Well Being Retreat Center

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Well Being Retreat Center

We're a non-profit retreat center on 160 peaceful acres surrounded by river in Northeast TN. We offer hosted retreats and welcome outside retreat leaders.

Mostly organic meals and a quiet space for stillness, presence, and connection with nature. When Well Being Retreat Center was purchased in 2008, there was only an old barn here. Since then, we have constructed four Earth-Sheltered Cabins, the more conventionally built Wood Duck Cabin, the Retreat Center Building, six Cabinettes, six tiny houses, and the Powell River Pavilion. These facilities are available for wellness workshops, Yoga retreats, mindfulness programs, meditation retreats, personal retreats & sabbaticals, family reunions, civic meetings, church groups, ecological conferences and similar.

12/17/2025

Christine Hoyer, a certified Association of Nature and Forest Therapy guide, introduces the ANFT trail at Well Being Retreat Center, which is the only certified ANFT trail in Tennessee.

Christine designed the trail and runs several retreats at Well Being each year. For more information on Christine’s upcoming retreats, please see the Event link in bio.

12/15/2025

Don Oakey and Patty Bottari will be leading a 2-night in-person weekend retreat, An Invitation to Awaken, January 16-18 at Well Being Retreat Center.

The cost to attend is $295, which includes two meals, served during Friday supper and Sunday lunch, lodging and tuition.

For those who cannot attend in person, a livestream option is available.

For more information and registration, please see the event link in bio or visit Well Being Retreat Center’s website.

12/12/2025

For Well Being’s Chicken curry, we make the curry powder from scratch, dry roasting the spices and then blending them to get a fresh and fragment curry powder.

12/11/2025

Christine Hoyer is a Certified Association for Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, an accomplished martial artist, and meditation teacher. She leads several retreats here at Well Being Retreat Center each year. And, as you can see from these gorgeous images taken on the land here at the Center, she is able to capture Nature’s beauty and surprises with her photography.

12/09/2025

Don Oakley and Patty Bottari lead weekend retreats nearly every month at Well Being Retreat Center in Tennessee. These retreats are an opportunity to discover the essence of your own being as spacious, ever-present awareness.

These retreats are open to anyone with a sincere desire to discover what is most essential to one’s own beingness. The talks are not religious, but Don draws on a variety of nondual traditions.

Don will offer several discourses, an extended guided meditation and dialogue (Q&A) sessions; Patty will lead the Silent Sittings (meditations).

There will be plenty of time to enjoy the silence, explore Well Being’s 160 acres of Nature and walk along our 2 ½ miles of frontage on the scenic Powell River.

We provide supper upon arrival and lunch at the end of retreat Sunday at Noon. The cabins have kitchenettes, but the Cabinettes do not. The Cabinettes are for those wanting private accommodations.

These retreats are now available both in-person and live-streamed.

12/08/2025

We’re very appreciative for all the volunteers who help to serve meals for retreat events at Well Being Retreat Center. It’s a great way to meet other people and support the retreat function and learn about healthy, nutritious cooking.

12/06/2025

Salwan Cartwirght-Shamoon spends months every year here at Well Being Retreat Center volunteering with meal service, social media, IT and audio\visual projects. He is also an accomplished classical singer, pianist and composer. In recent years, he has performed with the Lincoln Memorial University’s Choir. This past week he sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” as a soloist at LMU’s Christmas performance.

12/05/2025

Our gardener, Mike Noland, grew some beautiful green cabbages that have been preserved as sauerkraut. Only salt is added. The salt combines with juices from the shredded cabbage resulting in a natural fermentation process. Sauerkraut prepared this way has enzymes and probiotics that have many health benefits. Most store-bought sauerkraut creates the tangy taste simply by adding vinegar and lacks much of this health benefit.

11/28/2025

Join us for our 17th Annual New Year’s Retreat. This 4-night silent retreat will begin on Sunday December 28th and conclude on Thursday January 1st.

Our New Years retreat is an opportunity to approach the coming year in contemplation of what is most important in your life. It will be a deep dive into the most fundamental aspect of yourself with plenty of time to rest and commune with nature in the profound silence of our 160 acres.

The retreat structure will contain guided meditations, daily discourses, and Q&A sessions led by Don Oakley, periods of silent sittings led by Patty Bottari, and invitations to join in movement sessions.

Two meals will be provided by Well Being; Sunday’s supper on arrival and New Year’s day lunch at the end of the retreat. Cabins are equipped with kitchenettes where you can prepare your remaining meals. Those staying in cabinettes will have access to the Conference Building’s kitchen to prepare meals.

The cost to attend this 4-night retreat is $425 and covers tuition, housing, and 2 meals

For more information and registration please see the event link in bio.

11/24/2025

We are very grateful for all those who have attended Well Being Retreat Center and left us a Google Review. We currently have 32 five-star reviews on Google, which we deeply appreciate!

If you have been to Well Being Retreat Center and enjoyed your visit, please consider leaving us a review. Please see the link in bio or Google “Well Being Retreat Center” and find our profile to leave a review. Thank you.

11/22/2025

Over the past few weeks the guys have been busy resurfacing the decks at Well Being Retreat Center. Special thanks to all who helped with the project and to the Marani Foundation for donating the materials.

Address

557 Narrows Road
Tazewell, TN
37879

Telephone

+14236269000

Website

https://www.wellbeingretreatcenter.org/

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Well Being Retreat Center is a non-profit, non-denominational venue located on 158 acres of land in the rolling Cumberland mountains of northeast Tennessee. The scenic Powell River surrounds the land for 2 1/2 miles. We have constructed four Earth-Sheltered Cabins, six Tiny Houses, the Wood Duck Cabin, the Retreat Center Building, six Cabinettes, and the Powell River Pavilion. These facilities are available for wellness workshops, Yoga retreats, mindfulness programs, meditation retreats, personal retreats & sabbaticals, family reunions, church groups, ecological conferences and similar. Nature and silence abound.

“It is a very beautiful, peaceful place indeed. And infused with the kind, loving, humble, big hearts of Don and Patty. I've spoken to a number of people who have done retreats at venues all over the US. Well Being Retreat Center is always the favorite.” - David C.