Posts Tagged ‘yoga studio’
Ease the Pain of Getting Paid
Your bright new studio is finally open. You wait at the reception desk for your first student to arrive. This young gal arrives with her mat, water bottle and a smile. I can imagine you having to hold yourself back from jumping up and exclaiming “Welcome!”. This student wants to try out your studio, and [...]
Have an Emergency Plan
Contingencies for Emergencies I have two studios that I frequent weekly, and in the past month they both experienced heating issues. The owners are thoughtful people, one has been in business for a few months and another for several years. They both handled their circumstance well. A few customers were annoyed by the inconvenience but after [...]
Your students checkin, do you?
I’m a bit of a yogadork, I practice at a few studios around town, at home, compete, and even build software to help manage studios! I understand most styles of yoga, postures and their healing benefits. I was introduced to yoga through a friend of mine while we were in college, and I’ve had a [...]
Keeping Yoga Studios “Cool” in the Summer
How can studios keep students coming into class when it is so hot!? Remind students that the summer is the perfect time to do yoga – your body is already naturally warm, so you will be able to explore yoga poses in ways you haven’t been able to before. You hips, shoulders, chest are all [...]
How to handle competition in the studio business
The number of yoga studios opening up across the US is on the rise, which is great news for all of us yogis who want to get our fix! However, the side effect of an increase in the popularity of yoga and studios opening is an increase in competition. So unless you’re operating the only [...]
5 Ways for Yoga Studios to Use Facebook
There is a trend happening amongst yoga studios lately that seems to be growing and evolving by the day: Facebook is fast becoming more useful to yogis, both students and studio owners, than a website! With the ability to quickly and easily add posts, change photos and communicate with students (in a place where so [...]
Deep Student-Instructor Relationships – with Tatjana Eres
What should instructors consider in deepening their relationships with students? With yoga being so focused on the physical, how do you even go about it? In preparing for the chat, Tatjana put together ten methods she’s used or seen work to great effect. Check out the post for a full exploration. and then see the [...]
8 Tips to Welcome 2011
If you are a yoga or fitness studio owner, 2010 had its unique challenges. I can imagine that if you are reading this blog post you are also multitasking to keep your business running, your instructors engaged and your students happy. You beautifully wear many hats at your studio, from owner, instructor to accountant you are doing all that [...]
What I’ve learned from Small Businesses in 2010
A little over a year ago I was driving home from Trader Joe’s, eating dark chocolate truffle at the time, and thinking of product ideas. I started to think about the things I was passionate about outside of engineering, which are food and yoga. I thought about product ideas for food and it seemed overdone [...]
Yoginis Reaching Out Through Twitter
The yoga community on Twitter is strong and supportive. In addition to bloggers promoting their sites, yoga studios advertising their current class specials, and yoga apparel websites joining the conversation, there seems to be a growing number of yogis and yoginis reaching out to one another simply to discuss their love of the practice. As a fan of [...]






