Mapping the Real Landscape of Yoga Teaching Today — With Alexia Walker

There's a real and growing gap between yoga teachers who built their careers in the 2010s and those trying to build one now — and we're not talking about it enough.

Alexia Walker, a yoga teacher working in Michigan, joins Rebecca for an unfiltered conversation about what the current landscape actually looks like.

They get into the devaluing effect of free offerings, why the people who find you through free content rarely become paying students, how the yoga world built a training system that rewards wealth and travel over actual teaching skill, and what it means to build a truly bespoke career when no two paths look the same. They also touch on transferable skills, community care as a framework for service, and the harm that gets quietly replicated when we don't pay attention to the patterns we're inheriting. This is the conversation about where yoga is right now — not where it was ten years ago.

Rebecca SebastianMay 14, 2026yoga teacher career 2026, yoga industry today, sustainable yoga teaching, free yoga offerings, yoga teacher training privilege, yoga career advice, yoga transferrable skills, community care yoga, yoga teacher income, boots on the ground yoga, Alexia Walker, working in yoga podcast, yoga teacher burnout, yoga studio culture, yoga career pathComment

The Economics of Yoga — Curiosity, Community Spaces & Staying in the Work With Reika Shucart

If we keep training yoga teachers without honestly addressing how they're going to get paid, we're doing everyone a disservice — the teachers, the students, and the practice itself.

Reika Shucart, host of the Full Time Yoga Teacher podcast, joins Rebecca to talk about what it actually looks like to build a sustainable income as a yoga teacher right now.

They get into the shift away from studios toward community spaces like YMCAs, senior centers, and libraries; why online teaching needs to be a YTT requirement, not an afterthought; the quiet shrinking of the continuing education market; and the honest conversation nobody wants to have about yoga's cultural moment fading. There's also something genuinely hopeful in here — about curiosity, artistry, and the kind of passion-led teaching that keeps both teachers and students coming back. This one is practical, a little uncomfortable, and worth every minute.

Rebecca SebastianMay 7, 2026full time yoga teacher, yoga teacher income, economics of yoga, yoga teacher salary, teaching yoga at community centers, online yoga teaching, yoga industry 2026, yoga continuing education, yoga teacher training, yoga studio business, Reika Shucart, working in yoga podcast, yoga career advice, yoga teacher burnout, sustainable yoga careerComment

What Nobody Told You: Nobody Told You The Sequence.

Everyone told you to find your voice, build your brand, and develop your unique methodology. Nobody told you the order. In this episode, we talk about the sequence that the yoga industry never handed you — why you have to get better before you can get original, and why the pressure to skip that step is quietly crushing an entire generation of yoga professionals.

Rebecca SebastianApril 13, 2026yoga teacher career, yoga professional development, yoga business, yoga teacher training, becoming a yoga teacher, yoga career advice, yoga industry, yoga teacher burnout, finding your teaching voice, yoga teacher tips, yoga business strategy, yoga entrepreneur, yoga teacher struggles, professional yoga, yoga career pathComment

Nobody Told You There's No Safety Net — And That's Both The Problem And The Freedom

Nobody handed you a pamphlet about this when you got certified. There's no union, no standardized pay scale, no HR department, and no institution coming to protect you if things go sideways.

In the first episode of the What Nobody Told You series, Rebecca names the structural failure at the heart of the yoga industry — and then goes a step further. Because once you stop waiting for a safety net that was never being built, something clarifies. You stop organizing your career around a promise that was never real, and you start building something that actually belongs to you.

This one is honest, a little hard, and worth the listen.

Rebecca SebastianMarch 30, 2026yoga career advice, working in yoga, yoga teacher finances, no safety net yoga industry, yoga business tips, what nobody told you yoga, yoga teacher income, yoga entrepreneur, building a yoga career, yoga teacher burnout, financial reality yoga teachers, yoga industry truth, yoga podcast, Rebecca working in yoga