The Math Nobody Does: The 200-Hour Training Math

Everyone assumes yoga teacher trainings are a cash grab. The actual math tells a very different story. In this episode we build the real financial picture of running a 200-hour yoga teacher training from the trainer's perspective — the 500 hours of labor behind 200 hours of delivery, the costs that eat into gross revenue, and the hourly rate that results. For most trainers, that number lands around $20 per hour before taxes. This episode is for everyone who has ever assumed the trainer got rich off their tuition — and for every trainer who has never actually sat down and calculated what their work is worth.

Rebecca SebastianMay 25, 2026yoga teacher training, YTT business, yoga teacher training cost, running a yoga teacher training, yoga teacher trainer, yoga studio business, yoga business math, yoga teacher training profit, yoga professional, yoga industry, yoga teacher training economics, yoga business, yoga trainer income, yoga teacher training labor, yoga studio ownerComment

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