My Yoga Network · A movement for working yogis

I'm building the network I wish I'd had when I started teaching.

Hi, I'm Ram. I've taught yoga since 2007, run a yoga school, and written a book on the Yoga Sutras. Along the way I learned the hard part isn't the teaching — it's making a living from it. My Yoga Network is my answer: the tools, the community, and the work pipeline I needed back then, now built for all of us. Anyone who loves yoga is welcome. Yoga teachers and therapists, this was built for you.

Hear my podcast with Rebecca

— Ram Bhakt, Founder

2007Teaching yoga since — I've been on your side of the mat

4Channels of demand we build: hotels, schools, corporate & clinical

FreeTo join the community and add yourself to the teacher database

.orgA community-owned home, not another credential mill

Why I started this

We don't live in the world where the Maharaja sponsors the yogi.

We live in a real economy, as householders, with rent and health insurance and people who depend on us. So we have to embrace the tools it takes to make a living doing what we love — and right now, the biggest of those tools is AI.

Business isn't a dirty word. Business is taking the skills you've earned — empathy, holding space, a beginner's mind — and offering them to someone who needs them, in exchange for being able to keep doing the work. Those are the same skills that make great marketing. You already have them.

Here's the hard truth I shared on the podcast: the teachers who use these tools are going to pass by the ones who don't — the same way a website passed the business card. But yoga itself? That stays human. Healing comes through connection, not through wires. AI won't replace you. It'll just help the right people find you.

What I believe this network is for

Put the business side first — because that's what actually gets you work
Give every teacher the AI and marketing tools that used to cost a team
Build real demand — clinics, schools, hotels, workplaces — and route it to you
Prove what yoga does, together, with our own research
Keep the human at the center; the tech just clears the path

The toolkit · especially for yoga teachers

The things I used to pay a whole team to do — now in your hands

When I started, I paid freelancers and business-school interns for research, strategy, ad copy, and outreach. Today AI does that work in minutes. My Yoga Network packages it so you don't have to figure it out alone.

Research & strategy

Ideal-client research, competitor scans, and a real growth plan — pulled together with AI trained on yoga-therapy research and marketing, not generic fluff.

Marketing & websites

SEO-ready landing pages, email and SMS sequences, lead magnets, posters and ad copy — written to sound like you, ready to ship.

Outreach engine

We help you reach physicians, clinics, schools, hotels and HR teams — with letters, lists and follow-up built for you, so you're not knocking on doors one at a time.

The .org chatbot & community

Ask the network a question for free, then join the community to keep the conversation going, share tools, and meet teachers doing what you do.

Yoga Bio Sync & wearables

Our boldest project: an opt-in study where teachers and students share Oura / Apple Watch data against the practices they do — so we can finally show what yoga does, on our own terms.

Placement marketplace

Add yourself to the teacher database. When work comes through the network — a hotel, a school, a corporate pilot — we can match it to teachers who already raised their hand.

Our strategies · the plays we're running

This isn't theory. Here's what we're actually building.

Each of these is a live initiative with real people leading it. Want in on one? Join the community and say so — we'll plug you in.

Wearables Collective Study

A community-owned study using Oura, Apple Watch and more to track biomarker changes against real practice — bypassing the gatekept Western trial model.

Ram · Dr. Moonaz · Dr. Bhavanani

The Mental Health Bridge

A real curriculum and referral pathway between yoga therapy and licensed mental-health practice. The demand exists; the supply doesn't yet.

Joanna (LMHC) · Dr. Bo Forbes

VA & Military Vertical

Operation Live Well, H2F doctrine, and VA clinical integration as the credibility ladder to hospital-grade placements at scale.

Susie · Marlysa Sullivan, PT

Senior, Chronic & Oncology Track

Cancer- and chronic-illness yoga therapy with the behavioral-health layer most oncology programs miss.

Lee Majewski · Joanna

Workplace & Corporate Series

Manufacturers, logistics and industrial employers are buying yoga right now — sold as a measured program, not just classes.

Susie · Ram

Association-Building Workshop

How to build state- and country-level yoga associations, draft credentials, and advocate to government — Yoga Australia as the model.

Rebecca Sebastian · Stevie Ingraham

Healthcare Content Engine

A content stream with credentialed C-IAYT names on it, built for hospital and behavioral-health procurement audiences.

Lanier Cordell · Melanie McElroy McNally

International / Africa Pilot

Accra as a non-US pilot for our supply-side infrastructure: a dollar-priced market with 150 trained practitioners and real demand.

Nana · Ram

Buyer-Trust Positioning

Position the network as the curated, vetted signal that hotel and hospital procurement teams can trust.

Rebecca Sebastian · Ram

From the community

Latest conversations

Real discussions happening right now in the My Yoga Network community — pulled live from our forum.

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Satyavathi Devi, yoga therapist and founder of The Luminine in Princeton, New Jersey

A teacher's story · how the network helps, in practice

Satyavathi spent years in IT. Then she chose the mat.

Satyavathi Devi knows the exact stress your team carries, because she carried it too — years in the IT industry before she trained as a yoga teacher and yoga therapist. Today she runs The Luminine in Princeton, New Jersey: stress-relief yoga, breathwork, Yin, Yoga Nidra, chair yoga and Face Yoga, built for real, screen-heavy lives.

She's exactly who I started this for — a gifted teacher who didn't want to spend her evenings learning SEO, cold-email and CRM software just to find clients.

Ex-ITE-RYT 200Yoga Therapy CertifiedFace Yoga (YA)Princeton, NJ

What she needed

A way to reach the big employers around her — pharma, insurance, research — without selling "yoga classes" to skeptical HR buyers, and without a marketing team she couldn't afford.

What the network built

An SEO microsite to rank for "corporate yoga New Jersey," a measured 8-week program with an HR-readable scorecard, a CRM and welcome sequence to capture leads, and a personalized outreach list for the Route 1 corridor.

What changed

She sells outcomes, not classes — "less stress, sharper focus" — backed by a before/after read any HR lead can defend. The pipeline runs while she does what she's great at: teaching.

I want what Satyavathi has — set me up

On the podcast

"Code Away With Me" — my conversation with Rebecca Sebastian

I sat down with Rebecca Sebastian on her show Working in Yoga to talk about AI and tech in the yoga world — why yogis have to embrace business, how to use AI without losing the human heart of the practice, and the wearables-and-research idea that she said would keep her up at night. If you want the thinking behind this whole movement, start here.

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Join the movement

Add yourself to the network — it's free

Tell me a little about you and the kind of yoga you teach. I'll add you to the teacher database, point you to the right tools, and reach out when work comes through that fits.

Prefer email? Write me at ram@myyoganetwork.com

Questions, answered

Frequently asked

Who is My Yoga Network for?

Anyone who loves yoga and wants to see it reach more people — but especially yoga teachers and yoga therapists who want to make a real living doing the work they love. If you teach, train, or want to bring yoga into clinics, schools, hotels or workplaces, this is built for you.

Is it free to join?

Yes. Joining the community as a teacher is free. You can use the chatbot, ask questions, and add yourself to the teacher database so we can match you with work. Paid programs and agency services are optional.

Will AI replace yoga teachers?

No. Yoga is a human connection — healing comes through people, not wires. But teachers who use AI to find clients and run their business will move faster than those who don't. This network exists to put those tools in your hands, not to replace you.

What kind of work does the network help me get?

We connect teachers and therapists with demand we're already building: hotels, schools, corporate and workplace wellness, and clinical/healthcare partners — and we share the marketing, outreach and AI tools so you can build your own pipeline too.

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