Posts tagged yoga industry data
The Queen of Hearts, A.K.A. The Data Problem

There’s a chart that gets passed around constantly — yoga and Pilates, lumped together, showing a growing market. The problem: one of those is actually growing. The other isn’t. And they’re reported as one number.

This episode unpacks why that matters, who benefits from the blur, and why an organization sitting on yoga-specific data has no incentive to separate it out. It’s not a conspiracy — it’s just what happens when nobody asks the industry to see itself clearly.

The One Thing: a concrete, low-effort way to start treating wellness-industry data with the skepticism it deserves — and where to look for numbers that are actually about yoga.

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Data, Transparency & Building the Yoga Industry We Actually Deserve — With Dr. Stevie Inghram (Part 2)

What would it mean if yoga professionals actually had access to employment data, debt-to-income numbers, and honest information about whether this career is financially viable? In Part 2 of this conversation, Dr. Stevie Inghram and Rebecca get into why yoga's governing bodies keep that data close — and what it costs the profession when they do. They also talk about the difference between people who train for personal knowledge versus those building a career, why waiting for existing organizations to fix things is a losing strategy, and what a genuinely community-led approach to yoga professional advocacy could look like. And they share details on a free summer gathering for practitioners ready to stop waiting and start organizing. This is a conversation about building the industry we all need and deserve — and it starts here.

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