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.
Red Flags in Yoga: What to Watch Out For When Choosing a Teacher for a Class or Retreat
A yoga class or retreat should feel safe and supportive, but not every experience does. In this blog, I share the red flags to watch for in a yoga instructor so you can choose spaces that truly nurture your wellbeing.
How to Stop Self-Sacrificing and Start Putting Yourself First With Yoga
Self-sacrifice often feels noble, but it leaves you drained and disconnected. This post explores how guidance from a supportive yoga teacher and the nurturing space of a yoga healing retreat can help you release old patterns, reclaim your energy, and finally put yourself first.
Monday Mindful Yoga to Start the Week Right (YouTube Series by Inside Retreats)
Start your week with calm and clarity through this free yoga series led by an experienced yoga teacher. Join this mindful journey with a caring yoga instructor and reconnect with yourself, one breath at a time.
9 Reasons Holistic Retreats Are the Self-Love Practice You Didn’t Know You Needed
If you’ve been pouring from an empty cup, a healing retreat isn’t an escape; it’s a return. In this post, we explore how holistic retreats offer more than rest. They help you remember the parts of you that got buried under burnout, people-pleasing, and noise.
How to Use Yoga to Heal Emotional Burnout and Self-Abandonment
Burnout doesn’t always look like breaking down. It often looks like holding it all together with a quiet ache. In this post, explore how a compassionate yoga teacher and a deeply nourishing yoga weekend can help you gently release the weight of self-abandonment and come back to yourself, one breath at a time.
7 Signs You Need a Wellbeing Retreat (Especially if You Keep Putting Others First)
Feeling burnt out from always putting others first? Discover the 7 powerful signs that it’s time to pause, reset, and reclaim your energy. This post explores how yoga healing retreats and a wellbeing retreat can help you reconnect with your needs, release chronic stress, and return to yourself with clarity and compassion.
How to Break the Cycle of People-Pleasing Using Neuroscience and Movement
Learn how to break the cycle of people-pleasing with science-backed practices and support from an experienced yoga instructor. Discover how yoga retreats can help you reclaim your voice, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with your needs.
How to Choose the Right Healing Retreat for Your Self-Love Journey
Searching for the perfect healing retreat? This guide will help you choose the right yoga retreat or yoga weekend to support your self-love journey, emotional wellbeing, and nervous system healing — no overwhelm, just clarity.
“What If I Fail?” Answering Your Biggest Fears About Starting a 21-Day Challenge
A yoga instructor and psychologist explores the deeper fears that hold women back from committing to a 21-day challenge. Learn how small, daily choices can help you build self-trust, shift old patterns, and finally choose you.
Anxious in Yin Yoga? You Are Not Alone
Many women expect yin yoga to be easy because it's slow but as any experienced yoga instructor knows, slowness doesn’t mean simplicity. It often reveals the very patterns we’ve been avoiding.
If you’re ready to explore this in a safe, supportive space, come try our gentle Monday night Yin Yoga and Sound Bath sessions starting July 7th.
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?
Why I Created the ‘I Choose Me’ Project (and What it Means to Women Like Us)
Women supporting each other, offering love, compassion, and a sense of connectedness that every yoga teacher and yoga instructor knows is vital for true healing, both on and off the mat.
10 Life-Changing Benefits of Yoga Retreats for Women Who Give Too Much
The benefits of healing retreats cannot be understated, find community, connection and internal peace, insights and develop the skills for self-development and growth.
My top 10 TIPS for regenerating your body and soul this New Year!
Belinda’s top 10 tips for regenerating your body and soul this New Years!
What does it mean to increase your vibration?
With the upcoming day retreat, a blog on what it means to increase your vibration, or otherwise your energetic frequency so that you can attract the things you want!
Do you think you might be addicted to stress?
Do you suspect you might be stuck in an addiction cycle with your stress? Burnout but still pushing on, cant relax or take care of yourself?
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.
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!
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.
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.