Teaching Office Yoga: The Benefits and Challenges


Maryam Sharifzadeh, the CEO of OfficeYoga.com, knows this, and is hosting San Francisco’s first Office Yoga Teacher Training this March to help yoga teachers break into the growing industry. Her main challenge? Finding qualified teachers. The general 200 hour training doesn’t prepare teachers for the population an instructor encounters when teaching in a corporate environment. Beyond that, Sharifzadeh hopes to support other entrepreneurial yogis starting their own office yoga businesses. After all, her first year teaching office yoga, Maryam made $31,000 working five hours per week.