Packaging Kids Yoga Services for Schools or Nurseries

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If you would like to work in schools or nurseries, now is a great time to be reaching out to them with your offerings, as they are now preparing for next academic year.
 
I really love working in schools, there is a wonderful sense of satisfaction from impacting the lives of so many children and even teachers.
 
Sharing yoga in schools feels very special to me, as I know that the strategies that I’m sharing are techniques that I personally have turned to time and time again to support my mental, physical and emotional health.  You and I know that these are life skills and they should be shared widely.
 
One thing that I’m aware of, is that offering our services to schools and nurseries can be tricky and it is often a barrier to yoga teachers wanting to work in these settings.
 
I’m all about removing barriers and making life easier for kids yoga teachers and supporting them to reach more children, so this week I wanted to talk about packaging your kids yoga and mindfulness offering to schools.
 
How do YOU want to work?
It can be very tempting to just agree with whatever is asked of you, bending yourself to ‘fit’ into the timetables of everyone else. Experience of this (and the accompanying burn out) told me that this is not a sustainable way to live your life and run a business.
 
Think carefully about how you want your life to look like. How would you like to work? What offers do you want to make?
 
Personally, moving around to lots of schools within one day is stressful for me. I worked like this for a number of years but I found that I’m drained by this. Now I limit myself to two settings in one day, apart from the occasional one- off. 
 
I also don’t like bitty days of an hour here and an hour there- I have ADHD and so, this kind of time switching and piecemeal kind of work doesn’t work for me.
 
I’m not saying that these are things that you should never do, just that I’ve found they don’t work for me.
 
Only offer what you want to deliver
I have previously run before school lunch clubs and after school clubs but right now, that doesn’t work for my family. So currently, I only offer half days or full days as right now, this is the only way that I want to work in a school.
 
We can feel pressured to do things that don’t really work for us because it has been offered, but when we do this we may end up feeling resentful and also it means that we aren’t open to accept what we really do want.
So, have a think about how you would like to work and creating your package will be a lot easier from this point.
 
Bundle things together
Grouping things together can be a great way to offer value for schools and also more financially rewarding for you. For example, if I was working at a school for curriculum time. I may teach lessons in the morning and then at lunch time I’d do lunch classes. This works really well for before schools and after schools too.
The reverse can work too- if you’ve been asked to deliver an after school club- offering a discount for the curriculum lessons can be a great way to get in to teach within school time.
 
If you are also an adult teacher, you may be able to add on an adult class for the staff.
 
Don’t overwhelm
Having options for the school or nursery to choose from can be helpful for them to see what might be possible.
It can be tempting to include lots of options -“look at all the amazing things I can do!!”. A confused brain says no, so try and limit the options to 3 and make it clear that these are suggestions and you can be flexible to suit their individual needs.
 
Sliding scale
I prefer to work with schools on longer contracts, I really like annual contracts because I know my base income for the year. I structure this so that the schools that book me on an annual contract get my cheapest rates. My prices are on a sliding scale, meaning that the more work that I do – the less the school pays per day:
 
One off bookings: Most expensive
Half term bookings: ⬇️
Term bookings: ⬇️
Annual bookings: Least expensive (about half the price of my one-off price)
 
Last week I talked about pricing your services, so if you’d like more information on that, check out the blog here or the video here.

Bundling your services together and pricing them can be overwhelming sometimes. If you’d like some support with this, why not work with me and we can do it together?

Email me at [email protected] to arrange this or find out if it is for you.

My prices are going up really soon, so now is a great time to reach out and lock in my cheapest ever price!