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Business Planning & Expansion

Yoga teachers, massage therapists, and other heart-centered independent contractors can learn strategies to create a solid foundation to grow their career. 

I can assist in everything from web-design 101 (Yes, it is not that hard to make a website, I learned how to myself), creating promotional materials with ease, social media strategy, legal filings, how to set up financial accounts for small business professionals, team management, conflict-resolution, public relations, Human Resources, marketing, protecting yourself, and more. 

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Curriculum & Instruction

I have hosted more than 15 Yoga Teacher Training Courses and Meditation Courses for Continuing Education. These curriculums are approved by both the Yoga Alliance and the American Yoga Council. 

Utilizing my Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, I can assist you with designing Yoga Teacher Training courses, Continuing Education Courses, Workshops, and more. 

I will not sell you my material. 

I will help you with brainstorming, organizing, designing, and ultimately executing your dream training program and curriculum. 

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Retreat Consultation

Hosting retreats are my most favorite. They provide an opportunity to blend your skill/art/work with cultural immersion, adventure, and novelty in an immersive environment. 

I have led successful retreats in: 

  • Costa Rica

  • India

  • Nepal

  • Peru 

  • Greece

I personally have visited well over 50 countries and I have hosted successful retreats in the US and locally as well. 

If you are thinking about hosting a retreat one day and have no idea where to start, schedule a call with me and let's start planning! 

Services

As a successful 2x studio owner and operator, with having led several successful international retreats and have managed around 80 staff members on any single given day, I have a wealth of knowledge to offer.

 

As a super-small business owner, I learned (from scratch), how to be the bookkeeper, the HR department, the marketing team, the janitor, the strategist, the educator, along with countless other roles (let alone my actual service offering of teaching yoga, hosting wellness retreats and training people to become yoga teachers).

 

In a world full of corporate buyouts, Ai takeovers, and diminishing small businesses, I feel inspired to help new small business owners -- anywhere from the daydreaming stage, to already signed the lease stage, to been-in-business for years stage. I service other service providers and gig-industry workers seeking to break the glass ceiling and enter a new-found world of expansion and freedom.  

 

I offer consultations for the following types of service offerings and small businesses : 

  • Yoga: 

    • Yoga teaching ​

    • Corporate wellness 

    • Yoga studio ownership

    • Post-graduation mentorship 

    • Collaborative event planning 

    • Yoga workshop planning, marketing and strategizing

    • Social media strategizing, marketing, creating a personal brand

  • Massage, Sound Healing, Energy Healing: 

    • Corporate wellness 

    • Collaborative event planning 

    • Event planning, marketing and strategizing

    • Social media strategizing, marketing, creating a personal brand

  • Retreats:

    • Marketing strategy

    • Executing retreat 

    • How to manage bookings 

    • How to pick the right venue 

    • Protecting yourself and your investment 

    • Preparing to make the retreat rock and sell-out

    • Designing local, regional and/or international retreats ​

No, you don't have to be a struggling artist. No, you don't have to be a broke yoga teacher. Nor do you have to be a burned out executive who has no time for their family or self.  Balance is the art of the game. Let your work be of service to yourself and humanity. 

 

If you really want to scale your service offerings to be able to help other people while also helping yourself, there is really only one requirement:

 

Shift your focus away from the noise of wealth and fame, and pour that energy into mastering your craft. When you create from a place of inspiration and genuine heart, success naturally follows. Don't chase the art for the sake of the reward; let the reward be a natural byproduct of dedicating yourself deeply to what you love. ✨

If you have an open mindset, I can help you grow your wellness services, help you plan international retreats, design teacher training curriculum and courses, design workshops, develop strategy to organize and grow your physical business, create positive and healthy community connections, operational structures, social media strategy, webs-design, marketing, and liability essentials so you can scale safely.  

You don’t have to figure it out alone.  

Leverage my 10+ years of professional experience in six countries, having served more students than I could ever count (well beyond the tens of thousands of students between my two former studios alone), and my top-rated curriculum for yoga and teacher training to help you get ahead on your journey towards independence. 

Whether you are launching a wellness brand, planning to host a retreat, designing a yoga teacher training curriculum, or building a brick-an-mortar studio, I'm here to help you build an authentic, heart-centered, and operationally sound business.

What we can look at in a 1-on-1 strategy session:

  • Holding Grounded Space: Blending my psychology background and years of community-building to help you navigate unexpected business shifts with integrity and grace.

  • This matters almost more than anything else, because without a solid framework on how to approach people, the general public, building a healthy community, and dealing with this public reputation (how to navigate negative reviews and public scrutiny), then you will create a plethora of issues that can quickly and seriously spiral into much larger issues (lawsuits, being "cancelled," etc.).

  • Business Roots & Logistics: Navigating any small business or heart-centered business is always challenging. I have worked with multiple hundreds of independent contractors in the position of "boss." While working with independent contractors in the wellness field, the same questions always came up. Typically the conversation starts with, "I love [offering this service], but I don't know anything about business" (in regards to expanding their craft). This is the massage therapist who enjoys bringing physical relief to their clients but is still only operating with a personal checking account. How do we take the next steps to grow our personal brand, service offerings, reach/impact, and ultimately -- our income?

  • Curriculum & Instruction Design: Leveraging my Master’s in Education, eight years as a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School, and 10+ successful teacher training programs (hosted in two different countries) to refine your workshops, continuing education courses, or training programs.

  • Retreat Consultation Services: 

    • Itinerary Staging: Selecting destinations and planning schedules that foster genuine personal expansion and transformation.

    • Risk & Logistics Management: Structuring solid refund, cancellation, and liability frameworks to protect your business.

    • Transformational Space-Holding: Weaving authentic, somatic, and mindful experiences into your itinerary that leave guests raving.

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​"Yoga is not about changing who you are; it is about removing everything that prevents you from knowing who you truly are."

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