The 12-Month Retreat Launch Calendar
Phases, milestones, and the realistic timeline. Pick your runway (3, 6, 9, or 12 months) and check off the work as you finish it.
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Quiet ways to use a 1920s farm
The Makers Barn holds different kinds of work well. Pick the retreat type that fits — each page goes deeper into what we offer for that specific kind of group.
Yoga teachers
A heated hay barn shala for up to 20 students, a kitchen built around your schedule, and the rest taken care of.
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Meditation & dharma groups
Twelve-thousand square metres of held quiet, a precedent of practice, and a kitchen that respects your schedule of meals.
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Writing retreats
For published authors and craft teachers running multi-day writing intensives. Workshop space, private cabins, and a long table for the evening read-arounds.
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Team offsites
A 1920s farm bought out for your team. Strategy days that do not feel like meeting rooms.
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Breathwork & sound
A heated hay barn that hums when the bowls do, a fire circle outside, and a sauna for what comes up afterwards.
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Coaching intensives
A held venue for coaches running 8–12 person cohort intensives. The work after the workshop ends, in a place that can hold it.
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Somatic & therapeutic retreats
For licensed therapists and somatic practitioners running trauma-informed residentials. Private buyout, sauna, fields outside the practice barn.
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Wellness & detox
For wellness coaches, naturopaths, and Ayurveda teachers running clean-eating, sauna, and yoga programmes on a private 1.3-hectare farm.
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Circle retreats
For facilitators of women’s, men’s, and mixed circle work. A fire pit, a barn, and the privacy that the work asks for.
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Photography workshops
For pro photographers running multi-day workshops. Big skies, 1.3 hectares of shifting light, and a base camp that handles the rest.
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A private farm or a commercial venue?
If you are weighing a small private farm against a commercial retreat hotel, we wrote an honest side-by-side. Capacity, kitchen, soundscape, what you trade and what you gain — without the sales pitch.
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Tools for retreat hosts
Free, ungated tools to help you plan a retreat that actually works — at MakersBarn or anywhere else.
Retreat Profitability Calculator
Plan your revenue, costs, profit margin, and breakeven occupancy before you commit to a venue.
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Tell us a little about your group and we will help you find the right shape — sometimes it is none of these, and that is fine too.
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