Savi Sojourns · Journal · 05

A wellness retreat for entrepreneurs that takes the business as seriously as the body

Wellness retreats fix the person and send them back to the business that broke them. Business retreats fix the plan and ignore the person carrying it. Sojourns does both, in the same house, for a month.

· Steve Haynes · 4 min

A calm sea at dawn from a stone jetty, one swimmer far out, a folded towel on the stones

Why the two have to go together

For an owner, the business is the stressor and the body is the asset. Fix one and the other undoes it within a fortnight. A week of yoga does not survive a Monday of payroll, and a sharper strategy does not help if you are too tired to run it. The only version that holds is the one where both change at the same time, in the same place, with the same people watching.

The wellbeing side, specifically

  • A wellness facilitator stays the whole month and leads the mornings: breathwork, yoga, mobility or a swim in the sea. Optional, and scaled to you.
  • Friday nights are sound nights.
  • A chef cooks every day. Real food at one long table, not a juice fast.
  • The month is alcohol-free, in the house and out of it, which is the single biggest thing you can do for sleep. See why a sober business retreat works.

The business side, specifically

  • Three business mentors, one a week, who have scaled, sold and invested. An evening off the record, a workshop, one to one, dinner.
  • Twice a week the group works one real problem from one business, with the numbers on the table.
  • You arrive with your numbers and one goal and leave with a 90-day plan. See the founder retreat note.
  • Your business keeps running from a desk in the house. See running your business from the retreat.

What a month does that a week can't

Habits do not form in a week; they form in the third week, when the novelty has gone and you are training in the morning because that is what the house does, not because you decided to. Sleep settles. The group stops performing. The mentors have seen enough of your business to be useful rather than polite. None of that is available on a Friday-to-Sunday.

What it isn't

Not a detox, not a spa, not silent, not spiritual. There are no ceremonies and nobody will ask you to set an intention. It is practical and plain, run by people who have spent twenty years in hospitality and a year and a half running an alcohol-free house that stays full.

In brief

Sojourn No. 001

Length
twenty-eight nights, spring 2027.
People
twelve, by application.
Where
one house by the sea, told to accepted applicants.
On board
three business mentors, a wellness facilitator and a chef.
Your business
keeps running, from a desk in the house.
Fare
on application.

Questions

Who leads the wellbeing side?
A wellness facilitator, there for the whole month. Mornings are breathwork, yoga, mobility or a swim in the sea, and Friday nights are sound nights. Practical, not mystical.
Is there a fitness requirement?
No. Mornings range from mobility to a sea swim and are scaled to you. Nothing is compulsory.
Is this a spiritual or silent retreat?
No. There are no ceremonies, no silence and no intentions to set. Twelve business owners, three mentors, a wellness facilitator, a chef and a long table.

Sojourn No. 001

Applications open on 24 November 2026, with the full moon. Register and you'll hear first.

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