On today’s episode, Amy chats with Rebecca Sebastian, A 20-year teacher of yoga and 10-years of experience as a yoga therapist. Rebecca is the owner of the Sunlight Yoga Center, Rebecca Sebastian is passionate about yoga, yoga teaching, and helping lift our local community. She is the co-founder of the Quad Cities Yoga Foundation in the Midwest of the United States (Iowa).

Rebecca and Amy have a lively conversation about building a business in yoga and yoga therapy. This is a joyful journey where the yoga is applied to the business, and not the other way around. Stay clear about your mission, your core values, your time, and your boundaries, and get support around your trauma with money (if needed). It is possible to find running a yoga business as a joyful extension of teaching the actual yoga and living your yoga. Get a cup of tea and be ready to take some notes!

They talk about the following: 

• How to run a business based on feminist business principles
• Bringing the yoga to your business, not the business to the yoga
• Developing a mission-driven organization and getting clear about your core values
• Understanding what you are selling, and it is not yoga (surprisingly)
• Building a business that does make you feel gross
• Getting clarity around money and feeling clean
• Seva model of business 
• Percentage model of business
• Sliding scale model of business
• Non-profit organizations 
• How to feel more comfortable on social media and becoming a creator
• Marketing as a series of love letters to your peeps
• Creating posts on social media that make you feel happy to share what you love with the world!

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