Get A Social Media Policy Now!

If your yoga or wellness business has employees and if you are using social media or email to market your business, then you need to establish a social media policy to address a number of important legal and business issues. Many companies encourage their employees to...

California Attacks Yoga Studios Over Taxes!

I am writing to let you know of an important and disturbing development that is threatening the yoga community in California. The Threat To Your Yoga Studio The California Economic Development Department (the “EDD”) has been aggressively targeting yoga studios in...

Trouble In Yoga School!

  Yoga teacher training programs have been expanding at a rapid rate and they have become an important profit center for many yoga studios. However, as a result, I am now getting lots of calls about conflicts between students and the schools. There have been...

Should You Ask About Injuries Before Class?

I have been in many yoga classes where, at the beginning of class,  the teacher asks whether any students have an injury.  Sometimes the students describe their injuries openly in the class.  Other times the teachers visit with the students privately (usually in child...

Don’t Sign That Lease (Yet)

Don’t Sign That Lease! (Yet) Signing a lease is one of the most important economic actions that you will take as the owner of a yoga or wellness studio. The key point of this post is that you must read, understand and negotiate your lease. There is no such thing as a...