A WhatsApp message from a friend pops up: “Come with me this time—let’s do it together.” A few minutes later, the reply comes: “I’d honestly love to, but can we book together, or does each of us need to book separately?”  It may sound like a simple question, but it often keeps women from taking the next step.

The short answer is yes—you can book and attend the retreat together. But the more important question isn’t whether you can. It’s how you can make the experience meaningful for each of you individually, rather than experiencing it only as a pair.

Does Attending with a Friend Change the Experience?

Absolutely—but not always in the way you might expect. Having a friend by your side can offer genuine comfort at the beginning. You arrive in a completely new place with a familiar face beside you and someone to share those first impressions with before getting to know the rest of the group. There is, however, something worth keeping in mind.

Women who attend alone often connect with the wider group more quickly because they don’t have a familiar comfort zone to retreat to. Friends travelling together may naturally spend most of their time side by side without even realising it, which can limit their opportunity to form new friendships within the group.

The answer isn’t to avoid travelling together—it’s simply to be aware of this tendency from the start.

Can We Share a Room?

Yes. Sharing a room with your friend is usually available, and you can request it when making your booking.

If you’d like to learn more about what sharing a room is really like—whether with a friend or another retreat guest—we’ve created a dedicated article to help you make the right choice before booking.

Advice for Friends Attending Together

Before you travel, have an honest conversation about how much time you would like to spend together and how much space you would like to give one another to connect with the group independently. That small conversation can prevent a great deal of misunderstanding later.

Give each other clear permission to join an activity, sit with someone new, or have a conversation without the other. Feelings of jealousy or exclusion can easily arise when these expectations haven’t been discussed openly beforehand. Remember that the shared purpose of the retreat is for each of you to return home with something meaningful of your own—not only with memories you created together.

In fact, the most beautiful outcome may be returning with two different experiences rather than two versions of exactly the same story.

What If One of Us Wants to Skip an Activity?

That’s completely fine. The programme is flexible enough for every guest—whether attending alone or with a friend—to make her own choices throughout the experience. You don’t have to attend every activity together simply because you arrived together. Each of you is free to listen to what she needs in the moment.

A Final Thought

Attending a retreat with a friend isn’t only practical or emotionally reassuring. It can also be an opportunity to discover new sides of one another, away from the routines and familiar roles of everyday life. The most important thing is to enter the experience with intention: you are there together, but each of you is also there for herself.

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