The Retreat Brain

Helps you fill, price and run a retreat that actually pays you, not just covers your own flights.

It's what we worked out running our own retreats, the pricing, the filling, all of it, put into something you can use for yours.

Put your name down below to get first access, at the founding price, before it opens.

The bit that keeps you stuck

You've got the experience. Years of teaching, plenty of it. You could run a class in your sleep.

But a retreat is a different thing altogether, and it's easy to get stuck before you've even started.

Where to hold it. What to charge, and whether you'd actually have anything left once the venue's paid for. Whether anyone would book, and what you'd do if they didn't. It all just sits there, unresolved, so the idea waits.

A lot of retreats end up like that: a lovely week away, guests' flights covering the cost, and the host comes home no better off than before. Nothing wrong with that, if it's genuinely what you're after. But given the amount of work that goes into it, it's fair to want something back too.

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What it actually does:

We've broken it into three parts:

Getting it filled: the bit most people dread. Emails to your list, posts, a gentle nudge near the deadline. All drafted in a voice that sounds like you rather than a corporate one. It isn't about being pushy, it's just letting people know it's happening.

Pricing it properly: most retreats are priced to just about break even, sometimes not even that, and the host ends up working for free. This helps you work out what things actually cost, and what you need to charge to come away with something for your time.

Running it without it taking over your evenings: the admin nobody warns you about, the emails, chasing payments, working out insurance. Templates and checklists for the boring bits, so less of it lives in your head at 11pm.

You bring the idea for the retreat, and we'll help with the rest.

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A bit about us

We're Nikita and Laura, and we run Blue Spaces Wellbeing together.

Nikita's spent the last fifteen years or so organising events, and has built and sold a business from nothing before.

Laura's been teaching yoga for over 15 years, and has trained as a therapist, a personal trainer and a breathwork facilitator too.

Between us we've run eight retreats now. All of them fully booked, with a waitlist. Our last winter retreat filled in a couple of weeks. Our autumn one filled so quickly we put on a second date, which filled too.

We didn't get any of that right straight away. It took a while, and a fair few mistakes, to work out how pricing and filling actually work.

This is that, written down properly, so hopefully you don't have to learn it the slower way we did.

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This is probably for you if:

You teach yoga, Pilates, breathwork or something similar, and you're good at it.
You've thought about running a retreat for a while and never quite got round to it, or you've run one that just about broke even.
You'd like it to actually pay you, not just cover your own flights.

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This is probably not for you if:

You want someone else to run the whole thing for you. This is more of a "with you" than a "for you", though it does take a fair bit off your plate.
You've already run a few profitable retreats and have your own system humming along. You're probably past needing this.

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Price

Founding price: £47 — rising to £149 once it opens fully.

Join the waitlist now and that founding price is yours, locked in, whenever it launches.

It costs nothing to join and doesn't commit you to anything, it just means you're first in line, at the lower price.

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A few questions you might have

There's no set timeline. You could have a first email or reel script drafted in one sitting, then dip in and out after that as you need to, ten minutes some days, longer on others.
We think so. It's less about audience size and more about the people who already know and trust you, past students, current ones, friends of friends. Our own retreats have filled from lists smaller than you'd expect.
Not necessarily, if you've already got a venue and a date. You'll just be moving faster than most, with a tighter timeline and more direct messages. We'll tell you honestly if the numbers don't work in the time you've got.
Yes, if anything that's often the easier time to start, since you can work out the pricing and the offer before you've committed to a venue, not after.
That's very common. The templates are built around that. Each one is really just an invitation, with room for someone to say no comfortably. It's usually easier than posting publicly, since you're talking to one person at a time.

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