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Sunday, February 19th, 2012New Retreat Options
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012Yoga Sherpa has recently updated our website to add new retreat options in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Aruba for studio owners and teachers. Please check it out and let us know if you would like help planning a retreat.
Yoga Sherpa is the Grand Prize Winner
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011We are happy to announce that Yoga Sherpa won the Grand Prize in a software company’s Small Business Contest. We won free customer service software for life! BatchBook software will help us better serve our customers. Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/iBMj4r
8 Tips for Leading a Successful Retreat
Tuesday, May 24th, 20111) Build a loyal student following so that 10 of your students will sign-up.
2) Pick a time of the year that your students will most likely want to travel.
3) Pick a destination that your students will like and can afford.
4) Reserve a retreat property at least 4 months in advance. If you want to travel during the high season of January to April, it’s best to plan 9-12 months in advance to ensure availability.
5) Follow the marketing check list from Yoga Sherpa.
6) Travel somewhere close and affordable your first retreat such as Costa Rica, Guatemala, or Mexico for teachers from the U.S. or Canada.
7) Plan 2 yoga classes per day along with some morning meditations or evening kirtans.
Contact Yoga Sherpa today to let us help you plan an informational session to gauge your students’ interest. Email us at contact@yogasherpa.com
Yoga, sand, and sunshine
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011Yoga retreats are a perfect opportunity to disconnect from all of the noise in our daily lives and reconnect to our inner selves in a safe, peaceful environment. Doing yoga, enjoying sunshine, and eating healthy for a week straight helps us enjoy more balance when we return to the stresses of cities, jobs, families, relationships, and responsibilities.
Winter and Spring Retreats
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Winter and spring is a great time to bring your students on a yoga retreat to a warm destination. Many of our destinations are in sunny, beach front locations, and they provide a great setting to soak up some sun, enjoy some beach time, and focus on your yoga practice.
Yoga Retreat Benefits
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010International yoga retreats help instructors expand their teaching horizons, gain increased exposure, foster their studio’s sense of community, and earn a generous retreat fee. Retreats also help individuals create more balance and happiness in their lives by providing people the time, beautiful setting, and supportive environment to stop worrying about daily stresses. People can focus on personal development by strengthening their body and restoring a sense of peace to their mind.
Modern culture is often characterized by stressful multi-tasking, fast-paced jobs, unhealthy food, and little quiet time. International yoga retreats allow us to relax and then balance out the parts of ourselves that we often ignore or neglect due to time, family, and professional constraints. Yoga Sherpa’s goal is to help individuals have fun and grow during retreats and then to return home with an increased amount of passion and purpose.
Welcome to our new website!
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Yoga Sherpa is an international travel company designed specifically for yoga studios and instructors. Our goal is to help you easily plan an international retreat for your students, while allowing you to keep your focus on your studio, your teachings, and your own practice.
We are passionate about yoga, international travel, and the environment; and we would be honored to help you plan an international yoga retreat.
Yoga Sherpa donates at least 5% of its total net profits to local organizations in the communities where we operate. We are proud to support our local partners in their important social and environmental initiatives such as building schools, conserving wildlife, preserving reefs and rainforests, and much more. We take great care to build a culturally respectful relationship with our local partners, and we are thrilled to offer you the opportunity to leave a lasting impact on the communities you visit.
