The Question of Spiritual Sell-Out’s
I Sold My Yoga Studio Because I Refused to Sell My Soul
For years, I poured my heart into a space that was meant to be sacred.
But the deeper I went into my own embodiment… the more I woke up to how the system demanded things that didn’t align:
… Pack the schedule
… Chase the metrics
… Prioritize growth over integrity
… Water down the teachings to “meet people where they are” even if it meant never asking them to rise
It began to feel like I was running a business fighting for its soul, not holding a sacred space with spiritual reciprocity.
The business was ‘working’ but my soul was not okay.
And so, after 3 years… I walked away.
Not because I didn’t believe in the work, but because I believed in it too much to keep letting capitalism dictate its form.
The Rise of the Weekend Facilitator
You can memorize scripts. You can buy templates. You can brand yourself as a mentor, teacher, guide…
But energy doesn’t lie. Nervous systems tell all. The body, yours and your clients or students, always knows when something is missing.
And what’s missing is usually this:
Time. Mentorship. Embodiment. Lived experience.
Not performance, polish or hustle.
What’s missing is the depth that only comes from walking the path again and again and again, until it rewires you.
When the World’s Turbulence Meets the Mat
We’ve been conditioned to believe that “more is better.”
Hotter classes. Heavier sweat. Longer sequences. Faster flows.
But when your nervous system is already in survival mode, intensity via performance and unintentional guidance doesn’t help to heal, it actually has the capability to retraumatize and trigger the body into a trauma-response state.
When we’re immersed in global anxiety and personal overwhelm, we don’t need more fire.
We need water. Earth. Air. Space.
We need practices that cool, ground, and regulate.
Because if we enter the studio with the same agitated rhythm we carry through the rest of life… we will walk out just as disembodied as we walked in.