Private yoga earns 20,000 monthly students, most of whom are businessmen

In Chengdu, there are many yoga and fitness courses that are emerging, but some private yoga clubs that are "hidden in the forest" are increasingly favored by yoga enthusiasts to teach yoga lifestyles that are different from fitness.

Yesterday, the reporter walked into one of these private yoga clubs and experienced the different yoga lifestyle of a personal yoga instructor. Chen Hongda, a personal yoga instructor who could not find any information on the Internet, earned his "first bucket of gold" ten years ago by working hard in the gym. Now, he can earn 20,000 students a month based on word of mouth to learn yoga...

Yoga is a lifestyle

Chen Hongda's private yoga studio is located in a single-family villa he owns, where he spends most of his time living, resting and teaching yoga. That afternoon, the chirping of birds and insects could not be heard in the garden of the community, but the sound of flowing water could be heard from the house near him. The sound comes from the artificial pool water in the garden, where dozens of koi carp swim.

Chen Hongda led the reporter into the house and sat cross-legged in front of the Japanese-style coffee table without saying a word. He let the sound of running water sound in his ears. He set out the tea set by himself and used the freshly boiling hot water to make tea. Ten minutes passed, and he brought a cup of fragrant tea to the reporter."Taste the tea first, and then let's talk about yoga." When telling reporters about the color and taste of this tea, he suddenly remembered something,"In fact, teaching yoga is not the 'main business' of my life now. The working time is almost 6 hours a week. Reading, tasting tea, trading stocks online, and speculating in real estate actually occupy most of my life..."

"Yoga is not a pure exercise, but a means of regulating breathing and relaxing the body." Chen Hongda said of the yoga he taught,"What I provide for everyone is not a 'gym' to practice yoga, but a place like home. Four days a week, for one and a half hours a day, we hold a life party with the theme of yoga for the purpose of meditating and maintaining health."

Chen Hongda said,"I will use myself as an example to tell every rest person that he calls the students a 'rest'. When you regard practicing yoga as a way of life, rather than your means of making a living, fitness methods, or weight-loss remedies, you can truly appreciate the health charm of yoga."

Most of the students are businessmen

Although Chen Hongda does not want students to come to study with various purposes, he admits that he will not refuse such students. "Yoga can relieve emotions and maintain health and calm down. Therefore, many students choose yoga because they encounter difficult pressures at work and business."

He told reporters that among the more than 40 students who are currently relatively fixed, the vast majority of them are business people, accounting for more than half."Some students have already done a big business and live in villas, but they still will come and sit with me during the class on Saturday and practice yoga. Some housewives are family members who are doing business and usually drive to practice... The reason why most of the businessmen are students may be that the pressure in the business world is greater and the pressure is more difficult to eliminate."

Chen Hongda told reporters that most of the people practicing yoga in traditional gyms are young women, but the number of male students studying yoga in his place has reached more than 10, and they are basically young and middle-aged men between the ages of 30 and 50. "Nowadays, successful men need to practice yoga to regulate their lives. This is a situation that was unimaginable when yoga first emerged in Chengdu ten years ago."

The monthly income for teaching in the villa is 20,000 yuan

Chen Hongda is 34 years old. He has entered the Sichuan Province Sports Technical College to practice gymnastics since he was 6 years old. After retiring at the age of 19, he entered various fitness clubs in Chengdu to teach as an aerobics coach. Since 2000, he has been exposed to yoga and started working as a yoga instructor when yoga was not widely accepted by Chengdu citizens. "Speaking of which, although yoga is now widely known, the market for yoga ten years ago was similar to what it is now-at that time, I took 15 to 20 classes a week, earned 150 to 200 yuan per class, and my monthly income could exceed 15,000 yuan, and more than 20,000 yuan when the market was better."

It was through several years of hard work in the gym that Chen Hongda accumulated his "first bucket of gold". Later, through careful financial management, he became one of the few "rich people" among Chengdu yoga instructors. Teaching yoga is no longer his income. The largest part. After moving into this single-family villa of more than 230 square meters in 2006, he simply quit his job as a gym and opened a private yoga studio in the villa. Now, he can only buy 10 re-cards for 800 yuan to participate in his yoga courses, and veteran students who have been practicing with him for seven or eight years will not get discounts. "The income from teaching yoga a month is about 20,000 yuan." Chen Hongda told reporters.

"Practicing in the villa, I emphasize a practice atmosphere. Only without external interference and the support and encouragement of peers and instructors can we better practice yoga." Chen Hongda has never worried about the problem of students. According to his thoughts,"As long as students come to ask for advice, I will continue to teach." If I don't have it, it won't have any impact on my life." (Internship Editor: Li Jianhong)