TriYoga Reviews

Where to start with this mess? Let’s start with the obvious. You’re reading this because you’re looking for a job, or you love yoga, or both. If your interest is primarily your career, you should know that Triyoga has a longstanding identity problem that, combined with a lack of vision, leadership and strategy, has created a hierarchical, sycophantic and bullying company culture with no feedback channels. If you have a problem whilst working here, you’ll be complaining to the very people you’re complaining about, which leaves employees with no option but to accept frequently sketchy and sometimes appalling working conditions - or quit. Staff turnover is extremely high, morale low. To work here and to remain sane, you need: • boundless energy and time – expect to work way more hours than you’re contracted for, have no separation between work and the rest of your life and a steady erosion of that if you do • rock solid self esteem and mental health – so that you’re either oblivious to or not bothered by the lack of value placed upon your work and you as a human being • a desire to do what you’re told even if that means bypassing the professional expertise for which you were hired in the first place • high tolerance for chaotic, ever changing policies and procedures, late, muddled, contradictory or non existent communications that directly impact your work • the ability to work very hard but not take any pride in your own achievements – work is discarded on a whim, praise beyond “good job!” team messages is rare and criticism frequent, boundaries are non existent meaning that when employees leave, those remaining are routinely expected to fill in the gaps for no additional pay, security, status or even respect • time and money to fund your own training for additional tasks that come your way due to constant staff turnover, as you will be required to pick this up immediately and without any support. You will also be expected to find your own answers to your entirely reasonable questions about how to absorb your colleague’s recently vacated role, and treated as though there is something wrong with you if you are unable to do so without help or guidance … and from then on, subtly edged out in ways that will have you questioning your grip on reality even as your work continues to massage the company’s public image of wellbeing, community and togetherness • financial independence /stability– Triyoga pays an inexplicably average to poor salary, no LLW, there are no career progression paths and therefore no pay increase opportunities • a self serving attitude that allows you to at best compartmentalise, at worst participate in the bullying dished out to colleagues in the name of getting stuff done • a short term orientation/goal so that you leave before any of the above starts to get to you If your interest in this company is primarily yoga, the issues with working here are more serious. Triyoga has been bought out by an umbrella fitness company who happily admit they have little to no understanding of yoga, as though that isn’t a massive red flag in itself to anyone with a shred of care for the practice. They are wholly unable to comprehend, let alone grapple with the issue that has perplexed the industry for years: is a yoga studio a business that sells yoga as a product and whose interest is therefore simply money, or a community that exists to promote yoga and support its members, and makes money as a byproduct of that? If your interest in yoga extends even an inch beyond making pretty shapes for Instagram or your own ego, you will find your love for the practice sorely tested once you see the kinds of things that go on here in its name. Many staff stop practicing altogether because it’s so hard to square yoga’s aims – let alone Triyoga’s public image as a centre for wellbeing and health – with the ignorant, arrogant, greedy, duplicitous and dehumanising behaviour behind the scenes. Any ethics, integrity or authenticity that this company may have had, and that it conveniently continues to trade off, are long gone. What’s left is the inevitable result of years of poor management, infighting and nonsensical short term decisions; add wellbeing industry fave “good intentions” and you’ve got a shambolic mess that has left it vulnerable to a current restructuring in line with nothing but £$. Triyoga in late 2022 has the dubious honour of ushering in a whole new low in the yoga/capitalism collision that positions the practice as nothing more than a cash cow in expensive leggings and thoroughly disrespects and exploits an ancient, precious tradition it hasn’t bothered to even try to understand. (They continue to post about Hindu festivals on their social media though, adding hypocrisy, tokenism and cultural insensitivity to the list of reasons why you don’t want to work here.) Even better, the new owners/investors are actively disinterested in yoga beyond its image, presumably in case it holds a mirror up to their own conduct. After assuring people that their jobs were secure, they have latterly “let go” an entire office of people whose knowledge and expertise dwarfs their own – which ironically stands in the way of the direction Triyoga is choosing to go in. You couldn’t make it up. Your love for yoga is not an asset but a hindrance at Triyoga.