For Teachers & Instructors
Keep posting on Instagram. We'll give your classes a home.
You don't need to build a website. Partner with Houston Yogis: get your classes found, let people reserve and pay in advance, and keep a real record of who's coming — so you're not collecting money at the door while you're trying to teach.
You stay on Instagram. We become the storefront your posts point to.
The problem
Your class lives and dies in the feed
Instagram is great for announcing. It's terrible for everything after.
| Your post disappears down the feed in a day | A permanent listing people can find any time |
| Only your own followers ever see it | Discovery by everyone browsing Houston's wellness calendar |
| "DM me to reserve," then you lose track | People reserve and pay in advance, in one place |
| Chasing Venmo or cash on class day | Prepaid reservations, handled before you arrive |
| No idea who's actually coming | A real record of who reserved |
| Losing your week to posting and updating schedules | Email us your schedule once — we post and update it for you |
| Stitching together five tools that don't talk to each other | One place — website, calendar, tickets, and records |
| A clunky booking flow that loses students | Your students get a dead-simple reserve-and-QR |
Two ways to partner
Pick what fits how you already work
You don't have to change your ticketing to be on the calendar. Want us to handle it? Free to list. Love your own tools? Keep them.
We run your tickets
You just teach.
- Email us your schedule — we post it for you
- People reserve & pay in advance (secure Square checkout)
- Each person gets a QR ticket by email
- You get a record of who's coming
- Refunds handled through us
- Paid out twice a month on a set schedule
- No fee to be on the calendar
Keep your own ticket link
Already on Eventbrite or Partiful? Keep it.
- Your listing's button goes to your platform
- You keep your existing setup
- You still get the full Houston Yogis audience
- A simple flat listing fee per event
Run your numbers
See what you keep versus doing it yourself
Enter your class, then pick a pricing model. If the other model would keep you more, we'll tell you — and either way you'll see how it beats running it yourself on Eventbrite.
| Per ticket | HY · 5% | HY · $1.50 flat | Eventbrite |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ticket price | $20.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 |
| Card processing | –$0.88 | –$0.88 | –$0.58 |
| Service fee | –$1.00 | –$1.50 | –$2.53 |
| You keep | $18.12 | $17.62 | $16.89 |
Two Houston Yogis models — you pick one: 5% of the ticket (cheaper on lower-priced classes) or $1.50 flat per ticket (cheaper on higher-priced classes); they're equal at $30. Both include Square processing (2.9% + $0.30), and both beat Eventbrite (3.7% + $1.79 + 2.9%) at real class prices. US figures, Aug 2026; estimates, not quotes.
Reclaim your time
The bigger number isn't fees — it's your time
Fees are the small number. The big one is your time. The average yoga instructor's hour is worth about $30 (studios pay $25–35 a class); even at the legal minimum it's $7.25. So the admin hours you lose carry a real price.
At an instructor's ~$30/hr, that's $150/week · $650/month · $7,800/year of your time.Even at minimum wage ($7.25) it's $36/week — and that's just the floor, not the real cost.
An hour of admin rarely costs just an hour. Stop to fix a booking link mid-morning and the whole day's momentum is gone — the real cost is the class you didn't plan, the student you didn't reach, the rest you didn't take. One admin hour can quietly eat the entire day.
Count each of those as a whole day gone. Hand it off and that's about 156 full days a year back — roughly 13 a month for people, rest, and the things that matter.
And a day isn't just time — every day carries overhead, whether you do one hour of admin or ten. The rent on the place you sit to do it. The light bill and utilities. The Canva subscription for the flyers. The coffee and the grocery run that got you to the desk. You pay a full day's overhead just to open the laptop. So read the days above as money, not only time: that's 156 days a year you'd stop funding overhead just to do admin — and reclaiming even one day a week is close to two months of rent back in your pocket, on top of the hours.
When Houston Yogis handles the posting, reservations, and payments, that time comes back. And honestly — whether or not you ever work with us — we hope this makes one thing plain: your time is precious. The best thing any of us can do is invest it in people and experiences that enrich our lives: our communities, the people we love, our animals and our homes, and real rest. If this helps you do more of that, we're glad.
What happens when things change
The honest "what if?"
No surprises on class day.
| You cancel your class | Give 24h+ notice — we tell everyone who reserved and refund them in full |
| Weather kills an outdoor class | You make the call by a set time; everyone's refunded |
| Someone cancels their spot | Full refund up to 24h before; none after — and we'll work with real hardship |
| Someone doesn't show up | No one's penalized — their prepaid spot can be honored at a future session; we sort it out case by case |
| Someone loses their ticket email | We resend it |
| Your class sells out | Reservations close at the capacity you set |
| Your class barely sells | You decide whether to run it — we bring the audience, not a guarantee |
| A buyer disputes a charge | Square handles the dispute; Houston Yogis absorbs it — not your problem |
| No internet at the venue | Check people in by phone; an offline option once it's field-tested |
| You decide to leave | Future listings come down; the records you were already given stay yours. No lock-in |
Still have questions?
The full teacher FAQ
Who sets the price, when you get paid, who owns your customer list, what you actually have to do — answered plainly.
A note from the founder
I hate working on computers and doing administrative work — which is exactly why I built this. I want teachers to focus on the thing they love, teaching, not on managing calendars, chasing payments, and posting schedules. My goal is simple: give you your time back, to spend on whatever makes you happy.
— Frankie, Houston Yogis