The Math Nobody Does: The Retirement Math

Most yoga professionals have no employer contributing to their retirement. No pension. No automatic savings. Whatever gets built for the future is built entirely through individual planning, out of an already stretched income, in a profession that culturally treats financial planning as spiritually suspect. In this episode we do the retirement math — what you actually need to save monthly at different ages to retire at sixty-five, what that number looks like against average yoga professional income, and why starting now matters more than starting right.

Rebecca SebastianJuly 20, 2026yoga teacher retirement, yoga teacher finances, yoga teacher financial planning, yoga professional retirement, self employed retirement, yoga teacher income, yoga teacher salary, yoga business, yoga professional, yoga teacher career, yoga teacher burnout, yoga industry, IRA yoga teacher, solo 401k yoga, yoga teacher financial securityComment

The Math Nobody Does: The Online Business Math

The online yoga business is sold as the answer to everything — unlimited reach, passive income, freedom from the studio model. The reality has a specific math that most of the people selling online business courses are not showing you. In this episode we build the honest financial picture of what it costs to build an online yoga offering — in time, money, and the long runway before it generates meaningful income — so you can make decisions about digital offerings based on what is actually true.

Rebecca SebastianJuly 13, 2026online yoga business, yoga online course, yoga digital products, yoga teacher online, yoga business, yoga entrepreneur, yoga passive income, yoga teacher income, yoga online platform, yoga teacher career, yoga business math, yoga professional, yoga teacher finances, online yoga teaching, yoga business strategyComment

The Math Nobody Does: The Studio Job Math

The per-class rate sounds reasonable until you do the actual math. In this episode we calculate what a studio teaching job really pays when you factor in unpaid prep time, travel, cancelled classes, and the absence of benefits. What looks like a professional income often works out to less than minimum wage when the full picture is on the table. This episode is for every yoga professional who has felt that something wasn't adding up — because something wasn't.

Rebecca SebastianJune 29, 2026yoga teacher pay, yoga studio job, yoga teacher salary, yoga teacher income, yoga studio employment, yoga teacher hourly rate, yoga teacher benefits, yoga teacher career, yoga business, yoga professional, yoga industry, yoga teacher burnout, yoga teacher finances, yoga studio pay, yoga teacher rightsComment

The Math Nobody Does: The Continuing Education Math

Yoga professionals are required to complete continuing education to maintain their credentials. Nobody has ever done the math on what that requirement actually costs over a career, or what it actually returns in earning potential. In this episode we put both numbers on the table — the real cumulative cost of continuing education across a yoga career, and the honest answer to whether those requirements serve the professional or the organizations that set them.

Rebecca SebastianJune 22, 2026yoga continuing education, yoga CEUs, yoga alliance continuing education, yoga teacher training, yoga professional development, yoga teacher cost, yoga business, yoga professional, yoga teacher career, yoga industry, yoga credentialing, yoga teacher investment, yoga teacher finances, yoga CE requirements, yoga teacher recertificationComment

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 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