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

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.

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