So why limit your role as a certified yoga instructor to your geographic location? As much as I would like to blame corporations, point my finger at capitalism, and gnash my teeth at the unfair nature of my soulful work being so undervalued, the truth is that my value as a teacher was already at a deficit before I even stepped foot into a yoga studio. Here are some of them:. At the forefront of the movement is Yoga to the People, which opened its first studio in in the East Village on St. And I had to teach over 1, people to develop the rapport with the ones who really dug what I was offering and who wanted more of it on a weekly basis.