Seven Springs Retreats

07/25/2025

04/01/2025

Spring into Herbal Wisdom! 🌿✨

Join us this Sunday from 1-5 PM for our next Herbal Remedies Series at Seven Springs! This week, we’re diving into the magic of Cleavers, Purple Dead Nettle, and the Lymphatic System, exploring how these springtime allies support detoxification and vitality.

We’ll also work with Violets and Dandelions, learning their nourishing benefits and how to transform them into powerful, healing tinctures. 🌼💜

Come connect with the land, sip on wild plant infusions, and deepen your knowledge of herbal medicine in community.

📅 Sunday | 1-5 PM
📍 Seven Springs
🎟️ Spaces are limited—DM us to reserve your spot!

03/18/2025

🌿$300 Yoga Teacher Training Scholarship Opportunity! 🌿
The Yoga Mix is honored to collaborate with Kula Collective to offer a unique, immersive Yoga Teacher Training experience at Seven Springs and The Yoga Mix studios!
🗓 Dates: March 28, 2025 – October 19, 2025
📍 Location: Most weekends will be held at Seven Springs, with some indoor training weekends hosted at The Yoga Mix studios in Maryville.
This seven-month journey blends in-person, nature-based learning with expert-led training in a studio setting, giving you the best of both worlds. We meet one weekend per month, with a special immersion weekend at Seven Springs, where we are held by the strength and beauty of the mountains as we dive deep into the holistic paths of yoga.
Your Instructors:
✨ Jessi Luna (Kula Collective) – Globally respected teacher with deep wisdom and experience
✨ Jaia McClure – Expert in sound healing and the fusion of science with yoga
✨ Amanda Hatcher – Specializing in alignment, strength, and practical teaching techniques
What Makes This Training Unique?
🌟 Most training weekends will take place at Seven Springs, allowing for deep immersion in nature, with some indoor training weekends at The Yoga Mix studios for focused, hands-on learning.
🌟 Lifetime Access to the Kula Collective Yoga Teacher Training Manual & Video Library – an incredible resource extending beyond the training itself, rarely offered outside of fully online programs.
🌟 A hands-on, immersive experience combined with in-depth study that an online training alone can’t provide.
🌟 Multiple expert instructors, ensuring a diverse and well-rounded education.
🌟 A flexible, weekend-based format that fits into your life while offering a transformational learning experience.
🌟 Yoga Alliance RYT-200 certification for those who choose to teach.
Who is this for?
You do not have to want to be a yoga teacher to benefit from this program. Whether you’re looking to deepen your personal practice, explore yoga’s holistic path, or step into the role of a teacher, this training is designed to help you uncover the true teacher within.
✨ A $300 scholarship is available to make this journey more accessible! ✨
Message us directly if you’re interested in applying!

10/05/2024

Dearest community,

We write to share information and opportunities for support during this aftermath of Hurricane Helene. We are safe, and Seven Springs and our area in East Tennessee miraculously missed the worst of the storm. Our neighbor measured 9 inches of rain in four days here. Yet still, we did not sustain any damage from the storm, and our retreat center is open and vibrant. All of our upcoming retreats are running as planned, as well as openings for Personal Retreats or nightly stays. Likewise transportation in and around the area is unaffected.

Yet, just on the other side of our mountains, people experienced over two feet of rain which caused rivers to swell over 20-30 feet from their normal levels. An estimated 40 trillion gallons of water fell, enough to cover the entire state of NC with 3.5 feet of water.

In Greenville, TN, the Nolichucky damn took on 1.2 million gallons per second at the peak of the flooding, that's nearly double what Niagara Falls sees during its highest peak (700,000 gallons per second).

Whole neighborhoods and entire towns have been washed away. Literally nothing left standing. Those that are emerged covered in mud and destruction. Over a million people across four states were out of power for over a week after the storm. Cell phone service was also non existent for days, leaving so many people cut off from communication and even their neighbors. I-40, one of the most travelled interstates on the country, which ties NC to TN is closed until Sept 2025.

The land and people that are hundreds of miles inland and up in the mountains were never expecting a hurricane. Especially in Western North Carolina, these small mountain towns are full of small local businesses, artists and farms. These people aren’t going to be able to rebuild easily. Most have lost everything.

Everything is covered in mud now, mud that is toxic with waste and decay. Now even the clean up becomes dangerous. It will be weeks before water returns to many areas and tens of thousands of people. On our side of the Smokies, it was like nothing happened. We have experienced the confluence of relief and guilt. Mostly, we are humbled.

We have sent donations and ask you also to donate to organizations on the ground. We are sharing this so we can speak for those who cannot. Pass this along to your networks, write your own, listen to the stories. Don't forget about Appalachia. Please find below a list of links of trusted organizations to donate to. Thank you.

The Appalachian Mountains are the oldest in the world. And the one word that characterizes this land and people is *Resilience*.

> > Seven Springs will also donate 10% of all Personal Retreat bookings for the month of October to these organizations:

+++ Donate: +++

Beloved Asheville : belovedasheville.com/get-involved/. Venmo: -Asheville

Manna Asheville Food Bank : mannafoodbank.org/how-you-can-help/donate/

Grassroots Aid Partnership (Asheville) : grassrootsaidpartnership.org

Appalchia Funders : appalachiafunders.org/

Mandala Springs : gofundme.com/f/help-us-deliver-lifesaving-water-to-those-in-need

April Stolarz (friend and organizer): PayPal: aprilstolarz@yahoo.com

Black Mountain organizer Lauren Nicole : Venmo:

Knoxville First Aid Collective : Venmo:

Mountain Access Brigade (TN Women's Health & Doula fund) : givebutter.com/givemab

09/11/2024

🌼 Slow Down, Rest, Nourish your Soul.
How often do you allow yourself to truly immerse in the art of self care?
How do you fill your cup so you may continue to give?
How may you bow down and appreciate the amazing being that you are?
When was the last time you were connected to the cycles of nature?
What does it take to say YES to you?

🌼 Join me for NOURISH: A women's retreat to rejuvenate and reconnect

🌼 OCT 10-13, 2024
🌼 SEVEN SPRINGS RETREATS, MARYVILLE
​🌼 30HR CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE (YACEP)

06/10/2024

🌱 Looking for a last minute retreat this weekend? You can Unplug with us. A retreat focused on finding stillness, peace, and connection in the depths of nature, we will have the opportunity to slow down and experience truly being present. This weekend, June 14-16, will include gentle yoga, nature walks, Forest Bathing, and a guided Labyrinth meditation walk. See the link in the comments 🌳

02/24/2024

Couples Gathering
APRIL 25-28, 2024
OCT 24-27, 2024

A 3-DAY RETREAT TO ​RE-ENLIVEN THE ROOTS OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Take time for yourself and each other.

This retreat is a spacious container to reacquaint yourself and each other with your better Selves. During the weekend, engage in communication and deep listening practices, gentle and centering yoga for all levels, partner massage and partner yoga, mindfulness techniques, and a cacao ceremony. Give yourself this time away from your daily routines and pressured to immerse in nature each each other.

More details: https://www.sevenspringsretreats.com/couplesgathering.html

02/22/2024

Nature & Nurture: A Women's Retreat

Connect with Mother Nature to experience Nurture; let Mother Earth do the healing.

Nature & Nurture: A Women’s Retreat is an experience for the senses. Surrounded by beautiful and luscious Mother Nature in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains of Maryville, Tennessee at Seven Springs Retreat Center. We gather, as women & as sisters, to heal and revive through connection to Nature and the Nurturing of ourselves. Through cacao ceremonies, group meals, nature walks, private individual time, ecstatic dances, story-telling & sharing, forest bathing, singing, laughing, & living together we will form sisterly bonds that will last lifetimes. Healing as individuals, through community.

Sign up here: https://www.maddiemeditates.com/event-details/nature-nurture-a-womens-retreat

02/17/2024

True Nature Retreat ~ In the Great Smoky Mountains, TN, April 18-21, 2024, ALIGN to THRIVE!

This retreat will teach you how to align yourself with back-to-basics and natural approaches to healthy living through Yogic & Ayurvedic knowledge on philosophy, spirituality, meditation, daily routine, and food as medicine; helping you to return to your True Nature and thrive within your days.

Learn more: https://www.freespiritedwanderer.com/smokymtns

02/15/2024

Spark of Light Retreat: Shamanic Healing Retreat

May 16th-May 19th 2024 ~ Smoky Mountains Tennessee

Shamanic retreats teach grounding and earthing to help one reconnect with nature and the earth. We dive deep into the messages from your totems. It’s about focusing on your own life purpose and knowing who you are. Shamanic Retreats are about going deeper within yourself and looking at the blockages, walls, and deceptions you have fallen prey to. It is a birthing process for a deeper knowledge of self. In a place of rejuvenation, you will learn to connect with your guides, ask questions, and gain awareness. Using this process, we can reach deeper states of consciousness. These insights help you connect with your life purpose. You receive one-on-one attention from powerful practitioners who have previously traveled a similar path as you. An environment of nurturing and safety awaits you. Our goals are to construct a unique Shamanic Retreat that addresses your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects with an expert team of spiritual healers.

Learn more: https://seacoastschoolofspiritualarts.com/events/grecian-island-retreat-on-aegina-island/

02/10/2024

Family Nature Retreat
Play : Create : Explore : Connect
April 12-14, 2024
..Step out of your routine..Spend quality time with your Family..Immerse in Nature..to Listen, Learn and Connect
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More details here: https://www.sevenspringsretreats.com/family-nature-retreat.html

02/04/2024

MOUNTAIN BLISS YOGA RETREAT ~ May 2-5th, 2024

A yoga shamanic retreat is an opportunity to restore and reignite your inner joy and harmony by reconnecting your Spirit to the sacredness of nature, your body, your breath, your heart, and your soul. Located in Marysville, TN at Seven Springs Holistic Retreat Center at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains on over 120 acres.

What’s Included:

3 Nights, 4 days
All meals included, prepared on-site with a renowned local chef
Shared or Private Yurt Accommodations
Daily yoga and meditation
Soulful rituals to reignite your spirit
Fire Ceremony
Plenty of time for relaxing, nature trails, and hiking
Optional Massages (not included)

Learn more: https://www.jessicabieberyoga.com/reignite-your-joy