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Mindful Earth · Retreat Planning Guide

Stop swimming in
seventeen spreadsheets.

Grounded Growth is the complete retreat planning system for wellness practitioners — from first vision to post-retreat debrief. Built from six years of hosting international retreats. Everything in one place, in the order you actually need it.

Get Grounded Growth — CA$22 → ≈ £13 · €15 · US$16
Instant download PDF + interactive HTML Fills in as you go Saves in your browser
Sound familiar?

You know what retreat you want to create.
The logistics are the problem.

The venue research that leads nowhere. The budget you build and rebuild because you keep forgetting things. The timeline you are making up as you go. The moment you realise your marketing should have started six weeks ago. The spreadsheet that has seventeen tabs and is somehow still missing the thing you need.

Planning a retreat alone is a lot. And there is no single resource that walks you through all of it in the order you actually need it — until now.

"I made every expensive mistake so you don't have to. I underpriced, under-planned, over-delivered and under-charged, and arrived at my own retreat exhausted before it had even started. This guide is everything I learned, written down." — Montana King, Mindful Earth

What's inside

Eight sections. One complete system.

Every section builds on the last. You cannot price before you vision. You cannot venue-source before you budget. The guide follows the actual order of decisions — so nothing falls through the gaps.

Section 01

Vision & Business Case

Who is this retreat for, what transformation does it create, and is it financially viable? The foundation everything else is built on.

Section 02

Budget & Pricing

Full budget template with every line item — including the ones people forget. Pricing calculator so you stop guessing and start knowing.

Section 03

Venue & Team

Venue sourcing checklist, the questions to ask before you sign anything, how to brief co-facilitators, and the local contacts that make a retreat feel alive.

Section 04

Food & Catering

How to brief a caterer, dietary requirements, the role food plays in the container, and why it matters more than people think.

Section 05

Participant Management

Intake forms, room breakdown and pricing by type, participant list with export — everything in one place to share with your team.

Section 06

Pre-Event & Day-Of

Welcome gifts, photographer briefing, run-of-show, group dynamics, and the week-before checklist that means nothing falls through.

Section 07

Legal & Safety

Insurance, waivers, refund policy, emergency protocols. The things nobody wants to deal with — until they need them.

Section 08

Post-Retreat Debrief

What to do in the 48 hours after. How to capture what worked. How to follow up with participants. How to make the next one better.

Eight sections, one download, no more guessing.

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What you actually get

Not a PDF you read once.
A tool you work in.

The interactive HTML version opens in Chrome and lets you type your answers directly into the guide. Your budget numbers update automatically. Your participant list exports as a CSV. Your room breakdown calculates totals. Everything saves in your browser as you go.

The PDF version is your permanent reference copy — print it, keep it, share it with a co-facilitator.

Both versions in one download.

02 · Budget & Pricing
Venue hire
CA$ 3,200
Food & catering (per person)
CA$ 45
Photographer
CA$ 800
Break-even: 8 guests at CA$2,100 ✓
From the community

What practitioners are saying.

"I've been putting off hosting my first retreat for two years because the planning felt too overwhelming. This guide broke it down into something I could actually do. I had a complete budget and venue shortlist within a week."

Yoga teacher, Ontario

"The budget template alone was worth it. I realised I had been significantly underpricing my retreats — not because I didn't value my work, but because I hadn't added up all the actual costs. This changed how I price everything."

Somatic practitioner, London

"I've hosted four retreats and still found things in here I hadn't considered — particularly the group dynamics section and the post-retreat debrief framework. I wish I'd had this for my first one."

Breathwork facilitator, BC

Testimonials from early community members. Names withheld by request.

Who this is for

This guide is for you if:

You are planning your first retreat and don't know where to start

You have hosted before but want a cleaner, more repeatable system

You keep putting the retreat off because the planning feels too big

You are a yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator, somatic practitioner, or wellness coach

You want to host an experience that genuinely transforms — not just ticks boxes

Ready to start planning?

Stop putting it off.
Your retreat is ready to happen.

CA$22. Instant download. PDF + interactive HTML. Use code BOTHGUIDES at checkout to get Genuine Reach (the marketing companion) for CA$11.

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