The Prosperous Yogini

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...

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 no...

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!...

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...

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...

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 a...

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 episo...

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...

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 beaut...

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 so...

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...

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...

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...

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 n...

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, the...

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 membershi...

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, le...

For the UK 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, leav...

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 kee...

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...

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!   Y...

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 eve...

This has come up quite a bit recently for those of you with whom I'm working with in my mentorship programme, and it's pretty common that we spend time (probably too much time) debating when, where and how we should do something. The bottom line is there is no one perfect time for your yoga class, and one of my favourite sayings I've stolen from my surfing pursuits is if you don't go, you don't kn...

If you don't yet have a mailing list, have a vague notation that you need one, and would like to not have to rely solely on social media then this episode is for you! Welcome to the team my lovely – Yes, I do have a mailing list, I do send regular emails and I am making an effort to grow my list. How did I get to this place, well it's very much like episode 5 and how to build a website, I just dec...

With the launch of my new mindset and business mentorship programme for female yoga teachers and other solo wellness entrepreneurs last week, it felt fitting to talk about the benefits of working with a mentor or coach in this episode. Today, I share with you the impact that working 1:2:1 with a coach has had on my business and of course why you should join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programm...