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Working in Yoga

Working in Yoga

By: Rebecca Sebastian
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Summary

Join yoga studio owner, yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and yoga non-profit founder Rebecca Sebastian for a water cooler discussion of what it is to work in the yoga world.

We will talk about our experiences, good & bad, connect with each other, share tips freely, and tell our stories.

Many years ago a yoga-teacher friend of mine said to me “the one things I don’t like about being a yoga teacher is there’s no water cooler”. And he was right. (thanks James).

So let’s use this podcast as our water cooler. This past year, especially, has been so hard for us. Let’s talk about it. Share our stories, our unique jobs, and a sense of community that we all need.

Want in? Take a listen.

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Episodes
  • Nobody Told You Working Until You Die Isn't Devotion, It's A Missing Retirement Account

    Nobody Told You Working Until You Die Isn't Devotion, It's A Missing Retirement Account
    May 18 2026

    The yoga industry tells a story about the devoted teacher who never stops — who teaches into their seventies, their eighties, who is on the mat until the very end. We tell it like it's a spiritual achievement. Nobody asks whether those teachers had a choice. In this episode we name the open secret the industry has been romanticizing for decades: for a lot of those teachers, it wasn't only devotion. It was the absence of a retirement account. And an industry that conflates financial precarity with spiritual purity has a serious problem that no amount of reframing can fix.

    RESOURCES

    Working In Yoga Website

    Working In Yoga Newsletter

    The Back Room

    Inside Yoga Magazine
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    10 mins
  • Mapping the Real Landscape of Yoga Teaching Today — With Alexia Walker

    Mapping the Real Landscape of Yoga Teaching Today — With Alexia Walker
    May 14 2026

    There's a real and growing gap between yoga teachers who built their careers in the 2010s and those trying to build one now — and we're not talking about it enough.

    Alexia Walker, a yoga teacher working in Michigan, joins Rebecca for an unfiltered conversation about what the current landscape actually looks like.

    They get into the devaluing effect of free offerings, why the people who find you through free content rarely become paying students, how the yoga world built a training system that rewards wealth and travel over actual teaching skill, and what it means to build a truly bespoke career when no two paths look the same. They also touch on transferable skills, community care as a framework for service, and the harm that gets quietly replicated when we don't pay attention to the patterns we're inheriting. This is the conversation about where yoga is right now — not where it was ten years ago.

    RESOURCES

    Working In Yoga Website

    Working In Yoga Newsletter

    The Back Room

    Inside Yoga Magazine

    Alexia’s Website
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    54 mins
  • Nobody Told You It's Okay To Feel Taken Advantage Of

    Nobody Told You It's Okay To Feel Taken Advantage Of
    May 11 2026

    The yoga world's commitment to non-judgment, positive intent, and non-attachment is genuinely beautiful in a practice.

    In a profession, those same values have been used to silence legitimate grievances, protect institutions that should be held accountable, and make yoga professionals carry a collective harm privately that should have been named publicly.

    In this episode, we say plainly what the industry has never said: you are allowed to feel taken advantage of. Because in many cases, you were. And naming that is not unspiritual. It is honest. And honesty is also a practice.

    RESOURCES

    Working In Yoga Website

    Working In Yoga Newsletter

    The Back Room

    Inside Yoga Magazine
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    9 mins
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