Kristin & Ian
Co-Owners of SolSeed RetreatsKristin and Ian met in late 2009, and in the winter of 2010, traveled to Nicaragua, where they spent nearly 6 months traveling and exploring, dreaming of one day owning their own surf and yoga retreat center.
Upon their return to the United States in the summer of 2010, Kristin started working as a manager at a yoga studio in Boston, and shortly thereafter, enrolled in yoga teacher training. She has been teaching yoga since 2011, and leading and organizing international retreats since 2013. Ian resumed working at start-ups in Boston, and spent the next few years building and managing sales teams, and learning how to grow a successful business.
By early 2016, Kristin was leading several international yoga and wellness retreats each year alongside her friend, Antonio Aniello. Together, they built a strong community of like-minded travelers, known as “The SolSeekers.” Kristin constantly had other yoga teachers asking her how she chose her retreat locations, marketed her trips, and grew her community. As a result, she recognized that there was a void in the fitness world, and an opportunity to help other instructors and studio owners grow their own businesses through retreats.
The concept of SolSeed Retreats was born in September of 2016, during Kristin and Ian’s honeymoon to the Azores, Portugal. At dinner one night, Kristin and Ian were chatting about future retreat locations, business ideas, and lets be honest, ways that they could skip winter in Boston. Ian proposed taking the retreat itineraries that Kristin had already successfully developed and running multiple retreats at those locations. The concept was to work with other fitness professionals, and provide a comprehensive retreat planning service for them. Upon return from their honeymoon, Kristin and Ian worked on a business plan for SolSeed, and Kristin started reaching out to her fitness network for feedback. The business concept was very well received by her peers, and in February of 2017, SolSeed Retreats was officially launched.
Fast forward 4 years, and Kristin and Ian are incredibly grateful to be able to combine two of their life’s greatest passions – travel and fitness – while enabling other fitness leaders and their communities to visit new parts of the world, and create profound shifts in their own lives. SolSeed has worked with dozens of instructors, many of which are repeat clients, and have subsequently brought hundreds of travelers abroad to 6 different international locations.
Besides traveling and retreating, Kristin land Ian love to experiment with new recipes, see live music, and spend as much time outside hiking in the mountains of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.
