By Paula Hines
In 2019, a group of yoga teachers at YogaWorks, a top yoga studio chain in America, came together to form a union. Among the reasons cited were low pay and lack of benefits, though they were clear that these concerns were not just about the YogaWorks chain, but in fact industry-wide problems.
The action of these teachers forming a union — apparently the first such yoga union in the USA — has prompted discussion in the UK too. Things are not so different here, after all. On the subject of pay for instance, I find from speaking to teachers of nearly 20 years in London that pay has more or less stayed the same in that time. Though, as we are all too aware, the cost of living has gone up everywhere.
When I started teaching in 2011 the average pay for a 60-minute yoga class in London at a studio or gym was £30. Now, in 2020 it is still the same. I had a period where I was very fortunate to be able to make a living solely from teaching yoga, but that has not been the case for a while now. If I was not doing other work outside of teaching, to say that I would not be able to keep a roof over my head is not an exaggeration. One of my favourite teachers no longer teaches at all and went back to work in the corporate world because of the financial challenges. I don’t take for granted that one day this might be me too.
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