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There is a particular kind of quiet that comes after you have spent two years building something. The night before we pressed publish on the new Wellsphere, I was sitting with a cup of tea, thinking about every wellness teacher who had ever messaged me about a role that promised the world and paid in green smoothies. We built this for them. And for the boutique hotels, retreats, and studios trying to hire well in an industry that has not, historically, made that easy.
Wellsphere is now live. A wellness talent marketplace connecting 5,600+ wellness professionals across 185 countries with the businesses that actually want to hire them properly. Fair rates. Real contracts. Editorial review on every listing. No agency fees, no algorithmic guesswork, no roles that ask for ten years of experience and offer accommodation instead of pay.
This piece is part launch note, part letter to the wellness industry, part roadmap. If you have followed Wellsphere since the early days, thank you. If you are new here, welcome. Either way, what follows is where we have been, where we are, and where we are going next.
From a Maldives shoreline to a global platform
The first version of Wellsphere lived on a Notion page in 2024. I had just come back from a chapter teaching yoga in the Maldives, and I could not stop thinking about the disconnect I had watched up close. Talented practitioners would land at five-star resorts, deliver beautiful work, and then quietly burn out because the contracts were vague, the pay did not reflect the value, and there was nowhere structured to find the next role. The wellness industry was running on goodwill and group chats.
I started building Wellsphere because I had been on both sides. I had been the corporate burnout in London. I had been the yoga teacher trying to find a role that did not require a personal Instagram following of 100k just to be considered. I had also sat across the table from hospitality owners who genuinely wanted to hire well and had no idea where to look.
Two years later, the platform has handled 800+ opportunities, served 80,000+ users in fifteen months, and built a community of 12,000+ wellness professionals who message each other about retreats, contracts, and the occasional difficult guest. It has been a ride. The polite version is that we built quickly and broke things. The honest version is that we listened harder than we coded, and the platform you are seeing now is the product of every voice note, every feedback form, and every employer who told us what was missing.
What changed in the wellness industry
The industry I entered as a teacher in 2019 is not the same one I am writing to now. Wellness tourism is now valued at over $814 billion globally according to the Global Wellness Institute, and the projection is for it to clear $1.3 trillion by 2027. That growth has reshaped how boutique hotels and resorts think about their offering. A spa menu and a sunrise yoga class used to be enough. Now guests are booking trips around breathwork facilitators, sound healers, and specific teachers they follow.
This has pushed the wellness hiring problem into the open. There is a structural mismatch between the volume of roles opening at independent hotels, retreats, and studios, and the channels available to fill them. Owners post on Instagram and hope. Talent searches LinkedIn and finds corporate wellness roles that are not the right fit. Recruiters charge fees that small studio owners cannot justify. The market has been ready for a wellness talent marketplace for years.
The other shift is on the talent side. Wellness professionals are no longer willing to accept the old model of unpaid training weeks, vague accommodation deals, and contracts written on the back of a napkin. They want clarity. They want to be paid for their craft. They want to be hired for their specific skills, not just their aesthetic. Standards have shifted, and the infrastructure is finally catching up.
What Wellsphere is now
Wellsphere is a curated wellness talent marketplace. The word that matters there is curated. Every wellness professional on the platform has been reviewed. Every role posted is editorially checked before it goes live. We have built deliberately, not at scale for the sake of scale.
What that looks like in practice: a sound healer in Bali can browse roles posted by retreats in Tulum, hotels in the Algarve, and studios in Mexico City, with the company name visible, the pay range stated, the contract type confirmed. A retreat owner in Costa Rica can post a role and see vetted applications from practitioners who have actually filtered themselves into the platform because the standard is set. The friction that used to live in wellness hiring is being designed out.
We have also rebuilt the platform itself. New dashboards for businesses. Cleaner onboarding for talent. A redesigned magazine, the WhatsApp community, weekly newsletters and editorial frameworks that keep the quality high. This is curated wellness done with structure underneath it.
For wellness professionals: a place built around your craft
If you teach, facilitate, treat, or train, this is for you. Wellsphere exists so that practitioners can find roles that honour the work without spending hours filtering through job boards that were not built for this industry.
Membership is $14.99 per month, or $119 annually for the people who plan to stay. With that you see full role listings (company names, locations, apply directly through the platform, get into the WhatsApp community alongside teachers and facilitators in 50+ countries, and access one paid collaboration posting per month for your own offering.
The roles themselves are what set the platform apart. A platform full of mediocre roles is just a job board. A curated wellness platform that says no to anything below the bar is something different.
For businesses: post wellness jobs that reach the right people
For boutique hotels, retreats, wellness studios, and corporate programmes, Wellsphere now offers a structured way to post wellness jobs and collaborations that get in front of the right audience. A single role posting is $39. The amplified package at $79 includes a feature on Instagram (110k+ engaged followers), a slot in the weekly newsletter, and a placement in the WhatsApp community. Annual plans at $699 cover three postings per month with priority placement.
This is the part of the launch that has changed most for businesses. You can now post roles as straight listings or as collaborations (a workshop, a residency, a one-off retreat takeover, a pop-up). Both formats reach the same curated audience of wellness professionals who have already opted into receiving these. Editorial review happens within 48 hours. Listings go live for 30 days. You see candidate profiles, message directly, and close the role when you are ready.
What you are paying for is not visibility for its own sake. You are paying for access to a community of practitioners who have already filtered themselves in. The cost of a wrong hire in wellness hiring, especially for a small business, is high. Wellsphere is built to reduce that risk by keeping the front door narrow.
Consulting for the ones building something
This is one of the parts I am most excited about. Alongside the marketplace, we now offer wellness consulting for the businesses building something from the ground up or trying to grow what they already have.
Four consulting packages, all delivered remotely and asynchronously:
- Talent Strategy and Hiring Audit for studio owners, hotels, or retreats who are struggling to attract or retain talent. Includes a hiring process audit, a Talent Strategy Playbook, salary benchmarking, and a curated shortlist of five vetted wellness professionals.
- Wellness Tourism Programme Design for hotels and resorts building or repositioning a wellness offering. Includes a Wellness Programme Blueprint, a guest journey map, pricing strategy, and a practitioner sourcing brief.
- Retreat Profitability Audit and Growth Plan for retreat organisers operating at thin margins. Cost structure analysis, pricing review, fill rate optimisation, facilitator compensation benchmarking.
- Studio Launch end-to-end consulting for opening a yoga or pilates studio. Business plan, class architecture, instructor hiring playbook, pricing model, tech stack, marketing plan.
We built wellness consulting because the same questions kept landing in our inbox. Studio owners in Lisbon wanting to know what to pay their lead instructor. A hotel in the Maldives trying to launch a retreat programme and not knowing where to source facilitators. A new studio in Brooklyn asking what membership pricing model actually works. These are the conversations we have been having for two years. Now there is a structured way to have them properly.
Dreams we have
The dream, the honest one, is that Wellsphere becomes the standard. That when a hotel in Sri Lanka decides to expand into wellness tourism, the first thing they do is post a role on Wellsphere. That when a yoga teacher finishes a 300-hour training in Rishikesh and starts thinking about what comes next, Wellsphere is where she opens her laptop. That the conversation about fair pay in the wellness industry shifts because there is finally a benchmark to point at.
We want to build the magazine into a respected publication on wellness hiring, careers, and the business of running a wellness operation. We want the consulting arm to be the quiet partner behind some of the most thoughtful wellness programmes in hospitality. We want wellness tourism to grow with the practitioners who actually deliver it, not around them. We want the community to grow because members bring members, not because of ads.
There is a longer list. A jobs API for hospitality groups managing wellness across multiple properties. Salary benchmarking data published quarterly. A verified credentials system. Regional editions of the magazine. Wellsphere Awards, eventually. We are not in a hurry. The principle has always been to build the right thing slowly rather than the wrong thing quickly.
We are just getting started
Two years in, and this still feels like the beginning. The wellness industry deserves infrastructure that matches the quality of work happening inside it. The people doing that work deserve careers that pay properly. The businesses hiring them deserve a hiring partner that has thought through the problem.
If you are a wellness professional looking for your next chapter, the platform is open. If you are a business with a role or a collaboration to post, the listing form takes about ten minutes. If you are a studio owner, hotelier, or retreat organiser thinking about wellness consulting, the discovery call is free.
We are just getting started. Thank you for being here for it.
