Someone asks where they can find you. It happens after class while you are rolling up a mat, in a message three days later, at a dinner where you mentioned what you do, and in an email from a studio owner who got your name from a friend. The question is always the same. Most of the answers teachers give are bad.
Not because teachers are bad at this. Because the honest answer is usually complicated, and the person asking has about eight seconds of attention left.
The five answers almost everyone gives
"I'm on Instagram." They will search your first name and get a wall of accounts. If they find you, what they see is a reel from March and a photo of a sunset. Instagram is a place where people who already know you sometimes see you. It is not a place where a stranger finds out that you teach Tuesdays at seven.
"The studio has my schedule." True, and it covers one class. Not the Thursday class at the other place, not privates, not the workshop, not the retreat. It also puts a studio's booking flow between you and someone who was asking about you.
"Here's my Linktree." Better, because it is one thing to remember. There is also a decent chance that right now it is advertising something that finished in June, because nothing forces you to update it.
"I'll message you." This one is actually fine, and it fails for a boring reason: you will forget by Thursday. You taught four more classes between the promise and the moment you remembered.
"I don't really have anything." The honest one, and the most common. It is also the only one that tells the person to stop asking.
What they are actually asking
They do not want a URL. Nobody has ever wanted a URL.
They want to know when they can practice with you again, whether you do anything other than the class they just took, and whether there is something longer coming that they might want to be part of. Underneath all three, they are asking a fourth thing, which is whether it is normal to want more of this.
That is why the answer matters more than it looks. Someone who asks where to find you has already decided they want to come back. You are not persuading anyone. You are just failing or not failing to hand them a way through.
Say a link, not a platform
The best answer is one address, short enough to say out loud and short enough to remember while holding a rolled mat and a coffee.
"namaspot.com/nina. Everything's on there."
Two seconds. No app names, no "search for me under," no spelling out a handle with an underscore in it.
Whatever you use, judge the address by whether a person can repeat it to a friend the next day without checking. That rules out anything with numbers, underscores, a middle initial, or three hyphens. Your name is the whole point. If your name is taken, add your city rather than a number: a page ending in "ninalisbon" survives being repeated, a page ending in "nina_yoga_2" does not.
If your name is hard to spell for people in the country you are currently teaching in, that is worth knowing before you pick the address, not after.
Make it stick in the ten seconds you have
They will not write it down. Assume that.
The single most effective move is mildly bossy and works every time:
"It's namaspot.com slash nina. Type it in now, it takes a second, otherwise you'll forget."
People will do it, because you asked plainly and it is genuinely fast. Say it twice if you have to. Spell the name if it is not obvious.
The other version costs nothing and works while you are teaching: write it on the studio whiteboard before class, under your name. Half the room will read it. Some of them will look later without ever asking you anything, which is exactly the point. Not everyone who wants to find you is willing to walk up and say so.
When the question comes in writing
A written answer can carry a little more, but not much. Three lines is the ceiling. Anything longer reads like a brochure.
"So good to have you in class. Everything's here: namaspot.com/nina, schedule, privates, and the retreat in May. Come back soon."
If it is someone you have never met who found you through a friend:
"Hi, yes, I teach Tuesdays and Fridays at Leela and Thursdays at Amplify. Schedule and everything else is at namaspot.com/nina. Happy to answer anything."
Notice that both of them state the thing rather than only linking to it. The link is the backup, not the message. Never send a bare URL with no sentence around it.
When it is a studio owner or another teacher asking
Same link, different reason. They are checking that you exist, that you teach where you say you teach, and whether your Tuesday is already taken. What a venue needs to see before it books you is its own subject, but the sentence you say is short:
"Here's my page, my current schedule's on it, so you can see what's free."
That is one message instead of the four-message back and forth about availability, and it is the reason a page pays for itself even if no student ever visits it.
The answer when you genuinely have nothing yet
Do not say you have nothing. Say something true that still gives them a way back.
"I don't have a page yet, honestly. Put your number in my phone and I'll text you where I'm teaching."
Hand them your phone with a new contact already open. It takes them nine seconds and it is more reliable than any link, because now the connection lives on your side and cannot go stale.
Then actually text them that evening. Not tomorrow. That evening, before you have taught anything else.
"Hey, it's Nina from the seven o'clock. Tuesdays and Fridays at Leela, Thursdays at Amplify. Come whenever."
This is the whole thing working with no technology at all. It just does not survive being asked forty times.
When they ask for Instagram specifically
Sometimes the question is not "where can I find you," it is "what's your Instagram?" That is a different request and it deserves a different answer, because they are asking to keep an eye on you rather than to book anything.
Give them the handle, and add one sentence:
"It's @ninaalves. The schedule's on namaspot.com/nina though, that's the one that's actually right."
You have not refused anything, and you have handed them the useful thing alongside the thing they asked for. Most people will save both. The ones who only save the handle were never going to check a schedule anyway, and that is fine.
Do not try to talk anyone out of Instagram. It is where they live.
When the honest answer is complicated
Some teachers genuinely cannot give one answer, because the Tuesday books through the studio app, the Thursday is on Urban Sports Club, and privates go through WhatsApp. That is normal. Almost nobody in this work holds their own booking.
The mistake is explaining all of that out loud. You lose them in the second clause.
Say the simple thing and let the page carry the complexity:
"It's all on namaspot.com/nina, including which ones book where. It's a bit different for each studio."
One sentence, and it is honest about the mess without making the mess their problem. The page can list five booking links. A person standing in a doorway cannot hold five booking links.
Answer it before it gets asked
Most people who want to find you never ask. They are shy, or you were talking to someone else, or they only decided on the walk home.
So the answer should already be sitting in the places they will look: the studio's teacher bio, the line under your name on the schedule, your Instagram bio, the bottom of your email, the whiteboard. Same address every time. Repetition is what makes a short address memorable, and it costs nothing to put it in five places once.
Say the sentence out loud
Right now, before you close this: say your answer as a full sentence, the way you would say it to a person standing in front of you with a mat under their arm.
If it took more than four seconds, it is too long. If you had to think about which platform to name, it is not one answer yet. If you said an address, ask yourself the only question that really decides whether any of this works: is what is behind it still true, and will it still be true in four months when you have not touched it?
A page that is out of date is worse than no page. It does not say you are busy. It says you stopped.