Yoga Trade @ CorePower Broadway Studio

After Extensions, Meghan B, the studio manager at the Grant Studio, presented a yoga trade opportunity to the alumni--volunteer work at the studio for a free yoga membership.

During the busy season the studio needed support to greet and check-in students to classes. It was an opportunity to be present at the studios and learn the computer system. In January, I started volunteering once a week at the Broadway Studio under Lisa S, the studio manager.

I have to admit--at first it was completely nerve-wracking, the exact opposite of yoga! There were forty-plus people checking in for classes. Week after week, without fail, there was a challenging combination of new student registrations, complex split payments, drop-in payments and retail sales. For the first three weeks, I dreaded going in for my volunteer shift. I feared the chaos. I assumed there would be one type of transaction that I did not know how to perform in the MindBody business management system...yet, of course.

I should have remembered from training that doing things out of fear rather than love can be a painful experience! At first, my yoga trade experience was ten times more stressful than my full-time job or teaching yoga to newbies, computer programmers. Eventually, I made amends with the non-intuitive MindBody system. In addition, I got acquainted with various yoga teachers at the Broadway studio. I let go, and finally, yoga trade was able to become a positive experience for me.