Yoga as a Business Archives

NEVER TOO LATE TO START FROM SCRATCH!

25 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH WALKED INTO MY FIRST BIKRAM YOGA CLASS. Before Bikram Yoga’ nothing (aside from Darren 😉 ) grabbed my attention the way it did and I …

Yoga for sale…

And so continues the commodification of Yoga. Those who think Yoga isn’t for sale are mistaken. Clearly it is and it is getting all ‘wrapped up’ in the global brands. …

Year End 2021

BIG THANKS~ to YOU we’d like to send As another freaky year heads towards its end We hope that YOU at least ENJOYed The ‘Yoga Year’ that you employed At …

IF YOU LET SOMEONE STEAL YOUR ‘STILLNESS’ YOU ARE THE LOSER

If we were a ‘book’ 🙂 ‘Yoga Matters’ would be the ‘title’ and ‘In Pursuit of Stillness’ would be our ‘subtitle’. Our title conveys who we are but our subtitle …

YM Fully 10 ! Poem

Yes Our Yoga School turn 10 this year, So we wrote a POEM {its how we CHEER!} Seems like yesterday we were only 9 🙂 , How we despair at the flying …

10 YEARS OF YM

~YM@10~ 19th July 2021 will be 3650 days, aprox 5000 (FIVE THOUSAND) classes and lots of ‘stuff’ has happened since YM opened its doors. WHAT DOES 10YRS RUNNING YOUR OWN …

THANK YOU

On a ‘day to day’ basis for Darren & I Yoga ‘Union’ also means ~connecting with the people and society who want to connect with us as well as making …

12/4/21 Guidance & Protocols Still With Us

So. 12/4/21. ‘GUIDANCE’ IS STILL WITH US. Risk Assessments, Mitigation Plans and Protocols are STILL WITH US and Gov’t still expects us to promote: …“PHYSICAL DISTANCING AND CLEANLINESS… AT THE …

Momoyoga Users Please Read

***IMPORTANT READ FOR ALL MOMOYOGA USERS*** Momoyoga (‘MY’) is settling in really well as a new employee 🙂 It is here to stay! Everyone learns in different ways and paces …

We Love Momoyoga (‘MY’)

Let me tell you a little story of life for us before MY. Pre cv we were ticking along with our text/booking system, enjoying it even, keeping the connect with …

REOPENING 15th MARCH 2021

Dear YM Practitioner We are so very happy to advise that after our forced closure we will be re-opening Monday 15/3/21 and ready to go! Please be reassured all credits …

FIRST TO CLOSE LAST TO OPEN. WHY?

https://www.itv.com/…/jersey-business-leaders-say-open… WE SEE NO SIGNS of our ‘sectors reopening constantly being under review’. Jersey gov’t are way too quiet about our sector. Say it out loud folks: the trade off …

Insta Yogi Vs. Yoga

With all the insta glam superimposed over Yogasana it would be easy perhaps for some to get confused about what one is seeking when they take up the practice. Some …

TIME TO DUST

“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in and looked toward the sun and walked into the sky” ~ Philip Pullman If you know ‘His …

December 2020

Blessed YM Yogi Friends, This year had so much to distract, the whole planet in on the ‘confusion’; no one exempt from the negative pandemic effect either physically, mentally, emotionally, …

LIGHT ON BOOKING… 2020

With immediate effect ~NO MORE VERBAL BOOKINGS OR CHECKING BOOKINGS AFTER CLASSES in reception~ Our booking system is seriously broken folks; A system that served us for 9 years pre-covid …

YM Loves ‘Left’ :) ~ left property statistics

Our Left Property is sooo tidy these days I almost miss it’s chaos! almost… FREQUENTLY left: water bottles (hundreds over the years; cannot be kept too long for hygiene reasons) …

SWEATIQUETTE…

Please respect the need for ‘Sweatiquettes’… we are a tiny studio… one instructor on hand per class to do EVERYTHING… We do not have the resources to hire a team …

Light On… Credits 2020

Dear YM Bikram Yogis, Ever so grateful to practitioners for welcoming YM back on 12th June. Happy to be with you all every day. ‘Pure generosity’ invested in credits whilst …

CONTAGION ‘MITIGATION’ PLAN

****scroll down to see 26/8/21 ‘Stage 7’ update**** We are so happy and excited to be able to WELCOME YOU BACK to our little Yoga school. To help you feel …

~WORRIES OF A LOCKED IN BIKRAM YOGI INSTRUCTOR~

15/4/2020 ~ My teaching skills are disappearing! Whilst the ‘Dialogue’ is ever present fundamental structure of our classes I NEVER know what I am going to say from one class …

LOCK DOWN. DAY 1 OF 83.

Nobody could have planned for this (although Bill Gates said in 2015 we should have; the documentary at the end of ‘28 days later’ said we should have 😉 ). …

Bikram Choudhury Netflix Documentary

~For Clarity~ and because one of our beloved practitioners asked … Thank you for asking. You/your question deserve a proper response. The time available before/after class is short and never best utilized talking …

Know Your Unconscious Mind (‘UM’)

My UM has been ‘triggered’ 🙂 and I am researching as I am writing folks and some if this is new to me but very interesting. I share it with …

Bikram Yoga and its extractions…

Bikram Yoga classes are 90 minutes. (As a matter of interest Sivananda classes are 90 minutes. Iyengar classes are 90 minutes). There IS no ‘quick fix all’ and 90 minutes …

WHY I ‘WRITE’

Dear Yogi, I’ve been writing my Yoga essays since about 2 months after we started working with You lovely Yogis! When we were planning to open it never dawned on …

WE DID IT !!!

THE SINGING BOWL WILL BE SINGING AGAIN ~ FRIDAY 21ST JUNE ~ We have been in an interesting position of late; we have had to hand certain things over ‘emotionally’; …

You are the driver…

Dear Practitioners Having received a parking ticket at Langford Friday evening for forgetting to display ‘time arrived’ (ouch!) it got me thinking on the whole parking and driving to Yoga …

getting back to that sacred space

Excitement is starting to build… We will be starting back with our FULL SCHEDULE ~ YES! Bikram Yoga EVERYDAY! Sometimes TWICE! Because Bikram practitioners deserve to be able to practice …

PLEASE HELP US. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN WATER…

There is only one solution to single use plastic: GOVERNMENT PLEASE BAN THEM. wouldn’t that just make all of our lives simpler? In the meantime waiting for that kind of …

Joists. mmmmm. JOYsts… :)

We mustn’t overlook the JOYsts in our lives!! Soon we won’t see them but we won’t have to; its enough to know they will always be there! Our new Joysts …

Studio Update Feb19

Dear YM Yogis ~ We thought we would share a few photos (as WE ALL KNOW from our practice there is nothing like a good visual 🙂 !) It is …

Light on… YM credits :)

Hello YM Bikram Yogis We realized when one of our super kind practitioners (there are so many) came the other night very generously wanting to pay cash, even though they …

Christmas 2018

Hello. It is that time of year again. You know. The pause and reflect. It has been a ‘bit of a year’ for us personally, spiritually and professionally. I truly …

How we will roll at Langford…

Dear YM Bikram Yogi Family You have been patient and so kind to us at this difficult time and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. But we …

All our ‘real life’ lessons, no matter the guise they come in, when we reflect on them, and we always do, they are Yogic lessons and ultimately they all inform …

Without a doubt this week has been up there with one of the worst type of weeks a couple could have. Until yesterday we thought we had lost everything in …

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL nobody was hurt. A number of different scenarios have played out in our heads about how this could have turned out believe us and all of …