20-Year Prospect
All things considered, the job outlook for yoga instructors is phenomenal. There's a healthy thirteen percent growth rate coming in the fitness industry, and demand for yoga instructors is expected to increase during the boom (source). This is due to a combination of the aging Baby Boomer generation determined to stay young and the Millennials who really don't want to look like Baby Boomers when they get to their sixties.
More men than ever are practicing yoga both privately and in front of strangers, and it helps that even football players and pro wrestlers are endorsing yoga as a useful health tool (source). And with over twenty-four million Americans learning the secrets of their own vinyasas, there are lots of new and potentially new customers across the country.
That means there should be plenty of future interest in the ancient practice. Whether that translates into enough work for you all depends on your growth as a yogi over the coming decade. We have faith in you—you'll just have to be smarter than the average bear.