December Mindfulness on the Mountain

With Gordon Peerman, Ryan Black and Kenneth Robinson

December 11 - 13, 2026

Date and Time Details: Check in begins at 3pm on the first day and the program concludes by 11am on the last day

Location: St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development

Address: 770 St. Mary's Lane Sewanee, TN 37375

Contact: The Reservations Team - Heather, Sophie, Mary Beth
Reservations@stmaryssewanee.org
931-598-5342

  • Anna House Motel Style Room – $776.52
  • St. Mary's Hall Dorm Style Room – $671.52
  • St. Mary's Hall Dorm Style Triple Room – $671.52
  • Commuter – $511.52

Prices include lodging, meals, program fees

Mindfulness on the Mountain Retreats with Gordon Peerman, Ryan Black and Kenneth Robinson

The Rev. Gordon Peerman, DMin, is an Episcopal priest, psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher. He has been engaged with contemplative practices, including Centering Prayer, mindfulness meditation, yoga, and chi gong since 1975. He has taught Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at Vanderbilt and St. Thomas Health Services, as well as classes in Buddhist Christian Dialogue at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He lives in Nashville.

Join Gordon and his team in a silent weekend retreat of meditation, gentle movement practices, and sound immersion with a special focus subject to be announced. Mindfulness on the Mountain retreats are a guest favorite.

About the Leaders

Gordon Peerman

The Rev. Gordon Peerman, DMin, is an Episcopal priest and leader of many retreats at St. Mary’s Sewanee. He has been engaged with contemplative practices, including Centering Prayer, mindfulness meditation, yoga, and Qi Gong since 1975. He has taught Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at Vanderbilt and St. Thomas Health Services, as well as classes in […]

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Ryan Black

Ryan Black has always had a deep passion for martial arts and their relationship to contemplative practice. As a young man in his twenties, he was stationed in Japan where he served as a Deep-Sea Salvage and Recue Diver in the U.S. Navy for many years. While there he immersed himself in Kendo (Traditional Japanese […]

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Kenneth Robinson

Kenneth Robinson has worked for more than thirty years in the healing arts. He began as an addictions counselor, then as director of a family counseling center, and for the past twenty-five years as a body-oriented therapist and teacher.  Throughout that time he has been a student of meditation and yoga, and for four years […]

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