Build a Retreat Business You Can Actually Live On

The complete method that takes you from teaching on the side to running retreats that profit at least $10,000 each

Build a Retreat Business You Can Actually Live On

The complete method that takes you from teaching on the side to running retreats that profit at least $10,000 each

The Retreat Business Method

The Retreat Business Method is the complete system for building retreats that fill, profit, and support your whole life, run from anywhere in the world.

Not one beautiful, exhausting retreat a year that barely breaks even, but a real business, built properly, from the ground up.

Running retreats and running a retreat business are two completely different things. Most facilitators only ever build the first kind, and it’s rarely because they can’t. It’s because nobody ever showed them the business side, the pricing, the marketing, the systems, the plan.

So that’s what I built.

The full system to go from teaching on the side to running profitable retreats for a living.

Everything you need to plan, price, market, fill, and deliver retreats that earn at least $10,000 in profit each, without a huge following, without a studio, and without waiting until you feel ready.

This is the how.

All of it, in order, with the tools and the support to do it.

Never run a retreat? No big audience? This is built for exactly where you are right now

Without having to quit your job or wait until you feel ready

The programme meets you exactly where you are, which makes ready beside the point. It's paced to work around the life you've already got.

Without becoming a marketer, accountant, and event manager

All of that is built into the templates and systems.

Without feeling pushy or salesy

The marketing is built for our world, using the trust and the values your people already respond to.

Without guessing at pricing

The $10k Calculator sets your price, your capacity, and your costs before you commit to anything.

Without a massive audience

It shows you how to turn your people into paid bookings.

Who this is for

This is for you if you are a yoga or wellness facilitator, breathwork guide, meditation teacher, somatic practitioner, or coach, ready to build a real business around the work you love and you see yourself in one of these.

You've just finished your training and want to turn it into a living. You've done the work to become a teacher, and now you want to build a real income and a life around it.
You've never run a retreat, but you've always wanted to. You've got the dream, the saved venues, the half-started plan, and no real idea how to make it happen.
You've run one or two, but they barely paid. You know they could have earned more and stressed you less, but you're not sure what to change or where it went wrong.

You're teaching on the side and want more. You want retreats to become real income, maybe even your full-time work, instead of something you squeeze in around the job that pays the bills.
You want to work for yourself, on your own terms. You're craving freedom, flexibility, and work that means something, built around your life instead of the other way around.
You're tired of doing it alone. You want a clear plan, the right tools, and someone in your corner who's built this before and can show you the way.

This isn't for someone after a magic button, or a business handed to them without effort.

You'll be supported every step, but the retreat business you build will be yours, because you built it.

Why most retreats don't make money

Most facilitators plan a retreat the obvious way: they picture a beautiful place, design a lovely itinerary, choose the activities and the theme, and work out the money last, once everything else is decided. It's exactly why so many run a beautiful retreat and barely break even.

Most retreat training keeps you stuck there too. It teaches you to plan one retreat, as a single event, start to finish, and then leaves you to begin all over again from scratch for the next one.

The Retreat Business Method builds a business, not an event.

You start with your yearly profit goal and your annual calendar, then build the financial model for each retreat before you commit to anything, so every retreat profits by design and each one builds on the last.

Every decision flows from the business, not from a single idea.

That shift, from planning retreats to building a business, changes everything.

And it's only the start of what makes this different.

What makes this different from anything else out there

Marketing that fills the retreat.
Filling the retreat is the part that scares facilitators most, and it's where so many programmes offer a few social media tips and move on. Here you get a complete marketing and launch system, built for the wellness world, so you can reach the right people and turn interest into bookings using the audience and the trust you already have.

A calendar-first business, not one retreat at a time. Planning one retreat at a time means starting from zero on every launch, with no income in the pipeline. Here, you build a whole year of retreats as one connected business, so each one builds on the last, momentum compounds, and there's always a retreat filling and income coming.

A calendar-first business, not one retreat at a time. Planning one retreat at a time means starting from zero on every launch, with no income in the pipeline. Here, you build a whole year of retreats as one connected business, so each one builds on the last, momentum compounds, and there's always a retreat filling and income coming.

You're never doing this alone.
This isn't a course you buy and disappear into. Every week, you can bring your questions to a live call and get real answers from me. And at every key stage, I personally review your work, your numbers, your sales page, your marketing, your plan, before you commit to anything or press publish.

Taught by someone from both worlds.
I come from professional event management and marketing, over fifteen years running events at five-star hotels, international conferences, and national campaigns, alongside more than a decade inside the yoga and retreat world. That combination is why I can help you build a retreat business that's both profitable and true to who you are.

And it comes to life in person.
Most retreat training happens entirely behind a screen. This one includes a live, in-person immersion, where you build your own business on the ground while living inside a beautifully run retreat.

What you'll learn

A rigorous, step-by-step master plan designed to take you from initial retreat concept to reliable, highly profitable execution.

01. The Retreat Business Foundation

Get clear on who you are, who your retreats are for, and what makes them unmistakably yours. You'll leave this module with the vision, the niche, and the positioning that everything else is built on, the reason the right people will choose you over anyone else.

02. The Retreat Business Financial Model

You'll build the money map for your whole business: what you want to earn, what each retreat needs to profit, and exactly how many retreats, at what price, get you there. No more guessing.

03. The Annual Retreat Calendar

Design a full year of retreats you can sustain without burning out, with your dates, launch windows, and marketing all mapped out in advance. You'll always know what's coming next.

04. Legal, Operational, and Payment Infrastructure

You'll put the foundations in place that keep you and your participants safe and protected: contracts, waivers, cancellation policies, payments, and insurance, all starting from the templates and documents provided.

05. Planning Retreat One

You'll plan your first retreat in full and run it through the $10k Calculator, the theme, the ideal participant, the location, the format, the pricing, the profit, so that by the end of the module, you have a retreat that's designed to work and ready to launch.

06. Marketing Strategy and Pre-Launch

You'll craft your message, write your sales page, plan your content, and warm up an audience that's ready before you open, so that when bookings go live, people are already waiting to say yes.

07. Launch and Filling the Retreat

You'll get a clear launch plan, the confidence to have booking conversations without feeling salesy, and the follow-up that brings the undecided over the line.

08. Guest Systems and Retreat Administration

Look after your booked participants and get everything ready to deliver. Onboarding, communications, payments, and all the behind-the-scenes care that makes a retreat feel seamless and makes you look utterly professional.

09. Delivering the Retreat

You'll learn how to hold the experience for your guests while running the operation smoothly in the background, from the welcome circle to the final goodbye, so you can be present instead of frazzled.

10. Post-Retreat, Refine, and Repeat

You'll review the numbers, gather the stories and testimonials that sell your next retreat for you, and set up the repeat bookings that make every future launch easier.

The part no other programme offers:

the in-person immersion

Most retreat training happens entirely behind a screen. You watch, you read, and you try to build your first retreat having never once felt what a well-run one is like from the inside.

The Retreat Business Method is different, because it comes to life in person.

A few times a year, you can join me on a live immersion retreat, in the kinds of places you dream of running your own retreats.

You are not there to watch me teach.

You are there to build your own retreat business on the ground, while living inside a beautifully run retreat.

Over the week you get:

Focused working time on your own business, with the groundwork getting done while you’re there, not added to a list for when you get home
One-to-one time with me, on your specific retreat, your numbers, your questions and blocks
Peer work with other facilitators, building alongside people who understand what you’re trying to do
Visiting experts, sharing what they know in the areas that matter most
Venue and location visits, learning to see a destination the way a retreat leader does
And the retreat itself, the practice, the food, the culture, the rest, experienced from the inside so you know, in your body, what excellent delivery feels like

You arrive with a dream and a hundred questions.

You leave with a plan, a roadmap, and the clarity that comes from having built it.

Everything you get

Including free bonuses and tools that save you months of work

Lifetime access to the full programme and all future modules and updates
All the bonuses: 30+ worksheets, templates, and calculators, ready to use
Weekly live Q&A calls, where you bring your questions and get real answers from me
Personal reviews at every key stage, where I look over your plan, your numbers, your sales page, and your marketing, and tell you what's working and what to fix
A private community of facilitators building the same thing, right alongside you
A completion guarantee
The option to join a live in-person immersion retreat

The $10k Retreat Profit Calculator
Enter your costs and it tells you what to charge to profit, even on your minimum numbers.
The Annual Retreat Calendar
A planning tool that maps a whole year of retreats so your business runs with momentum.
The Venue Tracker
A structured way to research, compare, and shortlist venues so you choose the right venue.
The legal document templates
The paperwork that protects you and your participants.
The Launch Booking Tracker
One tool to track every enquiry and booking so you always know exactly where your retreat stands.

Meet Milla

I'm Milla, a restless Italian who swapped the corporate world for a life of intentional travel and meaningful work.

I've spent more than 15 years across two worlds: professional event management & marketing on one side, and yoga & wellness on the other.

I went from running events at five-star hotels and international conferences, to managing national campaigns for a UK charity, to co-creating and running retreats across Europe and Asia.

I've burned out, questioned everything, backpacked my way back to myself, and built a business that fits my life instead of running it.

I've watched too many facilitators give up because no one ever showed them the business side. I believe the people with a real gift for this work shouldn't have to keep it as a side project unless they want to.

I live the exact life a lot of facilitators are working toward: location-independent and built around my values and passions.

I'm not selling you a dream I've only imagined. I'm showing you a path I've walked, and I'll be right there in your corner the whole way.

The guarantee

The programme gives you everything you need. Your part is to show up and use it.

If you haven't launched your first retreat and made at least $10,000 in profit within 6 months, and you've done the work, you get your money back. Simple as that.

Join The Retreat Business Method

Not sure yet, or want to talk it through first?
Book a free call with me and we'll work out together whether this is the right fit for you.

The Retreat Business Method

Lifetime access to the full programme and all future modules and updates
30+ worksheets, templates, and calculators, ready to use
Weekly live Q&A calls
Personal reviews at every key stage
A private community of facilitators

$2,997

The Retreat Business Method + One Immersion Retreat

Lifetime access to the full programme
30+ worksheets, templates, and calculators
Weekly live Q&A calls
Personal reviews at every key stage
A private community of facilitators
One live in-person immersion retreat (7-day in private room with meals provided)

$4,597

Frequently asked questions

Transparent answers regarding time commitments audience requirements, and our 100% completion guarantee so you can move forward with peace of mind.

Have a unique situation?

Book a call with me and let's find out if the programme is a right fit for you

Do I need to have run a retreat before?

No. Whether this is your first retreat or your fifth, the programme meets you where you are and takes you forward.

Do I need an existing audience or a big following?

No. This is built specifically for teachers with small, warm communities, and a large part of it is how to fill a retreat using the audience and trust you already have.

Will I actually get support, or am I on my own?

You're far from on your own. You get weekly live Q&A calls with me, personal reviews of your work at every key stage, and a community of facilitators building right alongside you.

How long is the programme?

You get lifetime access, and it's designed so your first retreat is planned, priced, and open for bookings within the first six months.

How much time will it take?

You can go at your own pace, and it's paced to work around a job and existing teaching. The more you put in, the faster your business and retreats comes together.

Is the in-person retreat included?

It's included in the Programme + Immersion Retreat option, and available as an add-on to the base programme at any time. You choose which is right for you.

Can I talk to you before I buy?

Of course. Book a free call and we'll work out together whether this is the right fit. No pressure either way.

Ready to build it?

You've dreamed about it long enough. It's time to build the retreat business you can actually live on, with the method, the tools, and the support to do it.

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