Getting Started
#7523,400 on My Retreat — And Still Earned Less Per Hour Than I Did Waitressing
I Made €23,400 on My Retreat — And Still Earned Less Per Hour Than I Did Waitressing Through University By Dana B. I still remember t...
Business
#74Luckily, for a business like yours, a brain transplant is actually possible
Your Real Competitive Advantage Isn't a Feature. It's a Brain. If you are an independent retreat or wellness creator, you have probably noticed that most of th...
Getting Started
#72The full journey of an independent wellness creator
You're Not a Retreat Leader Who Also Teaches. You're a wellness creator. The wellness industry keeps trying to put you in a category. You are a yoga...
Business
#71You're Not a Studio. Stop Trying to Run Your Business Like One.
If you teach yoga or run retreats independently, you have probably looked at ARBOX. Or Momoyoga. Or Mindbody. You may have signed up for a free trial. You may...
Business
#70OS for Independent Retreat and Wellness Creators
For a long time, the software industry has tried to fit independent retreat creators into one of two boxes. The first box is
Retreat Business
#69You Run Your Business on WhatsApp Even Though You Know It's Dangerous
Why Do You Do It? How Can You Make It Safe After All? You already know this story, because it's yours. You started teaching. A few studen...
Business
#68A Successful Retreat Business Is Not Built From Retreats
The most common assumption among teachers starting out with retreats is that the business is the retreat. You plan the retreat, you fill the retrea...
Business
#67Retreats Are the Monetization Peaks of a Teaching Business
If you map out the income of an independent yoga teacher across a typical year, you don't see a smooth line. You see a heartbeat....
Business
#66Classes Pay the Rent. Retreats Build the Year.
Most independent yoga teachers think about their business backwards. They treat their weekly classes as the real work — the...
Guides state of mind
#65How Come the Retreat Leader Is Often the Only Sad Person at the End of a Great Retreat?
Twelve people just left the villa with hugs, tears, and promises to stay in touch. They're driving home lighter than they arrived. Some of them are alread...
retreats world
#64The Complete Retreat Launch Checklist: 42 Things You Need to Do (in Order) to Sell Out Your First Retreat
There's a moment that happens about three weeks before your first retreat. You've got six bookings out of twelve seats. The...
Retreats impacts
#6310 Remarkable Things That Happen to Your Body and Mind When You Go on a Retreat — According to Science
Most people who go on retreats describe the experience the same way afterwards: "Something...
retreats world
#62The effects retreats have on their participants
Why People Actually Go on Retreats and What Does Science Say about the Impacts Every year, millions of people clear their calendars, spend money they...
Business
#61The Participant that Poisons the Group
How Master Retreat Leaders Handle a Toxic Member of the Retreat Wi...
Business
#60The Bot That Saved My Life
......and my retreats' business There is a moment in every guide's career that splits time into "before" and "after." For me, that moment...
Guides state of mind
#59What If Nobody Comes?
The Fear Every Retreat Leader Knows (And How to Quiet It) You've been planning this retre...
Retreat Business
#58How Buddy Bot Quietly Saved My Sanity
The Day I Stopped Being My Own Customer Service Department: I want to tell you about a Tuesday in February. It wa...
Business
#57Breaking Even Isn't Good Enough If You're Building a Business
Breaking Even Is Not a Business Plan There's a quiet tragedy that runs through the independent yoga and retreat industry, and it shows up as a specific pattern:...
retreats world
#56What Makes a Yoga Retreat Genuinely Successful — for both Teacher and Participants
Most yoga retreats that get described as "successful" are evaluated by a single metric: did it fill, and did the participants enjoy it? By that stan...
retreats world
#55What Is a Retreat, Really? A Deep Look at One of the Oldest — and Most Misunderstood — Human Practices
The word "retreat" gets used so loosely in 2026 that most people using it couldn't actually define it. It's applied to yoga weekends in Bali...