You’re the teacher who feels her chest tighten and throat start to close the moment she even thinks about raising her rates. Whose mind starts throwing out things like “you don’t want people to think you’re greedy” and “that’s too much to charge, nobody will pay that,” and sentences like “people will leave” and “who do I think I am.”
The last time you raised your rates, you announced it four months in advance, and the email read a lot more like an apology letter than a simple communication of a rate change. Complete with the list of every training you’ve taken since 2019 so people knew the increase was “worth it.”
I want you to know you’re in good company.
Been there, done this, bought the T-shirt.
And because I’ve been where you’re sitting, I know…
You’ve done the inner work, spent years on a yoga mat, years in therapy, tried meditation, and read all the self-help books your Kindle can hold. You can quote the Sūtras, and you can see your own patterns so clearly you could teach a 5 hour seminar on them.
You keep thinking money somehow lives separately from your yoga practice, or that all the meditation and mind inspecting work you do isn't something you should be using to see how you relate to money.
But your yoga practice is meant to be the ground under everything you do, helping you see clearly and act skillfully in every aspect of your life.
Your yoga business and money aren't separate from that practice.