Leadership & Life Skills

YogaRenew: How to Build and Host a Yoga Retreat

Name: YogaRenew: How to Build and Host a Yoga Retreat
Price: 97 USD
Availability: InStock

A 30-hour Yoga Alliance continuing education course on building, leading, and hosting yoga retreats. Covers leadership qualities, retreat creation, mindful travel, scheduling, self-care, promotion strategies, and operational essentials like insurance, visas, and packing. Self-paced online with lifetime access to all materials.

Duration: 30h
Certification: CE credits
Format: self-paced
Skill level: intermediate, advanced
Career pathway: advanced training

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Course program

How to Build and Host a Yoga Retreat is a 30-hour online continuing education course from YogaRenew, a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School and YACEP provider. The course guides yoga teachers and first-time retreat hosts through the full process of designing, organizing, and leading their own yoga retreat — from the leadership mindset behind it to the practical operations that make it run.

This course is designed for yoga teachers who want to lead retreats, first-time retreat hosts, and anyone passionate about creating meaningful retreat experiences. No prior retreat-leading experience is required. Because it counts as continuing education, the format works best for those already teaching yoga or holding a yoga credential, though it remains accessible to students earlier in their yoga journey who are curious about retreat hosting.

The course is built around four core areas: Leadership Qualities, Retreat Creation, Travel with Purpose, and Schedules + Self-Care. You explore what makes you a unique leader, then move into designing a seamless retreat itinerary your students will love. Travel modules cover how to lead with intention and travel efficiently, while the scheduling section provides sample schedules and tips on protecting your own well-being while holding space for others.

Practical resources support each step. You’ll work through workbooks designed for any retreat length — from a weekend getaway to a 10+ day excursion. Packing lists, sample yoga and meditation classes, and sample schedules give you ready-to-adapt templates. The course also covers the operational details often overlooked by first-time hosts: insurance, visas, vaccinations, and how to handle problems when they arise. A dedicated section on promotion walks you through marketing your retreat so you can sell it out reliably, and a burnout-prevention module helps you build sustainability into your hosting practice.

The course is led by Jordan Ashley and Lisa Bermudez. Jordan is a yoga teacher, activist, writer, TEDx speaker, and PhD candidate, and the founder of Souljourn Yoga Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit using yoga for social activism. Lisa is a yoga teacher, Ayurveda Wellness Coach, and educator who has co-facilitated 200-hour teacher trainings and Ayurveda immersions and works as a mentor for vinyasa-style teacher trainings in New York City.

The format is fully online and self-paced, delivered through video modules you progress through on your own schedule. Each module is paired with workbooks, sample schedules, packing lists, and operational guidance so you can build your retreat in real time alongside the lessons. Students get lifetime access to all course material, so the resources remain available whether you lead your first retreat next month or years later.

Meet your teacher

Jordan Ashley

Jordan Ashley is an activist, writer, yoga teacher, TEDx speaker, and PhD candidate. She founded the Souljourn Yoga Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit raising awareness and funds for young women's education through yoga as a platform for social activism.