Mini-course

The First 8 Bookings Method

Your workshop shouldn't depend on one Instagram post.

The First 8 Bookings Method: a one-afternoon mini-course for yoga, Pilates and wellness teachers.

Build your warm list, send your first booking messages today, and work a simple 14-day plan to fill your workshop from the people who already know you.

You've planned the workshop.

You've maybe even booked the venue. You post about it, get three likes and one "looks lovely!" — and no bookings.

So you post again. Nothing. And somewhere around week two, you start quietly wondering whether to cancel.

Here's the thing nobody tells you: your first bookings were never going to come from a post. They come from personal invitations to people who already know you — current students, past students, the person who replied to your story last month saying "I need this."

Most teachers never send those invitations, because they don't know what to say without feeling pushy, salesy or desperate. That's the actual problem. And it's completely fixable in an afternoon.

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In one afternoon with The First 8 Bookings Method you will:

Turn your workshop idea into one clear, bookable description
Build a list of the 20 warmest people to invite (they exist — the course shows you where they're hiding)
Personalise ready-made invitation messages that sound like you and never feel pushy
Send your first 5 invitations before you close your laptop
Walk away with a day-by-day 14-day plan that covers opening bookings publicly, following up, and rescuing slow bookings

You bring the workshop idea. The method brings everything else: the words, the list, the plan.

Start today

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Why 8 Bookings?

Because for most small-venue workshops, 8 paid places is the tipping point:

the room is covered
your time is paid
and the group is big enough to have a real atmosphere.

And once you've filled 8 places from your warm circle once, you own a repeatable system for every workshop after.

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What inside:

Lesson 1: Make It Easy to Say Yes (30–40 min):
- turn your idea into one clear paragraph that answers "is this for me?" before anyone asks.
Lesson 2: Your First 20 Warm People (30 min):
- the 8-category exercise that surfaces the people most likely to book — most teachers are surprised how fast the list fills.
Lesson 3 — Write and Send the Messages (45 min):
- 6 fill-in-the-blank message templates (warm DM, student message, first-access email and more) plus an AI prompt that rewrites them all in your voice in minutes. You send your first 5 before the lesson ends.
Lesson 4 — Open Bookings + the 14-Day Plan (45 min):
- booking page copy template, 3-day Instagram story sequence, follow-up messages that don't feel like nagging, and the slow-bookings rescue checklist.

Plus:

The First 8 Bookings Tracker — a Google Sheets tool with your warm list, message bank, live booking counter and the full 14-day plan built in.
The complete workbook (PDF) with every template, example and exercise.
11 copy-paste message templates covering every moment from first invitation to testimonial request.

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Who this is for

Yoga, Pilates and wellness teachers with a workshop idea (or one already scheduled) who need people to actually book.
Teachers who hate feeling salesy — the whole method is invitation-based; every message ends with an easy way to say no.
First-time workshop runners and experienced teachers tired of the post-and-pray cycle.

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Who it’s not for

Teachers with no audience at all — you need at least a small circle of students or contacts (20 names). If you teach any regular classes, you have this.
Anyone looking for paid-ads strategy or a mass audience-growth system. This is about the people who already know you.

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Honest expectations

No course can promise you bookings — anyone who does is selling you something else.

What this method gives you is every word, list and step so that the only thing left to do is press send.

Teachers lose workshops to silence and guesswork; this removes both.

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Price

Launch price: £27 - increases to £47.

£27 is less than one workshop place. One booking that wouldn't have happened otherwise and the course has paid for itself — everything after that is yours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

One afternoon (about 2.5–3 hours) to complete the lessons and send your first messages. Then 10–15 minutes a day across the 14-day plan.
The method doesn't use your follower count. It uses your students, past students and personal contacts. You need roughly 20 names, not 2,000 followers.
No, the 14-day plan is designed to compress. You can run it in 10 days if needed.
Lesson 1 will actually help you sharpen it. You need a rough idea, date and price — not a finished plan.
That's exactly what the templates are for. Every message is an invitation with an easy no — most teachers say sending them felt far more natural than posting publicly.
Yes: a workbook and a Google Sheet. Nothing to install.