Our mission is to help people discover their own wisdom, to realize a compassionate world.

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Our Aspiration.

Every day this world tells us that we’re not enough. Not rich enough, skinny enough, cool enough, successful enough. If only we bought this, looked like that, took the perfect Instagram picture, had the perfect partner, a beautiful house on the right side of town, lost another 10 pounds… then we would be enough. Then we would be happy.

But it’s a lie. An illusion. Because you are already perfect. Just as you are. With your flaws and imperfections, your shadow side as well as your light; you were born perfect. You are right where you are meant to be, and all that you need, is already within you.

You are already so much more than enough, despite what this world would have you believe.

There are many paths to this truth: yoga, meditation, plant medicine, art, community, dance, spirituality, nature. But every path leads within you. This truth is not found in an external factor that must be bought and consumed. And the destination of every path is a wakeful life: open-hearted, conscious, and awake to the illusion - and beauty - of this world.

There is a global community of people - perfect humans - on their own journey to discover what they’ve always had within them all along. We are on this journey with you, because we are seeking the same, too. Together, we want to wake up the world, because we believe that every one of us is already perfect. Just as we are.

Our Values.

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Be Human

Show up as you are. Bring your complexity and simplicity, your shadow side and light. Be as true to your strunggle as your success.

Be vulnerable as you are strong. We celebrate what makes us human - the magic and the mess - because one doesn’t exist without the other.

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Kindness

Be kind. Be so kind. To one another and especially to yourself. It’s what a compassionate world feels like.

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Participation

We’re all in this together.

We don’t prescribe this path, because we’re walking it with you. And the more community participates, the more we can learn from each other, and ourselves. We are the customer, too. And the customer is also the teacher. And the teacher is also the student.

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Openness

Be curious. Be fearless and fun in your curiosity.
Be open to new ideas, new experiences, new people.
Remain open to the good and the bad, stay with it all.

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Inclusivity

Be open to new ideas. The strength of our community is in its inclusivity, not its exclusivity. The entry requirement to begin a journey toward wakefulness is simply being human.

Truth

We don’t shirk hard stuff. We are real and we won’t bullshit you. The reward is great, but the struggle is real. No hashtag.

Story of Retreat Guru.

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“Over 20 years ago 2 brothers discovered meditation and soon after brought their meditation practice and technology careers together. Having experienced the profundity and simplicity of doing retreats, they decided to focus on helping retreat centers thrive. What started off as a web development company for Tibetan Lamas has blossomed into a global software and consumer marketplace called Retreat Guru.”

1993-2014
Founders
Founders
Co-founders completed over 200+ meditation and plant medicine retreats
logo 2014
The office
Launched retreat.guru to make it easier to find and book retreats online
2017
Circle
Deep partnerships with 1,000+ teachers and 300+ retreat centers
2019
Website
Largest marketplace worldwide for authentic wellness retreats
2021
Team
Reached 750,000+ lifetime bookings via SaaS and Marketplace
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Our Team.

Leadership

Cameron Wenaus

Co-Founder, CEO
Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement

Deryk Wenaus

Co-Founder, CTO
Nothing lasts. Everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong. Everything is on track

Harumi Kambara

CFO
Health is wealth, peace of mind is happiness, and yoga shows the way

Sari Harrison

CPO
Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver

Team

Christine Crawford

Business Administrator
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere – Albert Einstein

Cloud Edwards

Developer
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion

Andrea Kennedy

Relationship Manager
Only from the heart can you touch the sky

Michelle Heinz

People and customer success
Protection Against Hurt IS the Hurt - Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat

Dennis Marriott

Success Architect
It's all about the journey

Andy Chute

Senior Developer

Steve Strom

Growth Team
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope – Thomas Merton

Diana Garroway

Senior Developer
As long as there is hope, there is a chance

Grant Cherwenuk

Developer
Be in the world, but not of it

Rachel Selkirk

Developer
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

Ike Mor

Senior Developer
De doo doo doo, De da da da - is all I want to say to you – Sting's son

Fatemeh Rostami

Developer
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy – Rumi

Devin Irvine

Head of Customer Success
The ocean is not always a tsunami. The wind is not always a tornado. You are no less powerful in all your stillness – Natasha T. Miller

Ernest Smuga

Developer
That which knows how to bend will not break – Sadhugur

Andrea C

Growth Team
When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing - A Course in Miracles.

Naurin Momin

Designer
Be Soulful, Be Kind, Be in Love - Rumi

Neil Grewal

Director of B2B Marketing
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. ― Michael Jordan

Kelly McLaren

Customer Success Specialist
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Alec Janssens

Account Exec & Sales Ops
I held hands with my sadness, sang it songs in the shower, fed it lunch, got it drunk & put it to bed early. ― Sabrina Benaim

Devaiya Ra

Customer Success Specialist
Expectations are just premeditated resentments. Let it go.

Luan

Product Designer
The <Heart Sutra>.

Mark Crawford

Customer Success Specialist
The Only Constant in Life Is Change. - Heraclitus

Roman Kovalchuk

Developer
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie