Welcome to The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass by azulomo
For boutique hosts ready to turn calm stays into consistent income.
This isn’t just a course. It’s your turning point.
From second-guessing to aligned strategy
From listing to loved brand
From hustle to meaningful reward
Shape your space, journey, and systems into a calm, connected experience.
Hosting with soul should feel good and earn well.
No need to choose between:
Purpose and profit
Style and substance
Ease and growth
Just a better way, made for soulful hosts like you.
Forget Generic. Go Soulful.
Mass-market tips miss the emotional depth of soulful hosting. You don’t need more effort, just alignment of space, values, and pricing.
Today’s guests are looking for more than just a place to sleep. They want:
Meaningful, personal stays
Emotional connection
Authenticity over luxury
→ 65% want slow, soulful travel
→ 74% prefer authenticity over perfection
→ 76% return to hosts who make them feel genuinely cared for
—
Why This Masterclass Exists
Most hosting advice offers surface fixes, but soulful hosting needs a deeper framework that unites design, experience, strategy, and clarity.
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass was built to provide exactly that, with structure, tools, and aligned strategy to help you:
Strengthen guest experience with meaning
Design spaces with emotion and function
Simplify systems, keep personal touch
Align pricing, brand, and story
Build a rhythm that supports life and income
Where vision meets action — a clear path to hosting that feels good, works well, and lasts.
Elevate Your Hosting
By the end of this course, you’ll know how to:
Define your vision and align decisions
Design guest journeys with emotion
Style with calm and sensory depth
Build systems for operations and pricing
Price confidently with emotional value
Create a brand and listing guests trust
Plan for growth and rebooking
Host with clarity, calm, and impact through a soulful system.
Learn + Apply
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass is a practical, step-by-step learning experience designed for real hosting, not theory. Each module guides you to apply what you learn directly to your own stay, with clear explanations, thoughtful ideas, and inspiration you can implement as you go.
This is about learning and doing, shaping your space, guest journey, and strategy in real time. Calm, intentional, and commercially grounded, it helps you build a stay that stands out and works beautifully in the real world.
Beyond Tactics
Most hosting courses teach tactics. This one teaches value.
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass uses slow living as a business model, where emotional design, guest psychology, and thoughtful operations build trust, loyalty, and willingness to pay. Instead of chasing bookings, you learn how to create perceived worth, so revenue grows through alignment, not pressure.
It’s a calm, human approach that strengthens pricing confidence, reviews, repeat stays, and long-term margin.
Designed to Stick
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass is a tried-and-tested learning experience designed for real application. It’s built to support different learning styles, so you’re not just told what to do, you’re shown, guided, and supported as you apply.
Visual learners will enjoy a feast for the eye. Clear visuals are paired with concise, calm explanations so you understand not only what you’re seeing, but why it matters. Alongside this, you’ll find downloadable guides, practical exercises, and a rich library of bonus materials you can return to again and again as your hosting evolves.
This is learning designed to stick, and to be used.
How This Masterclass Flows
This soulful course unfolds in 9 clear phases, guiding you from purpose to guest experience, styling to systems, pricing to visibility — all with calm, clarity, and ease.
Every Phase Includes:
Anchors: strategy, insights, methods
Exercises and tools: apply in your space
Reflections: pause, process, integrate
Designed for flow, not overwhelm — so your hosting rhythm feels aligned and transformative.
Why This Structure Works
Hosting is emotional, not linear. This structure meets you where you are and gives you tools that actually work — not just ideas, but soulful implementation that sticks.
Inside the Masterclass
Your Step-by-Step Path to Soulful, Profitable Hosting
PHASE I
Hosting with Soul
Reconnect with why you started. This first phase invites you into a slower, deeper approach to hosting as you set intentions and prepare to host with presence.
PHASE II
Clarity, Psychology & Purpose
Define your vision, understand your guests, and map soulful revenue. Uncover your unique voice, explore guest psychology, and align income with purpose.
PHASE III
Guest Rituals & Emotional Anchoring
Craft soulful welcomes, memorable stays, and meaningful goodbyes. Learn to design guest moments through rituals, small surprises, and thoughtful details.
PHASE IV
Styling Slow
Style your space with emotional depth and boutique calm. Go beyond trends to shape resonant rooms using honest materials, layered light, texture & story-driven design.
PHASE V
Emotional & Multi-Sensory Design
Design across all six senses for immersive stays. Engage sound, scent, texture, light, temperature, and emotion with the Feel-Think-Remember Flow™.
PHASE VI
Connection, Loyalty & Communication
Build emotional loyalty through soulful reviews, messaging, and care. Communicate with clarity, deepen trust, and protect your energy with grace.
PHASE VII
Operations & Soulful Systems
Build calm systems that support sustainable hosting. From cleaning rituals to pricing and guest care, design operations that feel light, scalable, and soul-aligned.
PHASE VIII
Visibility, Brand & Boutique Growth
Create an aligned brand, attract ideal guests, and grow mindfully. Develop your boutique identity, elevate your story, and book with soulful, search-savvy marketing.
PHASE IX
Long-Term Integration & Expansion
Anchor soulful hosting into your life and grow with intention. Reflect, integrate, and explore next steps like rebooking, retreats, or digital offers — all rooted in your values.
Here's what you get:
A complete hosting system rooted in strategy, soul, and everyday beauty. More than a course, it’s your toolkit for lasting, meaningful success.
A tried-and-tested flow — hands-on from start to finish — this course takes you from soulful foundations to strategic action in a way that feels natural and achievable. Each phase builds on the last, combining soulful hosting principles with practical steps, exercises, and guides you can apply directly to your space and strategy, so you’re not just learning, you’re implementing.
No fluff, just actionable learning, real-world tools, and guided implementation so you leave not just inspired, but equipped to host with meaning & mastery.
+35 Core Modules across 9 soulful phases
Advanced Bonus Tools for deeper mastery and creative expansion
Certification Badge to showcase your excellence in slow living, emotional hospitality, and intentional guest care.
Signature azulomo Frameworks
Not just clever acronyms — but emotionally intelligent systems that work:
C.A.L.M. Styling Method™
P.A.U.S.E. Hosting Framework™
SOUL Method™
Feel–Think–Remember Flow™
Emotional Guest Journey Mapping™
These are integrated throughout the course — helping you connect purpose, space, and emotion into every guest stay.
Tools, Templates & Downloads
Worksheets, checklists, and soulful planners — designed to take you from learning to doing:
Emotional Guest Journey Map Template
Guest Type Cards
Guest Needs by Travel Type Cheat Sheet
Slow Design Principles Checklist
Guest Micro-Moment Matrix
Calm Hosting Audit Toolkit
Style & Material Moodboard Templates
The Soulful Pricing Framework
Listing Audit Tool
and more
These tools don’t just help you get things done. They organise, elevate, and transform your hosting into something unforgettable.
From styling to storytelling, gain the clarity and soulful strategy to build a boutique business that feels right and flows with ease.
Still have questions? The FAQ below might help.
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass is nearly here!
Join the waitlist today to unlock early bird offers, soulful hosting tips, and first access the moment enrolment opens.
Frequently Asked Questions:
-
If you want to move beyond filling nights and start building a hosting business that feels personal, purposeful, and sustainably profitable, this was created for you.
The Slow Living Hosting Masterclass™ is for:
HolidHoliday home owners turning space into meaningful income
Boutique stay hosts refining experience, pricing, and positioning
Creative entrepreneurs entering hospitality with long-term intent
It’s especially suited to you if you:
Inherited a home and want it to work financially and emotionally
Feel overwhelmed and want a calm, revenue-smart system
Prefer fewer, better bookings from guests who return and refer
Are ready to build a boutique brand that earns trust and margin
Wherever you’re starting, this masterclass brings clarity, strategy, and soulful structure to help your hosting business grow quietly and confidently.
-
No. This masterclass is designed for every stage of the hosting journey. Whether you’re just starting out, feeling stuck or stretched mid-way, or ready to elevate an established space with more depth, clarity, and strategy, the course adapts to where you are and grows with you.
-
Yes, completely. The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass is fully self-guided, so you can move through it at your own pace. It’s structured into nine gentle phases that build naturally on each other, without any pressure to rush.
Some hosts complete it in four to six weeks, others spread it across a season. You’ll also have lifetime access, so you can return to the content whenever your hosting evolves or needs a thoughtful refresh.
-
As soon as you register, you’ll receive a welcome email with your personal login details and a direct link to your private course dashboard. From there, you can sign in anytime, on any device, and begin with the first module when it suits you.
Inside your dashboard, you’ll find all lessons, downloads, and bonus resources clearly organised and easy to navigate.
There’s no setup required — just log in, settle in, and start at your own pace. The Masterclass is designed as a complete, self-paced digital programme with instant access to all materials. For that reason, all enrolments are final.
-
Most hosting courses focus on tactics: algorithms, hacks, checklists, and short-term wins. This one focuses on why guests choose you, why they return, and why they’re willing to pay more.
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass is built on slow living as a business model, where emotional design, guest psychology, and thoughtful operations work together to create long-term value. Instead of chasing occupancy, you learn how to build trust, positioning, and perceived worth, so revenue grows through alignment rather than pressure.
You’re not just taught what to do. You’re shown how to design a hosting business that feels calm, intentional, and human, while quietly strengthening pricing confidence, reviews, repeat stays, and margin.
It’s a different way of hosting, and a different way of growing.
-
Not at all. You don’t need a design background to take this course. You’re guided step by step through soulful design principles, showing you how to make intentional choices that not only create calm, emotionally resonant spaces, but also support stronger positioning, pricing confidence, and guest appeal.
Whether you’re styling your first stay or refining an existing one, you’ll learn how design decisions influence guest perception, reviews, and revenue, so your space works beautifully and commercially, without feeling overwhelming or complicated.
-
Yes. Upon completion, you’ll receive the azulomo Certified Host™ badge — a trusted symbol of soulful hospitality and emotional guest care. Each certificate is issued with a unique ID.
It recognises your commitment to soulful, guest-first hosting and can be shared on your website, listings, social channels, and guest materials as a quiet mark of quality and credibility.
-
We get it. Choosing the right course matters when your home, your income, and your energy are involved.
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass isn’t something you watch and forget. It’s a step-by-step learning programme built for real-world hosting, where you learn and apply at the same time. Each module guides you to work directly on your own stay, turning insight into action through calm, practical structure.
Inside, you’ll find clear frameworks, real examples, and inspiration rooted in guest psychology, emotional design, and strategic hosting, designed to help you elevate your stay and stand out in a crowded market.
This course is for you if you want:
A space that feels personal, not generic
Guests who value care and are happy to pay for it
Clear direction without overwhelm
A hosting business that grows with calm confidence
And at the bottom line, it’s about creating a stay that not only feels good to run, but performs better too — stronger positioning, more confident pricing, and guests who return, recommend, and recognise the value you’ve created.
If you care about how your hosting feels and how it performs, this was made for you.
-
The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass is a fully self-paced, hands-on learning experience with immediate access to all content, tools, and frameworks. It’s designed to be worked through thoughtfully, with clear guidance, practical steps, and plenty of ideas and recommendations you can tailor directly to your own stay.
This isn’t a try-it-and-see course. It’s an intentionally designed programme for hosts who are ready to engage, apply, and build something distinctive. We believe deeply in the quality and usefulness of what’s inside, which is why the masterclass is structured around real implementation rather than trial access. We encourage you to explore the course overview carefully and reach out with any questions before enrolling — so you can step in with clarity and confidence.
-
Yes. We love partnering with aligned hosts, creators, and communities who believe in soulful, guest-centred hospitality. If you’d like to share The Slow Living Hosting™ Masterclass with your audience and earn commission on successful referrals, you can apply to become an official azulomo affiliate.
→ Affiliate sign-up and full details are available here or via our contact page.