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The challenge
Mind & Body Retreats runs Pilates, sound baths, workshops and destination retreats across Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia. Bookings lived on a third-party events app and Instagram, the photo library was all portrait shots, and the founder wanted a site that felt as considered as the gatherings themselves: calm, photo-led and light on text.
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What we built
We built a four-page site around an events calendar, full-bleed retreat bands with the photo alternating sides, a private-experiences section with a paid consultation, and a lookbook gallery organised by workshop. The waitlist and inquiry forms write straight to the site's own database. Hand-coded in Next.js, hosted on Vercel, with structured data for every event and experience and Google Search Console verified at launch.
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The results
The site went live in August 2026 and the first retreat listed on it, September in West Virginia, sold out. Every workshop has its own photo section, guest reflections run as a carousel instead of a wall of quotes, and new events go up each month with their booking links.