Join us for a retreat to celebrate the return of summer and commune with summer’s abundance.
What’s In Store:
Yoga
Journal time
Craft time
Connection time
What to Bring:
Water bottle
Journal and pen
Yoga mat and blanket if you prefer to use your own
Comfy clothes
What You’ll Leave with:
A sense of gratitude for the abundance of summer
A craft to remind you that summer is here
An understanding of ways you might continue to commune with summer’s abundance
Choose Your Experience:
Group retreat for $125 (meals included)
What is a group retreat? A shared retreat experience with others who also signed up to attend the group retreat that features the above activities which are led by a facilitator.
Self-guided retreat for $78 (meals not included; add “Meals Add-On for Self-Guided Retreats” below if you’d like to have meals included)
What is a self-guided retreat? A solo retreat experience that you will do at your own pace and in your own space at Verdant Center. You will have access to much of the same content as the group experience but will guide yourself through it and will not be interacting with the group.
Join us for a retreat to celebrate the return of summer and commune with summer’s abundance.
When: Saturday, June 20, 2026 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Where: Verdant Center (7159 Whites Creek Pike, Joelton, TN, 37080)
What’s In Store:
Yoga
Journal time
Craft time
Connection time
What to Bring:
Water bottle
Journal and pen
Yoga mat and blanket if you prefer to use your own
Comfy clothes
What You’ll Leave with:
A sense of gratitude for the abundance of summer
A craft to remind you that summer is here
An understanding of ways you might continue to commune with summer’s abundance
Choose Your Experience:
Group retreat for $125 (meals included)
What is a group retreat? A shared retreat experience with others who also signed up to attend the group retreat that features the above activities which are led by a facilitator.
Self-guided retreat for $78 (meals not included; add “Meals Add-On for Self-Guided Retreats” below if you’d like to have meals included)
What is a self-guided retreat? A solo retreat experience that you will do at your own pace and in your own space at Verdant Center. You will have access to much of the same content as the group experience but will guide yourself through it and will not be interacting with the group.
If you’d like to have meals provided during your self-guided retreat experience, please add this item to your cart.
Retreat Facilitator & Yoga Practitioner
Kali Wheeler has a passion for sports and fitness, and how our bodies react, adapt, and work through the process of learning new skills and art forms. In her early sports career, she spent 8 years as a competitive gymnast; during this tenure, she was taught to condition not only the physical aspects of our bodies through consistent stretching, strength training, and continued repetition, but also the mentality needed to push through the physical demands, visualize routines, and focus through any distractions that could arise. Through this strong-willed mindset, she was able to compete at the highest level, and win several competitions. Following her gymnastics career, she pursued several other artistic forms of sport, where body and mind connection were essential for success. Dance gave Kali the opportunity to continue the strengths she found in gymnastics, but without the harsh physical environments; as she progressed through middle school, she moved from dance, to joining her high school swimming team, competing on the diving team with springboard diving as her focus.
Kali was a gymnastics coach for 15 years working with children of all ages and training them for competitive and non-competitive gymnastics. She later created a gymnastics program and owned her own company for 7 of those years.
For Kali, yoga is a lot like gymnastics. It takes lots of concentration, flexibility, and strength. She loves the feeling of balancing her body, the feeling of moving her body as therapy, a way to de-stress from life’s troubles, and that feeling of peace, that release to let go of the negative and be more grateful for the things in her life. She loves the aspect of meeting like-minded people through yoga and seeing each other grow and learn, creating a practice that is something to look forward to each and every day. To Kali, there is no better feeling than to see others growing in their practice, with her guidance and knowledge spreading the love of daily yoga & meditation, helping to keep them motivated, to achieve their goals. Kali’s been doing yoga since 2014 and completed yoga school in March 2023 at Santosha Yoga. She is a Registered 200 HR Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.
Kali is originally from Dallas, Texas and currently resides in Hendersonville with her husband and teenage daughter where she enjoys boating, kayaking, hiking, camping and doing yoga.