About Us
So much has changed since March 2020 as we have all been doing our best to navigate our post-COVID world. These new + challenging times have required a redefinition of how people can come together in community. Small businesses to include yoga studio owners, have had to make very difficult choices. For some, this has meant shutting their studios or paring down their teaching staff. This has been heartbreaking as many beautiful voices have been sidelined. Many of our fellow yogis, light workers, fitness instructors, and other creatives have become nomads with nowhere to call home.
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We knew we had to be part of a movement to bring these voices together.
Co-founded by Cheryl + Kate, owners of Balanced Planet Yoga, The Yoga Collective will be joined by several beloved instructors in the South Jersey area coming together to share space + offerings under one roof.
The reason for creating The Yoga Collective [TYC] is to help to re-build and more importantly to sustain a place for everyone to call home – a place where we can all come to experience inspiration, connection, and most importantly community.
“We love our studio + community [Balanced Planet Yoga] and couldn’t imagine being forced to walk away. After such a turbulent 6 months of business operations, we wanted to find a way to land not just on our own two feet but to help others do the same. One thing led to another and before we knew it, The Yoga Collective went from an idea to a real gathering place for the many voices of the surrounding yoga community + beyond.” - Kate
What makes this concept even more exciting is seeing how it evolved beyond just the realm of yoga and expands opportunity to all kinds of teachers and entrepreneurs. We are encouraging artists of all kinds to be part of The Collective with their own workshops, trainings, classes + clubs.
“It’s an incredible opportunity for teachers + aspiring entrepreneurs to make an actual living doing what they love. Rather than working for someone else and making a small percentage of the earnings, the pay scale is flipped. The host/teacher pays a small fee to access to the studio schedule and collects 100% of the profits. It’s the only business model we’ve seen where everyone wins. Our yoga studio doors stay open, and teachers get compensated in a way that they deserve. Kate and I intend to help every member of TYC enjoy the success they so deserve.” - Cheryl