I feel like I’ve been promising you this episode for a while! Today I share my experiences of owning two yoga studios, and the good, the bad, and the ugly truth of it all. I completely understand the desire of owning your own space and all the joy that this can bring, but DO NOT sign on the dotted line until you know your numbers. The yoga studios smashing it in 2024 are the ones going beyond the scope of a weekly schedule, they’re the ones that are building a community around the physical space...
May 06, 2024•38 min
Today’s episode is inspired by the wisdom of Stephen Braybrook, aka the Movement Man, who lost his battle to Pancreatic cancer way too young in 2023. I trained with Stephen a handful of times but he was one of those people who left a HUGE imprint on me and his relentless questioning of conventional wisdom when it came to how the human body actually worked backed up with sound scientific research lit me up! His advice that never left me - “break a norm”. It ties into one of my favourite sayings ‘...
Apr 28, 2024•17 min
We all need support, especially when working with the human body and in therapeutic modalities, just like yoga teachers and other bodyworkers do. We all need to be guided in refining and developing teaching skills, and inspired with new ideas and approaches, We all need someone who will know the answers to those business questions that are not covered in foundation yoga teacher training courses. We all need someone who can help compassionately guide us through the wobbles of the mind to reach ou...
Apr 21, 2024•36 min
Welcome to part 3 of my 3-part series where I am exploring 3 of the 7 energy centres, the Chakras, and how they relate to how we feel and the actions we take. The heart and root centres support us to open the throat centre, and here is where we do all our talking, aka marketing and selling! The throat centre, also known as the Vishuddhi Chakra, governs our vocal cords, it’s where we communicate. Think of all the places where you use words and communicate in your business, from both the written t...
Apr 13, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Welcome to part 2 of my 3-part series where I am exploring 3 of the 7 energy centres, the Chakras, and how they relate to how we feel and the actions we take. This week it’s the big one, the powerful one, my favourite one! The heart centre, also known as the Anahata Chakra. This is the seat of our unconditional love, the place where we create. Anahata means unstruck sound, the sound already exists, it is yet to be heard, yet to be created, but the energy of it is there ready and waiting. All sou...
Apr 06, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Welcome to the first of my 3-part series where I am going to explore 3 of the 7 energy centres, the Chakras, and how they relate to how we feel and the actions we take. The more I practice yoga and run my business, the more I see the interconnectedness of it all. If energy is everything, how can we work with the energy and move in harmony with our unique energy systems to better inform the actions we take? Within the practice of Yoga, some traditions work with the 7 energy centres located on the...
Mar 31, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 94
I am in the process of starting something new after a deep knowing, and a whole host of signs from the universe! If you have an established business you’ll know how hard it can be to break that norm and to do something new, when you’ve spent so long crafting your persona. Or perhaps you’re employed but have this calling to do something else, and it has absolutely nothing to do with your current reality! All of it is hard. All of it throws our beautiful brain into panic mode, cue imposter syndrom...
Mar 24, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 93
It is 4 years to the day when my in-person studio-based yoga business shut down literally overnight! Today I wanted to share with you the new branch to my offering, but it’s not quite ready. However, if you are female, in business or want to start one, want to do more of what you love and make money - all I can say is WATCH THIS SPACE! Everything happens for a reason and this episode was needed today, it reminded me of all that has changed and all that is possible. Nothing is stronger than the v...
Mar 17, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Today I am joined by the lovely Claire who trained with me last year to be a yoga teacher and is now working on growing her yoga business and refining her teaching skills inside my mentoring programme. Claire is leading the way as to what is possible in your first year of teaching. An amazing opportunity to teach yoga within her workspace has helped Claire to connect to her ‘why’. Having suffered from workplace anxiety, Claire knows the power of yoga, the power of breath work and mindfulness wit...
Mar 09, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 91
I cannot believe the serendipity of this week’s episode after last week, where I spent 30-plus minutes persuading you to set up that email list! I get it, using social media feels like the easiest option, most of us use Facebook and Instagram, so it feels very doable when it comes to using it in our business. I do believe that you should use social media and I am massively grateful to both Facebook and Meta for providing what is effectively a free platform to grow my community and sell my offers...
Mar 03, 2024•24 min
Today’s episode on the surface is all about the importance of having a mailing list, and there is lots of really easy actional advice today, but it is also about how our mindset is probably the real reason we are struggling to take action. If you are just on social media, you are not only on borrowed ground, but yes you are largely shouting into the void, so please stop! Not to mention if you are creating content for social media why are you not re-purposing into email marketing? This fantastic ...
Feb 25, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Yesterday was 14th February, Valentine’s Day, and following a post that caught your attention about self-love and self-care, today’s episode is a half-term short one on the importance of self-love! Are you self-employed, whether it be full or part-time? If you can’t provide your services does your business stop? If you answer yes to the two questions above today’s episode is a very powerful message. You are the golden goose in your business and need protecting at all costs! As I’ve said for a lo...
Feb 17, 2024•19 min
Back in mid-January, I ran the brilliant “Profitable Yoga Business Roadmap Masterclass and Coaching Call”. Teachers from all stages of their teaching career joined me for this, including a few fresh out of their foundation teacher training course. We all know that feeling when we start anything new, it can feel like there’s so much to do and learn. That feeling of rabbit in headlights comes to mind! Firstly, I want you all to know that we all start from the beginning and doing anything new at an...
Feb 11, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Episode 86 (not 85, forgive my opening confusion) of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast is very special. My first male interviewee in the form of Paul Finnie and two incredible conversations on models for running yoga studios and the power of using Human Design to live your authentic blueprint. Finnie is a yoga teacher, studio owner, human design coach and all round lovely human being who I am working more and more with inside my business to support those I train and mentor. Studio yoga ownership is ...
Feb 04, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Being self-employed, working for yourself, and running your own business, which is the case for the vast majority of yoga teachers means the 80-20 rule applies to you! To create what you want it is 80% energy and mindset work, 20% action! Yet where do we focus most of our attention – on action or the inaction we believe we can’t yet take? And with the action we are taking is it aligned action? What does aligned action even mean? It means we are taking action from a place of knowing this is our n...
Jan 26, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 85
This is the story of the evolution of my mentoring programme! How I have found myself here in 2024 supporting female, service-based entrepreneurs, aka yoga teachers, to share their gifts with the world help people and make money. How I had a deep calling, a deep knowing that female yoga teachers needed my support and needed my mentoring programme. But how I could have easily given up when I first launched the programme in 2022, and the HUGE difference 12 months makes. Selling new products and se...
Jan 20, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Today I am joined by the gorgeous Floss from https://www.flossophyandyoga.co.uk/ to discuss the integration of philosophy into modern yoga, what enlightenment is or isn’t and after just two months working with me 1:1 in my mentorship programme her results are impressive and this of course is available to you too! Yoga is always evolving in the hands of those who practice it, aka us! Yoga teaches us nothing is permanent, and this includes how we approach the practice. But we must honour its roots...
Jan 12, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Happy New Year, welcome to episode 82 of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast and my first episode of 2024! If you like today’s episode and would like more on this topic and the opportunity to ask me a question and have my eyes on your business at the start of 2024 sign up for the Profitable Yoga Business Masterclass and Coaching call starting Sunday 14th January 7pm. Join here for only £33 - https://amy-yoga.com/profitable-yoga-business-roadmap-2024/ The ‘business’ side of being a yoga teacher can fee...
Jan 05, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 82
In this week’s shorter episode, I share how I use one word to guide me through the year ahead. I find this much more effective than New Year’s resolutions or too many goals that potentially set me up to fail! I share the process of how I know what my word is and there is the big reveal on what my word for 2023 was! I hope sharing the behind-the-scenes of my yoga business, shows you it’s not a straight line. We all have things that go well, we all have things that fail, and we all have difficult ...
Dec 29, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 80
It’s an interview episode and I am joined by the incredible Caroline of Humble Warrior Yoga - https://www.humblewarrioryoga.uk/ Caroline is a single parent, works 30 to 40 hours in a supermarket and is busy growing her online yoga business supporting women in the perimenopause and menopausal stages of life. Caroline has taught in person, but covid and then an episode of acute anxiety meant this was no longer possible. But she knows the power yoga has to support women over 40 and none of this was...
Dec 27, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 81
This has been something that has been really big for me in 2023. I feel like this year all my studies, knowledge and understanding have collided to give me a greater sense of oneness, and how everything is connected. The nervous system is one of my favourite topics. For a while now I’ve felt we’ve not fully appreciated the role of the sympathetic nervous system, we’ve just labelled it as a bad response. And with an over-focus on the parasympathetic nervous systems are we missing something? Are w...
Dec 16, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 79
As we approach the end of the year I am going to be sharing with you some of the practices, and habits, I have at this time of year in relation to my yoga business. As the year draws to a close it is a natural point in the year to review your yoga business. From this review the next step is to set some goals, what are my next steps and what is my bigger “what if this is possible goal”? All this needs to be from a balance and calm within your nervous system, so you can make non-attached decisions...
Dec 08, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 78
As we approach the end of the year I am going to be sharing with you some of the practices, and habits, I have at this time of year in relation to my yoga business. Reviewing your business as a reflective practitioner. This is a fancy term for learning to review your progress from a place of non-attachment. What went well this year? Celebrate all wins big and small, after all, what we focus on expands! What didn’t go so well? All mistakes and perceived failures are lessons we can learn and grow ...
Dec 03, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 77
As we approach the Christmas period it is common for many of us at this time of year to do a charity yoga class or be asked to participate in a charity event, offering our services for free. Of course, the reasons why we would say yes to any charity work is because we feel passionate about the cause and want to use our skills to support the charity. But nothing feels better than making a difference. Nothing feels better than knowing that you’ve helped someone. Not to mention charity classes and ...
Nov 26, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Is it mindset work? Is it nervous system work? Or is it both, is it everything, as we are one connected energetic system? When we do anything new, anything different it will prompt a response from our nervous system, and if we are trying to do something too far from where our current settings are set, it will feel impossible. And in this case, no amount of mindset work will force us into action. But when we ask ourselves what is the next step I can take? What is the next action that I can take t...
Nov 19, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Or better put holding the space when you are not offering verbal instructions! Are you comfortable in the silent spaces when teaching? Do you play music when teaching yoga, and if so why, what is the energy behind the choice to play music? To hold space energetically in the silent moments we need to feel comfortable in them as a starting place. To allow our students to feel comfortable we need to create a place of safety in the silent moments, guiding people both in and out of them. Do you teach...
Nov 11, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 74
I do start a little confused over episode numbers today, but this is episode 73, not 72! We often hear the term ‘holding space’ as something we yoga teachers do. But what does it mean? And why am I talking about it now? It is no secret that at the time of recording this podcast, the news is tougher than normal, and the energy of managing this and carrying on serving those I work with has had me thinking about the act of holding space. Why now more than ever we need to continue to hold space and ...
Nov 04, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Today’s episode is my final snippet from the recording from day 1 of my free training “The Confident Yogi CEO”. This training was so mind-blowingly good I have to share some of it with you! Energy is everything, get into energetic alignment and as I say everything else is just gravy! But it’s all very well and good knowing this, but how do we find energetic alignment? As yoga teachers this is the stuff we know and teach, we just need to apply it to our yoga business! Find a practice that slows t...
Oct 26, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Today’s episode is a snippet from the recording from day 1 of my free training “The Confident Yogi CEO”. This training was so mind-blowingly good I have to share some of it with you! Energy literally is everything, get into energetic alignment and as I say everything else is just gravy! All that you are wishing for begins to flow so much more easily when the right energy is behind all your actions. As yoga teachers, we know how important energy and alignment are, but we rarely apply this to our ...
Oct 21, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Today’s special episode is the recording from day 3 of my free training “The Confident Yogi CEO” In this coaching call, I answer the questions from yoga teachers just like you, on all aspects of being a yoga teacher and a yoga boss. From quiet class numbers, returning to teaching after a break, and hours spent planning, and running your first retreat, to payment structures and systems. This episode is a brilliant example of how all my years of knowledge and experience can fast-track you to where...
Oct 12, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 70
