2025 Be With Your Body Retreat

Build Community + Trust Within Yourself

May 1-4, 2025 At Gray Bear Lodge in Hohenwald, TN (just a 1.5 hour drive from Nashville!)

Come back home to yourself.

If you have been feeling disconnected from your body or overwhelmed with the world, this is the retreat for you. We will spend these four days practicing yoga, using creativity to build trust with our bodies, eating delicious homemade vegetarian food, communing with nature and each other.

This retreat will have a “cell phone free/ light” suggestion. If you cannot unplug for some reason- that is fine! I suggest taking a break as much as you can from devices.

Dates + Pricing

May 1- 4, 2025 at Gray Bear Lodge in Hohenwald, TN.

Thursday Arrival: 4-6pm

Sunday Departure: 2pm

$655 Early bird pricing until March 15th with pricing going up to $735 after that. This is for a Thursday arrival (no price difference for late arrival) with shared lodging.

Payment Plan available! Two payments of $327.50 for early bird, then two payments of $367.50 after March 15.

* Lodging upgrades and private cabins available at additional cost. Email sjaneyoga@gmail.com to inquire.

What is Included

  • Lodging for Thursday to Sunday, including bedding and towels

  • An abundance of Organic vegetarian meals prepared with great love by the Gray Bear Family and Mother Earth. 

  • Twice daily yoga sessions with Sarah Jane

  • Daily creative trust + community building prompts with Sarah Jane

  • Opportunities to connect with others through nature, tarot and spiritual practices

  • Forrest bathing and deep, healing time in nature.

  • Relaxation/free time to enjoy the amenities and beauty of GrayBear such as reflective walks and hikes, a wood fired sauna/spring fed cold plunge, an outdoor natural hot tub, refreshing waterfalls and more.

  • Massage therapists and Watsu practitioners are available during the weekend by appointment at additional cost

  • Individual yoga, tarot or astrology sessions with Sarah Jane available at additional cost

Can I tell you about this waterfall?

March of 2023, I went to Gray Bear for a retreat my mentor was facilitating. I was about to launch Be With Your Body Tarot and I could feel I was on the brink of a major life change.

I practiced yoga with her in this cathedral-like yoga space, looking out onto the budding branches. I ate incredible food (I still think about the cornbread regularly). Then, I followed the crowd to the waterfall. It was a ceremonious practice of connecting with nature. We were instructed to remove our shoes to walk a moss- covered path to this beautiful, flowing waterfall- these pictures honestly don’t do it justice.

I dipped my body into the cold spring water and felt so much gratitude. I felt like my Judgement card- being reborn through this magical water. I knew that day I wanted to share this experience with others.

When I was offered the opportunity to lead a retreat at Gray Bear, I had to jump at it. This land is magic and beautiful and gives our bodies the opportunity to rest and create on a level I can’t fully explain. I hope this retreat ushers in the same energy and hope for you that it did for me. Building trust in yourself is the first step to seeing and creating the world you want to exist.

What to Expect

  • Morning/ Evening yoga led by Sarah Jane around the theme of body trust

  • Creative and art experiences

  • Outdoor experiences (yoga, meditation, hiking)

  • Time to wander and be by yourself

  • Time to connect and meet new people

  • A safe, welcome space for you to show up just as you are.

What to Bring

  • Comfortable clothing for practicing yoga, sleeping and hiking. Layers for cooler evenings

  • Water Bottle

  • Bathing suit (for the waterfall and/or hot tub!) + Robe

  • Flashlight

  • Watch (if you choose to take a cellphone break)

  • Any tarot/ oracle decks you wish to use/ share. If you bring a Be With Your Body Deck- label it! There will likely be a few and I don’t want them to get confused <3

  • I will provide you with notebooks, pens and other materials, however, if you have special ones, please feel free to bring them.

Pricing/ Policy

  • $655 for full weekend before March 15; after March 15 price goes to $735

  • Payment plan available: 50% deposit, then the rest paid one month after deposit payment or three weeks before event

  • cancellation policy: no refunds

  • * full directions and details will be emailed to you prior to the retreat. please note there is limited to no cell service here, and you’ll be provided with a land line for others to reach you / you to reach others in case of emergency