Getting Started as a Host on Finding Retreats

Signing up as a host is the first step, but there's a sequence to it: verify your account, set up your profile, decide whether you're importing an existing listing or building one from scratch, and get your first draft in front of your own eyes before it ever reaches a guest. This section covers that beginning stretch — the parts that happen before you're inside the dashboard managing bookings and payments.

If you already run retreats on Book Yoga Retreats, you can pull that listing across instead of retyping it. If you're starting fresh, or you host something other than a multi-day retreat — a single class, a treatment, a one-off experience — the right listing type shapes the rest of the process, so it's worth getting that decision right early.

Once your first listing exists as a draft, everything after that — pricing, availability, payouts, bookings — is covered in its own part of this guide. This section is only about the on-ramp: account, listing type, and your first draft.