So you want to DJ? Advice from DJ Richkid Rich, and what he looks for in a Yoga Electronica DJ

Someone asked: "Heard the DJ scene gained around 200+ new DJ talent. Where we at with that?" Here's my answer.

We're in a scene, and DJing is two things: a low barrier of entry, and a networking business. Handshakes. You get booked on the phone or in person.

Build your network. Get your marketing right. Have your vision, and be skilled far beyond the press-play DJs and bar DJs.

This is advice I wish I had when I started out. The real money is in throwing your own events and co-creating with other like-minded people. Don't come in with an ego that has to control everything. Every good event in this scene has a team behind it.

I hired a life coach, David Prorok, an amazing coach, influencer and web designer. Now I'm booking DJs and teaching yoga to electronic dance music.

The DJs I'm looking for

1. 1No alcohol.
2. 2No hard drugs.
3. 3A true ambient open and close. You can open and close with an ambient track or two, so dancers naturally come down to the floor in savasana (relaxation pose).
4. 4You've taken a yoga class. So you can think about track selection and shape your set like a wave: building to a peak, then naturally bringing people back down to the floor after 75 minutes of an 85-minute set.
5. 5You've felt the room first. Check out an ecstatic dance, and come to a Yoga Electronica event to meet me. Experience the ceremony, the no-alcohol bar, and the ask-consent-before-dancing-or-touch culture, so you see how dancers move together or on their own.

Come find out

DJs and dancers who feel the desire and curiosity: apply to DJ, join the email list, come practice yoga to a DJ set, dance and become embodied. The next one is Sunday, October 11. At 3:00, Breena Shusterman leads her yoga dance session, DJ'd live by DJ Richkid Rich himself. Then at 3:50, DJ Carmen Fiorentino, aka DJ Twitchin Skratch (I am Me), plays the main dance set.