Many small business studios that I have spoken to… and – the majority of teachers that I have come across, ask me to tell them the “secret” of how other people in yoga made a living. … So when I was strategically let go from my last place of employment, I knew that the needs of everyday yogis were not being addressed and that the majority of people in the yoga community felt as though they didn’t have a representative voice.So, what is Yoganomics® • the blueprint of yoga • ??
Yoganomics® is a catalyst… of “the blueprint of yoga.” You, the readers, the teachers, the studio owners, the yoga products businesses — you make up “Yoganomics® …”
Yoganomics® is comprised of actual yogis who write me and tell me what they are doing. They use their photographs, or if I am there, I take them. It is that simple. Without the yogis, the is no Yoganomics®. (Trademark or no Trademark)
I make mistakes, I fall down and manage to lodge my foot so far in my mouth, I could spend a decade worrying about the affects of doing and action, or saying the wrong thing, or using a picture without permission. ALWAYS, in the ideal situation, I would email you the photo, and you would approve it and send it back. But… during the absolutely rare times when my pragmatic “work around” kicks into hyperdrive, I just can’t do it that way.
99% of the time I take care of the disclaimer permissions before I even start a shoot, but in some off-beat, minuscule instance… if for some reason “a particular picture” is put up on the website that I did not take, AND that the person photographed does not want on the site, I DO NOT have malicious intentions, and will remove it immediately. Cut it and move on. I adapt. That is who I am, that is what I do.
End of story.
If you see a problem with that type of logic, or if perhaps that’s not clear enough for you, then I encourage you to let me know your issues. But if you agree with that premise, if you understand what Yoganomics is, and what Yoganomics is trying to accomplish… then maybe you would consider contributing. This is a time where “secrecy or silence,” “malicious intentions,” “with-holding the truth,” “a lack of transparency” means only one thing:
- You are hiding for proprietary, competitive reasons.
I am a very direct person, lets get the discussion out on the table and go on from there.
Thank you and Namaste -
