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.

Rebecca SebastianAugust 3, 2026yoga industry data, Yoga Alliance data, yoga vs pilates market, yoga industry statistics, yoga teacher income data, Real Hours Project, yoga industry research, yoga professional podcast, yoga career data, Working In YogaComment

What We Got Right — And What's Coming Next: The 2026 Yoga Industry Forecast

Six months ago, Rebecca published the first Yoga Professionals Trend Forecast — a snapshot of what was actually happening in the yoga industry, without the soft focus. In this episode, she comes back to it. Not to congratulate herself, but to update it: what held, what sharpened, and where things have moved.

She also previews the Summer 2026 forecast. A few trends get named. One — the end of the portable career model — gets the full treatment. If you've been building your career on the solopreneur model and something has started to feel off, this episode is probably for you.