Simplifying Legal For Small Business
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Simplifying Legal For Yoga Professionals

Teaching, training, studios, retreats, online programs... however you do yoga business, we can help with the legal.

Tailored to your yoga business:

  • Yoga Instructors
  • Yoga Studio Owners
  • Yoga Teacher Training Programs
  • Online Yoga Businesses
  • Yoga Therapists

Legal Built Around
Your Yoga Business

There’s no one way to run a yoga business. Your legal should reflect the way yours actually works.

We can help you handle the legal details, whether you’re making changes to an established business or figuring out what comes next. That might mean sorting out a new relationship, structuring a training or program, or dealing with a question you didn’t expect to have.

Ready to tackle your legal?

Book a time to talk to us.

Legal Services

Contracts

  • Client & Student Agreements: Agreements for private sessions, programs, memberships, workshops, retreats, and other yoga offerings.
  • Instructor & Contractor Agreements: Employment and independent contractor agreements for instructors, teachers, administrative staff, and other team members.
  • Collaboration Agreements: Agreements for events, retreats, workshops, trainings, and other projects involving multiple instructors, studios, or businesses.
  • Waivers & Releases: Waivers and releases for classes, private sessions, workshops, retreats, trainings, and other physical activities.

Teacher Trainings & Certification Programs

  • Program Terms: Terms addressing enrollment, payment, refunds, participation, completion requirements, and certification.
  • Certification Programs: Training program policies and certification terms addressing eligibility, requirements, use of credentials and trademarks, renewals, and other program terms.
  • Training Materials: Copyright and other legal considerations for manuals, videos, workbooks, course materials, and other training content.
  • Licensing: Agreements addressing how graduates, instructors, and others may use training materials, trademarks, credentials, and other intellectual property.

Intellectual Property

  • Trademarks: Trademark searches, applications, and registrations for studio and business names, programs, trainings, products, and other branded offerings.
  • Copyrights: Copyright registration for training manuals, course materials, videos, photographs, written content, and other original work.
  • Licensing: Licensing agreements covering the use of copyrighted content, trademarks, training materials, and other intellectual property.
  • Methodologies: Guidance on which aspects of a methodology may be legally protected and how contracts, intellectual property rights, and business practices can be used together.

Websites & Online Offerings

  • Privacy Policies: Privacy policies based on how your website collects and uses information, including email marketing, analytics, online forms, ecommerce, and other third-party services.
  • Terms of Use: Website terms addressing use of your site and content, intellectual property, user submissions, and other terms specific to your business.
  • Disclaimers: Disclaimers for yoga instruction, educational content, wellness information, and other content shared through your website or online offerings.
  • Courses & Memberships: Terms and policies for online classes, courses, memberships, communities, and other virtual offerings, including payment, refunds, access, and intellectual property.

Business Policies & Legal Strategy

  • Studio & Program Policies: Policies for studios, trainings, programs, instructors, and students based on how your business operates.
  • AI Policies: Practical guidelines for the use of AI by instructors, employees, contractors, and others working with your business.
  • Legal Strategies: Guidance on legal questions, priorities, and changes in your business.
  • New Offerings: Legal guidance for new trainings, retreats, memberships, certification programs, licensing programs, and other offerings.

Strategy Sessions

Sometimes, you just have questions.

Strategy Sessions give us 30 minutes to focus on the legal questions you want to discuss, including:

  • Teacher trainings and certification programs
  • Studio and instructor questions
  • Contracts and waivers
  • Online programs and memberships
  • Copyrights and trademarks
  • New retreats, trainings, and other offerings
  • Other legal questions that come up while running your yoga business
  • Strategy Sessions are $375 and are conducted via Zoom or phone.

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Remember LISS

Legal Is Simple Seriously

(Big thanks to my parents for giving me a last name that could also be used as an acronym to capture my legal philosophy.)

Danielle Liss, Esq.

Running a small business often means you’re handling many moving parts. From creating products and providing services to dealing with customers to handling all of the operational tasks, you’ve got a lot on your plate.

As a small business owner herself, Danielle knows this struggle all too well.

Danielle and the Liss Legal team have extensive experience working with small businesses of all sizes, from startups to those making 8 figures. We handle the legal details so you have time to focus on everything else.

Want to discuss your legal needs? Let’s talk!

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