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

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

Do Higher Standards Actually Help Us? A Conversation with Steffany Moonaz

What good are higher yoga standards if teachers can't pay their bills? That's the question that sparked this conversation with researcher and yoga therapist Steffany Moonaz. Together we dig into what the data actually says about yoga training, student safety, and whether the industry's push for updated standards from Yoga Alliance and IAYT can coexist with building real economic viability for yoga professionals. We also get into the anatomy curriculum problem, the difference between a licensed healthcare provider who "knows a few poses" and an actual yoga professional, and whether higher education is the direction we're all heading—or just some of us.