06/17/2026
I used to believe that charging what I was worth meant I had somehow betrayed the practice. That the sacrifice was the point. That struggling quietly was what made me a real yoga teacher.
You know how you can be fully devoted to your students, showing up with everything you have, and still feel like wanting more, more income, more freedom, more recognition, makes you less spiritual somehow?
That is because yoga culture has spent decades confusing poverty with purity. The old model did not just underpay teachers, it convinced them they should be grateful for it. Spiritual gaslighting dressed up as devotion.
As Brené Brown says, "You can't give what you don't have."
The most generous, impactful, and respected teachers I know are not the ones who sacrificed the most.
They are the ones who built something sustainable, took their work online, and stopped letting a broken model decide what they were worth.
You do not need to struggle to be respected. You need a better system.
Comment "Empire" below and I will send you the exact blueprint I used to build a freedom-based online yoga business and win the Two Comma Club award for making over a million dollars online, as a yoga teacher.