Advice and stories about developing, facilitating, and marketing wellness or yoga retreats.
What is an Inspiration? An inspiration is the spark that guides us from inner reflection to outer action. The word comes from the Latin spirare, meaning “to breathe into.” In this sense, inspiration is something living—something that breathes life into our purpose and connects our unique gifts with the needs we see in the world. […]
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At the Edge, a successful retreat program starts in the planning phase of the retreat and can be attributed to the retreat’s inspiration. An inspiration is a positive focus statement of what we hope to experience at a gathering. When organizing a retreat, we encourage all retreat planners to mindfully craft an inspiration for their
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Teaching yoga is a career that has many ways of scaling up. You can start small, teaching occasionally or regularly out of a local studio. You can record classes and make them available online. You can grow your classes, teaching more students at more times or in larger spaces. You can also expand your modalities
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What are Edge Co-Facilitators, and why do we provide them for retreats planned by our partners?
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“Should I offer an early-bird rate for my retreat?” “Should I do a special promotion for boxing day?” “Should I set up a discount code for last year’s participants?” These are the questions I hear pretty commonly from our retreat planner and facilitator partners. We’ve been around the block with our retreat promotions, and I
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Are you a facilitator or leader residing in Ontario and interested in planning retreats? That’s great! TICO is actively approaching Ontario Retreat Facilitators to ensure they are complying with the Travel Industry Act – There are some important guidelines that you will need to understand in order to promote and facilitate your retreats legally: What
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Guest Post by Allie Chisholm-Smith, Retreat Facilitator I am a person that prefers to be in the background, quietly suggesting that you might be magnificent and worthy of love…. I don’t want to be the focus, I don’t look for you to see me, but for you to see you. The magic for me is
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“Leaders become great not because of their power but, because of their ability to empower others.” – John Maxwell As a coach, leader, educator, or facilitator you have the great honour and responsibility of creating positive impact and influence in your community. You also have the unique position of holding the space for people to
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Brianna Lintner & Celigne Degagne – North Bay, ON Brianna Lintner knew she would host a retreat at Northern Edge Algonquin one day. As a budding entrepreneur, she was very excited to receive one of her first pieces of mail to her North Bay, Ontario yoga studio just a few months after opening the business:
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Tina Gadoury is an all-around successful wellness practitioner. As the owner and operator of The Yoga Limb, Tina has a dedicated following of yogis who spent the better part of post-quarantine 2020 practicing safely distanced, outdoor yoga at her studio in Paris, Ontario. Just shy of three years into her business, she had already hosted