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.

07/19/2025

Come join Don Oakley and Patty Bottari as they lead their 2-night weekend retreat, "Coming Home to Yourself" August 15-17, 2025

Don will offer guided meditations and discourses on the retreat theme. There will be opportunities for Q&A and dialogues with Don. There will also be scheduled periods of silent sitting (meditation) and free time to enjoy 160 acres of Well Being's land.

Two healthy meals will be provided on Friday supper and Sunday lunch.
Each of the cabins are comfortable and have kitchenettes for you to cook your remaining meals.

The cost to participate is $250 which includes tuition, lodging, and two meals.

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

07/12/2025

Alaya Dickinson & Corrine Champigny will be leading A Sacred Hug: An Invitation to Embody Presence, a silent retreat September 11–14, 2025, at Well Being Retreat Center.

Alaya offers Satsang and Presence Yoga as a sacred unfolding of direct experience and inner stillness. Corrine brings decades of embodied practice through meditation, movement, and her unique expression of Presence Yoga. Together, they create a nourishing container—what Alaya describes as “a sacred melting into the ground bodywork”—inviting a return to our natural presence, alive and free.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore:

- Daily Satsang, Meditation, and Presence Yoga

- Spacious time to rest and connect with the natural beauty of the land

- Sacred silence during meals and personal time

- Nervous system recalibration through organic receptivity

- Evenings at the fire circle by the river

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

07/05/2025

Don Oakley and Patty Bottari will be leading a 3-night retreat, "From Seeking to Finding" July 17 - 20, 2025.

Don will offer guided meditations and discourses on the retreat theme. There will be opportunities for Q&A and dialogues with Don. There will also be scheduled periods of silent sitting (meditation) and free time to enjoy 160 acres of Well Being's land.

Two healthy meals will be provided on Thursday supper and Sunday lunch. Each of the cabins are comfortable and have kitchenettes for you to cook your remaining meals.

For more information and registration, please see the event link in the bio or visit Well Being's website

06/28/2025

Carl Bello & Carrie DeMartini will be leading their Sorrow’s Healing Ground: Practicing the Sacred Work of Grief in Community, August 21-24.

Carl is a psychotherapist, veterinarian, and soul activist, and Carrie founded Wishing Well Center, which cultivates soulful living and dying. The retreat will draw on the teachings of Carl and Carrie’s mentors, Francis Weller, Malidoma Somé, Martín Prechtel and Laurence Cole.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore:

- Shared song, poetry, drumming, and movement.

- Writing practices.

- Journaling and creative art experiences.

- Talking in the larger Circle and small groups, composting our grief together.

- Embracing the wisdom of our ancestors and time-honored rituals.

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

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Tazewell, TN

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.