Yama Talent

Before meeting Ava and becoming a YAMA client, I was teaching yoga in New York City, with packed classes, and a desire to parlay my yoga, healthy living and personal empowerment training and skills into something more: a career that would sustain and support me so that I may spend my life offering healing techniques to others.  

Yet I had no clue how to do this. 

My first big gig was with the Gap, and when they asked me what my 'day rate' was, I had no idea. I think I said $200. That didn't feel like much for teaching 8 classes over 8 hours, without a break. I took it to Ava, and she made sure that I was fairly compensated for the energy output and expertise I would bring. And that I got a break. And tea. Plus, I didn't have to spend hours organizing all the details. I could use that time to craft great classes. When I showed up to teach, and the behind-the-scenes work was already all taken care of, it was so pamper-licious I felt like I'd been upgraded to first class on a transatlantic flight. 

Ava, and YAMA, have become an indispensable part of my life, and one of the main reasons I am where I am today. I really can't say enough about the value I have acquired through my relationship with them.

Working with YAMA as a team has literally made a world of difference in the speed and quality of my success. I now travel, have a TV show, am writing a book for Random House and much more, connecting with students all across the globe. Ava and her crew have spent countless hours focusing (and focusing me on) how to put my message out into the world in a way that is the most clear, most authentic and most dear to my heart. 

They take loads of work off my back, take care of all the things that they can do well, so I'm free to do what I do best--create, envision, communicate, and teach. I have often heard people say "I couldn't do it without you," and I wondered how true that could be. After all, I'd always done everything myself, and considered myself a one-woman band. However, after creating a career community with YAMA and now, counting Ava not only as my manager, but my friend, I can truly say the same. Not only could I not do all of this without her, and YAMA...I wouldn't want to.