Teaching Yoga Online? Here's How to Protect Yourself Legally
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
If you’re a yoga teacher who teaches online, you might wonder if there are extra steps you should take to protect yourself.
The short answer is, “Yes!” But it isn’t as difficult or confusing as you might think.
This week, I ask Sarah Waldbuesser, an attorney for coaches and online business owners, to explain, in simple terms, the legal documents and liability releases for online businesses we need to protect our business.
We cover:
* Why types of legal documents and disclaimers you need on your website to protect you legally
* Is it OK to crowdsource legal documents?
* What precautions you need to take if you offering yoga classes online for free or accepting donations vs. paid online yoga classes or courses
* Plus, we talk about how to find out whether your liability insurance will cover your online yoga classes or not
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode195
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 195 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.1 | Today my guest is Sarah Wahl Bueser. She is an attorney for coaches and online business owners and she is the |
| 0:16.4 | attorney that I used for our terms of purchase and terms of conditions on our website. |
| 0:23.1 | So I thought it would be a good idea. |
| 0:24.9 | I've been seeing some questions bouncing around the internet |
| 0:27.4 | about how yoga teachers can protect themselves |
| 0:30.7 | teaching online and whether or not you need a waiver, whether or not you need |
| 0:35.0 | extra insurance, etc. etc. So Sarah is a great person to talk to because she |
| 0:41.0 | works with people in our industry all the time. |
| 0:45.0 | If you'd like to learn more about Sarah, you can go to her website, which is destination |
| 0:49.1 | legal.com, or you could follow her on Instagram, which is also destination legal. Right now, |
| 0:55.5 | Sarah is offering a special 15% off for yoga-land listeners at her online legal shop. |
| 1:02.3 | So you can find that at destination legal. at her online legal shop. |
| 1:02.6 | So you can find that at destination legal |
| 1:04.8 | and you enter the promo code Yoga Land |
| 1:07.8 | when you check out. |
| 1:09.2 | Enjoy the conversation. |
| 1:11.3 | I hope it gives you the clarity you need. |
| 1:14.0 | Thanks so much for being here, Sarah. You are the first lawyer I've had on the show. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, thank you. I'm very honored and excited to be here as well. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, and the show lately has really been a different kind of a show because we're in this different kind of a world right now. |
| 1:30.0 | So I wanted to just do a very practical, well-informed show to help yoga |
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