Belinda Barnes, founder of Inside Retreats, sits on a mat in the grass, enjoying a peaceful outdoor moment.

Resources

to inspire & support your wellness journey

Welcome to the Inside Retreats blog, your space for healing, reflection, and empowerment. Rooted in our mission to help women reclaim self-love, our blog explores themes of emotional well-being, self-sabotage, people-pleasing, and healing through our signature yoga and meditation retreats, yoga classes, and transformational programs.

Here, you’ll find stories and insights from our I Choose Me Project, along with practical tools drawn from our retreats, online programs, and one-on-one intensives. Every piece is designed to support women who are ready to break free from self-sacrifice and rediscover their worth.

Whether you're preparing for one of our immersive yoga and meditation retreats, yoga classes, and our other transformational programs or simply curious about the journey back to yourself, this is a safe, supportive space to begin.

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How our survival becomes our identity!

Sometimes the way we got our needs met growing up becomes a deeply embedded sense of identity. As a yoga teacher or yoga instructor might observe, maybe that was never your true nature to begin with?

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The sabotage cure - reclaiming self-care!

Join me in the journey to cure self-sabotage, finally keep those promises to yourself, and smash the emotional blocks that are keeping you from the life and wellbeing you deserve.

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Is toxic guilt ruining your wellbeing?

Guilt running your life? can’t escape the endless feeling that you can’t please everyone? sick of taking care of everyone else and leaving little for yourself? We hear you!

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Yoga For Emotional Wellbeing Online

Complete your week with a yoga session combined with tapping or emotional freedom technique to get the most out of your practice. Bliss, relaxation, reflection, release, and a touch of self-compassion.

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Anger - your fierce protector!

Getting underneath your anger, might involve thanking your fierce protector for helping you, but softening and letting go of the story at the same time. Allowing what emotions are underneath to surface and provide a little compassion for.

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Yoga for Office Stress!

Yoga can be done anywhere anyhow! Do your body and mind a favour and release some of the tension and stress from a week at work hunched over a desk!

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Self-abandonment… it’s a thing!

Painful, internally isolating, and literally killing us, self-abandonment the pattern of the modern age - bad with boundaries, no time for self? I hear you! Filled with resentment, low self worth and questioning why you can’t handle this pressure!? Yoga is the answer, I know Im biased.

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Burnout - easier to prevent than to cure

Burnout is a modern curse, alarmingly affecting much of the population and leading to dire health consequences, interpersonal devastation, and ill mental health. Protect yourself today and allow yourself to heal from the chronic stress of life as we know it today. Burnout recovery! We all need it at one stage in our busy lives.

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MindBody is one word

Recent research is telling us loud and clear that the body cannot be seperated from the mind, what affects one will affect the other. Take care of yourself, heal from burnout, and watch the dangers of hidden stress.

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