and how many people you can fit into a...
Oct 02, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Here are some fact there’s just one of you and only so many people you can fit into a room, teach 1:2:1, accommodate on a retreat or teacher training course, and there’s certainly a limit to the number of weekly classes you can physically go out and teach. Offering in-person yoga isn’t bad (or dead), but what if you added in an online offer too? What if you created a class, a course, a membership or an online teacher training programme, and it meant you could help more people in less time and ma...
Sep 23, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 15
For UK based yoga teachers the answer to this may surprise you – NONE! Yoga is not regulated by the UK government, not only that there is no legal requirement to have public liability insurance to teach. So there are really no qualifications that you need to be a UK Yoga Teacher, from a legal point of view. Now I’m not suggesting for one minute that you just go out tomorrow and start teaching, leave out the giant step of training and what I believe to be the essential step of having insurance. B...
Sep 18, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 14
According to google in 2022, the average salary of a UK-based yoga teacher is somewhere between £25,000 to £32,00 per year. I know from my experience of mentoring female yoga teachers that this figure can vary wildly and truth be told today’s podcast isn’t actually about average salaries of a yoga teacher based in the UK. It’s about the mindset of money and how our collective beliefs could be keeping our incomes way lower than they should be. Here is some interesting data from Google about the y...
Sep 08, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Being stuck in the feeling of overwhelm is certainly one of my most common self-sabotaging behaviours! Is it one of yours? That feeling of having so much to do, that we don’t know what to do, or how to do something, keeps us spinning around in circles, wasting negative energy, and ultimately doing nothing! Feeling overwhelmed is pretty understandable as a solo entrepreneur, we wear many hats and have many roles within our business, teaching yoga is the service we offer, this is just one part of ...
Sep 02, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Today I am inspired by a brilliant quote by Denise Duffield-Thomas - “Mindset is everything, the rest you can google”. She couldn’t be more right! Everything on the tech front can be figured out, and teaching is a skill you simply have to practise (so get out and teach btw!), keep practising and just share your love of yoga, the rest will follow. But your beautiful brain may have other ideas! Your brain is hardwired to keep you safe, loved and alive – thank you dear brain! But this sometimes imp...
Aug 25, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 11
It is pretty understandable if your beautiful brain right now is in panic mode, and assuming that people will no longer be able to afford your yoga offers. But this is simply not true, the previous recession in 2009 and the covid pandemic proved that despite these external events the yoga industry continued to grow. The world needs yoga, especially in times of stress! We can’t control external events, but we can control our response. Imagine if you pretended that covid didn’t happen and continue...
Aug 19, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 10
