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Issue 02 · 20 July 2026 · 6 min
What a week actually costs, country by country
We published our per-day price bands for eight countries this week. Here is the reasoning behind them, and the three places where retreat pricing is quietly dishonest.

Issue 01 · 13 July 2026 · 5 min
The first dinner is the whole trip
Everyone worries about the wrong thing before a solo retreat. It is never the yoga, the flight, or the room. It is the first evening meal — and it is solvable.