Working in Yoga
Working in Yoga
Rebecca Sebastian
What We Got Right — And What's Coming Next: The 2026 Yoga Industry Forecast
27 minutes Posted May 28, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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Six months ago, Rebecca published the first Yoga Professionals Trend Forecast — a snapshot of what was actually happening in the yoga industry, without the soft focus. In this episode, she comes back to it. Not to congratulate herself, but to update it: what held, what sharpened, and where things have moved.
She also previews the Summer 2026 forecast. A few trends get named. One — the end of the portable career model — gets the full treatment. If you've been building your career on the solopreneur model and something has started to feel off, this episode is probably for you.
Topics covered: the professional promise that didn't deliver, skill migration and what it costs to do it right, yoga therapy's quiet attrition, integration as survival, the limits of niching — and the deeper argument that the yoga boom is over and the middle of the market is disappearing.
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