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The Nuances of Teaching Yoga For Free, For Charity and For Profit

September 15, 2015 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Brook McCarthy, Hustle & Heart Brook is launching the next round of her popular Hustle & Heart 9 Week On-Line Course on September 28. Sign up by September 20 to receive the early bird price.* There’s a time for working for free, a place for charitable yoga teaching and a role for working for profit. As a yoga teacher, knowing the difference between these will help you avoid heartache and thrive as a professional, while helping to lift the entire yoga sector. Whether you’re a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, The Business of Yoga Tagged With: business, charity, free yoga, money, Yoga and money, yoga marketing

How Do I Know if a Yoga Teacher Training is Good Value for Money?

July 9, 2015 by Lucinda Staniland 2 Comments

By Lucinda Staniland It's the holy grail of the yoga world: A Yoga Teacher Training that is transformative, comprehensive, and great value for money. But how do we find such a thing? Currently, the price of Yoga Teacher Trainings can vary hugely, from (very rare) free or koha based trainings, to $4000 for an average NZ or Australian based training, to upwards of $16,000. As someone who is seriously considering undertaking a Yoga Teacher Training (but just hasn't found the right one yet) I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training Tagged With: accessible yoga, money, value for money, yoga teacher training, yoga teacher training cost

The meanings we give to work

July 11, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

The Meaning of Work

By guest author Brook McCarthy, 30 Steps I was your typical baby hippie. I grew my armpit hair, ate lentils, chanted Hari Krisna, and choose my university subjects by how I perceive they’d help with the old “meaning of life” conundrum. My late teens and early 20s were spent meditating, chanting, teaching yoga and travelling. I became a tour leader because I didn’t like having to return home in between travels to make more money to travel again. For two years, I took small groups … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga Tagged With: business, meaning, money, self-development, spirituality, The Yoga Lunchbox, tour leading, travelling, wellbeing, work, yoga, yoga teaching

Money is not the be-all and end-all for scoring life

October 18, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

Money is not the only way to score life

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat On Saturday, I was on a Skype call with a sales rep from MediaPass. He's been great at helping me navigating my way through the implementation of a subscription system for The Yoga Lunchbox, answering all my many and varied questions with great patience - except for one thing. I wanted to use a subscription system where people could decide how much they wanted to pay to receive premium access to The YLB. I asked him about letting people choose how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: assumptions, life, money, pay, scoring, subscription, value

10 reasons why I’m excited to choose corporate work over teaching yoga

May 16, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 18 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Oh yes loyal Lunchboxers, after weighing up what I need in my life right now, I've decided to forgo trying to earn a living wage as a yoga teacher and website publisher, and instead head back into the workplace. I've been sprucing up my CV, writing cover letters, and getting in touch with recruitment agencies. It feels GREAT! Normally the story we hear is about people getting disillusioned with working for a living, with being in the corporate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: abundance, career, corporate, job, money, passion, solo mum, support, teaching, The Heart, work, yoga

The path to true abundance lies within

November 20, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

We live in an infinitely abundant universe. This is a fact. Stare up at a clear sky night and try and count the stars. Cut open a capsicum and try and count the seeds. Stand on the corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Street and try and count the people flowing in all directions. Life is abundant. It flourishes under even the harshest of conditions. Deserts. Mountain tops. Ocean depths. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: abundance, money, scarcity, seva

A yogic exploration of winning the Big Wednesday jackpot

June 12, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant 6 Comments

The single most destructive desire present in the human race is the desire "to make money". In the name of "making money", we make slaves of other people, we rape and pillage the earth, we abuse animals, we create inferior products designed to break down and crowd our landfills, we compromise our internal values, we trample over colleagues, we burn ourselves out, we spend more time working than with our family, and we write it all off as "just business". All this because of our burning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Archive 2019, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: karma yoga, money

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