The Back Room.
The Back Room
You are still here…
You're still here. After all of it — the underpaid classes, the boom and the bust, the pivots, the years where the work and the bills felt like they were in a permanent argument you couldn't win — you're still here.
That means you love this work. And like anything you love, your relationship with it needs tending. It needs honesty, attention, and the occasional hard conversation. It needs you to see it clearly — not as a grind to survive or a passion to justify, but as a living thing that sustains you, spreads the practice, and makes it possible for you to do the most important work you know how to do.
The Back Room is where yoga professionals come to work on their relationship with their work — with structure, with company, and with someone who has been in this a long time and learned how to stay.
Come do it with us.
Here's the thing nobody tells you about a long career in yoga: it's a relationship.
Not a job. Not a calling you either have or don't. A relationship — with all the complexity that implies. Some years it's easy. Some years you're sleeping in separate rooms and wondering how you got here. Some years you're so deep in the day-to-day of keeping it alive that you forget to actually tend it. To look at it clearly. To ask what it needs from you right now, and what you need from it.
Most yoga professionals treat their career like a problem to be solved or a passion to be justified. Neither one works. A problem implies something went wrong. A passion implies it should sustain itself on feeling alone.
What if you treated it like something worth growing instead?
The Back Room is the conservatory out back. It's warm in here. Things are growing on purpose. There are two chairs — one for you, one for your work — and enough structure to actually make progress, and enough company to make it feel less like you're doing it alone.
We might knock over a plant or two. We'll sweep up the dirt and replace the soil.
That's what tending looks like.
Who This Is For.
The Back Room is for the yoga professional who is still here.
Not the one who has it figured out. Not the one who just finished her two hundredth hour training and is riding the high of it. Not the one who needs someone to tell her she's doing a great job.
The one who has been in this long enough to know that love for the work isn't sufficient. That the practice and the paycheck have to find a way to coexist. That the career she's been building deserves the same attention and care she gives her students.
The one who, if she's honest, has spent more than one New Year's Eve wondering if she's going to do this again — and chose yes anyway.
The one who is ready to stop swimming until she sinks and start building something that lasts.
If that's you, you're in the right place.
If it's not you yet — come back when it is. The door will be open.
The door is open.
There's no pitch here, no urgency, no limited time offer. Either this is the room you've been looking for or it isn't. Either this is the year you decide to tend this relationship seriously or it isn't.
If it is — come on back. We're in the conservatory. The kettle's on. Bring your work, your questions, your wins that nobody else quite understood, and the parts of your career you haven't known what to do with.
We've been expecting you.
Pricing
The Back Room is $15 a month.
That's it. No tiers, no upsells, no annual commitment required.
For less than a single drop-in class, you get a dedicated space to work on the career that makes all the other classes possible.
[JOIN THE BACK ROOM — $8/MONTH]
Already reading Inside Yoga Magazine? Bundle both for $197 a year — the architect's drafting table and the conservatory, together.
[BUNDLE: THE BACK ROOM + INSIDE YOGA MAGAZINE — $197/YEAR]
Frequently Asked Questions
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That depends on one thing: are you actually going to use it? The Back Room is not a passive content subscription. It's a working room — which means it's worth exactly as much time as you bring to it. What I can tell you is that the structure is designed for real life. The monthly rhythm is manageable. The reflection work is designed to be done in a single sitting with a cup of tea and your own journal. The monthly adventure post gives you one concrete thing to do, not a complete overhaul of your business. If you spend thirty minutes a week in here doing actual work on your actual career, something will shift. That's not a promise of transformation. It's a promise of movement — which is usually what we need most.
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Every month you get a deep guide on a specific aspect of building a sustainable yoga career, a reflection sheet designed to help you apply it to your own situation, a monthly checklist for the business basics most yoga professionals are either ignoring or improvising, and a monthly adventure post with three concrete things you can do right now to move forward — pick the one that fits where you are. You also get a community of yoga professionals who are serious about the same things you're serious about, a place to share wins with people who actually understand what they cost, and more of me than I put anywhere else. The door is always open. The greenhouse is always stocked. You work through it at your own pace.
The library is organized so you can find your starting point based on where you actually are right now — whether you're questioning the career entirely, trying to get serious about the business side, building toward something more advanced, or navigating the specific challenges of a yoga therapy practice. -
Honestly — it might not be. If you joined because it sounded good and then never came back, that's a you question worth asking before you join. But here's what's different about this room structurally: it's not built on conversation for its own sake. There's no pressure to show up and perform engagement.
The community is there when you want it. It's not the price of admission. But I'll tell you this — the people who get the most out of The Back Room are the ones who eventually pull up a chair at the long table. Because it turns out the most useful thing in the room isn't the content. It's realizing you're not the only one. -
You're right. Most of it is. And most of it was designed for a different kind of professional doing a different kind of work with a different definition of success. The Back Room is not a business coaching program. It doesn't have a system for you to follow or a template for you to fill in. What it has is a framework for understanding your own career clearly enough to make decisions that actually fit your life — and someone who has been in this industry for twenty years, watched it carefully, stayed in it on purpose, and has strong opinions about what actually works for yoga professionals specifically. If that sounds useful, it probably is. If you're looking for a funnel and a formula, this isn't your room.
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There's an actual community — and building it is one of the reasons I show up here consistently every week. The Back Room is where I put the energy I used to scatter across public platforms, because the people in this room are the ones doing the real work and they deserve the real conversation. There's a monthly thread for wins and challenges that exists specifically because yoga professionals don't have enough places where their progress gets witnessed by people who understand it. There are two live gatherings a year — a mid-year check in and an end of year ritual — that are designed to make you feel less alone in this career than you probably do right now. And there's a long table here where people at different career stages are visible to each other, which is something I needed badly at 35 and couldn't find anywhere. This is not a library with a comments section. It's a room with people in it.
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Yes. No hidden tiers, no upsells, no course you have to buy to get the real content. Everything that exists in The Back Room is available to every member. The $15 is the whole thing. I priced it this way on purpose — because the yoga professionals who need this room most are often the ones who have spent enough money on programs that didn't fit. This should be the easiest yes you make this year.
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Then you cancel. No annual commitment, no complicated process, no hard feelings. Patreon makes it straightforward. But before you go, I'd ask you to tell me what wasn't working — not because I need the feedback, but because this room is designed to evolve with the people in it, and if something isn't landing I want to know.
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The annual bundle — The Back Room plus Inside Yoga Magazine for $197 — is processed as a single yearly charge. Patreon offers a five-day refund window from the date of your charge, and I honor that without question. After that window, the membership is non-refundable.
That said — if something significant changes in your circumstances and you need to have a conversation, come find me. I'm not a corporation and I don't operate like one. I'd rather talk to you like a person than hide behind a policy.
What I'd ask before you commit to the annual: make sure this is the right year for it. Read the landing page honestly. If you're on the fence, start with the monthly Back Room membership at $8 and see how you use it. The bundle will still be here when you're ready.
The Back Room is part of the Working In Yoga ecosystem — alongside Working In Yoga podcast and Inside Yoga Magazine.
Built for yoga professionals who are serious about staying.
