faq

unlearn & relearn. come have a chat with me about pricing, yea?

a visual…

🍞 = services

deciding how to hire a breathwork facilitator, is like going to the store for a loaf of bread. There are many choices.

…OR there aren’t.

it appears to be a new thing that bread is “suddenly” appearing on the shelf.

history

it’s not at all new. It’s ancient in fact. Our ancestors were doing it in their lives. Thank God we are getting back to our roots. Back to ancient medicine. WE ARE REMEMBERING.

yes, I have my own approach - your experience with me will have it’s own vibe. My hand, using ancestral tools that I bring to you in your healing place.

the historical term for breathwork is Pranayama. Breathwork is colonizer language of a modality that far reaches into our history, helping regulate our nervous systems. It’s origins are from the East, but it comes from Indigenous cultures from all over the world. Thank you ancestors for your magic.

back to bread 🍞, and the loaves appearing.

you can buy bread for say $1.50 and there’s another loaf for $7.00. Both are bread. Both provide nutrition. Both have different values.

perceived value

fact - the two different loaves of bread offer different levels of nutrition. Sustaining and supporting us in varied ways. One bread offers a lower price point (accessible) to the masses, where the other - perhaps only certain people can afford it.

we all have different margins of access (money). Hence, what is accessible to one person, appears very different to another.

“accessibility” requires context to understand what is accessible and what is not. It’s different dependent on the lens, based on our life circumstances and who we’re serving too.

we decide what is of value in our lives based on: what we need, what we want, what it will do for us , what problem it will solve, the market the bread is in, being associated with it - how it makes us feel, what it says about how we take care of ourselves, and the outcome of having this bread in our life that benefits us - physically, mentally, and emotionally. We decide from this position, where we want our money to go. We also live in a world that values things that are meaningless and ignores things that are precious and beyond worth; upside down.

that goes to say, many folks will elect for the cheaper bread or no bread simply because the bread (the service) has no value to them. Others that perceive the bread (the service) to have high value, will find a way to make space for it in their lives. They will find a way.

folks that have limited coins due to factors such as low income, historical financial inequity, and/or come from a food desert (no bread/services present) and they understand the value of the bread AND WANT IT - now there’s an opportunity for an equity offering!!!

the point

i can shift and adjust my scope and fee (my services/my 🍞 and price point), based on the audience I am serving. In bread speak, there are times I want to make my bread accessible to an audience that may not be able to afford my offerings and have access to the nutrition. But I know how important it is that they get it and how much it can transform a life. My bread/my service is of high value to them. This is agency over myself and grounded in my why and my business model to be able to flex in this way. RR (Ruby’s Rest) is firm in providing an equitable step when needed and the opportunity it serves to elect all to bloom.

you can find various practitioners offering prices that seem what appears to you (dependent on your position in life), extremely low or extremely high. The nutrients that the practitioner you work with brings with them includes: their own healing story, life position, their energetics, their trauma informed and sensitive lens on the world (or not), their empathy and compassion to hold space for you, their training and who trained them, their life experience, their own access to assets, their intuition, their money story, their ability to understand how to put an appropriate (in relationship to their offer/their breads nutrition) price to their offering. What kind of breathwork they offer. Are they paying for use of the space their holding classes in, is this a part time gig for your practitioner - do they come from a history of financial access, or access at home.

comparatively speaking, the value is different from loaf to loaf (services to services ). Practitioners and their services are not homogenous. The idea that {someone is pricing this over here = so that’s how much it “should” cost everywhere } Not at all folks. This is a narrative that is damaging to patrons and practitioners.

RR provides accessible price points (to various markets for our bread) and therefore offers an adjusted experience that aligns with the exchange of energy and value.

my attempt here is to provide a glimpse of what goes into pricing and to right the wrongs in a field of caring practitioners offering their time and service to usher in healing - to a restorative space that is being rebirthed in the value it deserves. Taking care of ourselves is not a luxury - it is an emergency.

group vs 1:1

the idea - not accurate// that a group “should” cost less than a 1:1 session, is a falsehood. It’s not true folks.

breathwork in a 1:1 space, is very different than being in a group. The group collective offers a magic that can’t be described, that aids in you accessing your sub-conscious - to access your heart/hearing what wants and needs to be heard. Your facilitator holding a healing space for you, while you “go under” in trust in vulnerability, is of high value.

space/time

if you’re in an intimate studio setting, a huge ballroom, or possibly in the comfort of your own home - all of these things speak to the cost of the service. How long we’re in the midst of the breath…all factors to providing a place for you to access your healing place.

white supremacy, white privilege, capitalism, gatekeepers blahhhhhh spoiling the 🍞

it’s white supremacy in action, for a studio owned by white bodies, to not check their own access as they look to bring in gifted practitioners that are bodies of culture affected historically by lack of access and financial inequity.

it’s a capitalist mentality to assume what costs more is better & alternately, to assume what costs less, is little.

it’s a money issue for a practitioner to price their value below its worth.

It’s a personal issue to not book your time and energy for the exchange of what is being provided to your patron.

accessibility and sliding scales are great and have the best at heart.

there are also folks abusing that, and coming into it with an elitist (supremacy) mentality - taking advantage of the lower fee, wrecking it for the people that need this access - and for the practitioner that can’t keep their lights on at home. They can’t usher you to a healing space if they aren’t cared for themselves.

the structures of supremacy, capitalism, and gatekeeping monkeys its way into the systems we put in place to help, “designed” to provide access.

let’s make sure, we are aware of these lenses and how they may be affecting our judgement and decisions around well-being for all folks - black, brown and white bodied.

last 🍞

when you are shopping for the bread, pick the one that vibes with you, and will provide the nutrition you need - that may cost less, it may cost more then the practitioner down the street. Remember, practitioners and their services are not homogenous.

We have to trust the practitioners are pricing based on a healed lens of their own money story and not from a place of scarcity and for goodness sakes, not from a place of supremacy or capitalism. NO MORE HARM. Only healing.

dear patron

find your person, and work with them. The price of their services will align with you and what you need. Trust your intuition - not the narratives driven in a f*cked world colored by fear. in my practice I demonstrate proximity based pricing in all of my offers. the closer you are to me, my time and energy that either needs to be stretched or focused dependent on the space I am practicing in - the price is relative and appropriate to that, with all bodies in mind.

practitioners creed

practitioners, let us not engage pricing until we have done that work. And in the process, do what I’m attempting to do now, unlearn, and relearn what it means to price for restorative well-being. This is no small thing and deserves a higher value in asset exchange, than a hi-brow minimum wage. We’re offering people the space of their lives back to them. The maker of the bread is resourceful in what they have provided to make a bread that will fill your belly and feed you.

Find some good bread 🍞