Six Benefits To Running Your Own Wellness Retreat

After a challenging couple of years, many people are missing the benefits of gathering together, sharing new experiences and embracing the opportunity to reset and refocus.

Designing and running your own retreats is a wonderful opportunity to facilitate a sense of community, create professional opportunities and increase your business profitability.

Your unique retreat offering can be a personal invitation to your intended guests to invest in their own health, wellbeing, and connection to self and others. Away from the busy distractions of their day-to-day lives, your guests can allow themselves to get clear, stay focused and feel rejuvenated.

As host of your own retreat experience, you get to share your professional knowledge and focus on your unique set of skills in a relaxing or engaging environment for others to benefit from.

You’ll be creating an inviting and calming space for personal or professional growth. Your guests will feel welcome and ready to experience your Retreat, whether it be focused on self-care, internal contemplation, nourishing food or time out to totally relax and have fun with like-minded people!

Running regular retreats provides many opportunities to grow your business, increase your brand and share your message!

Planning a Retreat event isn’t just about choosing the right venue and content delivery, but also how to maximise opportunities to provide an amazing and considerate guest experience.

The small details that provide that ‘special & unique’ touch can make all the difference.

When you properly plan your Retreat Event, you’ll be creating an inviting and calming space for personal or professional growth.

Your guests will feel welcome and ready to experience your Retreat, whether it be focused on self-care, internal contemplation, nourishing food or time out to totally relax and have fun with like-minded people!

Here are just 6 Benefits to Running a Wellness Retreat:

1. Ability to get out and connect with the community (especially as COVID restrictions ease). People are seeking new experiences with like-minded people to reset and refocus.

2. A fantastic opportunity to showcase your skills and unique offering to potential new clients.

3. Opportunity to combine your skills and modalities with complementary wellness professionals, where you can share responsibilities and offer specialised content, and cross promote to each others’ tribes (exposure to new subscribers).

4. An opportunity to expand your brand awareness into a new community.

5. Increase your business income considerably by offering a unique experience of one to many in an immersive experience.

6. Opportunity to introduce retreat guests to your coaching services and many of your other products and services.

Ready to Run Your Own Retreat?

Are you nurturing a dream of running your own retreat but have no clue how to go about it?

Our comprehensive, step-by-step Retreat Planning course will guide you through the entire process of planning, creating and delivering a successful retreat event that you can be proud of.

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Author:
Viki Thondley

Viki Thondley-Moore is an Integrative Holistic Counsellor, Brain-Based Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mind-Body Somatic Practitioner, Wellness Coach, Meditation Teacher, Educator and Disordered Eating Specialist. Viki is founder of MindBodyFood and Founder/Director of the MindBodyFood Institute.