Each month I interview travelers I meet along my journey. This Month Features: Vikki Matsis Manager Of: The NotSo Hostel Tell us about the NotSo Hostel and the day in the life of managing it. The NotSo Hostel is ocated in downtown Charleston, South Carolina with a mix of dorms and private rooms and they are all in historic houses. We are gearing up for being fully booked in our dorm room since COVID-19 and were 25% capacity this past year. We changed all of our systems to contactless with self check-ins, no cash system, digital locks to personalized codes and this morning we worked on turn-ov ..read more

Welcome to my travel interview series! Each month, I interview travelers I meet along my journey. This Month Features: Hayden Cole Jauregui   Founder Of: The Hostel Group   What inspired you to create The Hostel Group? During my second year of college I studied abroad in London. It was my first time out of the United States and I never left my Southern California bubble. My first hostel was in Barcelona where I got a private room with friends. It was a great way to dip my toes into hostels. This was an amazing experience, because I could go downstairs and share a coffee with people ..read more

Travel During COVID-19: Your Questions Answered with The World Wanderers and Xanadu Yoga.   “Travel” seems like an impossible dream that we’re all wishing to come true. Travel is a two sided world right now. Some are unable to travel, some are absolutely terrified to travel and some of us are already back on the road living the nomadic life.    As traveling yoga teachers, travel bloggers and travel podcast hosts, we really had to meditate on whether or not we should get back to the travel life, and eventually decided that traveling is the best choice for us right now.  ..read more

Traveling the world and teaching yoga is such a rewarding career. In fact, I know it’s rewarding because I’ve been living it the past six years.  However, before the rewards come through, there are four must haves that every traveling yoga teacher needs to get hired abroad!     Travel Insurance We’re living in the time of COVID-19. In order to travel abroad every country requires travel insurance. Travel insurance covers medical and dental emergencies, flight delays, hotel/Airbnb cancellations and more! I use Travelex and recommend them as they have great customer service ..read more

I had the opportunity to live as a local in Portland, Maine for the Summer.  It was inspiring, healing and a place I wish for every traveler to explore.  Today I share ten of these healing and inspiring places to explore in Portland, Maine!   Portland Paddle Portland Paddle is my go to place for SUP Yoga! First of all the views are something you see in a postcard or movie. Second of all, the Portland Paddle team is kind and knowledgeable. So whether it’s your first time practicing on the water or you’re an experienced yoga mermaid, Portland Paddle has got you covered!  &nb ..read more

The world has been closed for so long due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. With the world being shut down, us traveling yoga teachers haven’t had much to do or a travel guide to write!  I have fantastic news!  The world has finally reopened, which means this traveling yoga teacher has packed her bags and traveled abroad! Today I share with you how I did just that with The Xanadu Yoga COVID-19 Travel Guide!    Research your city, state and country COVID-19 Travel Guidelines  I road tripped through Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania ..read more

Many moons ago, I managed one of the largest yoga studios on the East Coast of the United States. On my first day, I noticed right away who was not in the room. I noticed right away that this yoga studio was not for everybody. As the new yoga studio manager I changed that and with that I’m sharing three ways to represent everybody at your yoga studio.   Ask yourself who is NOT in the yoga studio If you’re in the lobby checking in students, lift your head up and look at who you are checking in. Then look at the person behind them and the person behind them. What do the people in line ..read more

A problem that the yoga studio industry has not handled is how to keep yoga teachers safe.   Keeping yoga teachers safe is something that the yoga studio industry doesn’t talk about, because we only want to teach about light and love which creates a cycle of spiritual bypassing. This is unsafe.  What does being unsafe in the yoga studio industry mean?   It means yoga teachers putting songs on their playlists that reference rape culture, racism and/or derogatory slang. It means yoga studios creating policies on racism and sexual abuse in the workplace, but when those two th ..read more

I love managing yoga studios! Being that person who everyone goes to for all the answers is my kind of role. Most importantly, having a job that requires me to wear yoga clothes, hang out with yoga students and practice yoga is living the dream! What I would have really appreciated though was knowing these seven secrets that they don’t tell you about yoga studio management.     Secret 1: You are the Parent of Your Yoga Studio You are the one who has all the answers. You are the one that everyone goes to for everything. You have to be on your feet and follow your intuition ..read more

Well hello there aspiring yoga studio manager!  This Friday I am giving away my brand new online course on Yoga Studio Management to one lucky yogi!   And I know what you’re thinking.    “Brytta, I teach online yoga or manage an online platform.”   Same, but now that studios are reopening you will need to learn how to navigate going back into a studio space while leading your team along the way!   What You Win: 8 Studio Management modules 3 Yoga Teacher Support bonus modules 1 affiliate link to earn 10% commission (You make money) 1 free 20 minute call with yours ..read more