Solidarity cooperative
for independent teachers

Our mission

We help and accompany independent yoga teachers, meditation teachers and therapists with all their tasks to develop their activity.

You have decided to change your life et pursue your dream of sharing the benefits of yoga, meditation or a therapy with others ?

However you are still spending most of your time doing administrative, accounting paperwork and marketing…

We are here to help you get the right tools, the right advice but above all to suport you!

“The hardest part of becoming an independent yoga teacher is obviously to find and care for your students. But unfortunately the most demanding in time and energy is dealing with all the paperwork and the worries to establish yourself legally and to get visible. This requires an unsettling collection of skills ! Our solution : mutualization.”

Guillaume Vignali

Entrepreneur and yoga adept

Our services

No need to split yourself in 6, we are here!

Click on each service icon for more details on the service.

Wage portage

Enjoy all the benefits of the being an employee but live like an independent !

Administration

Let experts guide you in the administrative labyrinths and concentrate on your class sessions!

Shared experiences

Enjoy the experience of the whole team of teachers, administrators and entrepreneurs since there is strength in unity!

Communication

Benefit from adjusted tools to make yourself visible and to communicate without extra costs!

Payments

Use modern technologies without knowing anything about it and allow your students to pay and book courses online.

Team support

Making the first step is hard! This is why you can count on us to pump up straight to success.

We are practionner of yoga in the very large sense, more like an art of life in which the community spirit and mutual help hold a paramount importance in the practice

With L’Espace, there is always someone to answer your questions!

Wage portage

What is it?

Wage portage is useful for anyone who is not legally able to produce invoices of goods and services. In this case a company agrees to represent that person and to pay him the fees as a salary according to the invoices activity.

A commission is kept on the total invoiced amount in order to cover the fonctionning costs of the company and the expenses paid in the name of the employee. This way of invoicing enable you not to have to register to as an independent business so that you keep the employee status with all the benefits coming with along.

Your advantages

– No need to register as an independent business
– Unemployment insurance
– Paperwork done by specialists
– Administrative support
– Eased production of official documents (invoices, contracts,…)
– Flexibilty of the status of consultant

Administration

So easy to get lost in it

For a person used to be an employee, the administrative part of a commercial activity remains invisible and unclear until the day the project of becoming independent takes place. Then this part becomes very visible! This is usually when start a long and confusing path through the windings of various administrative procedures (VAT, work permits, insurance, LPP,…

Although nothing is impossible for a determined independent ! what is the real cost of that effort? Wouldn’t it be better to invest these creative time and energy on your classes, your retreats and your students ? Let this necessary burden to those who know how to navigate these waters and dedicate yourself to what is really meaningful for you.

Your advantages

– Insurance
– Management tools
– Work permits
– Starting grants
– Social taxes
– VAT registration
– LPP

Experience

A complex world

Being independent also means to manage a commercial activity ! Whether you need to find your clients, to keep them or simply to communicate, some techniques works much better than others.

So no need to reinvent the wheel when you can benefit from the experience and advice from people who have already walked the way or have already been through similar struggles. Everything changes, tools as well as techniques but most of all people ! Experience is worth gold for anyone embarking in such a new adventure!

Your advantages

– Regular meetings with various profiles
– Formal and informal exchanges
– Study on real life cases and ask a million of questions
– Speed up your learning and avoid numerous traps
– And work in a team!

Communication

Be visible

The first challenge as an independent is to properly make yourself visible. It is time to transform your network of friends to a more dynamic one and for that to use modern tools. But not everyone can pretend to be at the same time webmaster, web designer, photographer and master social networks.

If you are not already an expert in all this on top of designing flyers and posters, without our help you will have to learn it all and quickly but also you will have to satisfy yourself with a mediocre result and poorly performing tools. Dont waste your energy and start on the solid bases that L’Espace can provide for you !

Your advantages

– Pre-installed latest technology tools
– Advice and trainig on content and website building
– Maintenance, referencing et backup strategies of your work
– Tools for web sites, publications, social networks and mass mailing marketing.
– And the most important : specialists to answer your questions!

Payments

Easy payments means

It is often only once success comes that the problems start because the more students or patients you get the harder it gets to manage the inceased volume of subscriptions, cash payments, bank transfers and paypal and credit card transactions.

With the right tools and with sharing these tools among several teachers everything becomes a lot easier and cheaper. Moreover, having accounting done by a professional accountant will ensure that everything gets done correclty, legally and be optimised !

Your advantages

– Automatic invoicing tools
– Online payments by Paypal and credit cards
– Personalised management of your products
– Fully fonctional online shop
– Accounting expert available for all questions

Support

Independent but not alone

Producing yourself your own motivation every day and keeping calm during tough times are the real challenges that awaits anyone starting as an indepenedent. From this observation was born our idea of a solidarity cooperative to bring first of all full support and for being able to share with others.

In L’Espace no one works in her/his corner, the door is always open, we dont count hours and the ambiance is always full of kindness. In the end, what brings fulfillement cannot be counted, it can only be felt.