Okay, I made it my goal to teach a few workshops in mid-January here in Colorado before I go back to California to finish my Clinical Ayurveda classes.  I have so many images in my head of potential topics and activities, that it gets really overwhelming, so I guess that's where the work is gonna be.  There's also so many different types of venues, but none that really cater to freelance consciousness instructors   I'll just have to try a whole bunch of stuff until I can find a niche!   Here are the classes I have in the works so far: Natural Grocers Ayurvedic Cooking demo:  Natural Grocers gives you $100 in ingredients just to teach at their stores.  Originally I wanted to teach and elemental healing workshop, but they really want you to have completed credentials before you teach a purely educational class.  So cooking demo it is!   Curiosity Workshop:  This one is gonna be more like a fun psychological exploration class.  We will do activities around 4 types of curiosity: material, internal, social, and metaphysical.  Still don't have a venue yet.  I don't think I'm ready for the hip coffee shops downtown, but any other venue might also not attract enough people, so I guess that's where the research is! I also wanna make sure I have some fucking fantastic eye-popping flyers before these events go down.   I don't have a plan to make money yet.  I will offer people free 1-hr Ayurvedic Pulse consultations because I need to do more of those to get my student hours.  I'm kind of in a trap with Ayurveda.  I need significantly more money to finish my schooling just to get the basic Ayurvedic Counselor's license.  I can't really get my feet on the ground until then.  I guess the main purpose of these events would be to continue testing the waters to see where people are the most ready for my variety of healing work.  Perhaps I can offer Reiki for money, but I still feel silly doing Reiki.  I think these conciousness classes are a good bet for me, but I definitely need to pair it with finishing up my Ayurvedic education with either massage therapy training or yoga teacher training.  And that's where my major road block is.  The jobs that are currently available to me don't pay nearly enough to save up for those certifications.  No I cannot just do a GoFundMe.  I think maybe what I'm anticipating is that as I start teaching these classes, I'll gain psychic momentum, and find clever new ways of manifesting more of them, as well as more ideas and more friends/potential future clients.