Weekend Program

Friday & Saturday night lodging Meals F/D, Sa/BLD, S/B Check in F beginning at 3pm, check out by 11am S

Love is Your True Nature - Program

With Thomas Neilson and Jamie Kyne

September 25 - 27, 2026
St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development

Love is Your True Nature:  An Inner Work Retreat Check in begins at 3pm central. Program concludes by 11am on the last day. The opening of the heart only became more marked in the following weeks and days. I was plunged into nameless beatitude. A vast fire of love burned within me. I only had […]

Fostering a Slow Pace and a Thin Place: Creative and Spiritual Practices for Writers and Makers - Program

With David Hooker and Nicole Mazzarella

January 22 - 24, 2027
St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development

Fostering a Slow Pace and a Thin Place: Creative and Spiritual Practices for Writers and Makers With David Hooker & Nicole Mazarella Friday–Sunday Retreat  Slow down. Create. Discover the sacred at the intersection of art and faith. This retreat invites writers, artists, and makers of all experience levels to find a quiet pocket of time […]

A Writing Place Retreat: It's Not on Any Map -Program

With Dr. Robbie Pinter and Tambi Brown Swiney

February 5 - 7, 2027
St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development

A Writing Place Retreat: It's Not on Any Map "It is not on any map. True places never are." ~ Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick; or, The Wahle, Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 12 Places have a way of holding our stories. A childhood home, a favorite path, a garden, a riverbank, a church, or a quiet […]

Mindful Longevity Planning - Program

With Becca Impello & Kimberly Drye

February 12 - 14, 2027
St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development

Mindful Longevity ~ What will your life be like in 10 years? Aging is both a privilege and an inevitability, yet many of us either ignore or outright deny how our lifestyle, physical abilities and priorities will evolve in the years ahead. This weekend retreat offers a refreshing and empowering alternative: a chance to intentionally […]

Dreams: Morning Manna, Nightly Eucharist - Program

With Laura Huff Hileman

September 24 - 26, 2027
St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development

Dreams: Morning Manna, Nightly Eucharist “Every night, a Eucharist” said Carl Jung, whose lifelong exploration of dreams convinced him that the unconscious is alive with the wholemaking powers of the Sacred, expressed through the nightly dreams arising through our soul’s core. That is quite a claim, yet as we relate with our dreams as a […]