I am almost ready to launch my new online qigong course

This time it is somewhat different. I am offering and advertising a transformational journey of 5 weeks where I include qigong, meditation, cleansing diet guidance and telegram group support.
I don't know how to price it.
I am thinking to leave it to donations, but then I need money. I can hope I will receive enough through the donations.
Or I can set a price. I am running low on confidence that I have enough of authority in my domain to ask for much.
It is a beginning for me.

What do you think?

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

I don't have any concrete advice on pricing to give, instead I'll try to address

low on confidence that I have enough of authority in my domain

My domain is completely different. But I also suffered from this. One day many years ago a colleague who I have great respect for said to me something like:

You should not be so modest.

He went on to point out how my expertise and achievements were fundamental to the project that we were both working on.

Another way to look at it could be in the light of Dunning-Kruger effect. That is that those who are less competent tend to over-estimate their abilities. A plausible corollary being that those who are competent should have more confidence.

Long before Dunning and Kruger were writing Bertrand Russel said it quite pithily:

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Of course he had weightier things on his mind than excessive modesty, he was writing in 1933 about the rise of Hitler. See https://dn721600.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-triumph-of-stupidity-russell/The%20Triumph%20of%20Stupidity_Russell_djvu.txt