After talking to over a thousand yoga teachers and other wellness professionals, we’ve heard some common excuses about why it’s so hard to make money online… Although we have compassion for this fear and frustration, it’s time to speak the cold, hard truth.

When a toddler first start to walk, she stumbles and falls. Her family members cheer and clap and encourage the little one to try again. The toddler takes another few steps, falls again and the room erupts in words of gentle encouragement.

I have a love-hate relationship with online yoga videos. Sometimes I happily scroll through Instagram, inspired by others’ beautiful yoga sequences caught on film, absolutely grateful for the opportunity to share in and appreciate others’ practices.

Are financial limitations stopping you from teaching online? There is a common perception that starting a business takes a lot of money. Are you using this as an excuse to procrastinate on your dream? If so, please read on because you might be surprised by how many free resources are available to you right now!

We are now two years in and entrepreneurship has been a journey full of twists and turns, ups and downs, and a whole lot of lessons. Today, we share eight of the most important lessons we’ve learned during our own founder’s journey with Hey Marvelous (and our new Soulful MBA business community).

Back in the early 2000's, I had a huge STACK of Oxygen Magazines on my nightstand. For those of you not familiar with that magazine, it was a popular publication that was geared largely to the competitive figure and bodybuilding population (eventually the bikini category was created and that took the magazine over).

Video gets all the attention. Most teachers who are planning to start teaching online spend a lot of time thinking about the visual aspect. What camera do I need? What will the quality of the video look like for my students? But rarely, unfortunately, do our teachers spend much time on the audio set-up. This is a key mistake.

You most likely have an iPhone (or other smartphone) within arm's reach and you’ve probably even shot some short video clips with it. If you haven’t yet tried to film your yoga practice for a short post on Instagram or YouTube, here are the plusses and minuses of using your iPhone as a video camera.

A conversation between Laura Close (Women’s Intelligence Project) and Jennifer Barcelos, co-founder of Hey Marvelous. Yes, as the female founder of a software startup, I built a platform that allows wellness entrepreneurs, many of whom are also women, to build and scale their practices online.

In my consulting practice with emerging female leaders, I’ve spotted a bad strategy trend among clients: relying on your partner, best friend, a couple of work colleagues or even your parents and siblings for feedback and suggestions.The point is this: You've gotten this far, achieved this much because this is as much as you and your inner circle have been able to imagine for you.

Creating an effective landing page is key to the success of any online business. Learn how to create an eye-catching design with these five simple tips!

Namastream is a technology startup, but one that seeks to operate and serve a community of healers and visionary wellness practitioners doing very important, very human work. We believe in being accessible, getting to know our clients, and operating this business by our values and from our hearts.Still, we are a business. And we have a huge vision for what we’re building with this company.

Most software startups probably don’t have a deeply personal transformation at their heart; but ours does. We believe in deeply personal work. In fact, it’s kind of what we’re all about. Juicy, deep, brave, conscious work.