You open strong, or grow without breaking
Launching or expanding on solid footing: the right space, legal structure, pricing and strategy, so you are not rebuilding in year two what you got wrong in year one.
Running one is harder than it looks from outside, and most owners carry that quietly for years, wondering what they are missing and whether asking for help means admitting they failed. Most business consultants have never done it. We have.
Another year running your studio on instinct is another year of avoidable mistakes, the kind we have already paid the tuition on so that you do not have to.
Where owners find traction
Opening or growing with a real foundation under you. Scheduling, software, staffing and financial systems that stop creating friction for everyone who walks in. Teacher training and workshops designed to fill and to build graduates who stay loyal. Marketing that reflects your studio rather than someone else’s. Culture and compensation that make your best teachers want to stay.
And someone to call when the decision does not have an obvious answer and cannot wait for a quarterly check-in.
Our expertise
From opening to scaling, every challenge a yoga business faces has a solution. These are where owners consistently find the most traction.
Launching or expanding on solid footing: the right space, legal structure, pricing and strategy, so you are not rebuilding in year two what you got wrong in year one.
Scheduling, software, staffing structures and financial systems. The invisible machinery that either creates friction for every person who walks in, or makes the whole thing feel effortless.
Teacher training and workshops that fill, earn real revenue, honor the tradition, and produce graduates who stay loyal to your school.
Social, email, referral and community events that sound like your studio and nobody else’s.
Culture, compensation and development paths that make your teachers as invested in the studio as you are, because you have made it worth staying.
Two people you can actually call when a decision has no clear answer and needs making now.
Your mentors
I spent nine years running Centered City Yoga in Salt Lake City, one of the largest yoga studios in Utah, with more than fifty teachers on the schedule. We bought it in 2017 and sold it in 2025, running YogaSoul’s own training out of it the whole time.
I have sat with the gap between the studio I imagined and the one I had. That is where I consult from.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Co-FounderEric built the systems side of both Centered City Yoga and YogaSoul. Studios fail for the reasons you would expect, and they also fail for one nobody warns you about: the backend quietly breaks down, and by the time it shows in your numbers you have been bleeding for a year. His work is finding those pressure points before they find you.
How to begin
Where you are, where you want to go, and what is standing in the way.
A candid conversation about what you need and how we work. No pitch, and no obligation.
If it is the right fit, we outline an engagement shaped around your business.
Why us
We have already made the hard calls on staffing, pricing, programming and growth. You get the lesson without paying for it the way we did.
Teacher training, marketing, operations, financial systems, staff culture. Most consultants own a slice. We have navigated all of it in a real studio.
Generic advice produces generic results. We start with your studio, your market and your actual situation.
The moments that keep owners up at night are exactly the ones we are here for. Ongoing access to two people who understand what you are carrying.
$250 an hour. The discovery call is free and there is no obligation attached to it. Longer engagements are scoped once we understand what you need.
Yes. Consulting is online, by video, for studios anywhere, and the problems turn out to be remarkably similar everywhere.
Who you become
A year from now it runs more cleanly, your best teachers are still there, your teacher training fills, and the backend is not quietly bleeding you. You make decisions from real information rather than managing one crisis after another. What owners describe is not only a better studio. It is getting their confidence back.
From studio owners
We had been spinning our wheels for two years. One conversation with Rachel and Eric gave us more clarity than everything we had tried before.
“We were six months from opening and completely overwhelmed. Rachel and Eric helped us see exactly what mattered and what did not. We opened on time, on budget, and with a real plan.”
“They helped us see clearly what was holding us back and gave us a real roadmap. Our studio is in a completely different place than it was a year ago.”
“I’d hit a ceiling after four years. One conversation with Rachel reframed everything. Three months later we were profitable for the first time.”
“I was hesitant to ask for help, but they made it feel collaborative rather than clinical. I finally know where my studio is going.”
Also at YogaSoul
Rachel has trained teachers for twenty-five years. Two certification levels, small by design.
Two retreats in May 2027, five days apart, so you may join one or both.
One-to-one sessions built around your history, your moments, and your body.
Write to Rachel for a free thirty-minute call about your studio, with no pitch and no obligation.
$250 an hour, secure checkout through Stripe. We respond to every inquiry personally.