Rejuvenating and Connecting
With nature in this beautiful part of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the warmth of our hearts and one another during these cooler months.

A Wellness Weekend is a personalized getaway for you and your friends or family to nurture your relationships and bring wellness to your life.

Our wellness weekends here at Graves Mountain Farm & Lodges are relaxed, cozy, and come with opportunities to add on – from massages to another day.

Jenn settles us in the natural world here. Get to know your dosha followed by self-care crafting (herbal goodies to take home choice of making your own: creme, herbal oil.

Who will be here with you?
Jenn and then just a few others. There might be just you or your group, certainly no more than six unless we have arranged for more guests with Jenn.

Who is Jenn, your weekend guide?
We believe that our true nature is one of contentment and well-being.

We also believe that we are mirrors of the natural world and that connecting with nature allows us to find nourishment and restore balance.  We share age old practices that tend to our 'inner gardens' such as yoga, meditation, energy work and massage, those that tend to the gardens outside like Permaculture, and practices that connect the two with plant medicine and explorations in the natural world - hiking, backpacking, yoga in the elements, and massage and energy work out of doors.

Read about Jenn Bennett Mintz here.

We also understand the importance of contributing to our community. Our work at Graves Mountain involves summer camps for youth and explorations of the natural world for the public and all free – here at Graves Mountain weekly and at our Festivals.

What are rooms and cabins like?
You can take accommodations in any of our Lodge Rooms or Cabins, share with a friend or enjoy for yourself. The rooms are paneled in natural Poplar, cut and milled on the property.

Room rates - there are excellent deals on 2 or 3 night stays, particularly if you are a returning guest.

What is Jenn’s program?

Jenn is In True Nature - low-key, relaxed, explorations of what your body – its mind, its gut, its fascia, its breath is and can become.

The weekends have a base of informal group experience with add-ons that Jenn guides through – natural body health, medicinal plants, de-stressing, breath, yoga (of course), drifts of meditation, ayurvedic philosophies to add to our western paths, massage – sensory, muscular, Reiki, cranial, and supported with clean farm to table organic foods.

What you will get
- all your meals, wine pours, communal gatherings, sessions with Jenn, music, breathing, centering, saying hi to the horses, the goats, chickens, pigs, cattle, ponies, a view of nature hunkered down.

Reserve Room and Wellness Package
The room? Please book on your own and add the wellness package at check-out or email us at info@gravesmountain.com or call us on 540 923 42131.

Schedule

Friday

• From 3PM
  Hospitality room for Gatherings, and Yoga Room – near your lodge room. Clean snacks, beverages, wines.
  Jig saw puzzle for group work.
• 7PM Farm to Table dinner with Elixirs at communal chef’s table with Jenn and Chef, wines from local vineyards.
• Open Mic sing-along, poetry, inspiration, dive in with your own instrument – all by the fire.
• 9 PM Nidra yoga for peace, breathing, settling for sleep. Group chat and relaxation. What could your body type be? How do you fit in and are a part of the natural world.

Saturday

• 7:30 – 8:30 AM Mindful sunrise: Element of nature is earth: yoga and meditation. Open to all guests.
• 8-10 AM Farm Breakfast
• 10am-12pm Get to know your “energy”- your body type, followed by self-care crafting (herbal goodies to take home choice of making your own: creme, herbal oil. 
  Jenn uses the 3000-year practice of Knowledge of Life; we call it Ayurveda.
• 12:30-1:30pm Lunch at the Graves Mountain Market & Deli - special items for your lunch
• 1:30-3:15 PM - Jenn led Hike – orchards, Robinson River, forest, nature in hiding, about 3 miles, only one non-strenuous uphill.
  Elements of discussion: water and earth.
• 3:30 -5:30 PM Options: at
  • Time for two body and energy work sessions with personally crafted herbal oil/stones.
  • Or explore on your own.
• 7:15 Farm to Table dinner
• 8:15 to 9:00 Bluegrass by the Fire
• 9:15 Yoga Nidra, breathing, chat

Sunday

• 7:30 – 8:30 AM Mindful sunrise: Element to consider - air and ether – with yoga and meditation
• 8-10am Breakfast
  • Options- time to fit in one body/energy work session
• 10-12pm working with elements stones/gems, reflection, closing circle
  Elements: air/ether
• 12 PM-1 PM Lunch if you choose in the Farm Restaurant

Depart as you choose

• More Energy Work Sessions Available
• Stay another day - just $50.
• But no restaurant for dinner, or Mon breakfast – but we do have foods to go from the Market at the crossroads.

Cost
Your room or cabin rate.
The Wellness Package - $357, for meals, taxes, tip and Jenn’s fee.

Add-ons – massages, $95, one hour
Private Ayurvedic and Naturopathic exploration for you $95, one hour
Another night’s stay - $50 per room, only