How to increase class attendance

We actively promote the platform for you to find new students, but you can put all the chances on your side following our guidelines below.

People need to know a bit about you before committing to spending 30 minutes or more with you! Having a completed profile and a video will help you get bookings.

• Use a portrait profile photo and make sure we can really see your face
• Write a compelling profile presentation, explain what makes you unique, give something people can relate to: work, family, lifestyle, personal struggle... check our profile creation guidelines for more ideas.  
• Provide a video of you teaching yoga from your teaching area at home, so people can hear your voice and get a general feeling of a class with you
• Get some reviews by inviting your network

When you start getting bookings, your profile will go from "New Teacher", to "On the Rise", to "Popular". The more bookings you get the higher your profile will be displayed on our Teacher's page. Popular teachers also get featured on the home page. 

By bookings we mean any type of booking, including your Discounted or Free voucher bookings (vouchers are available on your teacher dashboard). Be generous with your free voucher when you join the platform to let people you know try out your classes! That way your network will get your schedule updates automatically. You can also ask your network to leave a review to help boost your profile.

• Keep the price low. £5 ($6 or €6) classes are the most popular classes. Short classes are also popular!
• Pick a day and time and stick to it - regularity is key for people to remember your classes
• If you don't have existing students, start with one yoga class a week to maximise chances of having fuller classes
• Pick a time when nobody else is teaching 

• Make sure you contact your network regularly - even if people you know don't practise themselves, ask them to tell their friends and help spread the word. (Email or WhatsApp are better than social media to reach everyone for sure)
• Find other ways than email or social media to promote your classes to your target audience, flyers at the local school for pregnancy classes or at your local shop or charity for senior classes...
• Connect your profile to your social media channels by using your profile page URL and promote your classes on social media like Instagram
• Do you teach in person? Tell your students about your online classes

• Ask participants to leave reviews, they get an email from us after each class asking for one. A profile with many reviews will get more bookings than a profile without any
• Add the 💕 to your emojis to be part of the 2 for 1 promotion
• Opt for our Guru plan to get homepage visibility straight away
• Are you teaching for a specific condition, a specific audience or a rare type of yoga? Let us know, and we can create a yoga type for you and help promote it.
• Always create your classes before Sunday 11 am to be included in our weekly emails
• Follow us on social media and interact with our posts. We'll do the same with yours :)
• Do you have a website? Display your Live Yoga Teachers schedule on your own website using our embedded feature. People visiting your site will be able to click and book.

Read more about working as a yoga teacher in the UK, having a yoga business strategy and a marketing strategy.

As soon as your profile is published and your classes are created, your classes will be displayed on our website and available for anyone to book. They benefit straight away from our strong SEO traffic. Your classes are automatically added to our Sunday email to students who signed up with us.

We also use your profile information to create assets and add you to our social media and emailing campaigns (hundreds of qualified email addresses). Please be patient as we do this on a first come first served basis, and we only create new assets once a month. We also get PR coverage by organising events and by responding to journalists requests.

Your profile will be promoted regularly as long as you schedule classes with us.

Don't let us do all the work

We're proactive in driving visitors to the platform, but we work together with our teachers to promote their classes. Teachers have much more chances to run profitable classes if they include their existing students, and regularly promote their classes to their network. Convincing people to practise yoga is not an easy task, we need everyone's help!

Don't give up too quickly

Yoga has seasonal trends, with more demand in January and September, and less demand during school holidays. Building an audience takes time and it won't happen overnight. If you're not bringing any student with you to the platform, expect a slow start with some empty classes first, but if you follow our recommendations above, you should start getting bookings soon.