Posts tagged Nana Amoako-Anin

Confidence, Pricing & Visual Representation in Yoga — With Nana Amoako-Anin (Part 2)

Part 2 of this conversation with Nana Amoako-Anin goes somewhere a little more personal — and just as essential. Rebecca and Nana talk about the confidence it takes to charge what your work is actually worth, and why pricing remains such a persistent struggle for yoga professionals. They get into consumer choice — the fact that the industry has never given students a real way to evaluate or choose a good teacher — and the visual culture problem baked into yoga marketing, where the internet still defaults to one narrow, unrepresentative image of who practices. They also touch on AI's growing role in marketing and what it means to stay genuinely uncomfortable while your teaching and business evolve. This one feels like listening in on two people becoming real friends, which, honestly, it is.

Rebecca SebastianJuly 9, 2026yoga teacher confidence, yoga pricing strategy, yoga consumer choice, yoga visual representation, yoga marketing diversity, yoga business confidence, charging your worth yoga, yoga industry representation, Nana Amoako-Anin, working in yoga podcast, yoga teacher pricing, wellness marketing AI, yoga teacher value, inclusive yoga marketing, yoga business evolutionComment

Capital, Trauma-Informed Practice & a Cautionary Tale — With Nana Amoako-Anin (Part 1)

Nana Amoako-Anin has lived a genuinely international life — including a stint as a prosecuting attorney in Manhattan — before finding her way into yoga and opening her own studio in Ghana. In Part 1 of this conversation, she and Rebecca get into something the yoga industry rarely names directly: access to capital, and what it means for the future of this work. They also unpack the term "trauma-informed," questioning whether academic language is actually serving the people it's meant to help, and look honestly at how the US wellness industry burned hot and fast in the 2010s, organized itself around deep individualism, and ultimately failed to build infrastructure for its own workers. It's a candid look at what other parts of the world might do differently — and why.

Rebecca SebastianJuly 2, 2026access to capital yoga, yoga studio funding, trauma-informed yoga, yoga industry infrastructure, wellness industry individualism, yoga studio owner Ghana, Nana Amoako-Anin, working in yoga podcast, international yoga business, yoga industry capital, embodied education, yoga trend report, yoga industry critique, sustainable yoga business, global yoga industryComment