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.

Rebecca SebastianMay 18, 2026yoga teacher retirement, yoga teacher finances, yoga teacher income, yoga teacher salary, yoga professional, yoga teacher burnout, yoga teacher career, yoga business, yoga teacher financial planning, yoga industry problems, yoga teacher pay, self employed retirement, yoga teacher sustainability, yoga career longevity, yoga industry reformComment

Nobody Told You It's Okay To Feel Taken Advantage Of

The yoga world's commitment to non-judgment, positive intent, and non-attachment is genuinely beautiful in a practice. In a profession, those same values have been used to silence legitimate grievances, protect institutions that should be held accountable, and make yoga professionals carry a collective harm privately that should have been named publicly. In this episode we say plainly what the industry has never said: you are allowed to feel taken advantage of. Because in many cases, you were. And naming that is not unspiritual. It is honest. And honesty is also a practice.

Rebecca SebastianMay 11, 2026yoga industry, yoga professional, yoga teacher career, yoga business, yoga teacher burnout, yoga industry problems, yoga teacher training cost, yoga therapy credential, yoga studio employment, yoga teacher pay, yoga industry reform, yoga professional development, toxic positivity yoga, yoga teacher advocacy, yoga careerComment

Nobody Told You The Organizations Believe In Yoga, Not In You

The organizations governing the yoga profession care deeply about the practice. What they have never demonstrated a meaningful commitment to is the professional welfare of the people teaching it. In this episode we make a distinction nobody in this industry is making out loud — and explain why it changes everything about what you should expect from these institutions, what you're actually paying for, and what needs to be built.

Rebecca SebastianApril 27, 2026yoga organizations, yoga alliance, yoga professional, yoga industry, yoga credentialing, yoga therapy organizations, yoga teacher advocacy, yoga industry reform, yoga professional development, yoga teacher career, yoga business, yoga industry problems, yoga teacher burnout, yoga standards, yoga industry leadershipComment

Debt, Standards, and Who's Really Looking Out for You — With Dr. Stevie Inghram (Part 1)

Nobody talks about debt-to-income ratios in the yoga world. Stevie Inghram does. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Rebecca sits down with naturopathic doctor and yoga therapist Dr. Stevie Inghram to dig into some of the most under-discussed structural problems in the yoga and holistic health professions — including whether it's even ethical to keep training people at current income levels, how poor working conditions quietly erode professional standards, and what it would take to build an organization that actually advocates for the people doing this work, not just the practice itself. If you've ever felt like the system wasn't built for you, this conversation will help you understand why — and start you thinking about what comes next.

Rebecca SebastianApril 23, 2026yoga therapy training costs, debt to income yoga, holistic health career, yoga therapy ethics, yoga industry standards, yoga professional advocacy, naturopathic doctor yoga, community led yoga organization, yoga working conditions, yoga therapy income, Stevie Inghram, working in yoga podcast, yoga therapist career, yoga professional community, yoga industry reformComment

What Nobody Told You: The Organizations Don't Actually Represent You.

The organizations that set our standards, control our credentials, and claim to speak for yoga professionals are mostly run by people who have never built a career on the mat. In this episode, we name what that actually means — why it explains so much of what feels off, what you should stop expecting from these institutions, and what needs to change.

Rebecca SebastianApril 6, 2026yoga organizations, yoga industry, yoga professional, yoga credentialing, yoga alliance, yoga therapy, C-IAYT, yoga career, yoga business, yoga teacher advocacy, yoga industry problems, yoga standards, yoga professional development, yoga teacher burnout, yoga industry reformComment