Yoga Retreat Secrets

Trust leads to success. You can't be successful without the support of a large section of the population. Ultimately we all have a people problem. We need to serve more people and trust more people. Yet most people get burned once and take away the wrong lesson. That people can't be trusted. Thats basically agreeing to never succeed. Here I suggest an approach to really trust and be crystal clear...

I worked for Snatam Kaur & Guruganesha when they first started touring as musicians. Ganesh had the idea of making a series of free concerts. It was a disaster. They rented big beautiful venues and while lots of people claimed free tickets almost no one showed up. I was the cd sales person and it was mortifying. The lesson I took away was that the buyer has to be invested for them to get the v...

Way too many people are focused on what other people are charging. It's the worst way to set your prices. I argue here you should search to create massive value for your customers. Differentiate yourself by delivering unique experiences that solve big problems. Then price isn't the only factor. This is the best way to raise your prices. If you deliver the most, you should charge the most. And if y...

The reason I think teaching on yoga retreats is more effective than in a studio is because of the schedule. In my early days of learning yoga, it was never just about the class. In the ashram, we would have meals together. There was music. There was community. So many of the lessons were conveyed off the mat.  When you host a yoga retreat, you have that same ability to make each moment of the...

Dharmify is my 7 step method to holistically approach the challenges of our lives. From a spiritual, intentional, & material perspective, dharmify helps us get into alignment.  I highly recommend dharmifying your retreat decisions so you are emotionally invested, solving real life problems for your customers and have the resources and energy in place for smashing success.  The benefi...

When building out your retreat idea, its extremely important to share the story behind how you came up with this idea. People relate to people and the journeys that we all go through. There is a deeply personal, meaningful reason that you decided to go on this trip. When you tune into the emotion behind that, it makes selling your idea so much easier. Here I talk about how to come up with a method...

Here I break down the underlying psychology driving the yoga retreat market. These are powerful lessons that will deliver great impact to your students. 

Here we talk about ways to trasnform lives through the the vast experiences of your life. Creating unique and personal experiences has the greatest impact on your students. Here's how I come up with a lot of mine. 

Some gems in here on retreat planning, writing books, and making a contribution through publishing. 

Work is important and valid. But once you stabilize, it's important to vastly increase the investments into yourself through training. 

Criticism can be extremely helpful to gel your team and rally people around a collective goal. 

Great ideas need a critic. It will make your victory so much sweeter. Use this hack to handle criticism and turn it into the fuel you need to succeed. 

I got covid last month during a retreat. I kept a audio dialog as it went along.  I did my best to keep everyone safe and make good choices.  COVID is definitely a disruptor and having a number of back up plans in place is very helpful. Listen in here and it will help you get a sense of what to do should COVID come into play on your retreats or if you are on retreat. 

I share some reflections on taking 4 years to write dharmify vs 2 weeks to write my new ebook Retreat Wizard Blizzard. It was so much easier to write the Blizzard because I was trying to solve 1 problem. Then I built the ebook based on 19 methods to solve the problem. If you are stuck in your messaging and writing, start with the question, what is 1 problem that I can solve.  Download the ebo...

The array of offerings in yoga studios is lacking in some major ways. Here i show why yoga bootcamps can fill an important need for leveling up your students. I use the example of my 8 week handstand hero. 

There are so many ways to interpret our lives. Here I share my favorite and most powerful one. It's called the hero's journey. I share some ideas from the hero's journey that will help you organize your yoga retreats and improve your yoga classes.  I think all of us should have some elements of this in our own lives. 

The yoga business is full of paradox. When yoga means union and your goal is community building, how are you to fire people? How do you reconcile the need for healthy boundaries, and space when the core teachings teach us to unite. The easy way is hypocrisy and we've all seen that.  But the easy way in this case often tarnishes reputation and makes things worse.  This is a peculiar burde...

Mantras are the best ways to change your mind. I have been using mantra to re create myself as a marketer. I share some of the techniques I have been using to become so much better at marketing. I also share two tips I recently used to sell some more retreats.  Enjoy!

As a boy, I used to do seva at the Golden Temple. When I left India, I missed that feeling until I realized creating huge value filled the void for me.  In the podcast here I share why I decided to make my book free just pay shipping model. It allows me to give huge value for a cheap price and also sets me up to create even more value for my clients. 

Joshi Biro is a yoga studio business coach and founder of the Yogaprenuer collective. He gives us so much great insight here.   We talk about - getting mindset right to thrive in the yoga studio world. - 6 tips for marketing anything - the difference between a retreat and a summit. - ways to charge more for your yoga retreat. - how to monetize your client list more effectively. - we talk...

Here I share a simple 4 step process to present your retreat to your audience. I used it last week and got 2 sign ups for my winter retreat which is now sold out. I added another one Jan 28 - 30 2022 which is similar. The method is called The Who what why how video and I learned it from Russell Brunson. Basically you introduce yourself (who) talk about the retreat ( the what) Tell them why its so...

I've wanted to sit down with Kiley Enmark and chat for a while. She does Casa Om & Casa Om Potomac regularly but also does trips to Xinalani in Puerto Vallarta, Ubud Retreat Center in Bali and D’Alijo Retreat Center in Portugal. All places I want to visit. She shares her criteria for picking locations which will help you if you're looking for venues. She also is one of the most fun people on t...

Here I get into something that causes so many hot yoga studios so much pain. Steam humidifiers. I have been working on the 3 that I have - a steamovap at Casa Om Potomac and a Neptronic and Vapac at Siri Om Hot Yoga. They are just a difficult idea because you need a plumber, an electrician, an Hvac contractor and a Handiman to get them worked on. And even with all the trades, someone has to coordi...

We cover some important ground here with Pedro Luna. Super chill entrepreneur, yoga teacher and creator of yogimemes, Next Level Yoga Academy and international retreat leader. We get into the creative process for making memes and where to find ideas for content. Then discuss the value of mentorship and how it can save us all some pain and struggle. Finally we cover some practical advice for increa...

There is inherent conflict built into the yoga business that is unique to the yoga business. Your students become your colleagues, your colleagues become your boss, your friends open studios near you and everyone is finding the balance between competition and support. It takes some serious flexibility, insight, compassion, great business sense and diligence to navigate through it with the yogi sta...