Yoga Trade has created an online network for the yoga community at YogaTrade.com. The website connects instructors, students, and organizations around the world.
Yoga Trade is the vision of Erica Hartnick, Patrick McMahon, and Christie Carr, three surfing yogis. McMahon and Carr run a sustainable farm and yoga retreat center in southern Costa Rica called Yoga Farm. Hartnick has been traveling the world for several years teaching yoga and is a returning volunteer and guest teacher at the retreat.
“After teaching and traveling all over the world, I recognized the need for an online job network dedicated yogis,” states Hartnick. “It’s all about developing relationships and cultivating the experience of global adventure and travel to better yourself.”
Yoga Trade members can sign up as host organizations, teachers, or students. They can then create profiles and share their qualifications, personal experience, or details of their organization depending on membership type. Everyone is able to add both new opportunities and events, all which are easily searchable by date, location, and category. Common posts include work exchanges with hotels, volunteer openings at sustainable living centers, writing and photography job opportunities, yoga festivals, trainings, and retreats. Joining is free.
