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.
What We Lost When We Stopped Breathing
Yoga was never meant to be escapism.
It was never meant to be used as a dopamine hit or a means of avoidance.
My understanding of yoga is that it was meant and intended to return us to the divine truth that lives inside of us – to yoke, to bring together, back home to our center, our breath, our sacred aliveness.
But now, I watch and witness students take consecutive classes, pushing past the edges of their body, skipping savasana, posting about the burn and I wonder…
Why isn’t one practice enough?
Why isn’t one deep breath, one embodied experience, one intentional session enough to shift something?
Because it’s not about depth anymore.
It’s about chasing a feeling. Or avoiding the obvious (life and all it’s challenges).
It’s about doing more, not being more.
Yoga is not meant to be an obsessive, over-used product of performance and postures. It was never intended to be that.
It leads me to ask… What have we actually created here?