Demystifying Office Yoga with Maryam Sharifzadeh
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Are you still vying for a decent time slot to teach at your local studio? According to Office Yoga founder Maryam Sharifzadeh, your efforts would be far better spent finding a few corporate teaching gigs. Consider this statistic from Sharifzadeh: In the US there is one yoga studio for every 10,000 businesses. That's a lot more premium time slots, with better pay and, in all likelihood, shorter classes!
Sharifzadeh founded her business, Office Yoga, in 2014 and shares all the goods about how to go about teaching in the workplace, including:
- How to adapt to the time and sequencing constraints in a corporate environment
- What to wear -- and what not to wear -- to your interview
- How to determine the learning objectives for each class and workplace
- Important ways to gain feedback and understand the inner-workings of the organization
- The most common way she finds corporate gigs
- Three things to considering when pricing your offerings
Sharifzadeh's passion for office yoga is infectious -- as she puts it, people in offices need you, they want you, and they really appreciate the yoga.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land. |
| 0:04.0 | Today my guest is Maryiam Sharif Zade. |
| 0:15.0 | Mariam is a yoga teacher and the founder and CEO of Office Yoga, |
| 0:21.0 | a company based in San Francisco. |
| 0:23.2 | She is also a lover of the water and tells an amazing story about how she was the first woman |
| 0:29.9 | to swim, I think she's the first and only woman to swim the 22 miles around the San Francisco Bay. |
| 0:36.4 | So for those of you who are familiar, she started out in Daly City and ended up in Brisbane where alestick Park used to be. So stay tuned for |
| 0:46.2 | that story. It's a great example of her determination and laser-like focus. |
| 0:54.0 | But that's not the focus of today's interview. |
| 0:56.0 | Today we focus on Office Yoga, |
| 0:58.0 | which is a company she started in 2014 |
| 1:01.0 | and is now number one workplace yoga program in the nation. |
| 1:04.0 | She has served over 300 companies with office yoga and trained over 50 instructors |
| 1:10.0 | worldwide. And if you're interested in teaching in a corporate setting I would |
| 1:14.8 | highly consider one of her trainings she has just put in the hours and |
| 1:19.7 | understands from top to bottom how to approach the workplace setting and bring yoga |
| 1:26.3 | in so that it's effective for the people and supports them in their work and in |
| 1:30.6 | their lives. So we talk all things office yoga, |
| 1:34.2 | we talk sequencing, what to wear, how to approach things. |
| 1:39.1 | She's so passionate about this topic. |
| 1:41.4 | She made me feel passionate about it and I know you will enjoy |
| 1:44.7 | and learn from the interview. I will put links to all of her info on the show notes page which |
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