The Prosperous Yogini (Amy Jones)

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 yoga industry in 2022:

• UK yoga industry is worth approx. £926 million
• Globally the Yoga Industry is worth somewhere between $37 to $88 billion (several figures for this one!)
• 75% of all yoga teachers are women 

Add into this on average men still earn more than women in every country in the world.

Women are hard-wired to over-deliver and under-charge, we’re long-term suffers of imposter syndrome, and all of this keeps us under-valuing what we bring to the world, under-charging, and burning out!

Ever questioned why yoga teachers believe it’s hard to earn money when the industry (let alone the wellness industry!) is worth so much?

Ever questioned why men earn more than women?

When we begin to question what we just accept as truth we can start to re-write these truths, and I want a world where women know the value of their gifts and charge appropriately, creating a business that energetically and economically supports them and makes the world a better place!

3 top tips to improve how much you can earn as a yoga teacher:

1. Do the maths on all your offers, what is your profit after costs (do you need to charge more, probably!)
3. Keep doing the maths, track your money in and out of your business and commit to making profit a habit.

4. Leverage – teaching weekly classes will only take you so far.  I love my weekly classes, but they are just part of my yoga business.  To fully share your gifts with the world and earn more money as a yoga teacher you need to diversify your offers and learn to leverage your time (more on this to come!)

Watch on you-tube

Work with me?

I can support you through these challenging times and re-frame your money mindset and create a yoga business that is profitable, impactful and sustainable!  Visit me here to join my 6-month Prosperous Yogini mentorship program or add your name to the waiting list.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit – https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

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 know.  Sometimes you have to test the water, see if it’s going to work and not rely on your beautiful brain’s assumptions.

A little caveat here is to not spread yourself too thinly when it comes to the number of weekly classes, sometimes less is more, get those 1 or 2 classes full first before you add more of the same class to your schedule.

Why run your yoga business alone?

Deciding all of this stuff alone is not easy, being a sole trader or solo entrepreneur, means that you are your own boss, and that you answer to you and to you alone!  That’s one of the massive pros of working for yourself, but the con is when making decisions we can drive ourselves mad going round and round in circles!

The benefit to those in my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programme is that they can ask me for support anytime, and I guide them into making the right decision for them.

So why do this alone, when you don’t have to?

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Work with me

I would love you to join my Prosperous Yogini mentorship programme, I can support you to create your own profitable, sustainable yoga business.

Visit me here to bring me onto your team, I will guide you through creating a teaching schedule that works for you and help you to create a business that honours and works for you.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

How to Thrive in a Saturated Yoga Market, and so so so so so much more!

This wonderful interview episode with the lovely Flo from Flo Yoga Brighton, that is bursting with gold-dust advice for all yoga teachers, but especially those in the first couple years post-graduating.

There is so much in this episode, that it is hard to summarise, but we cover:

• Getting started after graduating from a foundation YTT
• The importance of finding a mentor
• Collaborative working
• Reciprocity
• What professionalism means
• What honesty looks like
• Scarcity V Abundance, love V fear
• And the power of funky leggings

Thank you so much Flo for this great interview episode, I love doing these, so if you’d like to come and have a chat (a bit of free live mentoring from me), then do get in touch, amyjonesyoga@googlemail.com.

You can find more about Flo here: https://floyogabrighton.co.uk/ or Insta here https://www.instagram.com/floyogabrighton/

Watch us chat on YouTube!

And here’s how we can work together...

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Hot tips for using Instagram

I can’t believe I am sharing hot tips for using Instagram in your yoga business, if you could have seen me 5 years ago, I was nowhere near this App!

And even when I did eventually join the Insta party it was reluctant, to say the least.  But with practice and some incredible training with the legend that is Lucy Sheridan I have got my relationship with Insta nailed.

Yes, I do mean my relationship, I know how I want to show up, where I want to show up and how often I am on this App.  And let go of any attachment to what this means or does not mean for the number of followers I have.

It's a business asset, one I am grateful for, one I enjoy.  But one I know I do not own, and like everything has a shadow side.  Knowing this allows me to navigate the shadows peacefully and as much as I love my Instagram party invitation to the world, I invest my time and energy far more on those already paid to be in my courses and those on my mailing list, which I do own.

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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 skill refinement looks like this:

• Go out and practise the skill (aka teach yoga)
• Reflect on how it went (positively!)
• Respond and refine next time you teach (repeat)

Regardless of where you are in your yoga teaching career, this is a process we all should practise.

The main problem I see is those who graduate from their YTT waiting to feel ready to teach, and never getting teaching.  This day won’t come, you have to take action and go out and set up a class.  Teaching friends and family, or hooking up with a local studio can be great pathways into cutting your craft as a yoga teacher, from which you can expand out from.

Want some help getting started or avoiding the trap of ‘training procrastination’?

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Join my mentorship programme for yoga teachers

The first 12 months after graduating are the hardest, don’t try to do them alone. Joining my mentoring programme means you are no longer alone with me on your side!  

I would love to support you in creating a profitable, sustainable and joyful yoga business – join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can work together

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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, and who then buy into everything the studio has to offer.

If you are a studio owner or are thinking of embarking on setting up a studio and would like my help, you can hear from today’s episode I know what I’m talking about drop me an email at info@amy-yoga.com and we can discuss how best I can help you know your numbers, and create a plan for success.

Here’s my invitation to you to stop going it alone, let’s work together:

For Female Entrepreneurs – https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

For Yoga Teachers – visit www.amy-yoga.com

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 from, however disappointing and annoying they are at the time.

What does the data say?  What are the facts and figures and know these before making any judgements about your successes and failures.

What does your energy say?  What excites you?  Where is resentment or frustration creeping in?  

Know the answers to the above?

Wait.  Get quiet.  Tap into your inner intelligence.

We’ll set some goals next week!

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Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

During December we’ll be reviewing, reflecting and refining ready for 2024 together inside my mentoring programme.

Doing all of this alone is incredibly difficult, if not impossible.

This is why we all should invest in a mentor or a coach to guide us.  It will save you time and make you money!  I’d love 2024 to be the year where you come on in because we truly are not meant to be doing this job alone!

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open in January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Other ways we can work together

Book a business 60-minute power up Strategy Session - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

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 to be, even if it’s not what we expected, planned, or hoped for.  It’s irrelevant if someone else seems ahead of you, that’s their journey not yours.

And what does hindsight tell us?  When we look back at these moments of frustration, of something not happening yet, we often think “I am so glad it didn’t”.  Why wait for hindsight to feel good?

When we lean into the what if, what if this is where I am meant to be and I have time, suddenly we feel calmer, happier.  We tone down sympathetic nervous system response, and you know as a yoga teacher this is a good thing!

Work with me?

All of this is easier said than done, and it is so much easier to do with support.  

If you hire me on your team, I can guide you through these moments of frustration, join 6-month Prosperous Yogini group mentoring programme, and together we’ll build, grow and scale your dream yoga business, and remove the unnecessary stress.

Find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

I work with www.podbubble.com to produce my podcasts.

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My human design type is a generator, which is why you will always see me flowing with new ideas, and my strategy is to respond.  Ask me about your business and I am in my happy place, I love responding to your questions and I love nothing more than helping female soul-led entrepreneurs to do what lights them up and make money.

As I said in today’s episode I truly believe this is my contribution to making the world a better place, the more horrific the news gets, the more fire there is in my belly to help women find aligned ways of being and working, that bring more balance, joy and harmony to the world.

Undoing thousands of years of programming that has kept us from fully sharing our gifts, being our true authentic selves, and feeling wrong talking about money, let alone asking for it, is not going to be easy.  

But I am here for the journey and I invite you to come with me, women it is time!

And I hope you can see from today’s episodes that all you feel and experience as a yoga teacher and a female soul-led entrepreneur, is true for others too.

I also hope you can see that my 24+ years of experience in education and 14+ years of experience as a female entrepreneur means I’ve got plenty of ways I can support you.

It was a joy to answer the questions today that ranged from navigating dropping class numbers, building online courses and signature programmes, creating consistent streams of income, and really the big two for me:

1. How do we stay grounded and connected in business when, like the rest of the human race, life happens to us?

2. How do we sell ourselves and our services, because even just showing our faces can be damn scary?

Want more of my help?

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs

Magical energy work meets epic business advice - www.amyjonesmentor.com

Hear a bit more for free from me each week Join me on Substack - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training

Foundation YTT, specialist training in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga and CPD- www.amy-yoga.com 

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 syndrome, fear of rejection and worse the fear of ridicule.

But it hits a point for us all where the pain of keeping it inside and to ourselves becomes greater than the pain of non-action.

So today I am very excited to announce my new branch, the start of my new services supporting ALL female serviced-based entrepreneurs, and anyone else who likes my vibe, to share their gifts with the world and make money!

I am bringing together all my years of experience as a yoga teacher, educator, mentor and business owner, to support you to work with the feminine and masculine energies.

Energy is everything, but better put energy leads everything, and it’s time to do things differently.  It’s time to work the energy, the unseen, to better navigate our mind so we can take aligned action.

And I can help you with all of it, after all, it’s all interconnected!

This is a big invitation to join my new Substack community here – https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Join for free, or be part of the energy exchange and buy me a coffee and cake for £4.40 a month.

I am still very much Amy-Yoga, offering outstanding training courses and my flagship mentoring programme, but this is my new branch, and I can’t keep all the amazing work I’ve been doing with female yoga teachers to just them anymore!

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

Make sure your name is on the waitlist for my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme.  I welcome new cohorts 2 times a year to develop their skills as a yoga teacher and a business owner, doors next open on 22nd April 2024.

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

Female Service-based Entrepreneurs

If you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, here’s my new branch, so far!

Join for free or buy me a monthly coffee and cake - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

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 you how great my mentoring programme is.  I can tell you hand on heart that I 100% know I will support you to create a profitable, sustainable, impactful yoga business.  But it is so much better when you see and hear it from someone who has experienced this transformation.

Since joining my mentoring programme Claire has set up 4, well attended, in-person classes, we’ve refined her website, copy and messaging, she’s had a professional photoshoot, reviewed her prices and packages for her massage and make-up offerings and very recently we’ve opened the door to passive income and working online!

With my encouragement, Claire has set up her online membership, and in her first month alone 11 people have joined!  Not to mention she’s now re-selling some previously live workshops and we have plans for other online courses.

Listen to Claire at the end, she is right, if you don’t go you don’t know.   My mentoring programme will change your business and your life, everything that Claire has created is available for you too.  Trying to figure it out alone is the hard way, as human beings we thrive with support and community.

Check Claire out here - https://clairebowring.co.uk/

Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme!

Wherever you are in your yoga business journey, I’ve got you, and now is the time to hire me on your team, your own personal cheerleader and join my mentoring programme - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

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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 decided it was going to happen!

It is very easy to slip into overwhelm with all the things you ‘should’ do when it comes to email marketing, the net result is many of us completely right it off as something we can't do (that’s for 'clever' trained people or lucky yoga teachers who have just somehow made it happen?!)

Where to start when using email marketing

No. You can 100% do this and any yoga teacher that has made it happen, isn’t lucky, they’ve just proved it’s possible and you can do it too.  Here and my 3 basic steps to get started:

1. Sign up to an email marketing provider – I really recommend Mailerlite (and please use my affiliate link if you do sign up with Mailerlite).  But other ones include Mailchip, Converter-kit, and Active Campaign.  Or if you have a Wix or Square space website, or use Kajabi, they all have email marketing built in, so use what you already have.
3. Any emails you have from clients that come to your classes, workshops etc, email them and invite them to join your mailing list (you need their permission).

4. Send an email to your list – however ever big it is!

My mailerlite affiliate link - If you’re interested in signing up for mailer lite and would also like to support me (thank you!), please use my affiliate link to sign up to create your Mailer-lite account - https://www.mailerlite.com/a/1rinot31bzfg

Once you’re at this point next steps include:

• Adding a subscribe here/opt-in on your website (you-tube will tell you how to do this!)
• Create a lead magnet (say what?) – this is a fancy term for 'offer something for free'!  For example, access to a class recording, mediation, PDF workbook in exchange for their email to encourage people to join your list.

And remember, they are people, not email addresses, so talk to them via email. This is your email marketing strategy!

Watch the Prosperous Yogini Podcast on You-tube

Work with me

I would love you to join my Prosperous Yogini mentorship programme, I can support you to create your own profitable, sustainable yoga business.

Visit - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/ - to bring me onto your team, I will guide you to both create and grow your email list.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

Being a full time yoga teacher

Today, I am joined by my gorgeous YTT co-tutor Jane Craddick to share her experience of becoming a full-time yoga teacher.

Taking that action may seem scary and challenging but we'll find out what can happen when we follow the heart.

Today is full of myth-busting evidence:

• Overworked, ill and broke Jane gave up her employed job to be a full-time yoga teacher and trusted this was the right path - and it was!    

• Jane trained to be a children’s specialist yoga teacher first, then did a 4-week intensive foundation YTT - there is no one 'perfect route' into being a yoga teacher.

• Working harder doesn’t necessarily equate to more money.

The power of collaborative working

Running my teacher training with Jane has also driven home to me the power and importance of collaborative working.  Being a yoga teacher can be a lonely life, finding like-minded teachers can transform your business.

Why not train to be a yoga teacher with Jane & I?!

Today’s episode also seems like a good opportunity for Jane and I to encourage you to join our 300hr Foundation Yoga Teacher training course this Autumn! Committing to training to be a yoga teacher is a big, scary decision but it's one that can change your life!  It's time to invest in yourself.

There will be something that deep down you really want to do, change happens when you decide to do it, and have faith you’re on the right path.

So much easier said than done!

Work with Jane Craddick

Train to teach Children’s and Teen Yoga, online and in-person in the Southwest - https://www.wellbeingbees.com/.

Come to class with Jane in Cornwall - https://www.facebook.com/janecradickyoga.

Work with me

If you’d like to work with me further visit www.amy-yoga.com.

Prosperous Yogini Business Mentorship Programme

I can support you to create your own profitable, sustainable yoga business, if Jane and I can do it, you can too!  Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team to support you in making those decisions that can feel big and scary.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com– they make podcasting possible!

A minisode today and one simple question – are you ready for the Autumn term? 

Do you know your class teaching schedule, is booking open? 

Do you have planned workshops booked and advertised?

Do you have new courses and planned launches? 

Do you have a plan to bring consistent income to your yoga business? 

Today’s episode is all about planning, and working in a proactive way, not reactive, this will create consistent income and help you avoid the ‘eek I’ve got a workshop next week and I’ve not told anyone!” 

 To be honest with you here I used to be so reactive, and it’s stressful, planning for profit is integral to your business.  

The summer is also a great time to get in some extra training to get you Autumn ready, and this is where my flexible online training courses are brilliant in your busy summer months! 

Watch on YouTube

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50-hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training – Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/ 

Self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/ 

All my current online and in-person training courses – https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Before I dive in today here is my BIG invitation to sign up for my FREE live training “The Energetics of Selling”.   Happening at 8pm Monday 16th September (and yes there is a replay).

I am launching my new business and my new course Energy, Mindset, Money and More with this new epic FREE training.

JOIN HERE – https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/energeticsofselling

As my focus is all on selling, today I discuss who is ready to buy from you and therefore who you should focus on selling to.

So often we focus on needing new people and growing our audience and miss those warm and super-hot people already in front of us ready to buy!

Virtually everyone who buys into your offers will know or feel like they know you.  

On average people need 7 to 14 contact points before making a purchase of any kind, and that includes you and your services.

The people most likely to buy from you probably have already bought something from you and are ready for me.

Focus on those ready to buy, nurture those nearly ready and invite new people in to get to know you.

The warmer people get and the more hot super fans you have the more easy you will make sales.  

This takes time to build, so give it time.

Sign up for my FREE training the Energetics of Selling, and I can help you with this further.

Join here – https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/energeticsofselling

Amy x

Ways we can work together:

Yoga  Teacher Training Visit – www.amy-yoga.com 

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs Visit - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/

Hear more from me each week, join me over on Substack at https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

There is not one singular action that you can take that will make a big difference when it comes to marketing your yoga business.  

Marketing, aka talking to people, is a result of persistent, consistent action in the direction of your dreams – this is one of my all-time favourite mantras! 

This means showing up and talking to people even when it feels like no one is listening.  It often feels like that by the way!  But over time all your endeavours begin to add up, begin to have momentum and the ripples of all your actions begin to come together.

So hang in there!  Keep talking to people, keep inviting them to your yoga classes.

And stop trying to do it alone, this is really hard, and most give up before those ripples have really started to come together. 

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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 showed up for you for 28 weeks now!)

When you honour yourself and your natural energies and lean into what you love you don’t have to think “I must be consistent”, because you just are!  

Consistency is the by-product of doing what lights you up.

Ways to work with me

I would love to support you as you lean into what you love in 2023!!  The best way to do this is to join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   You can join the waitlist today.

Other ways we can hang out:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Watch on You-tube

Make time for magic!

Today’s episode is on a topic that as a yoga teacher you know very well, the balance of Yin and Yang energies.

Are you always 'doing'?

What leads the actions you take in your yoga business?

Energy is everything and when action, masculine yang energy, happens from a place of energetic alignment with your intuition, yin feminine energy, this is where whatever you are being called to create is possible.

But do you make time for magic in your yoga business?  Do you have an energetic practice, where you allow yourself to connect to your inner guidance system, the universe, higher self, whatever you want to call it?

There are many ways you can make time for magic; it can be as simple as paying attention to that whisper and those signs.  From meditating to surfing to writing down all the names of the people coming to your full retreat you are yet to advertise, this is all magic work.

And what will work for you is totally unique to you, but I can tell you to lean into what you love, and if you’re not sure what this is just take action, as the magic happens along the way!

Getting into energetic alignment and having the rock-steady nerve to sit in the vibration of ‘it’s all working out for me’, is not easy alone.  And I would really love for you to stop waiting and stop trying to do it all by yourself when you don’t have to!

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

I have wanted to share this story, literally all year!

At the end of 2023, 2 weeks before Christmas I joined a mastermind, this was not what I had planned.  But when Lucy Sheridan showed me the sales page for her New Era mastermind something deep inside me told me very strongly that I had to say yes to this.

I said yes to a £10,000, investment.  I have never invested in myself and my business at this price before. I had the first monthly instalment, but the rest of the money was unknown.

And it was by far the BEST decision I have ever made.

I joined because I knew I was ready for a big shift in my business, and I needed the guidance of someone like Lucy to make it.  I also needed to get out of Cornwall, without my kids in tow, and this Mastermind had in-person meet-ups in Birmingham, London, Peak District and Edinburgh.

But this mastermind has changed me on so many levels, and I have made new friends that are quite frankly priceless.

This mastermind taught me to trust my higher self, even if on paper it seems crazy, to believe in the impossible and that magic is all around us.

I have had so many incredible experiences it is impossible to put into words.

All I can ask of you is to take a huge leap of faith whatever that may look like for you.

d if working with me 1:1 in a mastermind-type model might be your leap of faith, then pop your name on the waitlist here - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/your-purpose-waitlist

Doors open mid-November for a small cohort of 8.

And if you are missing my weekly voice, remember you can join my Substack.  For access to weekly videos, extra business masterclasses and yoga classes, plus an archive of all previous posts, this will cost £4.40 a month or £44 a year.  

JOIN HERE – https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Ways we can work together:

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs Visit – https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/

Hear more from me each week, join me over on Substack at https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training Visit – www.amy-yoga.com 

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:

1. Charged more for my classes

2. Stopped comparing myself to other local teachers and making judgements based on my value and worthiness of services based on their website!

3. Got over the whole idea that I always had to include an inversion in a vinyasa flow yoga class for it to be a good class!

Comparing and despairing is the stealer of your joy, and as I always say why wait for hindsight to feel good!

This is easier said than done, and much harder to do alone, and joining my mentoring programme means you are no longer alone with me on your side!

Join my mentoring programme for yoga teachers

The first couple of years are the hardest after graduating as a yoga teacher, and the best thing you can do is not try to figure it out alone.

I would love to support you to create a profitable, sustainable and joyful yoga business - join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways to work with me

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/

2. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

3. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Watch on YouTube

Ep.63 A good yoga teacher….

Today’s episode is the fourth in a 4-part series of mini-teaching clinics, where I’ll explore an aspect of yoga teaching.

A good yoga teacher gives options.

A good yoga teacher teaches in an inclusive way, which allows all students to meet themselves where they are at that given moment.

Side note here, your yoga classes aren’t for everyone, so make sure you are clear about who your class is for. 

And everyone should have access to yoga if they want it, if you want to help those who face a financial barrier, teaching low-cost class yoga classes is not the way to sustainable serve for the long term.

A good yoga teacher builds in challenge in a way that doesn’t add to a student’s stories around their body of being inflexible or not strong enough.

This is easier said than done but my favourite word ‘maybe’ is powerful, along with the invitation to play and then we all arrive at the place we are meant to be.

A successful yoga business is one where you can teach with confidence and run your business with ease, and with 14-plus years as a yoga teacher, I can help you do both!  Check out all the ways we can work together.

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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 and traditions and find ways to integrate this with relevance into our modern world. 

And Floss is the lady who is doing just this. Check her out on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/philosophical_floss/

Feeling burnout from teaching lots of weekly classes and out of alignment with how she truly wants to share yoga with the world after 5 years of trying to figure it out alone Floss said yes to my mentorship programme. 

Coming in at option 2, Floss is working more closely with me 1:1 and the results after 2 months are staggering! From full workshops, a reduced number of weekly classes, to both new online and in-person offerings that truly honour her love of embodied movement and philosophy, plus a newfound confidence that she is a good teacher, and she is needed. Not to mention this energy of course has rippled into all areas of her life. 

In fact, why not join Floss online 22nd January for her workshop on modern postural yoga, we all need to hear this one! 

Book here - https://www.flossophyandyoga.co.uk/event-details-registration/introduction-to-the-philosophy-and-history-of-yoga-part-2-colonial-encounters-the-emergence-of-modern-postural-yoga

Floss leads the way for us all, especially a younger generation who may be told that they are poor, you can’t afford X, Y or Z. Floss also leads the way in saying yes to mentorship and like she says, what is unique about what I have to offer is I can help you with both hats that you wear, yoga teacher and yoga business. 

Mentorship should be industry standard for all yoga teachers and investing time and money in the business the side of being a yoga teacher should be as accepted as yoga teacher training is. 

I am here to change all of this! I invite you to seriously consider joining my mentoring programme when the doors re-open on the 22nd of January. My 100-hour further training and business mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss. 

Add your name to the waitlist here - – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Other ways we can work together Book a business 60-minute power up Strategy Session – https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/ 

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

They say running a business is 80% mindset and 20% action - this is very true!

How to build a website -  it’s really very simple, just DECIDE that it is going to happen.

Commit, take imperfect action and make it non-negotiable, so those inevitable hurdles and obstacles don’t stop you.  Dedicate yourself to learning new skills and processes and set a goal/target – 'this will happen by…….'!

That mindset shift is all you need; the rest will just happen.

What if you already have a website?

If you already have a website this episode is still very much for you, as I bet there is something you’d love to do right now but feel that you can’t or are stuck in the feeling of over-whelm.

I can speak with serious authority on this as I am no website designer! I had a rubbish, basic website for 12 years but my website was a big part of my business being profitable and successful.  If I had taken it down because I thought it wasn’t good enough, or too basic this would have been a serious mistake.

I have now invested in a new website, which someone professionally built it for me, but I can still edit this site and yes do encounter the odd hurdle and maybe a few technology tears now and again!

But this is all part of sharing my light with the world, which like it or not is online and I still frequently ask google if I want to know something.

The mindset shift

Decide, commit to the process, and take imperfect action – I CAN!

Work with me?

Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme - I can help you create your website, write the copy, overcome mind-trash, all in a way that honours you! Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we’ll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

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 room.

Other ways yoga teachers make money and share the light that is yoga, include workshops, retreats, 1:2:1s, training programmes, and cohort-based specialist courses.  These too are great, and I thoroughly recommend expanding into some of these options when you feel ready.

But……

All of the above requires you to trade your time and your services for money and this has a ceiling.  If you want to earn more and help more people, then you have to do more = burnout.

Create an online yoga course?

What if you leveraged your time for money, created online offerings which meant you didn’t always need to be physically there, or you could help way more people in one go.  Leveraging your time online opens the door on your earning potential as yoga teacher, and one I thoroughly recommend you open.

So, at this point your brain starts to tell you that you’re no good with technology, you wouldn’t know where to start or there are loads of free you-tube videos – right?!   What if this wasn't true?

Sign up to my Leverage training for just £39, self-study training for yoga teachers showing you how to create and sell your online course or membership in 5 easy to manage steps! - https://amy-yoga.com/leverage-start-sell-and-scale-online/

Work with me?

Yoga teachers, I really encourage you to open this door and let me help you take those first steps to getting started online?Want to get 6 months of my personalised support in building your yoga business, including building an online yoga business? My Prosperous Yogini group mentoring programme is what you need, join the wait list and find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

I work with www.podbubble.com to produce this podcast. 

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 your yoga business. 

Overwhelm is a stress response, a negative one and that’s never a good thing.

How to navigate overwhelm

Here’s how to work your way out of feeling stuck and overwhelmed:

1. Come up with a strategy - what are the steps needed in order to complete the task(s) that currently feel impossible?
3. How much time will this take? (Be generous with your time)

4. Set aside time to do this task and commit to doing nothing else in that planned slot of time.

Other useful tips

• What are your glass balls and what are your plastic balls e.g. what can you drop for now (the plastic ones!)
• Can you get help from friends, family, or paid help.

And the best piece of advice – JOIN MY MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME TODAY - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Watch the podcast on You-Tube

Work with me?

I can support you through the reasons you are feeling overwhelmed, doing this alone is not easy!  Visit me here to join my 6-month Prosperous Yogini mentorship programme or add your name to the waiting list.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit – https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

Inspired by a question someone asked me on how to manifest their dream life and my “Ideas to Action” July offers coming up, today’s episode is all about how we create.

Truth be told I struggle with the term ‘manifest’, and I cannot fully subscribe to the concept that we are responsible for all that happens to us.  We are after all human beings on this tiny blue planet hurtling through space, we have to accept there are external circumstances beyond our control.   

But our thoughts do become things, and our beliefs, which are thoughts we have continued to think over time, directly inform the actions or inactions we take.

So yes when we are in this sense responsible for the creation of our reality, I like to live by the 80/20 rule, pretty much on everything!

How to Manifest:

1. Get clear on what you do want.

2. Pay attention to your thoughts, especially the ones that are telling you “no you can’t do that”.

3. Question these thoughts, are they true – probably not!

4. Reverse engineer your steps to create what you want, and take the next available step.

Oh and give your nervous system some love, because it’s not all about overcoming the mind, you have to bring the body with you, you’re human after all!

You are not meant to do this alone, so please stop, here’s how I can help you with this work in July:

Ideas to Action 

In-person - https://amyjonesmentor.mykajabi.com/offers/24mduHcg/checkout

Online - https://amyjonesmentor.mykajabi.com/ideastoaction

Want more of my help?

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs

Magical energy work meets epic business advice - www.amyjonesmentor.com

Hear a bit more for free from me each week Join me on Substack - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training

Foundation YTT, specialist training in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga and CPD- www.amy-yoga.com 

Today I am joined by my dear friend and experienced teacher-trainer Nathalie Bennett from Live Love Yoga.

We share the story of our relationship, which is supportive and collaborative, based on the shared ethos that there truly is room for us all, and supporting each other to thrive is something we all should strive to do in the yoga industry.

Together we discuss how our educational experiences led to our roles as yoga teacher-trainers, why we became trainers and the evolution of that journey.

And of course, how Covid resulted in us both now having online yoga teacher training courses!  

What I love the most is our conversations around doing things differently, and how that leads to greater inclusivity within the yoga industry.

We briefly brave the loaded topic of awarding yoga bodies, in the unregulated world that is yoga.

It’s jammed packed full of gold-dust information regardless of what stage of business you are at, and is particularly useful if you are considering adding in some form of training into your offer suit.

Check Nathalie out- https://www.liveloveyoga.co.uk/

Join her next online foundation teacher training course this April - https://www.liveloveyoga.co.uk/onlineyogateachertraining

Watch on YouTube

Ways we can work together

The mindset of becoming a trainer is a big one, along with creating a curriculum and assessment strategy that guides trainee teachers to the intended outcomes of your course.   

I’ve been involved in education and training for over 22 years, and I’d love to work with you in my highly supportive mentorship programme to craft your yoga teacher training course.

Find out more here - 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

"Becoming a Trainer" April 2023 masterclass join here - https://amyjones.lpages.co/becoming-a-trainer/

Other ways we can work together

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Before I dive into today I have a big invitation to all my listeners, but particularly my super fans who tune weekly.

The free stuff is great, I know the difference my podcast makes but if I am fully truthful with you here the real change comes when you hit the buy it now button.  

When you commit with the energy of money – this is the power on investment.

If you listen to my podcast each week, it is now time to take it up a level and commit to a deeper level of change and join my online Programme, Energy, Mindset, Money & More.

This is an online programme with a twist, we get to have a hug!  It also includes one of my in-person VIP business days down in sunny Cornwall.  So not only do you benefit from the power of your investment, but also from the power of in-person interaction.  

You’ve heard my voice for so long, imagine what working with me for a day will be like.

JOIN HERE – https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/energy-money-mindset-and-more

Doors close 9pm Tuesday 2nd October 

Today’s episode is sorry not sorry moment.  I’ve been there soaking up all the free stuff, listening to all the podcasts, searching for that one thing that will make a difference and you know what I discovered?

INVESTING, aka paying to be part of courses and working with coaches and mentors.  The minute I hit the buy it now button was the minute I changed how I showed up and I want the same for you too.

When we commit to change and put some money behind this it does feel scary, it is the singular reason why people hold back and give reasons like “not for me at this time”, or “can’t afford it”.  

In some case, this may be true, but in many cases people are scared to fully say yes to the change they want.  But in the end we invest when the pain of staying where we are is greater than saying yes to the scary change we want.

For one last time today if you want to make more money, help more people and create a business where you are doing more of what lights you up, it is time to invest, the free stuff has got you this far, but now it’s time for more!

JOIN HERE - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/energy-money-mindset-and-more

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 Yin-yoga?

If not you really should and more to the point train online with me today, and you get a weekly live Yin class with me too!

Find out more here - https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Loving all this talk and guidance about the actual act of teaching yoga?

This is what you get in my mentoring programme, and I’d love 2024 to be the year where you come on in because we truly are not meant to be doing this job alone!

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open in January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Other ways we can work together

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

Episode 6 season 2 – My experiences of Substack 

Early this year I started my new Substack community, “Energy, Mindset, Monday and More”.

What is Substack?

It’s hard to say exactly, it’s a form of email marketing as each post lands as an email in your inbox, but you can also see posts directly in Substack.  It’s not just written form you can imbed videos and even podcasts directly from Substack.  People subscribed to your Substack can see archives of previous posts and you can choose to allow people to comment on posts.

You can choose to give it all away for free or put some or certain features behind a paywall, so you can monetise your email list.

Best of all it’s free, super easy to set up, and if you do yet have email marketing set up (why not, I have been talking about this for over 2 years now!), then it could be the quickest, easiest and most effective way for you to do this.  No website is needed, and no excuses, set aside time to make it happen.

Why?

Because the power of a small, engaged community of your tribe is immense, and I would draw my focus here over social media any day.

I have loved using Substack to grow my new business, and to let people know how else I can help them in my role as a business and energy mentor.

And if you are a female, service-based entrepreneur and you want to make more money doing what you love in a way that energetically supports you then you really need to join my Substack today!

JOIN HERE - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Want more of my help?

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs

Magical energy work meets epic business advice - www.amyjonesmentor.com

Hear a bit more for free from me each week Join me on Substack - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training

Foundation YTT, specialist training in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga and CPD- www.amy-yoga.com 

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 self-sabotage, because you feel you don’t deserve it.   Yep, dear Mrs Imposter syndrome will rock up and say, “this won’t last, they’ll find you out”.

Knowledge is power and knowing this will happen will help you navigate it and not act upon it!

What I also love about this story is how it proves that the whole fear, scarcity-based mindset that ripples through so many yoga teacher FB groups, that there’s too many yoga teachers, is simply not true.  Yoga breeds more yoga, teaching somewhere where lots of yoga happens is a sign people are up for yoga!  There is room for us all!

But a situation where a class is full - and you don’t have control over numbers, and could end up turning people away - is not a good one to be in.  Or perhaps you have people wanting to do yoga with you, but can’t.  They are losing out, and you are leaving money and opportunity on the table.

My advice

• Know it’s not luck and be immensely grateful you are in this position, it’s a sign this is totally what you are meant to do!
• Get a booking system, charge in blocks, drop the drop-ins, and put your prices up.
• Use your booking system to set up a waitlist, when you have enough on this waitlist start a new class.
• You have a group of raving fans, start thinking about how you could serve them more and grow your business, perhaps they’d love a workshop?

Ways you can work with me

I would love to help you grow your yoga business and continue to build on your success, here’s how you can work with me:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme for yoga teachers.  Join the wait list and find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

4. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Watch on You-tube

Episode 2 – How to know what to charge 

After listening to episode 1 you’re now totally sold on the belief that to serve, share your passion, teach yoga, you have to have a profitable, sustainable business model.

This only happens through action, so let’s get to it!

How do you know what to charge for your services?

In this episode, I primarily focus on the model of teaching classes, but a huge caveat here, this isn’t the only way to make money teaching yoga.   This model also has a ceiling, there are only so many classes you can physically teach in a week and if it’s in-person only so many people you can fit in one room!

But my nifty little equation, a + a = everyone is happy, (yes not a figure in sight), works for any offer.

You know the importance of balanced energy, for your price to be right long-term the energy out must balance the energy in.

Here is where data and woo-woo meet, you need to know the facts, what does it cost you to run this offer?   Always start here!  Then take time to shift through the noise stuff, until you find a price that says “hell yes”, that's your inner wisdom, intuition talking.

It’s a process of time, practise and patience - just like your yoga practise!

Work with me?

Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme – I can help you set aligned prices for your yoga offers. Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we’ll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love.

You can also train with me. I offer 250hr Foundation Yoga Teacher Training and other shorter specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast?

I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

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 going to stop her. 

There is so much I love about Caroline’s story, she knows her why and this drives her to succeed. Which is what matters when you are building an online business. 

You don’t hear many stories of people at the beginning of their journey, it’s so often about 6-figure businesses and 5 and 6-figure launches. But we all start from zero, and we all work hard in the early days to organically grow our business, the successful ones are people like Caroline, who are in it for the long game. 

Plus Caroline knew that trying to do it alone was madness, and she’s been working with me in my mentoring programme. We have created the systems to grow her business and generate sales, lead magnets, automations, paid mini-course, and her Tribe Membership and now we’re playing with 1:1 offers and live courses. 

Caroline shows us that consistent, persistent action in the direction of your dreams is the path we all must take! Support Caroline by visiting - https://www.humblewarrioryoga.uk/ 

Join her mailing list, buy her mini-course and better still join her Tribe membership, yoga is something that all women over 40 should do. 

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Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

I hope Caroline inspires you to stop trying to do it alone, there is no way I could run my business without the support of my mentor. When it comes to building an online business this is a long game, one where you can save yourself so much time, and long term make money when you choose to work with a mentor who has been where you are now. 

I’ve been building my online yoga business since April 2020, I trust me if I can do it, you can too, and this is one thing we could do together inside my mentoring programme! I believe all yoga teachers need mentoring. I believe that all yoga teachers, who largely happen to be female, should have profitable sustainable businesses. 

And I believe that now is the time to join my mentoring programme My 100-hour further training and business mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss. 

The doors next open on 22nd January 2024, add your name to the waitlist 

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/ 

Other ways we can work together

Book a business 60-minute power up Strategy Session – https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/ 

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/ 

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training 

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 programme!

Could you imagine where you’d be in terms of your yoga practise if you’d only ever practised by yourself and did the odd free class on YouTube?  The power that a good teacher has to support, inspire and encourage you in the right direction is priceless. For example, I personally would have never tried inversions if it wasn’t for the support of my teacher encouraging me to expand my comfort zone and try them!

So, my big question to you as a business owner is, why are you trying to do this alone?

I’ve been there, tried to muddle through by myself and lapped up all the free training going, but committing to investing in group programmes, memberships and recently working 1:2:1 with a coach has been some of the best decisions I have made for my business.

What often stops us is fear of spending the money, but any good coach, mentor or group programme will help you make your investment back and some.  What mainly stopped me for so long was imposter syndrome, the fear that when someone who knew what they were doing might look at what I did and tell me I didn’t have a clue or was doing it wrong.  Imposter syndrome is so powerful, we all suffer from it, and I wish I ignored it way sooner!

What the podcast on You-tube

I would love you to join my Prosperous Yogini mentorship programme, I can support you to create your own profitable, sustainable yoga business.

Visit - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/ - to bring me onto your team, you don’t have to do this alone!

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

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 continued to try to keep your in-person classes going during the lockdown.  It simply wouldn’t have worked.

The same is true now, you can’t pretend that the recession isn’t happening, and it’s prudent to begin to consider if you need to, and how you may adapt.   Yoga teaches us nothing is constant, everything is subject to change and this applies to your yoga business.

The definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, so if you have something not working, perhaps it’s time to mix things up.

How may you adapt and diversify your offers to continue to serve?  100% review your prices, if your costs have gone up, or you adapt your offers to add more value, your prices should reflect this.

And remember, despite external events the yoga industry has grown and is projected to continue doing so!

Watch and listen on You-Tube

Work with me?

And just like your students who will continue to invest in their health, you need to continue to invest in you.  Now more than ever you need me on your team to support you and grow your yoga business.

I would love you to join my Prosperous Yogini mentorship programme, I can support you to create your own profitable, sustainable yoga business.  Visit me here to find out more and see how we can work together.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit – https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast! I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com – they make podcasting possible!

Episode 101 – The 3 reasons why you are under-charging

After several conversations this week around prices and money I felt compelled to discuss this topic today.

Truth is your relationship with money and money mindset is an ongoing practice, one I am still very much working with alongside you.

But the more we wake up to the conditioning and programming that has sought to keep women small, to keep money out of our hands, the more we can lead the way for future generations.

None of it is easy, sorry!

But here’s why you’re under-charging:

1. Thousands of years of conditioning from the patriarchal system taught us that money was not something we could have or should want.  We see the impact of this in the statistics of wealth in men versus women.  This system is crumbling away, and we have to seriously start to question what we’ve been told.

2. We’re all just copying each other and victims of comparison.  We’re all undercharging and comparing ourselves and resistant to being the most expensive.  What if you broke the norm for your industry, what if you led the way?

3. As yoga teachers, soul-led entrepreneurs we are doing what we do because we are passionate about our profession and want to use our gifts and skills to help people.  And getting tangled into feeling bad about asking for money for this is why you’re undercharging and heading for burnout.

I know none of what I say today is easy, but let it go in, and then do me a favour, go back over your facts and figures and I’ll put money on the fact you need to charge more!

Add into the mix it is virtually impossible to do this stuff alone, yet that’s what we opt for.

Here’s my invitation to you to stop going it alone, let’s work together:

For Female Entrepreneurs – https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

For Yoga Teachers – visit www.amy-yoga.com 

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 any stage of your business will bring up these feelings.

In this episode I answer some great questions from those newly qualified yoga teachers who joined the “Profitable Yoga business Roadmap” and I know many of these questions and my answers will be of use to you all.

I also love answering your questions on my podcast, so if there’s anything you’d like me to answer on my podcast do send me your questions to info@amy-yoga.com.

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

Questions about yoga teaching and running your yoga business come up at every stage of your career.  It is madness that we attempt to run our yoga business alone.  I truly believe mentoring should be the industry standard.  I believe in a yoga industry where we are all needed and we all can thrive, and this comes from a place of support.

Join my 6-month mentoring programme for yoga teachers– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Add your name to the waitlist if doors are closed.

And if you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, I am coming for you too this year, as so much of the work I do with yoga teachers is not just relevant to them.  Watch this space!

Yoga Teacher Training

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

In today’s episode, I am joined by Clare from Switzerland!  Clare is currently in my mentoring programme, and we have a good chat about studio ownership, juggling motherhood, and the impact of being in my mentored by me! 

Working together Clare and I have refined her already wonderful offers, created new offers maximising her beautiful studio space and are now really homing in on expanding income – working smarter, not harder!

I call it my pathway to profit, and I create a unique one for everyone in my mentoring programme.

We also share some very exciting news.  In 2024 I am going international and heading over to Clare’s studio in Switzerland to run an in-person 4-day Yin-yoga teacher training course!!!

This is universal alignment, opportunities come your way and the universe literally hooks you up!

Join my mentoring programme for yoga teachers

If you would like to build, grow and scale your yoga business, in a highly supportive, personalised group mentoring programme then I’m your girl! 

Find out more here– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

Check Clare out

Check out Clare and her beautiful studio  here - https://raisondhetre.ch/

Follow Clare on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/clarebhallawellbeing/

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 within the workplace.

I hope we move to a world where wellness in the workplace is standard.

And if this way of working interests you then connecting with local businesses and putting together your bespoke wellness package for them is a great way to work as a yoga teacher or other wellness entrepreneur.  

Claire’s story should inspire you all to consider work beyond the scope of offers to the public.

Follow Claire on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/yoga_with_clairej/

Corporate wellness is on the rise, are you ready to be part of this movement, remember my mantra “Make offers, make money”!

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

Make sure your name is on the waitlist for my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme.  I welcome new cohorts 3 times a year to develop their skills as a yoga teacher and a business owner, including making corporate offers!

JOIN THE WAITLIST HERE - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

Female Serviced-based Entrepreneurs

If you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, I am coming for you too this year, as so much of the work I do with yoga teachers is not just relevant to them.  Start by joining me on LinkedIn here – https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-jones-mentor/

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 events are wonderful ways to bring your current community together and meet new people.

Simply put a charity class is a great piece of marketing, and is one reason, not the main one, but one reason to say yes to this work.

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Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

We’ve been seasonally planning and discussing setting up charity classes this Christmas in my mentoring programme since September.

This is what you get in my mentoring programme, someone gently helping you to plan for profit and create a purposefully, soul-led business that you and your students love.

I’d love 2024 to be the year where you come on in because we truly are not meant to be doing this job alone!

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open in January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Other ways we can work together

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

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 tough right now. Economic climate aside, this can sometimes be the nature of running a business.

But I want you to know you are the master of your own destiny, try not to blame external events.  This can get us stuck in a doom-loop of not taking action to change our current situation because we believe it’s beyond our control.

Your beautiful brain will step in to 'protect you' and tell you a whole load of untrue stuff to keep you safe but ultimately stuck.

Remember our thoughts inspire our beliefs, our beliefs inspire our actions (or non-actions).

Knowledge is power, and instead of making a lot of stuff up, get clear on the facts and take action from these.

Options for getting un-stuck

• Reach out to past, regular students if it’s an established class, and get some feedback on why they are no longer coming.  I will put money on it being nothing to do with you.
• Are there eyes on the prize?  I.e., who knows about this class, how are you talking to people and inviting them to come?
• Is it clear who the class is for, are you inviting in your dream, ideal student?  No more ‘yoga for everyone, general yoga class suitable for all abilities' – this class does not exist.
• Really appreciate and show up for the students that do come, hard I know, especially if you are losing money.  But they will love you and your class, and you’ll magnetize more people to join.
• Is your pricing structure encouraging commitment?
• Is it easy to book on, is there any friction that may make me not turn up? Aka yep just come along and pay on the night.

Here’s the tough one – is this what you truly want to do? Because if it’s not you’ll be blocking it, so get really clear on what you want to do and when.  What lights you up?

Ways you can work with me!

My best advice in this situation is to stop trying to figure this out alone, now more than ever is the time to invest in you and your yoga business.  I would love to help you fill your classes with your dream client and create so much demand in your yoga business that you’ve got wait lists (yes this is possible!)

Here’s how you can work with me:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/

2. Join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme for yoga teachers. Join the wait list and find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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Do you teach 1:2:1 yoga classes?

Why might you choose to teach 1:2:1 yoga classes?

What are the pros and cons of teaching private yoga classes?

A great request episode today where I answer those questions above.

What I find is most yoga teachers that offer 1:2:1 classes are under-charging and have no cancellation policy.  As a result, income from 1:2:1 is inconsistent, and long-term not sustainable.

A 1:2:1 yoga class demands your personal time and energy, and the price should reflect that.  Not to mention everyone benefits from consistent practice and your offer should be structured in a way that encourages this.

When you get this right teaching 1:2:1 to the people who need and want to access yoga this way can generate consistent income, without needing a huge following on Instagram!

Watch on YouTube

Work with me

Tap into my 14+ plus years as a yoga teacher and over 22 years in education, training and mentoring.  I can help you teach with confidence and run your yoga business with ease.

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today - https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Inspired by my new 30-day online group programme “Ideas to Action”.

JOIN HERE – https://amyjonesmentor.mykajabi.com/ideastoaction 

Doors close Tuesday 2nd July 8pm.

Have you ever heard the phrase “there are no new ideas”?

I believe ideas live in the non-physical space, aka the space we can’t see, which according to Pam Gregory, the best astrology on YouTube, the unseen makes up 90%, and I have to say I think I agree with her.

Ideas are just floating around waiting for us physical beings, aka humans, to receive them and then if they’re meant for us to take action.

The problem often is we don’t take action, our beautiful brain for a whole multitude of made-up excuses says a big fat “no”, and those ideas stay just that, and we get increasingly frustrated, particularly by others who seemingly are doing what we want to do!

Today I advise on the following:

1. What to do when you get your idea

2. How to navigate having too many ideas, I literally could start a new business or launch a new programme every day!

3. How to know if the idea is meant for you, or perhaps you need to pass it on, I touch on Human Design and the role of a Generator.

4. What to do when the ideas aren’t flowing, and you need them to.

I’m going to say it one more time, if you catch this episode by 8pm Tuesday 2nd July, you have no choice but to join my new Ideas to Action 30-day group programme.

JOIN HERE – https://amyjonesmentor.mykajabi.com/ideastoaction 

Want more of my help?

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs

Magical energy work meets epic business advice - www.amyjonesmentor.com

Hear a bit more for free from me each week Join me on Substack - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training

Foundation YTT, specialist training in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga and CPD- www.amy-yoga.com 

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 decisions to make.

Watch on Youtube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

What is hard when you try and do all of it alone, I really want 2024 where you stop trying to make it happen this way.

Join my mentoring programme, the price means you can’t fail to make back your investment!  

I believe all yoga teachers need mentoring 

I believe that all yoga teachers, who largely happen to be female, should have profitable sustainable businesses.

And I believe that now is the time to join my mentoring programme 

My 100-hour further training and business mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open on 22nd January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Other ways we can work together

Book a business 60-minute power up Strategy Session – https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

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 share the light that is yoga, the world collectively needs love, hope and healing now more than ever.  

As yoga teachers and anyone else who works with the human system, we hold space.  We hold space for the physical body, the emotional body, the energetic body and the spiritual body.

Through sharing the practice of yoga we hold space for the seen and the unseen.

Our human energies bodies are affected by events both on the macro and micro, and I know that when collectively we feel the weight of global events, holding space feels harder.

But it’s not just about our students, to hold this space, we also have to manage our own energetic space.  We too are effective by events both personally and on a larger collective scale.  And to hold space for others through both the light and the dark times, we have to ensure we are looking after ourselves first.

Doing this alone is not easy, this is one reason I believe mentorship should be the industry standard for yoga teachers.

Because the world needs you, your love, your light and your gifts as a yoga teacher now more than ever.

Not to mention a world where more kind-hearted, conscious people, have profitable, thriving businesses I know is a better world.

This is my dharma right now, to help you, so along with my weekly free podcast check out all the ways we can work together because you are not meant to be doing this alone.

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open in January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Watch on YouTube

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 6^th 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 of the transformation coming to yoga with you can bring to their lives, it suddenly becomes a no-brainer – they are in!

In an age of information overloaded communicating the value easily and succinctly is very powerful.

For example:

• Your monthly membership could be the equivalent cost of coffee and cake.
• Your drop-in price when someone is unsure whether to act or not is the cost of a takeaway pizza.
• Your weekend retreat is cheaper (and way better) than 3 nights in the local hotel.
• Your weekly yoga class helps someone to leave pain-free (this is priceless!)

When it comes to your business and investing in you, we so often get stuck at the price, even the thought of paying the tiny transaction fee when taking online card payment.  But the value of making it easy for someone to book in, pay quickly and in that moment they have decided they are coming, is so worth the transaction fee!

And your value is infinite, the transformation you offer through your teachings immeasurable - so maybe that helps you charge a fair amount!

Ways to work with me

I would love to support you as you lean into what you love in, the best way to do this is to join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Join the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can hang out:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Watch on YouTube

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 make more money?  Which in turn gave you more energy is all areas of your life – including showing up for your in-person clients!

What if you just committed to the action and created an online yoga business?

At this point your brain is probably saying some of the following:

• I have no idea where to start
• I have no idea on the tech front
• I have no idea what to offer online
• I am not ready (one more training course…….)
• I’m not great on video and my bum will look big (the last one was definitely one of my blocks!)

Of course, your brain is doing this – she wants to keep you safe, so thank your beautiful brain, move on and listen to Leah’s inspirational story.  Leah is a great person to learn from, she’s a couple of years into building her online yoga business, and she’s those few steps ahead of where you are now.   

Your beautiful brain will most likely be drawn to the big names, those with huge online courses business (who BTY probably have been in the game for 10 plus years and have a team!)  They prove it’s possible, if they can do it so can you, but also look for those a few years ahead of you, they’re often the ones who can help you the most when you start out.

This episode is insanely good – I am just going to say LISTEN, soak it up and take it all in!

Then head over to Leah’s YouTube channel, website, social media and podcast - subscribe, watch her videos and sign up for her challenges, to thank her for this HUGE dose of inspiration today!

Check Leah from Lakora yoga our!

You-tube https://www.youtube.com/c/leahhyneyoga

Website - https://www.lakorayoga.com

Insta https://www.instagram.com/lakorayoga/

Podcast - 

Inspired and want to take those first steps to getting started online?

Want to get 6 months of my personalised support in building your yoga business, including building an online yoga business? My 6-month Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme is what you need, join the wait list and find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Sign up to my Leverage training for just £39, self-study training for yoga teachers showing you how to create and sell your online course or membership in 5 easy to manage steps! - https://amy-yoga.com/leverage-start-sell-and-scale-online/

Check out my online teacher training, CPD courses and classes - https://www.amy-yogaonline.com/

I work with www.podbubble.com to produce this podcast.

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What success is for you and how you achieve it is ultimately completely unique to you, but if you asked me what my 3 top tips are for having a successful yoga business these are them:

1. Sell more and remember my mantra “make offers, make money, make offers often” - from a place of non-attachment to the outcome.

2. Turn the spotlight from you to those you will help by teaching yoga to them.  We can’t fight against being human, our beautiful brain will always kick in to keep us safe and prevent us from failing, but when we focus on helping others navigating the mind becomes possible.

3. Invest in you and your business beyond just more training!  Yep, that’s right work on the business stuff too with a coach or mentor who’s been there and can guide you to where you’d like to be – like me!

Work with me

Because point 3 is the one that will really change things for you, with me on your team and if you work with me 1:2:1 in your pocket, this is where turning your passion to profit will really start to happen!

I have a unique position as a mentor, I can help you with both your yoga teaching and the business side of things.  Tap into my 14+ plus years as a yoga teacher and over 22 years in education, training and mentoring.

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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

From the perspective of my yoga business and as a teacher I have learnt:

• That our classes are way more than just yoga, it’s about community and connection
• Remaining consistent is very powerful
• That consistency builds up over time through word of mouth and this is the most powerful marketing tool we have, especially when it comes to local classes
• Having a specialism that lights you up will expand your teaching schedule and streams of income (but you don’t have to niche yourself into a corner, I don’t just teach toddler yoga!)

Work with me?

If you like the sound of building a yoga business around teaching bumps, mums & little ones, and you want flexible, online training then I’m your girl! Check out my pregnancy, postnatal and toddler specialist yoga teacher training courses here - https://www.amy-yogaonline.com/p/pregnancy-and-postnatal-yoga-teacher-training

Or my 12hr Teaching toddler yoga self-paced CPD course - https://www.amy-yogaonline.com/p/teaching-toddler-yoga

Inspired by my closing rant and are totally ready to build, grow and scale a sustainable profitable yoga business, then my 6-month Prosperous Yogini group mentoring programme is what you need! Join the wait list and find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

I work with www.podbubble.com to create my podcasts.

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After a story I encountered last week where a business owner woke up to find their FB and Instagram accounts had disappeared and trying to get someone in FB (or Meta as it’s now known!) to help them impossible, I felt compelled this week to encourage you to not just be on social media!

Main takeaways from today’s podcast

• Do you have two-step authentication set up on your FB/Insta accounts – if not DO IT NOW!
• You don’t and can’t be on every platform, be where you feel most aligned and happy.
• See social media as the icing on the cake, the last 10%, the invitation to your yoga party, calling out those you think who may like your party, and be ok with some people not wanting to come!

But know

• That not everyone is on social media.
• Not everyone sees your content (aka party invitation).

If you’re just on social media you’re creating friction, those who are not can’t find you!  Not to mention the massive friction you’ll experience if for whatever reason you lose your accounts, and this happens ALL THE TIME!

Actions yoga can take now

• Get a website, Wix, Square or Word-press can all help you quickly and easily create a good-looking site at not too much expense to you.
• Or if you don’t want a website, have a landing page, a one-page website that helps people find out about you and buy your offers.  This can also be the one link on your Instagram page.

Email lists, landing pages and Mailer-Lite

Opening the door to grow an email list is one of the best things you can do. This can be done for free or at very little cost per month (like £9.99 pm)!  I love Mailer-lite; you can start using it for free and then the paid option will more than likely give you all that you need for life!   Plus, what’s more, it’s not just emails that it creates, but also landing pages, so you can solve your website and email list building issues in one go, at very little cost to you.

If you’re interested in signing up for mailer lite and would also like to support me (thank you!), please use my affiliate link to sign up to create your Mailer-lite account - https://www.mailerlite.com/a/1rinot31bzfg

Work with me further?

Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme - I can help you navigate social media and talk to people (marketing), all in a way that honours you! Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we’ll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love.

You can also train with me. I offer 250hr Foundation Yoga Teacher Training and other shorter specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast? I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com - they make podcasting possible!

52 episodes and a billion hours talking to myself in my cupboard later, and here I am episode 53 and I’m having a party!

Or more accurately I am hosting a free Q&A call, and best of all I am not alone, some listeners have joined me from the cupboard.  Along with Pancake my golden doodle who is under my chair as I record!

In today’s episode, I answer your questions, from how my advice about your yoga business doesn’t just end at your yoga business, it’s universal to the impact of covid, pricing, messaging, online presence, and social media!  It is jammed packed today.

If nothing else my podcast models to you the power of doing what lights you up, in your zone of genius.  Honouring you is the path to a successful yoga business, amongst other things.

Here’s to another year!

Amy x

Ps – I love answering your questions the most, so request episodes are always welcome.

Email me at amyjonesyoga@gmail.com or DM me on Insta at https://www.instagram.com/amyyoga.teacher.trainer

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Work with me

This free Q&A call is an excellent example of how coaching calls happen inside my mentoring programme, image this twice a month for 6 months, and the change that would bring!

Join my transformational Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programme here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

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 teaches us to practise non-attachment.  Over-attachment to a goal or plan can create resistance and stress, and who wants that!

I do have goals and dreams for 2023, but my word will softly guide me through and around them.

My word for 2022 was possibility...

Possibility opened me up to trying things even if I failed, starting a podcast, creating my 6-month group mentoring programme, working with a coach, applying for funding (and being successful), introducing the use of FB ads to build my mailing list and re-purposing all the wonderful training content I have into shorter CPD courses for yoga teachers, (which are proving really popular!)

How to find your word?

Your higher self will already know it, spend time listening out for it.  When it comes sit with it for a bit and check it’s the one and then see where it leads you into 2023.

Ways to work with me

Talking of 2023, here’s an important question, is it your year to shine?  Is 2023 the year you take your passion for teaching yoga and helping people and create a profitable, sustainable, impactful business (that helps even more people)?

I think it is!

Keep your eyes peeled early January for some exciting FREE training that will guide you to this goal.

But in truth what you really need in 2023 is me on your team for 6 months and to join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   You can join the waitlist today.

Other ways we can hang out:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy and Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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Inspired by meeting an incredible woman this week who has been a human rights lawyer, set up community support projects aboard and is now a woman’s coach and yoga teacher with younger children, who is looking to build a new way of working.

And what was stopping her from charging appropriately and growing her business? A fear that if she made more money, wanted to make more money she would be greedy!

Can you imagine what money in the hands of this woman would mean for her, her family and all those causes she would use her time and money to support?

This is a very important message for us all. Wanting more money is not greedy, this is a lie we are fed. Money is just a flow of an energetic resource, it does not care who you are and what you plan to do it with. When you have an abundance of time and money you can decide how to use that excess energy.

And I think we can all agree more money in the hands of women will make the world a better place.

Want more of my help?

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs

Magical energy work meets epic business advice - www.amyjonesmentor.com

Hear a bit more for free from me each week Join me on Substack - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training

Foundation YTT, specialist training in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga and CPD- www.amy-yoga.com 

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!!!!!

Eyes peeled for Monday 9^th January to find out what my launch event is – eek!

Ways to work with me

My free launch event will help you, but truth be told free stuff only takes you so far, what you really need in 2023 is me on your team for 6 months and to join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme. 

Other ways we can hang out:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy and Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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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 to shift my system into more balance, to allow expansion and to allow expansion compassionately?

For example, let’s say you want to start offering retreats and largely work abroad, but you have never done anything like this before.  The thought of running a retreat abroad feels impossible, the result is you don’t take any action and remain stuck in your current settings, and in non-action.

What if I see my bigger goal and take the next step available for me, which may look like day retreats, moving to weekend retreats and then abroad?  This allows my settings to shift, allows both my nervous and mindset to adjust to the belief that I can run successful retreats, and at the same time builds a community of people who love going on retreats with me, who will all be ready to go abroad when I offer this?

This is where energy meets action.

Shifting your settings, allows for compassionate expansion, and it’s part of both the mindset and nervous system work, as ultimately they are connected, they are both part of the wholeness that is you.

Today’s podcast has been inspired by my recent Yin Yoga teacher training course.   You can train online today to teach Yin-yoga, find out more here - https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

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Mentoring for yoga teachers

Want to shift your settings to create that yoga business you are dreaming of?  It is extremely hard to do this alone, I don’t believe we are meant to.

I can help you shift your setting, re-frame your mindset and learn to balance your nervous system, this all goes down in my mentoring programme.

I’d love 2024 to be the year where you come on in because we truly are not meant to be doing this job alone!

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open in January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

Show notes

From my experience of training yoga teachers and working with women to create sustainable, profitable yoga businesses I found that the same issues came up time and time again.  After repeating myself for too long I am now on a mission to help you over come self-limiting beliefs, banish business overwhelm and take action to create a sustainable, profitable yoga business, that serves you and your students. 

Since the covid pandemic my yoga business has grown, and a lot of that has been down to investing in myself and studying business (along side the yoga!)  I soon realised that the principles of how to run an ethical, thriving business are the ones as yoga teachers we already know through our practise of yoga.

Our hard wired belief systems often tell us it’s hard to make money teaching yoga, we shouldn’t make money teaching yoga, and so often as women we focus on serving others above ourselves.  Today the yoga business is worth around $88 billion dollars globally, and £908 million in the UK.  Women make up around 75% of the yoga teachers in the world.  So why not you?  Why can’t you create a profitable, sustainable business that helps people and allows you to thrive?

This podcast will also be helpful to any female wellness entrepreneur, although I will often take a yoga focus the principles are the same.  And just to let you know the wellness business is currently worth 4.4 trillion dollars!

Move, train and work with me - visit www.amy-yoga.com

Sign up to be first to be first to hear when the doors to my Prosperous Yogini mentoring programme open - https://amy-yoga.com/email-sign-up/

Start your own podcast?

I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you'd like to do the same but don't know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com - they make podcasting possible!

In today’s episode, I share how my body, my teaching and my yoga business has changed over the last 14 years of teaching, alongside persuading you to train with me to teach yoga with me!

Yoga teaches us nothing is constant; everything is subject to change and that includes us!  Not only do our body's needs shift as we experience life, but we’re human and it’s natural to have new interests and be led down pathways of curiosity.

I found Yin yoga because my body needed it, and it had such a profound effect on me I of course wanted to share that with my students.   This led to not only sharing this much-needed practice with my students but diversifying my offers and creating consistent income with my yoga business, through a membership model.

Whether it’s Yin, or a different style of yoga, diversifying the style of yoga we teach helps bring balance to our body, and our students’ bodies’, as well as opening the doorway for new income pathways.

Yin-yoga teacher training

It is why I do believe if you don’t already you should teach Yin-yoga!

Not to mention you can start training online with me today, with my flexible, practical and highly supportive Yin Yoga Teacher Training course 

Sign up for my FREE Yin-Yoga Teacher Training taster here – https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/672932/103833474310341804/share

Check out my 50-hour online Yin-Yoga Teacher Training course here – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/ 

In-person course dates coming later this year, and they’re not all based in the UK – eek!!!!

Join my mentorship programme for yoga teachers

Perhaps it’s not more training you need, but support in taking those brave steps to diversify your offers and create consistent streams of income within your yoga business.

I would love to support you to create a profitable, sustainable and joyful yoga business.  My mentorship programme supports you as both a yoga teacher and a yoga boss

Find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can work together

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/

2. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule -  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

3. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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Today we explore friction when it comes to running a business (any business, not just a yoga one!) 

Friction appears for us in two ways; friction from external events beyond our control and the friction we create.

I was going to purely talk about the friction we can create in our business, but after coming to record this episode and finding my brand new (and beloved!) Blue Yeti Mic was broken, more than likely thanks to my little girl who had been pretending to do her own podcast, I had to add in the impact of external friction and how to manage and respond to this!

External friction in your yoga business

Events beyond our control - illness, problems with physical spaces, issues with technology, managing students/clients and not to mention global pandemics, wars, and economic crises.   All beyond our control, all have the power to cause us friction, frustration, and discomfort and leave us with a feeling of perhaps it’s best I give up!

They’ll always be points of friction in your business the trick is knowing the process to navigate these moments.

Are you creating friction in your yoga business

• How easy is it for me to book on to your classes or buy your offers?
• How easy is it for me to give you money?
• How easy is it for me to navigate your website?
• If you don’t have a website (don’t panic), but if you’re just on social media what happens if I’m not or you lose your account?  (Cue major source of external friction!)
• Do I have to complete a form or make a discovery call first?  If yes is this appropriate to the offer?

Put simply in the words of the brilliant Denise Duffield Thomas – A confused mind says no!

And our overstimulated, busy minds say no very very quickly, make sure your messaging and copy (anything you write) is clear and easy to follow!

Watch episode 3 on you-tube

Work with me

Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme - I can help you reduce friction in your yoga business. Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we’ll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love.

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast? I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you’d like to do the same but don’t know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com - they make podcasting possible!

When you find your zone of genius, you find your flow, you find what you truly came here to do in this given moment.

The zone of genius concept is not mine, it belongs to Gay Hendricks and I strongly recommend you read his book The Big Leap, to fully understand it.

To find our zone we have to go out play, test, and learn, and I believe sometimes get it wrong in order to get it right.

I love the concept as it reinforces the mindset that there is room for us all, we are all unique, and individual, and the competition we feel and perceive is false.

We can struggle to find it, especially if we are being called to do something radically different from where we currently find ourselves.

Societal beliefs can often see us conforming to paths away from our zone!  The weight of I ‘should do this’, weighs heavy on us all.

Your zone of genius is that place where you feel totally lit up, where if it’s work it certainly doesn’t feel like it.

We all have this place, and my mission is to guide more women to do what lights them up and find their zone.

PODCAST PARTY 14th JUNE 1pm – YOU ARE INVITED

Join me on Friday 14th June for a live Q&A podcast party to mark my 2 year podcasting anniversary.  I need your help with this one, please sign up to pre-submit a question which I will answer live on the call. 

Plus podcasting can be lonely, if you can join me live I would love to see you there.

Sign up here - https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/672932/122421965031999396/share

Other ways we can work together:

For Female Entrepreneurs – https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

For Yoga Teachers – visit www.amy-yoga.com 

Starting yoga yoga business - part 3

You’ve started teaching, have an established class, and a core group of people who come each week.   Before looking forward to what is next, you must celebrate this! 

Before you think about growing your yoga business, you’ve actually got to start it.  You’ve got to go out cut your craft as a teacher, find your vibe and attract your tribe!

But what happens when you’re ready to move on from your initial step?

How to grow your yoga business?

There are a whole multitude of ways you can make money as a yoga teacher and spread the light that is yoga, it really is a sea of exciting possibilities!

Expansion must be compassionate, and done at a pace that is aligned with your energies, your why and how you want to work.

And if at first, you’re not fully sure what this why and how is, have fun saying yes and trying new things.

When we align ourselves energetically with growing our yoga business you will be surprised what offers and opportunities come your way.

Yes, you can teach more classes, but be careful not to offer too much of the same class and spread class numbers over more hours.  Specialising in a particular demographic or offering a contrasting class to your current class are smart ways to expand a teaching schedule.

Train to teach Yin-yoga?

You can train to teach Yin and Pregnancy yoga with me, starting today - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Other low-cost, low-risk options include creating 1:2:1 and corporate packages.   Creating a new offer for your current tribe, such as a workshop or half or full-day retreats.

From online options, longer retreats, studio ownership, setting up your own CIC company or even Airbnb experiences, it is a sea of possibilities.

Just move compassionately to the next step that feels the most exciting, and if you’re not sure which way to go, remember if you don’t go you don’t know so try something.

Watch on YouTune

Ways we can work together

Join my mentorship programme for yoga teachers:

The first 12 months after graduating are the hardest, don’t try to do them alone. Joining my mentoring programme means you are no longer alone with me on your side, and together we plan your own unique pathway to profit, honouring an expansion that works for you.

I would love to support you to create a profitable, sustainable and joyful yoga business – join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can work together

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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-time yoga teacher and part-time employed job, to where she is now, full-time, with full class with waiting lists, and exciting plans to serve her tribe even further!

We reminisce about covid lockdowns, and her decision to make a 3-hour journey for 2 empty classes!  The bottom line is when we start anything new, we’ll make mistakes, it’s the best way to learn what does work for us.

In the midst of the UK’s 3^rd lockdown in 2021, Victoria took the totally unplanned decision to train in trapeze yoga, despite a huge fear of inversions!  This was the best decision she ever made; she’s now responsible for a trapeze yoga craze in Cornwall! 

Not just that she’s totally found her tribe.  Women at a stage in their lives where hanging upside down is immensely empowering and helping to navigate the anxiety and lack of self-esteem that can come with the peri-menopausal and menopausal stages of our lives.

Two years on Victoria is immensely clear on her tribe, she knows her ‘dream student’ and has magnetized them to her.  She doesn’t have a full-blown website, preferring to use a booking site. She does use social media, but sparingly, and has just started her mailing list - well done Vic! She proves that when you get really clear about who and how you want to serve, and when you show up for that 'dream student', they find you.  Your energy literally attracts them!

What’s more, as Victoria now plans to expand her business she’s not thinking she needs more in her community, she’s thinking about how she can serve those who are already there.  This powerful message tells us that it’s not about a big audience, it’s about finding your audience.

Check out Victoria on social media - https://www.instagram.com/victorialeighyoga/

Watch me and Vic on YouTube

Ways to work with me

If you’re inspired by Vic’s story and would like support in finding and talking to your dream student, and growing your yoga business (maybe even going full-time), the best thing you can do is get support on this journey and join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.

Other ways we can hang out:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business - https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Yesterday was 14^th 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 long time a stressed yoga teacher is not a good look.

But this is not just an episode for female yoga teachers.  Today’s episode is for every female serviced-based entrepreneur working in a business of one, aka just them.  Who is over-delivering, over-giving, under-charging and wondering how to sustain this, let alone grow any further into that business that is tugging at their heartstrings?

The request to love ourselves can feel tough, but what if we reframe this to caring for ourselves is essential for us to care for those who buy our services, or come to our yoga classes?

Caring for ourselves is also essential to all the other people in our lives we care for. 

And it doesn’t have to mean big sudden changes, it can start with making 5, or 10 minutes in your diary each week just for you.  The small stuff adds up to the big stuff!

Investing in yourself, and acknowledging that trying to run your business alone is madness is also an act of self-love.

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

For Yoga teachers, make sure your name is on the waitlist for my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme, I welcome new cohorts 3 times a year and our supportive community and monthly teacher classes mean self-care and support are top of our list.

Find out more here– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And if you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, I am coming for you too this year, as so much of the work I do with yoga teachers is not just relevant to them.  Start by joining me on LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-jones-mentor/

Yoga Teacher Training

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

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 the brain waves down, and helps you connect to that inner wisdom, that quiet voice that whispers ‘this’, as I like to call it, your Higher Self.

And what practice do we teach that does this – meditation!

This short meditation may help you connect to your inner wisdom, your inner knowledge, and your higher self.

And I say may because one thing I do know about the human energy system we are all unique and you need to find your own to plug in and connect.

Finding your own way alone is not easy, we benefit from guidance and support.

If you are looking for an experienced mentor, who will guide you to step into your own power source and do things your way, I am your girl!

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open in January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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With the doors to my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme for yoga teachers re-opening Friday 26th May until 9pm on Monday 5th June, today’s episode is all about this amazing offer and how I turned anger into love and passion to create this magical programme.

I’ve been training and mentoring yoga teachers since 2017, the vast majority have been female.  Time and time again I was experiencing the same story, amazing yoga teachers, with so much to offer the world, full of self-doubt and struggling to make money in what is a multi-million dollar industry.

 I got angry and decided instead of staying angry and blaming external circumstances I’d do something about it, because I have a strong feeling that more money in the hands of women will make the world a better place.

And I just so happen to be able to help yoga teachers turn their passion into profit.

 And I am ready to help you!

Work with me

Work with me Join my transformational Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programme here - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

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An Easter holiday minisode today!

In today’s short episode, I talk about how progress is not and cannot physically be an upward trajectory.  That progress in your yoga business will have growth and rest phases.

And it’s the rest phases so often where the magic happens, where we receive ideas and inspiration as to where to go next.

I am someone who receives a lot of ideas, and I have learned over the years to rest, receive and then give myself some time to consider what I have received.  Is it really what I want to do?  Does it truly light me up?  This stops me from creating too many new things all at once or following ideas that actually aren’t meant for me!

Create space for rest, both in terms of time off and holiday, and in your weekly and daily routine.

Effort and rest are like strengthen and flexibility, yin & yang, they are needed in equal measure, it just so often we value one (normally effort), over the other.

Watch on YouTube

Join my mentorship programme for yoga teachers

I can help you manage your time and create space for both growth and rest in your yoga business.  

I would love to support you to create a profitable, sustainable and joyful yoga business – join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can work together

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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 services, especially to a new audience takes time, my mentoring programme has reminded me of this.

Selling something that will require people to challenge their belief systems and do the ongoing hard work around mindset and habits that don’t serve us is probably always going to be a harder sell for me than yoga teacher training.

But I know that I have come here to do this, I know how much this is needed!

And I am going to keep showing up and inviting yoga teachers into my mentoring programme.

And plans are brewing on how I can help women full stop do what lights them up and make money.

Why?

Because I know this is what I came here to do, and I know it is our time to rise up.

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

So female yoga teachers come on in, doors to my 6-month Prosperous Yogini Mentoring programme are open 22nd to 31st January 2024.

Details here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Add your name to the wait list if doors are closed.

Other ways we can work together

Book a business 60-minute power up Strategy Session – https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/ 

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

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 decision I make around how and when I want to work.

Revisit your why and how regularly, because you are an ever-expanding human being, your why and how evolve and shift with you.

Get clear on your why and your how, and the rest just flows, it is that simple and the reason why day 1 of the Profitable Yoga Business Roadmap I start with this.

It’s why module 1 of my 6-month Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme I ask you to get really clear on your why, what is your soul’s purpose?

Want help with your Why and How?

Join the Profitable Yoga Business Roadmap – https://amy-yoga.com/the-profitable-yoga-business-roadmap/ –

Work with me further

And if you’d like to work with me further here are all the wonderful ways we can hang 

1. Join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   You can join the waitlist today if doors are closed.
3. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/

4. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

5. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Watch on You-Tube

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 online 100% there’s way more chance you’ll be found out you and don’t know what you’re doing!
• You self-sabotage - by convincing yourself you need to look a certain way, or you don’t have the right voice!
• Procrastination will attempt to win the day, along with over-whelm that will have you spinning around in a circle being very busy, but doing nothing!
• Perfectionism - the killer of joy, and a trickster because basically, perfection does not exist!
• Compare and despair – yes, I’m sure in your research you’ve found some online yoga teachers who have been doing It for years and compared yourself to them.  Did you check them out at the start of their online journey? No! They simply prove what’s possible!

So, say "thank you" to your beautiful brain, navigate this mind-trash with compassion, but take action, imperfect action, it’s the only way to do this!  

And tap into the strongest muscle in the body – love!  When you tap into this, get super clear on why you want to create an online yoga business, love will always win over fear.

And that my lovely is a message for life, love is always more powerful than fear, and we are all more powerful than we could ever imagine!

Work with me?

Want to get 6 months of my personalized support in building your yoga business, including building an online yoga business? My Prosperous Yogini group mentoring programme is what you need, join the wait list and find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Sign up to my Leverage training for just £39, self-study training for yoga teachers showing you how to create and sell your online course or membership in 5 easy to manage steps! - https://amy-yoga.com/leverage-start-sell-and-scale-online/

I work with www.podbubble.com to produce this podcast.

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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 that align with you energetically.

Goals have to feel possible, some very achievable and some that push what we believe to be possible, but this is where we call in the expansion we are ready for.

Goals also help us to plan, what is coming up and when, and what do I need to invest the time and energy into.

For example, if your goal is to fill your retreat for next April, what does the data say?

How many people are already booked?  What is your break-even point?  What goal do you have in terms of numbers?

From this what are the actions you are going to take to fill that yoga retreat you have coming up?

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

Inside my mentoring programme for yoga teachers, this is what we do all the time!  Review, set goals, plan aligned action and repeat, with me supporting you all the way.

If you choose to work with me 1:1 I am literally in your pocket to help you navigate this process.

For more help reviewing 2023 and setting goals for 2024 join my Review and Renew Masterclass Monday 18^th December 7pm – 9pm, just £33!

https://www.amy-yogaonline.com/p/review-and-renew-end-of-year-masterclass

Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme

During December we’ll be reviewing, reflecting and refining ready for 2024 together inside my mentoring programme.

Doing all of this alone is incredibly difficult, if not impossible.

This is why we all should invest in a mentor or a coach to guide us.  It will save you time and make you money!  I’d love 2024 to be the year where you come on in because we truly are not meant to be doing this job alone!

My 100-hour further training and business mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

The doors next open 22^nd January 2024, add your name to the waitlist

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Other ways we can work together

Book a business 60-minute power up Strategy Session – https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

Today’s episode is the second in a 4-part series of mini-teaching clinics, where I’ll explore an aspect of yoga teaching.

I was asked why Trikonasana is considered dangerous by someone in my mentoring programme!  

Is it dangerous?  

Well, it’s not life threatening, and the human body has an infinite possibility in terms of movement, I’d love to see us all come to a place where we stop making judgements about whether or not someone should be doing something or not.

Who are we to limit our students and say that something isn’t safe?

Our role is to invite our students to explore all areas and angles of their body, from a place of knowing what is and is not for them.  In this place nothing is dangerous!

The challenge with Trikonasana is our hyper-mobile student, which will probably be you and most of your students.  Hyper-mobile knee joints mean we’ll be locking out into the knees, driving a load of weight into the knee, hip and ankle joint, not to mention the torsion in the S.I joint.  All of this leading to a slow build-up of damage over time.

Trikonasana is not dangerous, but we do all need to pay attention to the knee joint and break free of the traditional shape and entry and exist in to it.

A successful yoga business is one where you can teach with confidence and run your business with ease, and with 14 plus years as a yoga teacher I can help you do both!  Check out all the ways we can work together.

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– join the wait list for the Autumn https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Pathway to Profit – mini 1:1 mentoring programme for short, targeted support, enquire about availability here – https://amy-yoga.com/pathway-to-profit/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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 question from a yoga teacher with a list of 114 is a brilliant example of why possibly you’ve found many reasons why you can set up your mailing list or if you’ve ticked that box why right now you don’t have the time to focus on growing it, connecting and selling through it.

Because your beautiful brain is in the way, telling you you’re not tech savvy, telling you it’s lots of work and trying its best to keep you safe.  

And yes that will mean taking no action in the direction of your dreams!

Email marketing is something we can all do, for free, and in most cases in the best way you can talk directly to your tribe!

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

For Yoga teachers, make sure your name is on the waitlist for my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme, I welcome new cohorts 3 times a year and setting up, growing and utilising your email list is one of the many topics we cover. Find out more here– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And if you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, I am coming for you too this year, as so much of the work I do with yoga teachers is not just relevant to them.  Start by joining me on LinkedIn here – https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-jones-mentor/

Yoga Teacher Training

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

The Energy of Selling 

Part 3 of my 3-part series – Energy is Everything!

I start with the BIGGEST invitation ever:

JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR MY NEW PROGRAMME HERE - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/jointhewaitlist

Welcome to the third and final part of my 3-part series Energy is Everything, inspired by what is possibly my best course, and best offer to date, launching on my 46th birthday this September.

Do add your name to the waitlist, it is time to do business differently, it is time for women to rise, share their gifts with the world, help people and make money.

And as service-based female entrepreneurs this is not easy.

Why?

Because we are the product of our business, it feels like we are marketing and selling ourselves.  And selling yourself can feel really hard, not to mention a whole load of dense layers of money-mind stuff crap, all designed to keep women small and repel the flow of money.

The yoga industry is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and wellness is a multi-trillion, with a predominately female workforce.  Women are naturally drawn to caring professions and have a desire to use their gifts to heal and help.

But why in such financially abundant industries should any female service-based entrepreneur struggle to create a financially sustainable way of working?

Because we’re hard-wired to over-give, under-charge and feel generally bad when it comes to asking for money and charging appropriately.

And I know you want to help people and in this, you want to be affordable.

Well, affordability is relative and if you want to help people, create a business model where you have an abundance of time and money and my darling you can choose where to direct the excess energy of money and time that you have to whatever causes you feel passionate about.

But please stop under-charging, please stop with the crazy payment methods and please start the work on your money mindset.

It’s not easy, it’s ongoing work, but it is so needed in the world right now, but the truth is you are not meant to do this work alone, so make sure your name is on that waitlist!

One invitation this week, here it is again – 

JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR MY NEW PROGRAMME HERE - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/jointhewaitlist

It is time to do business differently!

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 team if you joined my mentoring programme - you could ask me questions all the time!

I cover managing quiet classes, fluctuating numbers when teaching pregnancy yoga, navigating your beautiful brain, messaging, marketing, niching (or not!), filling classes, working part-time, working full-time, managing time, juggling family life, being a yoga boss and a yoga teacher, and how to utilize a small space in your house or garden. 

(And probably more!)

It’s pure gold-dust!

It’s a 1-hour coaching session with yours truly!

Work with me?

And if you’d like more of this and to tap into my 13 years+ of experience to help you teach with confidence and run your business with ease then the answer is to join my 6-month group mentoring programme. Join the wait list and find out more here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

I know from the responses from my survey that 100% want to earn more money from teaching yoga, and most wanted help on the business side, but most are planning more training.

More training is great, but hand on heart it doesn’t help the mind trash, fill your classes or support you with your business, not to mention free stuff only goes so far.

It’s my mentoring programme you need - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Watch the Prosperous Yogini podcast on you-tube

Inviting free-form movement – Shimmy!  

Today’s episode is the third in a 4-part series of mini-teaching clinics, where I’ll explore an aspect of yoga teaching.

Do you offer moments of free-form movement in your classes?

What if you asked your students to breathe, listen to their bodies and do whatever movement felt good?  

This may be just what your students are here for, but perhaps many would politely leave asap!

If we are to trust the body’s wisdom and guide our students to tap into their self-regulating system, we have to find clever ways to begin to encourage moments of free movement.  And as a yoga teacher, you’ll need and love this too!

When anything is new, or we feel uncertain, humour and fun is often the best way in, and this is why I love my word shimmy!  

Let's get the pelvis moving, not because we’ve got a load of stored-up emotions in the hips, who knows if this is the case or not, but because it’s fun, feels good and frees up the potential for movement in the whole body.

A successful yoga business is one where you can teach with confidence and run your business with ease, and with 14-plus years as a yoga teacher, I can help you do both!  Check out all the ways we can work together.

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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 central channel of the spine.  The root chakra, Muladhara, is located at the base of the spine.

This is the energy of stability, connecting us to our roots down to the earth beneath us.  Through this connection, we can utilise the earth to support us and discharge any energy that is not ours or is no longer serving us.

The root chakra is the seat of our Kundalini Shakti, the powerful serpent energy of creation, think about what may mean in terms of your creative endeavours in your business!

Grounding ourselves, and giving time to connect to our roots, helps to support us in the actions we take and in the navigation of external forces that can interrupt our intended plans.

Walking barefoot on the grass, rooting through the pelvis when seated and supine relaxation practices all help us to connect to this energy and work with it effectively.

Below are all the ways we can hang, but eyes peeled for next week, along with part 2 of Charkas for your business I have some very exciting news about my new free masterclass!

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

Make sure your name is on the waitlist for my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme.  I welcome new cohorts 2 times a year to develop their skills as a yoga teacher and a business owner, doors next open on 22nd April 2024

Yoga Teacher Training

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

Female Serviced-based entrepreneurs

If you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, here’s my new branch, so far!

Join for free or buy me a monthly coffee and cake - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

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 failing and the uncertainty of something new can so often keep us stuck in places which no longer serve us.

Take inspired action!

Inspired action and magnetic marketing are two very popular buzzwords and make us believe they are something we have to do!  But they are simply a byproduct of fully stepping into what right now sets our soul on fire.

On that topic, I love online, live, training and coaching calls, and helping all women share their unique gifts with the world and make money. To honour this, and practising what I preach next Wednesday 8^th March I am starting my new monthly mastermind classes, for yoga teachers, wellness entrepreneurs and anyone else who wants some of my ‘you can do this energy!’

March Monthly Master class – The Soulful Art of Money Making, 7pm-8.30pm GMT (re-play available)

To mark international woman’s day all proceeds this month are going to Child Action Poverty Group.

Book here - https://amyjones.lpages.co/soulful-money-making-masterclass/

Want more of my help to lean into what you love?

Watch on YouTube

Join my mentorship programme for yoga teachers

It does take courage to lean into what you love, doing this alone isn’t easy, and joining my mentoring programme means you are no longer alone with me on your side!  Join my mentoring programme for yoga teachers.

I would love to support you to create a profitable, sustainable and joyful yoga business – join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can work together

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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 we are out of our comfort zone, and times when we’re not!

Today I talk around the subject of my most asked about question -  how to arrange payment structures, this includes blocks, passes and drop-ins.

The problem we have in the yoga industry is so many of us are copying models of large organisations that simply don’t work when it comes to the one-man band that is so often us yoga teachers.

Not to mention we’re also copying each other, and the truth is yoga teachers are often under-charging, arranging their payment structures in a way that doesn’t encourage consistency and disadvantages them, and are left feeling frustrated when numbers vary from week to week.

Tied into this is our need to people please, and as a result a lack of clear boundaries and terms and conditions, which can leave us spending hours to doing admin whilst we lose money!

I recommend block booking, clear start and end dates, and a structure that really encourages consistency, both in terms of income for you and practise for your students, this is a place where everyone wins!

And yes of course we’re human, and we care, and there are those moments where there are exceptions to the rules, but this can be done discreetly on a personal basis.   Overall have your booking T&Qs clearly laid out when someone books.

Changing this stuff can be difficult, it brings up a whole load of mind-trash to boot.  It is hard figuring it out alone, which is why you need me in your corner! 

Ways to work with me

I would love to support you as you lean into what you love in, the best way to do this is to join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Join the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can hang out:

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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 next best available step.   We’ve done the harder work around navigating our blocks both energetically and in the mind, and then we respond.

It is hard to accept, I get it!  It would be easier for me to tell you to just work harder, just keep doing more and you’ll get the results you want.  Sure, you’ll get the results, but they may not be what you actually want and you’re probably heading to burnout.

The challenge is this 80% is almost impossible to navigate alone, but that’s what most female yoga teachers and female entrepreneurs choose to do.

I am here to tell you, that this is bonkers, please stop, you truly are not meant to do this alone, I certainly couldn’t.

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

If you are a yoga teacher you can join my mentoring programme, or pop your name on the wait list if they are closed - Details here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

If you are a woman, maybe not a yoga teacher, hang in there, I am coming for you too this year!

Other ways we can work together

Book a business 90-minute power up Strategy Session – https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

This week I was gifted this statement from a very wise woman indeed 

“Burnout comes from doing too much of what you don’t want to do”

Yes, yes it does!

As women, we are hard-wired to over-deliver, under-charge, and people please, which means saying no sometimes is very hard.

Driven by all the ‘shoulds’, we do things we don’t want to do and shy away from those things we truly want if they conflict with conventional wisdom.

You may love what you do, but if you’re under-charge and over-deliver the energy will be out of balance, and that is the place of burnout.  Something that is unsustainable is only unsustainable for so long.

The narrative of overwhelm, burnout, and feeling stuck and tired is heavily attached to women in business.

What we focus on expands, is it time to move to a different way of working and being so this narrative is no longer one we identify with?

I certainly believe so!

I am busting to tell you all about my new business course, it’s all about doing business differently - the waitlist coming very soon.

But for now, here’s how we can hang out more:

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs

Magical energy work meets epic business advice - www.amyjonesmentor.com

Hear a bit more for free from me each week Join me on Substack - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training

Foundation YTT, specialist training in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga and CPD- www.amy-yoga.com 

Part 1 of my 3-part series – Energy is Everything!

I start with the BIGGEST invitation ever:

JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR MY NEW PROGRAMME HERE - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/jointhewaitlist

Welcome to the first part of my 3-part series Energy is Everything, inspired by what is possibly my best course, and best offer to date, launching on my 46th birthday this September.

Do add your name to the waitlist, it is time to do business differently, it is time for women to rise, share their gifts with the world, help people and make money.

And as service-based female entrepreneurs this is not easy.

Why?

Because we are the product of our business, it feels like we are marketing and selling ourselves.

As the product of our business, we are at the centre of it, we are the golden goose, and our energy should be protected at all costs.  

Accept as women we are hard-wired to over-give, and under-charge and this dims our light and drains our energy.

But the best thing about being a serviced-based entrepreneur is there is only one of you, you are utterly unique, and your tribe will be blessed to work with you.

Honour your energy, work with it and the rest will fall into place.

This is easier said than done, the truth is you are not meant to do this work alone, so make sure your name is on that waitlist!

One invitation this week, here it is again – 

JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR MY NEW PROGRAMME HERE - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/jointhewaitlist

It is time to do business differently!

In today’s episode, I am joined by Annette who joined my mentoring programme this February, and in the 3 and half months we’ve been working together so far Annette’s yoga business has gone through a massive transformation!

But it’s not just my mentoring programme we chat about, Annette is like so many yoga teachers, working part-time employed and part-time as a yoga teacher.  She also trained during the covid years and totally unplanned has started an online yoga business!

Working with me Annette has set up systems to remove friction so people can easily see who she is, why they want to do yoga with her, and how.  We’ve created her website, set up online payments, radically changed her payment structure for her online class, created new offers for her current audience, which she has also grown and now we’re hatching plans for passive income!

This has all been possible because of the personalised tailored approach of my mentoring programme, when you join, I review your whole business and create an in-depth pathway to profit which is unique to you.

There are group coaching calls and teaching clinics, along with self-study content that covers all aspects of running a yoga business.  On top of this is ongoing personalised support in our community space and via WhatsApp.  This level of personal support ensures when you hire me on your team for 6 months together we create your dream yoga business that honours you.

And Annette is right the return on your investment isn’t just in the extra money you will make, but it’s the time you will save in getting there.

Join my mentoring programme for yoga teachers

And I want this for you too, join my 6-month Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme

See full details here– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

Watch on YouTube

Check Annette out!

Check out Annette and her new website  here - https://www.annettefridayyoga.com/

Follow Annette on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/annettefridayyoga/

Season Finale!

Two years in, 104 episodes, 9000+ downloads and the end of season one, where do I begin?

Firstly, a huge THANK YOU to everyone who listens and supports me, I am so grateful to you all, you are the reason I show up every week.

Stepping into the world of podcasting has taught me a lot, all of which is transferable to life and business!

1. Consistency is king, but you can only be consistent if you are doing what you love, and I love to talk!

2. You have to allow yourself to be a beginner, to start something new, we all start from zero.

3. The power of connection and community always comes before sales, people have to know you before they buy anything from you.

4. The greatest joy from podcasting for 2 years has been all the positive feedback and help that I have offered to other yoga teachers and female soul-led entrepreneurs.  I cannot wait for more of this!

As we enter season 2 you will notice a little shift, but this shift has been obvious as my episodes evolved, I just haven’t been brave enough to say it, but I am literally coming out!

I am stepping into my new role as a business and energy mentor for female-soul-led entrepreneurs, the epic work I do with yoga teachers and yoga teacher training is going nowhere, but my mission is to help more women do what lights them up and make money, and season 2 of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast is coming with me on this mission, so let’s go!

Start by joining next week - 

PODCAST PARTY 14th JUNE 1pm – YOU ARE INVITED

Join me on Friday 14th June for a live Q&A podcast party to mark my 2-year podcasting anniversary.  I need your help with this one, please sign up to pre-submit a question which I will answer live on the call. 

Plus, podcasting can be lonely, if you can join me live I would love to see you there.

Sign up here – https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/672932/122421965031999396/share

Other ways we can work together:

For Female Entrepreneurs – https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

For Yoga Teachers – visit www.amy-yoga.com 

Today’s title is slightly misleading, this isn’t about whether yoga has a place in gyms, of course, it does!  Movement is movement and yoga should happen EVERYWHERE, and the more people that have access to movement, whether we want to label it as yoga or not the better.

Today’s podcast is all about how our beliefs and assumptions create our reality and lead to our actions, or often inactions.

For example, do you believe yoga in gyms is taught by an unqualified yoga teacher, and won’t be a real yoga class?  Maybe it is, but what if it isn’t and you’ve got a great teacher round the corner from you, and even if it’s not quite what you expected movement-wise, I bet you’d have a new experience and learn something!

Or like the yoga teacher who inspired today’s episode.  She believed that people in her area only want yoga in gyms, and therefore there was no point trying to set herself up independently, the result of her actions was she hadn’t tried or considered the notion that not everyone wants to do yoga in a gym environment.

Teaching yoga in a gym can be a one-way yoga teachers earn money, some starting out find this a great way to receive a definite income and not have to worry about all the admin and business side of things.  Other teachers choose long-term to teach in a gym environment for these very reasons.  Some start in gyms and when they are ready branch out into creating their own offers.  It is all welcome, and all that matters is you do what is energetically right for you.

Today’s episode is also influenced by one of my teachers, Stephen Braybrook, aka the Movement Man.  Who lost his fight with cancer this week.  He always said movement was movement, that what matters is we just move, and move in lots of new and exciting ways, and better still without the labels that we attach to the shapes we make in yoga, as these labels create beliefs, and this can inhibit our movement.

On the topic of Stephen’s brilliant brain and teachings, if you could do me a favour and also listen to this episode of the embodiment podcast back from 2018 which is an interview with Stephen, I would be deeply grateful, it could also change the way you view the human body!

Listen here - https://embodimentunlimited.com/31-non-conformist-biomechanics-with-stephen-braybrook/

And remember movement is movement, how you move is an expression of your creativity, we will be more creative in places where we feel safe, these are Stephen’s words.  Therefore, yoga must happen everywhere, from dedicated studios to gyms to village halls, to schools and prisons, as we’ll all have our unique place of safety.

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

Prosperous Yogini 6-month mentoring programme and 100-hour further training programme– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for yoga teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga  https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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 entrepreneur - where we’re more than likely to be female.

Frustration and resentment are signs we’re out of alignment, that something is off.  

Remember thoughts become things and what we focus on expands.  Frustration and resentment show us what we don’t want, use them to turn to what you do want - rather than stay focused on what you don’t!

Feelings of resentment and frustration are blessings, they’re how the universe guides us to where we should be.

Join my mentorship programme for yoga teachers

Guiding yourself to where you should be can often take courage and a whole load of mind-trash navigation.  Doing this alone isn’t easy, and joining my mentoring programme means you are no longer alone with me on your side!

Join my mentoring programme for yoga teachers.

I would love to support you to create a profitable, sustainable and joyful yoga business – join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.   Add your name to the waitlist if you find the doors are closed.

Other ways we can work together

1. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/
3. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in pregnancy, postnatal and yin yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

4. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

Scarcity vs. Abundance

In today’s episode, I explore two topics I have discussed before: scarcity and abundance.

A scarcity mindset is one based in fear, where we believe there is simply not enough for us all, and from a yoga teacher's perspective this will look like a belief that there are too many yoga teachers and too many teacher training courses, there simply cannot be room for you.

An abundance mindset is the opposite, one where we know there is room for us all to thrive, that there is more than enough for everyone, including students coming to our yoga classes.

I argue that it is a pretty human response to have a moment of scarcity, our beautiful brain is hardwired to keep us safe and protect us, if we fear there is not enough, of course, we will have a response.

Maybe abundance feels a step too far?  What if we step into an energy of sufficiency, there is enough for us all to have what we are being called to do.  Or better put we step into the vibration of love, celebrating the successes of others, knowing they light the way for us all.

There truly is room for us all, room for your uniqueness, tap into this and keep a check on thoughts based in lower vibrations of fear.

Watch on YouTube

Work with me

Mindset is everything, the rest you can Google, but this mindset stuff is the hard bit, and very hard to navigate it alone, and with me on your team, you don’t have to!

Join my transformational Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programme here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

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 to the spoken form.

Feeling able to stand in our power and speak our truth from the throat centre will make talking to people, communicating, building connections and telling people about our offers, aka selling, flow with far more ease.

The throat centre is so important to us entrepreneurs! 

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

Make sure your name is on the waitlist for my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme.  I welcome new cohorts 2 times a year to develop their skills as a yoga teacher and a business owner, doors next open on 22nd April 2024

https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Training for Yoga Teachers 

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

Female serviced-based entrepreneurs 

If you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, here’s my new branch, so far!

Join for free or buy me a monthly coffee and cake - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

What you focus on expands!  In today's episode, I encourage you to focus on what is going well and celebrate your journey to where you want to be, to that full class.

I am massively celebrating wins this week, those in my mentorship programme have made drastic improvements to their yoga business since working with me and I share a snapshot of these.

And I am sharing my win of making my dream of a mentoring programme that helps yoga teachers, who happened to be mostly women, build, grow and scale their profitable, impactful yoga business, come true!

Join my mentoring programme for yoga teachers

Work with me Join my transformational Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programme here - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

As I said last week confidence is not something you have or do not have, it comes from practice, time and having the right support.

As a yoga teacher have you ever considered yourself a business owner?

I see my job as a yoga teacher as having two hats, both of which are interconnected, one does not exist without the other.  I am a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

Here is how we step into our role as a yoga boss:

1. Talk to people, tell people who you are, what you do and how you can help them.

2. Sell to people, selling is service, yoga helps people, so make me an offer!

3. Make decisions, as a yoga boss, you are in charge, so make decisions that align with you and how you want to bring yoga to the world.

Our yoga practice literally teaches all we need to know when it comes to being a yoga boss, the problem is most yoga teachers do not view themselves as a business owner.

And this is where I can help you!

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for yoga teachers

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

You are not meant to do this alone, mentoring should be part of every yoga teacher’s career!

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

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 a dream so many of us have.  I’ve had two studios myself; I know first-hand the pros and the cons.  And I am all for following your dreams, but as you’ll hear from Finnie you also need a clear financial plan and model so the dream can be a sustainable reality.

Finnie is a brilliant Human Design coach, and I thoroughly recommend you get to know more about your Human Design and work with Finnie to get more personal support, it will give you the permission you’ve been waiting for to be you!

Find your chart here - https://www.myhumandesign.com/get-your-chart/

Work with Finnie here - https://anantayogastudionewquay.com/

Train to teach Yin yoga and find out more about Human Design and Restorative Yoga this February, join our live online training start 24th February here - https://amy-yoga.com/yin-human-design-and-restorative-yoga-teacher-training-via-zoom/

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

Finnie recently worked with the yoga teachers in my mentoring programme on their energy and authority, if you would like to access this workshop and all the other incredible support and trainings in my mentoring programme join here– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Add your name to the waitlist if doors are closed.

And if you are a woman, maybe not a yoga teacher, hang in there, I am coming for you too this year, with more offers that will incorporate Human Design and Finnie!

Yoga Teacher Training

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

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.  There is an awful lot that is good about social media.

But you have to be fully aware it is borrowed land, and you can lose your account at any time, even if you have 2-step authentication set up.  Regardless of how big or small your account is.  No one is protected from waking up one day and finding all of it gone.

This is exactly what happened to a teacher in my mentoring programme this week.

Her account was hacked, she did have 2-step authentication set up and she did lose her personal account of 17 years, along with her business pages.

It is devastating for her.  But thanks to the support in our mentoring programme and some epic advice from her mentoring (aka me), this event is now something that is positive.  This event is now something that is causing a fresh new wave of visibility and marketing into her yoga business.   And who doesn’t want this?

This is the power of mentorship.

This is why mentorship should be the industry standard for all yoga teachers.

This is why all women in business, all female serviced-based entrepreneurs need support.

We are not meant to navigate these moments alone!

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

For Yoga teachers, make sure your name is on the waitlist for my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme, I welcome new cohorts 3 times a year and our supportive community and monthly teacher classes mean self-care and support are top of our list.  Find out more here– https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And if you are a woman in business, maybe not a yoga teacher, I am coming for you too this year, as so much of the work I do with yoga teachers is not just relevant to them.  Start by joining me on LinkedIn here – https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-jones-mentor/

Yoga Teacher Training

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

A very different episode today, I am teaching a Yin-yoga class just for you!

Why?

Because you and your practice matter, and for your yoga business to truly thrive, it all starts with you!

*Please note the sound every now and again is a bit crackly, I was using my new ear pods, so all should have been good, but Mercury is in retrograde, and technology mishaps are happening to me all over the place!

I decided not to re-record, I am literally a one-hit wonder, and I’ve learned that my first version is my best, so here it is with the odd crackle, sorry!

If you prefer to watch on YouTube so you can see me here is the link – https://youtu.be/_EXZGjRz_ak

Sign up for my FREE Yin-Yoga Teacher Training taster here – https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/672932/103833474310341804/share

Check out my 50-hour online Yin-Yoga Teacher Training course here – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/ 

And get your name on the wait list for my Prosperous Yogini mentoring programme, full details here - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

I’m going straight in and challenging those deep rooted subconscious beliefs that I believe are collectively held by many of us (me included!)

We love what we do.

We do it to help people.

So we feel we shouldn’t make money or it’s wrong to make money from our passion.

Or we don’t fully value our skills, gifts, and experience and believe it’s hard to make money from them.

It's hard to earn money as a yoga teacher?

In this episode I challenge the following 3 beliefs, have you ever heard, seen, felt, or said them yourself – I know I have!

1. It's hard to make money teaching yoga (especially when you first start)
3. It’s wrong to make money from teaching yoga

4. It’s wrong to talk about how you make money from teaching yoga, it’s wrong to talk about money.

What we appreciate appreciates, I encourage you to use what you know, mantra, and affirmations – “It is safe for me to make money teaching yoga”.  In fact in order for you to fully serve your students it’s your duty, so you can show up with abundance.

Money doesn’t care if you are a yoga teacher, how long you have been teaching or what your website looks like!  It’s simply a medium of exchange, the energy of your services for the energy of money.  Yoga teachers, you know that we strive to have our energies in balance; there is no difference here.

Take what I say today; sit with it (yes meditate and listen)

It is safe for you to make money (teaching yoga)!

Work with me?

Join my Prosperous Yogini Mentorship Programme – I can help you navigate your money blocks and those self-limiting beliefs. Visit https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/, to bring me onto your team, together we’ll turn your passion into profit and create a yoga business that you and your students love.  

You can also train with me. I offer innovative, flexible online specialist training and CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal, toddler & yin yoga, visit - https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Start your own podcast?

I love using my podcast to help people and share my knowledge, if you'd like to do the same but don't know where to start on the tech and production front head over to www.podbubble.com - they make podcasting possible!

Confidence is not something you have or do not have, it comes from practice, time and having the right support.

At whatever stage of your yoga career you are at we all have times when we lack confidence in our abilities as a yoga teacher.

Here are 6 steps that you can take to help you feel more confident as a yoga teacher:

1. Practice – get out and teach!

2. Allow yourself to fail and be human, and perhaps stop being so hard on yourself!

3. Cultivate the mindset of a reflective practitioner, review what went well and what perhaps you could try differently.

4. Be in your own lane and on your own path, stop comparing yourself to others.

5. Get a support network of people who are where you are and get it!

6. Find a mentor, whose experience will guide you.

Watch on YouTube

Mentoring for Yoga Teachers

You get both support from an amazing community of yoga teachers, where we all want you to thrive and from me as your mentor in my Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme

You are not meant to do this alone, mentoring should be part of every yoga teacher's career!

FULL DETAILS HERE - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Today I share with you how over the last 14+ years of being a self-employed service-based entrepreneur I have learnt a rhythm that works for me in terms of planning for profit in my business.

But it’s not just about profit, I plan for the busy times in my business, I plan for the busy times in my personal and family life, I plan for ideas I already have to come into physical form and I plan for space.  This is space for new ideas, surfing and the odd unplanned personal event, which happens, especially when you have kids!

Planning helps you feel safe and gives you a sense of control, rather than always reacting.  I have learnt to do this after years of always reacting!  Trust me your nervous system will thank you.  On the topic of how you plan and organise your time, this is up to you, it does not need to be my way, it needs to be your way.  

So, get practising and testing out how best to be in control of the time you do have.  Here we get to experience time being more expansive.

You’ll also hear at the end my plans to launch my new business this September, I am so excited about all that is coming your way.  For now, do make sure you’re also in my Substack community, for more of this golden advice!

Want more of my help?

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs

Magical energy work meets epic business advice - www.amyjonesmentor.com

Hear a bit more for free from me each week Join me on Substack - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training

Foundation YTT, specialist training in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga and CPD- www.amy-yoga.com 

Eek I won’t lie today’s episode isn’t an easy discussion to have, but you know me I am here for it all, and sometimes we need to hear the difficult things.

I had a lovely teacher reach out on Instagram who’s experiencing a situation that ALL of us would feel rubbish about, including myself.

It’s that topic of contrast, the stuff we don’t want to experience.  But it’s the stuff we need, I’m going to say it’s the stuff that gives birth to our dreams!

When something happens that is causing us a problem, pain or discomfort, there’s only so long we can carry on and ignore it.  It’s there to help us grow, develop and move on to that next bigger thing.

I know how easy it is to be annoyed with all the ‘free’ yoga out there.

But what if there’s room for us all, the free classes, the paid classes, the lower and the higher priced?

What if free yoga meant that people who can’t afford to come to a paid class can do yoga, that has to be a good thing.

It doesn’t mean you have to give away free yoga, but it’s not the reason why you are struggling to fill your paid offers.

Charge what you want for your yoga classes, be the most expensive kid on the block, give away a free weekly class and everywhere in between.  It doesn’t matter, what matters you are behind you and what you do.

I am grateful for all the free yoga out there (sorry guys if that’s not what you wanted me to say!)

Here’s my invitation to you to stop going it alone, let’s work together:

For Female Entrepreneurs – https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

For Yoga Teachers – visit www.amy-yoga.com

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 yoga business.

I believe this needs to change, along with the fact that mentoring is not industry standard. 

Too many yoga teachers, who mostly happen to be female, are trying to figure it out alone, and this is the single reason why you are finding it so hard right now.

I believe that all yoga teachers need mentoring, and I am ready to be your mentor, so please stop waiting to create that yoga business you dream of!

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Mentoring for yoga teachers

My 100-hour further training and mentoring programme the Prosperous Yogini Mentoring Programme supports you in your roles as a yoga teacher and a yoga boss.

FULL DETAILS HERE – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

Strategy Session - book your business power hour here - https://amy-yoga.com/strategy-session/

Training for Yoga Teachers

Online 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training course, start today – https://amy-yoga.com/online-yin-yoga-teacher-training/

Specialist training and self-paced study CPD courses in pregnancy, postnatal and toddler yoga https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

Today’s episode has been a hard one to record, but after much consideration and clear guidance from my higher self that this is the right thing to do I have decided to reduce my podcasting frequency from weekly to monthly.

There are a total of 122 episodes!  Did you know that statistically, most podcasts don’t get past 3 episodes?

After 2 and half years and over 10K of downloads I am so proud of myself and very grateful to you all for tuning in each week.

But yoga teaches us nothing is constant; everything is subject to change, and it is time for a change to my podcasting frequency.

I am freeing up more time for me, more time for my family and more time for my paying clients.

Energy is everything and energetically this feels right for us all.

I will still be recording a weekly video/podcast covering all aspects of both business strategy and energy work as part of my Substack subscription.  To have access to these weekly videos, extra business masterclasses and yoga classes, plus an archive of all previous posts this will cost £4.40 a month or £44 a year.  

You can still be a free member of my Substack subscription, this will now only include written guidance.

JOIN HERE - https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

In short, I am being called to give less away for free and show up more deeply for my paying clients.  

I know this will be good for us all.

When we involve ourselves in the energy exchange of money we commit more deeply to the change we want.

And I know that you do want to share your gifts more, help more and make more money, so it is time to put your money where your heart is.

I’ll be back in November for free, but in the meantime join my Substack (£4.40 a month, it’s the cost of a takeaway coffee!) or check out how you can work with me more deeply below.

Ways we can work together:

Soul-led Female Entrepreneurs Visit - https://www.amyjonesmentor.com/

Hear more from me each week, join me over on Substack at https://energymindsetmoneyandmore.substack.com/

Yoga Teacher Training Visit – www.amy-yoga.com 

A great request episode this week where I share some sage advice on heading outside to teach yoga and some really funny stories from my experiences of teaching outside away from the safety of the yoga studio!

If you plan to teach yoga outside, embrace all the things that happen beyond your control.

And it is a very good idea to think seasonally in terms of your yoga offers.  This is what I’m currently working on with those in my mentoring programme.

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Work with me

Join my transformational Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programme here – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

My podcast party invite!

My podcast is 1 year old next week, and I’m having a party and you’re invited.

When - Thursday 15th June 12 pm

Where - Zoom

What - I’m hosting a free Q&A call, basically I’m inviting you to my cupboard under the stairs and my next podcast episode!

To accept your invitation sign up here: 

https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/n2b7l9

And submit your question in advance!

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 1.30pm 'Create offers and set prices that you and your students love.'

Coaching call Friday 27th 6.30pm – 7.30pm – have all your questions answered!

Why am I launching this?

1. I believe passionately that the balance of wealth between men and women is out of balance. With 75% of all yoga teachers being female, I simply want to help balance out the energy of money between the yin and yang of this world.
3. The doors to my full 6-month mentoring programme open January 30th and this free live event allows us all together to know each other better, so I can invite you into my full programme and you can decide if I am the mentor for you.

4. A launch event is a wave of energy, which helps to create momentum in your business, not everyone who attends my launch will go on to work with me more closely in my programme, but they may go on to work with me in other ways or join my programme at a later day.

Your business roadmap

This is not a magic formula, but a blueprint, a map inside you, that I simply guide you to and support you to take action when sometimes that action feels scary!

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And if you’d like to work with me further here are all the wonderful ways we can hang 

1. Join my 6-month group coaching and mentoring programme.
3. Binge-listen for free to all the episodes of the Prosperous Yogini Podcast – https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-podcast/

4. Train with me.  I offer online, specialist, flexible training courses in Yin, Pregnancy & Postnatal yoga.  Start today and together we can expand your teaching schedule. https://amy-yoga.com/yoga-teacher-training/

5. Study further with me. I have a range of self-paced study continued professional development courses, covering a range of topics related to teaching yoga and running your yoga business – https://amy-yoga.com/cpd-for-yoga-teachers/

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In today’s minisode I simply ask 'what if'?

What if I try this and fail?

What if there is not one path, but many and they are all available to me?

What if I lean into what I love?

What if I follow the feeling?

What if a sea of possibilities lies ahead?

Work with me

Work with me Join my transformational Prosperous Yogini Mentorship programme here - https://amy-yoga.com/prosperous-yogini-programme/

And check out all my mentoring and yoga teacher training offers at www.amy-yoga.com

What if I invest in me and my yoga business hire Amy on my team for 6 months and I make my investment back many times over for many years to come?

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